As a user of a silenced microwave, I find setting an alarm/timer on my phone helpful. It can just be a vibrating alarm, too.

I never did like the “bullseye womprat” logic.

Yep, it was the API thing that finally did it for me, but looking back, I should have seen it coming after all of the other stuff.

Just two roommates on laundry day

According to the article, they bumped up the age for the driving test to 87. Drivers 79 to 86 just have to renew in person and take a vision test.

As for the deeper why, I think its pretty complex, but the short answer is probably that it’s easier and cheaper for governance. I imagine it’s simpler to throw the book at a driver after they mow down a kindergarten classroom than to navigate journalist interviews about why people of a certain age are having more trouble surviving because of a thing the government did to them.

Some alternatives would include increasing driving standards and having periodic tests, investing in public transportation so people aren’t effectively trapped if they lose the ability to drive, funding more social outreach programs for those who can’t drive, etc.

It’s all just time and money that governments don’t want to spend because it could be career suicide if their politician’s donors don’t like the resultant taxes. That little fact is the root of a lot more and bigger issues than just dangerous drivers.

Right? They get to keep the strait, the nuclear program, and they get 300B in foreign investment. What more could they have possibly gotten? At this point, I think Khamenei could ask for a pony, and he would get one airdropped in a matter of hours.

Is that why it always looks like glitter makeup got rubbed off on him? I also assumed it was from much worse events.

I doubt it was this, but I hope Obama left one minor prank on his way out, like a whoopie cushion, or an upside down desk drawer.

Obama leaves a letter on the desk for Trump’s first day. It reads:

"Mr. President,

On this, your first day in office, congratulations again on your victory. Although it’s clear to us both by now that we may never see eye-to-eye on many important issues, I want to express my hope for your success in this new position. Very few people will ever understand the challenges endured while carrying the weight of a nation, if not the entire free world, on one’s shoulders like we do. Along those lines, I humbly offer you my full support, putting aside whatever differences we might have, in the interest of serving our shared and highest value, the well-being and advancement of this great country. Should you ever want it, I am prepared and willing to give whatever assistance possible with utmost diligence and discretion.

We’re all counting on you. Good luck!

Sincerely,

Barack Obama

P. S. I left a little something in the upper right-hand drawer just to show there’s no hard feelings."

After reading it, Trump opens the drawer and hundreds of marbles spill out along with a note card.

I think this why he’s so mad at Obama.

Almost seems like trading in foreign stock is a conflict of interest. But then again, I take the more “extreme” position that politicians shouldn’t be trading at all. So maybe my opinion is biased.

That’s probably going to be the reaponse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_tsar%2C_bad_boyars

This is the means of production. We seized it. This is home now.

Time to order one unit of the cheapest thing on the menu and free cups of water for you and your 40 closest friends. More than likely, someone will be around quickly to cancel that and take your real order. Otherwise, wait for your original order and immediately request a refund.

Okay, we are a union of networked instances now. What can we make for you, comrade?

“Cronyism and self-dealing in my laissez-faire capitalism?”

It’s more likely than you think.

“I can’t be guilty of criminal negligence, because I didn’t know what was going on.”

Can’t argue with that. I would happily support conventional, surface, high-speed, passenger rail. If some cows get annoyed in the process, that’s just a nice little bonus. They know what they did.