I hate to tell you, but whatever the other company you went to is, it’s almost certainly Luxottica, the same people who make Ray-Ban now.

Why don’t Mennonites have sex standing up?

Because it could lead to dancing.

(Explanation: some Mennonite sects believe that dancing is inappropriate. Sex is not considered dirty, as long as it is within a marriage.)

Next thing you know, they are going to want English speakers to say Roma instead of Rome, Napoli instead of Naples, and so on.

The definition of dumb is very elastic.

There is one summer student who came to work at my software company. He was in a very specialized and elite program at a top-flight Canadian university. Both his parents were professors at this university.

One day he came to our boss, and said that his family always went to Europe for 2 weeks in the summer, and he needed time off. My boss explained that he had been hired because we wanted to do a special project during the summer, and it would be very difficult to not have him on the team for a significant part of it.

My boss asked the student when the vacation was going to start. The student replied, “tomorrow”.

At first, my boss was angry, but then realized that the student actually had no understanding that this was an unusual and onerous request. That’s about the time I started learning about autism (and later realized that I was somewhere on the spectrum as well, just not as far along it).

I was halfway through Googling this phrase before I remembered who said it and where. Well played!

Come to Quebec, where electricity is about USD $0.05/kWh. And over 99% of that is renewable (hydroelectric)!

It’s even more of a no-brainer in Quebec, where gasoline is almost $2/litre (USD $5.50 per US gallon), but electricity is only about $0.07/kWh.

That’s always been the deal. Google gives you free email and disk space, but they used everything you have for AI training and targeting advertising.

“reasonable and generous”

Well that was their first problem. Trump interprets kindness as weakness. The powerful crush everyone around them and take one they can.

There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you.’ Fool me—you can’t get fooled again."

George W. Bush – Nashville, Tennessee, September 17, 2002.

Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden

Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer

And since the dogma of infallibility was proclaimed close to 200 years ago, there have only been two instances it has been invoked.

I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Saudi Arabia gave the United States military permission to use its air bases for direct attacks on iran.

It seems like an eternity ego that someone (Colbert?) coined the phrase, “reality has a distinctly liberal bias”.

Do you mean aside from hosting American planes, missiles, soldiers, intelligence, and ships, all of which were used to attack Iran?

I guess that’s what I get for learning French during the age of typewriters (my formal French education ended in 1981 and I’ve only spoken --never written-- it since then).

The whole picture looks bad, like an AI rendering from several years ago.

I don’t remember if German rules are the same as French, but in French you don’t need to include accents when something is written in capital letters.

In my experience, Japanese baking tends to look perfect but fall very short on flavor and texture.

They also generally like things less sweet and less rich (i.e. butter, cream) than westerners and cheese is not even worth the calories.

Donald…I have a cask of very special wine I’d like you to try. It’s an Amontillado. Do come down into the bunker and have a taste.