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It’s lovely! I should make some!

Seconding Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection. Quite a number of different puzzles, very lightweight.

Technically, mine isn’t a drawer, it’s a shoebox tucked under the coffee table, but yes.

The inheritance can be put into a special needs trust, to be used for the benefit of the child.

I didn’t find the peanut rubber, but did find that

Dr. George Washington Carver’s work resulted in the creation of more than 300 products from peanuts, contributing greatly to the economic improvement of the rural South. source

OP’s article states that

He helped Henry Ford make peanut rubber for cannons for World War II.

But I can’t find a actual source for that just endless repeated comments to that effect. I wonder if whoever-originated-that-idea conflated Carver’s peanut work with his other work with Ford:

By the time World War II began, Ford had made repeated journeys to Tuskegee to convince Carver to come to Dearborn and help him develop a synthetic rubber to help compensate for wartime rubber shortages. Carver arrived on July 19, 1942, and set up a laboratory in an old water works building in Dearborn. He and Ford experimented with different crops, including sweet potatoes and dandelions, eventually devising a way to make the rubber substitute from goldenrod, a plant weed. Carver died in January 1943, Ford in April 1947, but the relationship between their two institutions continued to flourish. Source

Ooh - Jeff Bezos, and some way to irreversibly triple every non-executive Amazon worker/contractor’s pay, plus full healthcare. He can afford it and Amazon has enough direct and indirect workers that it’ll be felt throughout the country and the economy, and other companies will eventually be forced to compete, raising living standards for most people (and increasing tax revenue).

End with a tweet supporting an inflation-linked living wage, Medicare for All, and UBI.

Vance is an opportunist and would cheerfully go along with the Project 2025 folks in order to be their figurehead and grab a bunch of loot. And they’d be happy to have him as a figurehead, so long as he does what they tell him to.

if they see a smashed window, that’s an obvious sign that the cabin is not secured for takeoff

lmao!

Pardons require a sympathetic governor, which will never happen.

Jury nullification requires that everyone on the jury votes not-guilty, which is a pretty high bar to hit.

A hung jury, on the other hand, simply requires one or more members of the jury to vote not-guilty. He could still be re-tried, of course, but having just one principled person is a lot easier than having all 12.

it was made by the group sometimes known as the Anglo-Saxons.

… Are they called something else now? I’m more confused by this than the coin, tbh.

At the checkout counter with four six-packs of specialty beer, a 16-ounce tube of KY jelly, and a quart of hand sanitizer. Nothing else, just those items.

I have a few levels for my gift-giving, like immediate family, close friends, coworkers, etc. I try to have all gifts within each level total to being within a dollar of each other. For me, “stocking stuffers” are the things I use to bring the total value for a person within range.

I’d try looking on the floor, underneath and behind furniture, and between/behind seat cushions etc.

If you’re like me and hate crawling around on the floor and can’t always see behind the furniture, you can use your cellphone camera to look for you. If it ends up in a place that’s hard to reach, like between the desk and the wall, you can try securing a magnet to a piece of string and “fishing” for it.

Some imaginary audience of post 40 wine aunts that also love marvel and pay for Disney+?

Who do you think writes half the stuff on AO3? This audience actually exists, and is fairly sizeable.

If it’s not for you, that’s fine. But a Marvel universe intended only for teenage boy nerds is pretty dull and repetitive; the MCU didn’t get that big by aiming solely for them.

And yeah, when you start gatekeeping, saying “those people don’t exist” and “you don’t belong here”, maybe it is time to take a look at your prejudices.

Copying my comment from another thread:

Okay, no. Anthem were looking to implement this in Connecticut, New York and Missouri, with Colorado and other states being brought into this policy later on.

Anthem has only backed off this policy in Connecticut. The other states are still currently on the table.

We also have subcutaneous birth control that doesn’t get rejected.

It has correctly identified both a Stargate and a moai made of snow.

I gave it two pictures of my cat and it said that she looked annoyed in one picture and contemplative in the other, both of which were true.

You can save your magic dollars and become a magic millionaire/billionaire etc.

One dollar a day is $365 per year. If I lived a hundred years and didn’t spend anything, I’d have $36,500 (not counting leap years). I’d have to live 2,739 years to become a millionaire - I don’t think I’m going to make it!

That’s how I was using it, like an iterative search engine.