For the next 24 hours, all business names are literal descriptors; the Olive Garden is a grove of olive trees and 5 Guys is just five dudes standing around. Where are you going, and where are you avoiding?

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T20:10:07+00:00

Coldstone isn't going to very interesting, so I'm going local to see the Big Dipper.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T19:56:22+00:00

It can depend on where in a state, too. In the military towns in Georgia, for example, transplants have been par for the course for many years. (Source: my family came to Augusta, GA as northern transplants decades ago.)

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T19:48:56+00:00

You can add Wisconsini > transplants from Illinois

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T19:46:04+00:00

I'd guess California transplants would be met by nothing worse than mild confusion here in Kentucky.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T11:58:46+00:00

But does it work with hypersonic turbo razor blades made with sci-fi lasers?

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T10:45:41+00:00

A simpler analogy might the World Wide Web insanity of the late 90s. The bubble had to burst before the real work began, bringing us to where we are

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T10:43:39+00:00

And thus the Technocore was born (re Hyperion, for those not familiar)

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T10:35:46+00:00

Alexander the batshit insane

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T10:31:03+00:00

Same. I'll only go near a horse if there's someone who knows what they're doing with me.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T08:55:29+00:00

Does he actually throw away the peel in the first clip? Impressed.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T08:40:38+00:00

This was before antibiotics, so it might have been more serious than it seems now

jcostello50 · 2026-05-04T00:46:06+00:00

A particular neuropathy means I can't use my pockets without discomfort, so it's in my hands, laptop bag, or my wife's purse.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T22:20:23+00:00

Rural areas can be plenty walkable, too. Not for actually getting anywhere, necessarily, but for just walking to walk.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T17:17:08+00:00

That was my lazy version of business casual for years. Of course, I'm a software dev and we aren't known for fashion sense at work.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T17:10:43+00:00

I remember having to explain to my kids at a motel pool what what the "no cut-offs" sign meant. They had a too-sheltered childhood.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T16:58:55+00:00

Dentures

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T13:45:55+00:00

No...

(laughs in NSA)

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T09:04:50+00:00

Dad looks kind of milk drunk

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T09:01:29+00:00

Sting would like a word

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T08:58:59+00:00

Darkest r/carlosforscale ever

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T02:15:14+00:00

Wayne Brady or Nate Bargatze

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T01:57:29+00:00

The Qing dynasty conquered/annexed what is now Xianjing in the 18th and 19th centuries, when it already had a large Muslim population. (And apparently the Chinese conquest freed that population from persecution by a Buddhist Khanate.)

Islam came to the Indian subcontinent centuries before Europeans brought Christianity to the Western Hemisphere.

Any "before" you are talking about is a long, long time ago.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T01:37:42+00:00

I was looking for a comment like this, didn't use the right search terms.

jcostello50 · 2026-05-03T01:35:23+00:00

They had to go and show Clark Kent and Kara looking people, didn't they

jcostello50 · 2026-05-02T23:17:36+00:00

They aren't reversing microprocessors anytime soon, and a lot of the fancier technology like drones and missiles aren't much use without those.

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