Hell, I'm doubting you have the humidity to go with the heat they way we do....?

You might want to take a moment to reflect on the fact that New Orleans is on the Mississippi River before taking your foot out of your mouth. I'd also like to add that I live in Trinidad, COI, on the Pugatoire River and know exactly what "Mosquito Season" means.

I know Alex Jones is a wacko but Boomers believe everything printed in The Sun is God's own truth.

No, we don't. I say that as an early boomer (born '49) and a proud 'Nam vet. Not, please note, a "Vietnam war era veteran," but a true 'Nam vet and a member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club. I have never read the Sun, and have no idea what it is except that it appears to be some sort of newspaper that right-wing Limeys read.

Having a society with so much importance placed on "credentialism" and so little importance placed on being able to actually do things doesn't help.

I used to know a man who was trying to break into IT. The basis of his efforts was making sure he had the proper credentials for whatever position he was chasing. I don't know how many certs he ended up with, but they turned out to be a waste of time and money because I don't think he ever got into IT. What he never realized is that while certs may help, HR wants experience as well even if they're demanding seven years experience in a field that's only three years old.

Well, he could have tried. SCOTUS almost never accepts an appeal unless their are constitutional issues involved. And, if this had happened in the US, the student would have been charged as an Accessory Before the Fact for providing any credentials, passwords or other documents needed to get into the exam room and both of them would be charged with Conspiracy to Defraud.

Like with drugs, how many get away with it because they have the right connections?

And do you think that the fact that some people get away with it makes it right? I wonder what their clients would say when they found out how incompetent they were.

No safeguards. As soon as the Nazis in the alleged administration can manage it...

And right there I call Godwin. By your comparing the politicians supporting this to the nazis, you have just lost the argument. Congratulations!

But there are potentially a huge number of these lawsuits pending, and a few million here, and a few million there, and soon it is real money.

Thank you Senator Dirksen". Most people today don't remember who first said that, or that the bit about "a few million here and a few million there" was added by a reporter, but even Democrats agree that this Republican was right. Thank you for reminding us that truth can come from both sides of the aisle.

The OP was referring to an event in European history that has had important consequences lasting for centuries. Maybe you should do a little research on it and make another reply that addresses that event.

What is the difference if the list of ingredients lies or the vegan label lies?

My point being that if the manufacturer is going to lie, the lie will be on both the list of ingredients and the vegan label. At that point, how can you tell?

Food is labeled, it is plain obvious if it is vegan or not.

Really? Are you sure? If you're considering buying a package of croissants, how can you tell if they were made with butter or margarine? Either way they'll look the same, done properly they'll taste almost exactly the same and if the list of ingredients lies, how can you tell?

I am reasonably, but not entirely, confident that Wikipedia is reliable in this. It's not always correct.

True. But at least when it is incorrect, it's authoritatively incorrect.

"...and then they found out that they couldn't come for me."

The most obviously applicable of those are the eligibility rules for SSI, which changed the definition of "public assistance households".

And what makes you think I'm on SSI? I've said repeatedly that I'm retired and am on Social Security, which is completely different. To be a tad more specific, I'm 76 years old and will be 77 by the end of the year. My VA compensation has nothing to do with that, as none of my disabilities made me stop working and all of them were declared Service Connected after I retired.

They're a warehouse filled with equipment racks and when something fails a person is sent out to swap parts. They employ at handful of people.

I'm long retired, and the only job I had that included a data center, it was right across the street from where I worked, so I have to ask this: when something fails in the typical data center, how long does it take on the average for somebody to get to it and swap in a new box? And, do they have some spare boxes up and running so that somebody can just switch things over to it in a few minutes and worry about replacing the bad box later or is that service just down until the box gets replaced?

And what would you say if there was a heavy rain storm or dense fog? Would you still say that he should be driving at 55 mph even though that would be outrunning his headlights? Just to remind you of how dangerous that can be, I'd like to point out that that was what caused Titanic to ram an iceberg back in 1912.