I don’t use most of my drinkware on a regular basis, so if there are no other considerations, I put them rim down. I have some small glasses that are for if I want to drink a small serving of alcohol like port. They stack but are more stable rim side up. And I have a set of glasses that fit more compactly if I alternate
Glasses and cups go rim side up. I don’t know why, that’s just the way we do it.
A motel I stayed in about fifty years ago had Magic Fingers and I used it for the novelty. Meh.
Theres’s a road repair season? That makes no sense. I want them to start repairing the road as soon as the pothole/whatever is noticed(which they mostly do). If my county scheduled repairs to be done during a specified period it would be chaos.
Is Josh Shapiro a name that Democrats have been bandying about to replace Biden? 'Cuz I never heard of him.
Good lord no. He’s a bog time GOP cheerleader. He runs some big-time disinformation sites.
You obviously live in a warm weather (and very well funded) area. In, say, Illinois, road repairs can’t really be done in January when it’s snowing or -10F. Plus there’s a backlog of like 10 bazillion potholes to fill and the county/state will never get to all of them, mother nature just makes more.
So areas like that don’t get a summer season. They get Road Construction.
Living in the Chicago area, this has always been my understanding, as well. This webpage, from a Chicago-area paving company, indicates that both the ground temperature and the air temperature should be over 50F for a repair to work well.
In addition, I’ve always heard that the local asphalt plants aren’t even operated during the winter months, meaning that any pothole patch done in the wintertime will be done as a “cold patch”: essentially tamping loose, cold asphalt into the hole, which doesn’t work well, and won’t last very long.
I’m confused. Josh Shapiro is the governor of Pennsylvania. Are you talking about Ben Shapiro? Am I being whooshed?
Yes, I was thinking of Ben Shapiro.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
I do wish the poll had allowed a “someone else” option for the alternate Democratic candidates, but such is the nature of that thread. 
I think, and I suspect most would agree, that there is a huge field of others we would like to run, it’s the second poll with “who do you think would WIN” that is the bigger issue. And I’m wishing I was in the alternate timeline where Biden had run in 2016 and won then, and Trump had been a shockingly successful upset runner up, and that in 2024 Biden was finishing his final term with a wide field of Democratic hopefuls looking to take up the mantle and some more traditional Republicans (in this fork MAGA never took over) figuring they were likely to take over after a search for a change.
Meanwhile Trump would have soured on the whole political thing (although he keeps saying he’ll consider running again and grifting from it) while shilling his new DJT network on cable which combines the worst of the HSN, Fox News, and specials about the Trump family as quasi-Kardashians.
Sadly, that’s not the fork I live in.
It does if you live somewhere where a road rendered unplowable by being torn up for repairs may during some of the year suddenly have a foot or two of snow on it.
Also, at least some road repair materials won’t cure properly if it’s too cold.
– I debated making a poll for some of the possiblities left out of the poll that mentioned Shapiro, but decided I’m not up for that right now. I’m just going to say that as long as we’re fantasizing a couple of my choices are fictional and at least one has been dead for nearly 20 years. (I don’t want her corpse as POTUS, of course. I want her alive and healthy.)
I take my wedding ring off every night to sleep, and put it in in the morning. I didn’t understand why you’d take it off to clean, but i do take it off of I’ll be working with equipment that might grab it, it doing something like raking where i might get blisters. And when i wash my hands, is i feel like there’s soap underneath, i briefly pull it off to rinse and immediately put it on again.
Though if it came down to it, I’d vote for the corpse over certain alive people.
Joe Biden could take a nap on Fifth Avenue, and I would still vote for him.
I have a plug-in hybrid, but I’ve driven a friend’s Tesla, so I voted for the “have rented one” option. Really, though, the only practical difference is that you don’t have to think about recharging on a road trip - otherwise, it drives exactly the same as the full electric. If we lived in a less spread-out state with better charging infrastructure, I’d be fine with all-electric. My Volt has better acceleration than any car I’ve ever had.
For showering, I wash my hair and put conditioner in first, then soap my body, then rinse everything.
The wedding ring stays on except for medical procedures. If I took it off to do tasks, I’d spend most of my waking hours looking for my ring. It’s a flat band with an inlaid design, and I don’t have a separate engagement ring, so it doesn’t get in the way. My spouse used to wear his except for when he was working on something potentially dangerous, but he’s put on weight in the last 43 years, and after we had a panicky few hours trying to remove it before an MRI, I asked him to stop wearing it so he doesn’t risk having to have it cut off in an emergency. By now, we both just look married.
As for replacing Biden, I’d be against it unless the Democrats all woke up one morning prepared to unanimously back a strong replacement. Last July was the time to talk about this, before anyone had a primary.
No diplomacy would happen because I would spend all my time petting the dog.
I would want to rescue the dog. I wouldn’t trust Putin not to turn against it.
On to the various Democratic successor polls, I do think it’ll be Harris, because of positioning, although she wouldn’t be my first choice in terms of politics and preferences. I like Gretchen Witmer and Polis, but fully recognize they also have their individual risks to the ticket.
As for who is going to win, my bet prior to Biden dropping out was Republicans, because, well, we have ample proof of the hate they wield like a dagger and the fact that they’ve been given a green light to cheat by the SCOTUS and other courts, so, yeah, it remains to be seen if this change will give Democrats a chance, but no, especially with the attack on Trump, I think the frenzy, paranoia, and abandoning of anything resembling norms that a representative government should embrace means we’re heading to a very dark future.
I just changed my answer on outlook for the future. Anyone else?
My vote for the future, earlier and now, would be the same, and isn’t on the list: Uncertain.
This is usually what I do. When you have hair that hits your shoulders it’s only going to get soapy again if you shampoo first. So, you might as well shampoo (and rinse then or later) first.
When I was a kid I remember Magic Fingers in motel rooms, but my parents would never let us use them. This would have been late 50s to very early 60s. I don’t think I noticed any after that time period.
I bought a Honda Insight hybrid in its first iteration (2000? 2001?). I drove it to death. Since I was going to retire six months after it died, I bought an ICE car because I didn’t need the economic mileage for my long commute. I expect to have this car a while longer, but it’ll be an EV for me when this one dies.
I know about road repair season from knowing people from other places. We don’t have it here (SoCal).
Sure we do. It just runs year-round!