NOTE: if you lead with or must include "LOL" in everything you type, you're kind of an idiot. LOL.

If ZIP had been more reliable, or more affordable, they would have simply replaced Floppy drives until CD/RW or USB drives of decent capacity came along. But they pretty early gained a reputation for being unreliable and expensive, and so everyone at the time really just bit the bullet and waited.

Every time an article on Amazon comes out, I realize I'm glad I don't use Amazon.
Anecdotally, I have a friend who used to sell products through amazon, they got tired of the constant price increases and weird rules for everything, and changed to a different method of selling.
Amazon is just awful. And it's been easy to see it going that way for years.

It's not difficult to post to every resource under the sun. They're just peacocking to fit in. Not exactly sure to what.

Being Kamala put Kamala in a tough spot. She just wasn't that good, she was frankly kinda meh. She exuded a feeling of "I'm a good mid level manager", and never managed to convince us she could move past that.
Every time she opened her mouth to make a point, nonsense came out. She just exuded "incapable". Trump did too, but never pretended otherwise.
She'd been pummeled in the primaries, and got a political version of "get out of jail free" card being put on the ticket as a token for Biden, and then when Biden dropped out it was a lot of "wait, whaaaa?' I can't help but think the only reason the democrats ran her was that they would have had to give back all that donated money had they changed the candidate.

I've never even visited Lebanon, but reading up on it's history previously and now just makes me so sad.

Insert south park smug joke here.

ah, the old double switcheroo!

I know three people who are decidedly Windows users who are considering one of these systems. they would most definitely NOT buy a more expensive Mac.

Everyone keeps pretending that the strait of Hormuz is a magical fairyland all oil must pass through.
Shortly after this conflict, investment will be made to circumvent the straits.

Perhaps...the reason... conservative comedy isn't funny for you...is that they use periods? and that...you prefer... Shatner pacing?

This applies to anyone, and I mean anyone of any political bent: when the politics becomes the primary message, the comedy fails because of it.
You can make a few political jokes. But if it's your primary topic, and always leans in one direction, eventually you'll become preachy and only funny to an odd audience who will laugh at anything that aligns with their beliefs.

Carson, on for years, wasn't exactly a comedy goldmine. But he was consistent and stayed away from strong stances to keep from alienating his audience.

Colbert is also "passionate" about a lot of things I frankly don't care about.
Passion alone does not make a good outcome.

They lost me at handsome dwarves and some elf having a crush on one.

we got my dad a 65" one last Christmas, it seems normal. Didn't make us connect to the internet, we just use a roku on the back to watch any streaming. It does occasionally try to get you to give it an internet connection, but this only happens when you're looking through the various background settings.

We've just kept it dumb and it's been fine.