I thought Paul Eggert was in charge of world wide time zones. I hope he's still okay. The world still needs him.

If that was the case, why isn't Russia asking for more sanctions?

It's the Golden Age of TV. So many excellent shows. It is diluted as it's on multiple different streaming services, but it's available.

It's also the Golden Age of Radio with Podcasts giving Listen To On Demand on just about any subject.

Movies are just being squeezed out.

(And having cheap 1080P TVs are inexpensive sound bars doesn't help. Nor does extremely easy access to Pirated videos.)

I Am A Cardiologist.

For those that may reply that you must have had pre-existing heart conditions (There was a reply that vanished. That's strange.)...

We all have pre-existing vascular conditions. If you do an autopsy of any adult in the U.S. or Europe (or likely any other part of the world), you will find streaks of cholesterol in the arteries. Those streaks start to build up in our teens. They may lie dormant for decades. Then some sort of stress (ie: a bad infection, an extra puff of smoke from a cigarette, a fight with a spouse) causes one of the streaks to suddenly erupt and become a blockage. If it's a minor eruption, it may become a 10% blockage and you don't notice it. If it's a 70% blockage, you may notice that you're a little winded with exertion (if it's an artery of the heart). If it's a 100% blockage, you get an heart attack. Or maybe it's an artery in the brain and you get a stroke.

My point is, when they do autopsies of people with the flu or Covid-19 or frankly any other cause of death, they will find heart disease, and will put that down as a pre-existing condition. So, yes, the people who die from the Flu or Covid-19 at young age have a pre-existing health condition. They have streaks of cholesterol in their arteries. Just like everyone else. The only difference is that they were unluckly enough that on or more of those streaks erupted and caused an obstruction in an artery.

There's a reason why cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S. Everyone has it.

Except the U.S. is a special case for at least a couple reasons.
1 - It's the currency of international commerce. (For now, yes. But I don't see this changing in the next few years.)
2 - U.S. Bonds are considered very valuable because the U.S. does not default. U.S. bonds are a store of value world-wide. The U.S. wants to create more bonds (how it borrows money)? There will be a long line of individuals, companies, pension funds, and other countries that will buy.

U.S. bonds are a liability to anyone who owns them. They want the US to remain solvent so that they can cash in at some point in the future. That includes foreign superpowers (ie: China) who own US Bonds.

Hopefully they will get a sternly worded warning about doing something like this again.

At first I thought it was Facebook Messenger, but it's just called Messenger. Then I thought it was Apple, but they're pretty good about calling their's iMessage. Is it Microsoft, or a new company? Someone new to avoid?

My neighbor, who knows almost nothing about computers and little about finance decided to invest in BTC and Etherium. That was a month ago. That was indication enough that I needed to keep away.

The kids were entering the game and the big guys would take the opportunity to take some $$$ off the table.

Bitcoin is a store of value. Increases in Bitcoin cost versus the Dollar means that the Dollar is being devalued by increased dollar creation and inflation in the U.S. (*smirk*)

No one cares about Windows ME (except to draw hate on it).

Windows 2000 came out the same year and still has some love.

There are some great long form lectures that are truly inspirational but... long. For instance, The Last Lecture ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ). I'd hate for that to get buried because most people will not watch it in a single sitting.

But even the 220V 30A line will only charge 40 miles every hour of charge. For someone who drives over 200 miles in a day, they have to charge overnight. Frankly, if I'm driving 200 miles in a day, I'm certainly charging overnight.

But to charge on a 110V 15A line, you're lucky to get more than 6 miles for every hour of charge.

Older homes will need updated electrical lines and perhaps even adding a second electrical panel.

This should be considered part of the expense of owning an electric car. It's a one-time expense, but certainly something that needs to be planned for.

When I got my first Tesla, my basement wasn't finished, so it was relatively straightforward for the electrician to run the cable from the electrical panel to the garage. Now that the basement is finished, it would be a much larger ordeal.

My parents put a similar 220V 30A service in their 40 year old house with a finished basement and the electrician had to run the cable outside the house and back in, through a metal pipe, to get it from his panel to the garage. It cost a lot more.

Simple ways to avoid this:
Have your source vault reject Bidi control characters.
Have your editor highlight any lines that have Bidi characters.

Are there no Agents of SHIELD fans out there?

AIDA was the artificial humanoid robot from Season 4 of the show: https://marvelcinematicunivers...

This thing looks close enough to her (the actress, Mallory Jansen) that it can't be a coincidence. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm52...

Just checked. I've got five comic book stores between me and my local mall (a half hour drive away). I've been to four of them.

I don't go often, but when I do I make sure I buy some stuff. Gotta support the local economy.

(Yes, yes. Survival of the fittest. But if I was being dispassionate and only buying stuff from the cheapest place available, my community would only have Dollar Stores and Amazon warehouses. It takes a community to keep a community together.)