A young woman I knew was complaining that she had made plans to meet a friend in the city (long before most people had mobile phones), but the friend hadn’t showed up so she waited for a long time on the street corner.

My brother immediately chipped in, “what was his name, John?”

Which Google lens work? And take a picture of each page and feed it to the Google translate engine. It might be the easiest way.

You skipped over the part where you attempt to plug it in, flip the USB connector attempt again, flip it again, and finally it goes in.

Following on what you said, it’s also true that for a long time it was difficult for women to get published in the science fiction genre. Many of them relied on male pseudonyms (i.e. Andre Norton, James Tiptree Jr.).

But OP was speaking specifically about fantasy books, and not specifying only bestsellers.

My guess, with no data to back it up, is that both men and women enjoy writing fantasy and science fiction, and many of them are good at it.

But writing science fiction often requires a science background, and historically there are many more men than women who have that. It is certainly becoming more balanced, but the difference is still there.

So women, who generally don’t have as scientific a background, turn to fantasy where they can create their own worlds.

There’s also a difference, because our elections typically have only a few races on them. In other words, at the federal level I only vote for the candidates in my writing. Typically four to six options.

In a us election, there can be a ballot containing choices for many different levels, including judges, district attorneys, and so on. Not to mention they might have several referenda on the same ballot too.

I could see that being much more complex on paper, making electronic voting attractive.

Thanks for the additional information. Everything newer seems to be Rotax now. Except there was one guy who had a Corvette engine in his Cessna. Other pilots were talking about how it has so much torque his rudder isn’t big enough to compensate.

Hopefully in 5 or 10 years, everything will be electric!

Just today I learned that the fuel Cessnas use has lead in it, because the engines were developed when lead was in all gasoline and they have not found it worthwhile to certify all of those tens or hundreds of thousands of planes with new engines.

In fact, I was at a fly-in today and there were several Cessnas that were 60 and 70 years old. no unleaded fuel, and no added ethanol, either.

I know someone who is allergic to garlic. Sometimes I wonder how sad her life must be.

I have heard, and I think this came out of Google, that managers can be separated into two groups: shit funnels and shit umbrellas.

The shit funnel takes all the shit that is coming down from above comma and redirects it onto the people below.

The shit umbrella protects all the workers below from the shit that is falling from about. I was lucky enough to have an umbrella manager in one of my previous jobs.

As does peanut butter and bacon.

They have also announced that if they have to reduce or stop production because of the current tariffs, they will continue to pay all of their employees.

All of their ice cream is also made in nut free factories, so that people with nut allergies can safely eat it. I’m not sure, but that may be the only ice cream that makes such a guarantee.

When I go into a Costco, I take a minute to look at the board showing the pictures names of long-time employees. At my local one, they have about 15 people who have been working there for over 30 years.

Met a woman who had been a Costco employee for 25 years. In addition to everything else, she got 6 weeks of paid holidays a year. How many other retail employers come anywhere close to that?

The one time where sovereign citizenship makes sense is when native people who have never ceded their land to the crown claim it. This might be one of those cases. They may be in Hamilton, but the land may be unseeded.

• Never get involved in a land war in Asia
• Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line
• Never bet on a fucking Nazi

One of the giveaways for me was the complete ignorance of the Canadian post-secondary system.

She said that she’s taking pre-health sciences at George Brown College. College in Canada means community college (which George Brown is). You take a course, typically 1-3 years, with a specific goal in mind.

Also, Canadian universities do not offer pre-med or pre-health sciences tracks. You get a degree in chemistry, biology, or whatever, and apply for med school irrespective of the program you are in. One of my classmates was accepted into medical school straight out of chemical engineering. Someone else I know was finishing a degree in Spanish literature when he was accepted into medical school.

So that you could legally ejaculate, paying $100 rather than paying much more as a fine.

He desperately wanted to pawn the stolen guitars to buy drugs.

Please don’t put words into my mouth. I never said that chiropractic is safe or useful. I said that this one chiropractor did exceptional work. People should beware of the pseudoscience of chiropractic, not of chiropractors themselves.

Anything to do with adjusting spines is suspect and potentially lethal.

There’s a chiropractor near me who also has a master’s degree in sports medicine. He has being on the medical team for several national teams at multiple Olympic Games. Local doctors refer patients to him and some of them go to him themselves.

I agree that the majority of chiropractors do little good, and sometimes a lot of bad, but certainly in this case he has been able to achieve results that doctors could not.