Oh I believe it! But how did you find both products? I doubt they’re sold on the same page.

You have got to me fucking me. How did you find this?!

Been beat up on here, twice, for suggesting people just roll their own. Took me a couple of hours of carefully following directions, never touched it again, been 6 years. LOL, don’t think I can even log into it anymore, key’s lost.

Verizon was always the best for me. Moved to T-Mobile because Verizon wouldn’t activate my funky new phone. Promptly lost the phone and wish I had never changed. T-Mobile isn’t awful, but they are compared to Verizon.

So why didn’t Conservapedia take off? If it’s unbiased truth, no liberal agenda, it should have blown Wikipedia out of the water a decade ago. Funny that.

That site is bugfuck nuts, and not just because I disagree with most conservative positions. Bug. Fuck. Nuts.

I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)

You got the original explanation, but grok was taken up by computer nerds way back in the day. It’s not merely understanding a thing, in the book or the slang. To grok means to completely wrap your head around the subject, not merely surface level understanding, really feel it down deep.

As to Musk’s obsession? He wants to be seen as the cool kid, the smart hacker, the guy who groks what’s really going on.

Honestly it’s a great name for a search engine or AI. And now he’s actively ruining it like everything else he touches.

BTW, Stranger in a Strange Land is an excellent book. I laugh when people call Heinlein a fascist for writing Starship Troopers. “So, how about that hippie book?” Heinlein’s books examine various government and economic systems, “What if it worked this way?”

Have you never voted before? That’s a perfectly typical form. Of course the candidates have no text description, there is nothing non-partisan one could put there. Of course the propositions have text descriptions, they always do.

we willingly handed over the keys to the city

I’ve been screaming that the power and water and cost issues are failures of our local governments. No, it’s not capitalism, socialists can be bought and paid for as well. No, the feds need do nothing, city and state governments should handle their unique issues. Yes, we need to vote out or city and county councilmen who allow this horseshit.

OK, I could easily argue for the state taxing the snot out of these data centers. Seems a no-brainer.

People can’t figure risk any longer. It’s a big world! We can’t fault anyone for not understanding it.

Risk: .0001% chance a bad thing happens.

We’re not talking about your cousin’s sketchy moonshine here.

Are you afraid to get out of bed? Falling 2.5’ imparts more energy to your body than getting shot with a .45ACP bullet.

Seriously, how does one navigate the world calculating every bad thing that could occur? Scooping a speck of mold out of my jam doesn’t move the needle on my risk meter. I cannot live in a “zero risk” world.

Walked a 2-mile round trip to the store today, orders of magnitude more risky than flicking a bit of mold out my jam. And BTW, I have “emphysema light”, doctor’s words. I’m not exactly a tough guy.

How will you react when faced with real risk? I’ve saved my own life twice, arguably three times. Will you curl into a ball? “NOAWW! The jam might blind me!”

Having some science education, I choose not to live in fear.

I’m learning! Define “milt”. New one on me.

I could step out to check my mailbox and get smeared by an inattentive driver. In all seriousness, I’m more afraid of slipping in my shower and breaking my neck. Instant death or living out my life having a nurse dig shit out of my ass? (My niece did that for a living.) Not too worried about a little mold in my jam.

Some y’all’s “risk vs. reward” mechanisms are utterly broken. Can’t blame ya! We didn’t evolve to calculate risk in the modern world.

tl;dr: Take risks. Life is not worth living in fear, not worth calculating infinitesimal odds.

Yes! I might complain and return it, but it’s not the death hazard these comments make it out to be. :)

I’m most surprised an airport allowed that behavior!

Scoop it out and go on with your day. I’d only toss it if it tastes or smells funky, even a bit. Just tossed a jar of salsa after skimming spots of mold off the top for months, exactly as yours. Not because it was unsafe to eat, it just sucked as salsa and I felt it was getting more and more untrustworthy. Jam is going to be somewhat like honey, too much sugar for anything bad to get a deep hold.

Anyway, none y’all are going to survive another worldwide depression. “Er mer gerd! THROW IT!” Your great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents are laughing at you. I’ll be in the woods out back, eating live minnows and fighting the deer over acorns.

Be nice while driving since I refuse to look at a screen, let alone type on it.

Last update changed the phone buttons around for no reason I can discern. Not sure that’s ever happened because I was shocked, never had to relearn the buttons.

I rolled my own VPN, no issues. Won’t say how because I got my ass beat for recommending it last time.