AThing4String

Tea bag?

The original photo was for bridesmaid dresses, being sent out as an approval picture or something.

Looks like they were considering adding a short sleeved jacket to the ensemble.

I feel like 2&3 should switch and so should 8&9.

Much worse than that - they were loaned the only working prototype of a small two-man team, along with the GPU it was designed to work with. They "lost" the GPU, tested the prototype on a GPU it was never meant to work with, publicly shit on the product REALLY hard when it didn't work, were asked for the prototype back as, again, only working copy, gave the owners the run around for a long time, then finally admitted that they'd not just sold it but auctioned it off. Very likely to a competitor of the owners.

Holy cow I thought the screenshots currently on this post were the whole thing and I was horrified??

No, the screenshots are like, half?? THE TAME HALF????

Big same - they're doing cool things, but not quite the things I'm looking for.

Which is a crying shame, because the model 100 is gorgeous.

Huh, I didn't see the 65+ compared past-present as a percentage there though

To be fair, Baby Boomers are actually statistically the reason divorce rates are so high, and also why they've been going down recently.

Not trying to be insulting, just wanting to speak about the statistics I've read, so I'll try to use the full generation title to distinguish.

Speaking about the generation as a general group, Baby Boomers had many marriages and many divorces per capita. Your stereotypical "on my fifth wife" dudes were Baby Boomers and were a disproportionate percentage of marriages that ended in divorce - basically "Divorce Georg".

From a statistics perspective, a large part of the reason divorce rates are going down these days are because as people get older, they tend to settle down and have less energy for those kind of antics basically, and the rate of Baby Boomers marriages and divorces was slowing down in response - with other generations being pretty much stable.

So on that level I'm not particularly surprised that those attitudes towards divorce are still affecting them in old age. It does pose interesting questions for our elder care infrastructure (or lack thereof) though.

This is honestly a good question - I'd be more interested to see it as a percentage of their age group than a count.

I'm literally saying this as a visa holder / residence permit holder in my country of residence right now. When it was issued me, it was made very clear that my status in the country was a privilege that could be revoked at any time for a myriad of reasons. Now, "repeated wars of aggression by your home country with the specific excuse of controlling territory occupied by you" wasn't EXPLICITLY listed, but I'd be shocked to retain my status in those circumstances.

I'm not their citizen - as of yet I haven't started attempting to be one. Describing myself even as "from" here would be misleading. "Once a _____ always a ______” doesn't even apply - I've never tried to be anything BUT a ______??

If article was "Lithuania strips citizenship and rights from Russian born naturalized residents" I'd be concerned. Instead, article is "Lithuania deports small fraction of its Russian and Belarusian expats identified as active threat during wartime". Which is actually surprisingly restrained.

There's a small difference between saying

"due to repeated wars by our neighbor explicitly using the presence of their citizens in foreign soil to justify annexation, we're revoking temporary residency of their foreign nationals and deporting them. Return to your home country or go elsewhere." And "Citizen or not, once a jap always a jap, due to our beef over Pacific imperialism we're taking your property and imprisoning you in this concentration camp"

I am currently sitting next to my Swiss Gear backpack that I've owned for 15 years now? It was used when I got it - my parent's work place was moving, and in cleaning the offices to prep a lot of people were getting rid of stuff, they all decided to put together a "free to good home" pile. High school me thought it was dorky and didn't look brand new but free is free and my parent insisted I'd appreciate the quality someday.

Highschool, University, Grad School, months of field work, personal use, bad weather, multiple cross-continent moves, exclusive status as my go-to airline carryon, weekend trips, road trips, and it's now my "work bag". It still basically looks EXACTLY like it did when I got it, too - clearly used but by no means old or in bad repair.

My employer offered to replace it "with something a little less bulky" but all I can think is.... Why? Love it.

Edit: Its previous owner's line of work is also notoriously hard on luggage, and I'm guessing it had been through several years of abuse as a go-bag before I got to it even - probably worth a decade of any other circumstance's use.