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Just chiming in to recommend her book, particularly the audiobook version. Very interesting.

No worries. :-)

Sorry you had a sad day.

Yeah, but I’m not just sharing a face. I’m sharing a legit news article. Anyway, thanks for your work making sure it stays up.

It starts with a video. I just checked and it’s still there.

It’s really helpful to do that before being arrested.

Never heard that phrase, either, but at least that one I can figure out. Thanks.

“down catastrophic”?

Not OP, but it’s a big state. I went to Texas for the first time recently and I was very uncomfortable on their highways. People speed and tailgate quite a lot. Definitely bad drivers.

That’s called tailgating, and nobody can actually do it adeptly. It is far more dangerous than speeding is. You can’t account for a car in front of you suddenly needing to break if you are tailgating. It doesn’t matter how good of a driver you are. Physics is against you.

I’m guessing you haven’t driven I-4 in Florida. Rated multiple times as the most dangerous stretch of highway in the US. People just change lanes without indicating or even looking. It’s crazy.

https://www.bcmillerlaw.com/posts/interstate-4-in-florida-tops-list-of-deadliest-u-s-highways/

The most frustrating drivers I’ve ever encountered, however, were in the Northern Virginia/DC area. So much entitlement. People stopping their cars in all sorts of places where you’re not supposed to, putting their hazards on as though that makes parking anywhere legal. Driving aggressively. Just generally entitled, crappy drivers (maybe because the population is so heavily made up of immigrants from countries with different rules–just a guess).

I’ve been through most of the US at this point and lived in a handful of states. Those two are the worst. LA sucks, too, but that’s mostly because of traffic.

Heroiam slava

But not the president.

Good.

I can’t disagree, but it brings a bad taste to the mouth.

I appreciate all that, and I very much enjoyed that aquarium myself, but I just can’t approve of keeping large, pelagic animals in captivity unless it’s to try to rehabilitate them. These are animals that travel thousands of miles when they’re out in a natural environment.

Yeah, but they keep whale sharks in captivity. Whale sharks are too large for that environment.

OP has clearly never had a cheesesteak.

No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t even require an accusation first.

That’s not fair to leeches. They’re just trying to survive.

So stupid but I did give a little snort.