Nah, I have hypertension. Can’t do it.

What’s the rush? You’ll know soon enough.

Ya gotta keep upping the ante till they break. That’s the game.

I’ve never had a problem with the scanners, I use them every week.

Then, just a few days, ago…

I got something I don’t usually, it was supposed to be $24, but it rang up as $48. I was on the wrong hook, as it turned out. Anyway, I didn’t want it for $48, so the lady had to help me. She happened to be standing about five feet from me when it happened, and she saw it happen before I asked her. She was taking care of it on her little device.

Thing is, when I noticed it scanned incorrectly, I accidentally put the coffee I was holding in my other hand in the bag without scanning it and without thinking.

So, as soon as she canceled the sale for the thing, another error pops up, which flustered me again, and I kid you not, I did the same damn thing, I put ANOTHER item in the bag without scanning it and without thinking about it or noticing. Like the fucking idiot I am. While I was apologizing for the first unscanned item ANOTHER error appeared.

She was very kind, dealing with the village idiot.

Annie taught us that tomorrow is ALWAYS a day away.

Three room apartment. You need to charge rent.

They don’t teach this in school anymore?

I have occasional celebrity name blindness, or whatever.

Some days I can name every celebrity I see in a picture, and other days I can’t pull up a single one. I recognize the woman in the picture, but I can’t recall her name at the moment, but maybe I will be able to tomorrow.

A while back, someone posted a picture of the Rolling Stones, and I knew every name, but Mick Jagger’s.

Robert De Niro, Al Pachino, Christopher Walken, Matthew McConaughey are all names I’ve “misplaced” recently. At the same time, I can get Woody Harrelson, though--when I was commenting about Brothers.

This isn’t new, I’ve had this weird affliction my whole life, I think.

You like their food (objective, so there’s no “lying” around that), and so excuse their politics. I get it, it’s like separating the artist from the art. Lots of people pay to see Tom Cruise movies, or now to see Ed Sheeran, or maybe Bill Burr.

Some people don’t.

Money can buy security.

People are naturally happy when they’re secure, so it seems like money buys happiness. Really, it’s just allowing you to climb out of the hole of despair we were all born into.

That something is that money = power, and power corrupts.

They start out with perhaps a little less empathy than normal, maybe due to being raised by rich, entitled parents, but as their wealth and power grows, the lose it all.

I think virtually everyone, save the Mr. Rogers and Dolly Partons of the world, would soon fall into the same trap, if handed a billion dollars. It’s human nature. We’re not poor because we’re better, we’re better because we’re poor.

Yeah, I know, I know.

I think of it as a way to prompt others to donate. “I donated, and you can too!”, sort of thing. Like wearing an “I voted” sticker on election day.

Unless just doing a sticky once in a while does the job, I suppose.

I’d be nice if supporters got a little badge or something. But, maybe that’s not the Fediverse way.

How do I get the video to play?

Well, now I want to try a peanut butter and black licorice sandwich on sourdough toast with butter.

I bet that would be amazing.

We’re gonna need a name for this sandwich, too.

If one of the average sized ones rises up in front of you and roars, I bet it would look just as big as that painting.

Can anyone confirm? Probably not.

The reality: “Nobody stops to fuel their vehicle taking gasoline, gets out, rushes as fast as possible, puts as much fuel in the car as possible, and gets back in the car and drives away,” Cutler said.

I, in fact, do exactly that. I pull up in front of the pump, get out, stick my card in, fill up, and leave. It’s been over ten years since I went inside the store at a gas station, there’s nothing in there I want to buy.

However, needing to spend half an hour recharging if I were on a road trip would be fine, because on a road trip I would stop for a break from driving in any case. But, I almost never go on road trips, and 99.9% of my trips around town would be well within one charge, which I could do at home.

So, while I agree that charging doesn’t need to be as fast as gas, it’s not because of his stated reason.

It’s okay to be equally against them both, for different reasons.