Nope. I’m not acting on any information that can’t be pulled in an Open Records Request after I leave the city.

I’m a government official, and my work cell is like that.

I don’t respond to texts on that number because text messaging isn’t a proper channel for official communication.

My So didn’t know the guy from Frozen was in Halimton, so I played his numbers for her.

“You’ll be Back”, followed by “What Comes Next”, and then “I Know Him.”

Staff reports are serious business, lol.

As I’ve aged, I’ve become less emotional, period. It works both ways. I don’t have the high of the extreme kids as often, but painful stuff is also less-impactfull.

There’s just not much novelty to experiences anymore, so I just kinda live through them and move on.

A few years ago the woman I absolutely intended to marry and spend my life with fairly suddenly broke it off. If I had been 20 it would have debilitated me, but at 40 it wasn’t the same.

Yeah, it sucked and derailed my future plans, but I also had a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that night I had to prepare for, so I just kept moving forward and lived my life.

I ended up being upset that I wasn’t really that upset. There was no weeping, hatred, name-calling, etc. It was just a shitty thing that happened.

Stars that small are much scarier monsters.

There are 4 Toots!

Yeah - I don’t get to determine what date format 3rd party reports are generated in before I import into excel.

But excel has formatting options specifically designed to address this that it just ignores half the time.

I have the opposite problem. Half the time no matter how much I change the formatting on the cells I can’t get a table to sort by date. It insists on alphabetical instead, so you’ve got 1/12/2024 ahead of 1/13/2023.

You can sometimes buy season tickets to the WNBA for the price of similar single-game NBA seats.

The books are spectacular, keep going after the show, and didn’t have to write off any characters because of actor unavailability or sex scandals.

Though be prepared that Drummer isn’t really a player in the books until after the events of the show. They kinda combined a lot of side characters from the book to create her role in the show.

No. Because there’s actual photos of Trump saluting North Korean generals, posing with Epstein, and more. By spreading fake photographs we’re giving them cover to claim legitimate pictures as being faked.

In some states they’re legal as long as you can only win coupons for merchandise and not money.

Texas also now allows gambling, so long as it’s for charity. So you’re starting to see game runs being set up that give 100% of profits to a charity. Of course, that doesn’t stop them from paying obscene salaries to the owners so that the “profit” is only like 1%.

“Care Bears as eco-terrorists” is a pitch that would get my butt in a theatre.

Different compression, not “no-compression”.

A dual-layer Blu-ray disc can hold about 4 minutes of uncompressed 24fps 4k video.

Yet this message is in all caps.

“I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.”

versus

“I HELPED MY UNCLE JACK OFF A HORSE.”

The P320 still requires the trigger to be pulled to remove the stop that prevents the firing pin from touching the primer.

The problem with the 320, the Taurus G1, most 911s, and others is the trigger being pulled. It’s why most of the industry has adopted trigger safeties like the one pictured that don’t allow the trigger to move without something inside the trigger guard releasing the trigger.

A 2011, despite the name, isn’t really a modern firearm. It’s essentially a 9mm version of a 115 year-old design and too many boutique race gun companies cut corners for guns that aren’t designed to anything but range queens.

As popular and fun as the 1911 is at the range, it has no place as a modern defensive firearm, and people who carry It are idiots. They’re super heavy, low capacity, jam, rust, have a trigger pull so short and light they can’t be safely handled while cocked without engaging a safety that’s just a hammer block (leaving the pin floating), are a pain to clean, and more.

A firing pin shouldn’t be free-floating in a way that will allow it to strike a primer without the trigger being pulled in any modern pistol.

The Sig P320, a $700 pistol from a “quality” brand that was adopted as the new military standard issue pistol, would fire if dropped at the wring angle. They didn’t want to have the trigger-safety mechanism that Glock and others use that includes a spring-loaded trigger lock that prevents the trigger from being pulled without something actually inside the trigger guard to pull it.

So if you dropped it at the wrong angle, it had enough inertia that when the gun hit the ground the trigger would keep moving and pull itself.

This was discovered in military trials, so they fixed the flaw (with a lighter trigger that wouldn’t have as much inertia combined with a heavier trigger pull) for the military, but not for the Civilian model.

A viral YouTube video came out showing how it could be reliably fired by dropping it (the video used blanks so they weren’t actually shooting wildly), and they still denied it was a problem until all the gun dealers refused to sell the gun.

They did a recall, but there’s still probably a million affected guns out there.