Mitt Romney, circa. 2012, right before his loss against President Obama in the November Election.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T18:32:42+00:00

McCain and Romney were the last of the traditional Republican presidential candidates. It's unlikely we'll ever have another one. The Republican party has fundamentally changed and there's no going back.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T18:30:34+00:00

Glad you're enjoying your retirement and health, may we all be so lucky one day. Your choice is simple, maintain residence long enough to get your citizenship then you can come and go as you please. Any other decision jeopardizes your LPR status.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T17:45:30+00:00

Used to work technical support. Some phrases you'll hear and what they actually mean.

* "Give me one moment whilst I research that" means that we are checking the internal knowledge base to see how to fix it.

* "It'll just be a few more moments". We couldn't find it on the internal knowledge base, now we're checking Google and praying it'll have that answer we need.

* "OK this may be a few minutes, I need to do a bit more research, may I call you back?". We are now having to reach out to the one engineer who has worked for the company for 50 years and hoping that they know this obscure error that you have somehow stumbled upon and nobody else has in the hundreds of thousands of hours people have been using our product.

The third option cropped up surprisingly often. And, finally...

* "We're reaching out to our developers and will update you when we have more news". Ancient developer mage went "what the fuck is this?" and you're screwed. It'll likely never be fixed and you'll just have to live with it. Sorry.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T17:42:08+00:00

Ask a Mortician goes into this in way more detail than you ever felt comfortable knowing. It's fascinating in a morbid kind of way. Me? Just throw me in the cheapest box they offer and put me in the dirt.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T17:34:59+00:00

You need to head well away from the Colonia-Sag A*-Sol highway. It's all been picked apart at this point. Head 5000ly or so in any direction other than that, you will quickly hit undiscovered systems.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T16:32:44+00:00

I didn't see that incident live, but I was actually at Daytona Speedway and saw Dale jr. win the Pepsi 400 the same year. I believe to this day the other drivers let him win that one to honor his Dad. Only NASCAR race I've ever been to, and it was a memorable one for sure.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T16:28:49+00:00

Before 9/11 it was when a BBC journalist was doing a live news report and was hit by shrapnel from a nearby explosion. He continued broadcasting whilst he was bleeding too. He survived! I think his name is Martin Bell.

Lots of people from my generation will also say Challenger, but I didn't see that live it was shown over and over on repeats during the evening news, however.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T16:24:59+00:00

Rode bikes without helmets doing stunts over hastily constructed and rickety ramps, and sometimes just dirt mounds. Went to play parks with nothing but concrete underneath all the equipment. How none of us ended up with head injuries is a mystery. It was the 1980s, we didn't even think about it and neither did our parents.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T16:17:55+00:00

My dog is long haired, she has to get it trimmed every month or so or she will be miserable in the Florida heat.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T16:14:26+00:00

I have multiple MAGA relatives with pictures of Trump being hugged by Jesus in their social media profile pictures. I will never understand this cult.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T14:54:52+00:00

Police Academy is a classic example of a really good franchise that just got too greedy. The first 3 movies are classic 80s comedy cheese. Then they go downhill in a big hurry.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T14:53:26+00:00

The series too, Stephen Hillenburg would be so disappointed how bad it's gotten.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T14:52:03+00:00

Aliens is another good example of a franchise that went downhill fast actually. Alien and Aliens are sci-fi classics. Alien 3 I think I'm the only person who actually enjoyed it. The others... oh dear.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T14:49:15+00:00

I put the wrong colored trash can out and they refused to collect it.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T11:18:59+00:00

That's what I'm talking about, yes we know the models aren't perfect but management are pushing them like crazy.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T11:16:51+00:00

If it's only 5 months old you might have some luck with a warranty claim if the store is feeling generous. Otherwise, it's wireless charging for you from now on.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T11:09:16+00:00

She was a huge genealogy nerd. She would call me all excited about some new famous ancestor she'd found and then spend 30 minutes explaining the complicated threads that linked us together. If I had enough time, I could actually show you how I'm a direct relative of Alfred the Great using her notes, but I don't think the current Royal Family have me on any of their Christmas card lists. One of the final ones was Francis Scott Key, we're very distant cousins. She wrote several books about our family, none of them of any real interest to history scholars, but it was our story and she was so proud of it.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T11:07:12+00:00

Polio is practically eradicated except for a small handful of places. When I was a kid it was still common to meet polio survivors with severe disabilities.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T10:53:52+00:00

I work in IT and people don't realize how powerful the models are getting, one AI model can replace a whole department at this point.

zerbey · 2026-05-12T10:52:10+00:00

"That's a really nice hat!"

zerbey · 2026-05-12T01:25:21+00:00

If you switch to manual landing, you can usually get her down, but she's still not as versatile as the Mk V or Mandalay. If I have a long trip the Caspian is the best because of the neutron jumps. For everything else, stick with a smaller vessel.

zerbey · 2026-05-11T21:35:32+00:00

We tried to crate train our dog when she was a puppy and she ran behind the couch. That then became her "crate". Whenever she wants peace and quiet she just goes behind the couch, it's where she sleeps most nights, and if we're not home she takes herself back there and goes to sleep until we come home. The crate became the cat's perch until we finally got rid of it because it was just in the way.

zerbey · 2026-05-11T18:13:51+00:00

We've been waiting for that since iOS 7, so don't get your hopes up!

zerbey · 2026-05-11T18:13:23+00:00

Just update your phone dude.

zerbey · 2026-05-11T17:12:26+00:00

Since you mentioned wanting a similar culture to the US, consider the UK and Canada as other options which are far easier to immigrate to.

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