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I visited my folks several years ago (2018?) and brought some books with me for my Dad to read, and he presented me with this book. He got pretty emotional describing it. After reading it, it was the first time I realized that my Dad was struggling. It was a great book, but will forever be tied to my understanding of Dad’s mental health. He isn’t Ove, but Mom has had a physical decline and he is similarly non social and has difficulty asking for help. Haven’t been able to watch the movie.

I didn’t watch enough Breaking Bad to know who this person played as a character, but with the years of memes and references, this seems like something that could have happened in the show.

Reading the article, I was wondering about the temporal nature of these. It is probably best to avoid spoilers (so maybe don’t answer?), but I could see these apertures closing on someone featuring into a horrifying chapter indeed!

That makes this much more unfortunate.

I’m in a pretty similar boat to you. Not great financials, not a lot of spare time, I live in a remote location with limited purchasing options. But I made the decision a long time ago to not use Amazon. That does mean purchasing from multiple sources, seeking vendors who will sell products, and maybe pay a little more.

The thing about Amazon is that their pricing is artificial. The whole package, from item price to shipping is meant to capture you, the consumer, into their ecosystem. I am willing to spend a small amount extra to not support hegemonic practices. It isn’t even that much money, and the time investment to find sources is just that (an investment). For most of my mail order stuff, I already know the vendors to use.

I don’t like to castigate folks for using amazon, and I apologize if I was too confrontational, but I do want to encourage people to engage in their options before amazon is all we have.

Best wishes finding quality sources!

Your first sentence needs work. This is what they are talking about. We get that English may not be your first language, and that’s OK, but that sentence is pretty bad and isn’t conveying a coherent message.

Amazon is pretty necessary in much of the US

I couldn’t disagree more. Amazon is a choice. You have to choose other options and move away from the mindset of immediacy.

Maybe fb Zuck could follow in the path of the former Ron Artest.

I don’t think I am the target audience for these products, and have no answers for you, but am curious what these would do above what turning the device off. Is a device that is powered off still reachable? Or is this not about that?

Anyway, on to the non answers, when i worked around wiring that needed to not be affected by interference from adjacent wiring, it would we shielded by aluminum. It was thicker than household foil, and had braiding. The wires could be run with other, non shielded wires, most of which were dramatically different voltages.

I am not a scientist 😅

Yup.

Is she on youtube? Now I fear my niece, who has unregulated access to that “thing,” seeing something or someone like her 😬

Ya 🫤 Jerry is still touring (I think). He was good live then, but the last time I saw him was like a month or two after Layne’s death. It’s been awhile. He’s older, but so am I, and presumably you 🙂 His solo stuff was great. We ended up getting a lot of AiC stiff at that '02 show. Very solid performance. Not really related, but I’ve heard the Sublime stuff is good, but I wasn’t ever that into them, just have a friend who has stuck with it.

I’ve heard the name, but otherwise I really don’t know the connection. I know she is an “influencer,” is it the bad influence connection?

Ya that was the one , i listened to it, also. The very beginning sounded very familiar but I’m not sure about the rest. But maybe it’s been 30 years and, well 🤷‍♂️ I never saw Candlebox live, guess I didn’t miss out. I really liked Alice in Chains but only got to see Cantrell tour while “waiting”

Maybe Huck Finn was actually an action.

Not the fivehead I was expecting, but the fivehead I got.

there was a band called Hum

Wow, what a memory trip! I listened to that song, I don’t think I have heard it before, but it is great! I’m pretty sure I heard a different song from them at the time, but they probably live in my mind from looking at BMG and CD warehouse catalogs at the time. Other artists have popped up over the years from there.

I’m glad I asked, and thanks for answering! Somehow that took me back to my Candlebox days.

Copy, I guess I got something right. USA doesn’t seem very safe right now, maybe for different reasons but also perhaps also this.

Edit to add I got nothing right 😅 Just the last name…

Unrelated but is your username a play on benzene?