Or the frame quality drops, and we're all Jerry. "My man!"

Just like cats.

He asked to stop laughing first.

That "having a chance to beat Trump" is even something said these days is insane.

Imagine a parallel world where there are two or more candidates for leadership who argue over the ideas to better the country and world, and all of them have their valid points. Where the difficulty is in figuring out who is a better choice, but even the worst winning would be okay.

I mean ever now and then I think we could have had that.

"How did it come to this?" Yeah, Theoden, I get it.

Who's going to buy them, Ben? Aquaman?

No argument that he's not a great choice. But we're not being given a way to make another choice, unless it's to vote for Trump. And if you want to go down that rabbit hole of health and mental issues...sure, it's a whataboutism. What about it?

We've got one of their pull around vacuums. Superior product, best vacuum I've ever had in reliability and features.

Good to know. I regularly pull it out and clean the vent with a vent extension brush anyway, once I got a house with a long vent where all sorts of things can settle. Huge fire hazard that most home owners don't even think about. It seems to be catching the lint it ought to be, but perhaps this goes back to the idea that even in a line of product you can have good and bad machines made.

I like our used Samsung dryer. For basic drying. It has all those other bells and whistles that I don't care about, but it's done well for years. That damn finished drying tune though...with the option to turn it off or...not turn it off. omg

We bought our current car used years ago with a similar philosophy - it was the first year of a new change, and they hadn't changed or recalled anything in the few following years. Combine that with a one car owner locally, and it obviously was a good buy at 17 years old running strong.

But I will say even the best car makes, models, and years have their lemons. You have to look hard at each car's history and evidence to really win. We got pretty lucky.

The fact that there are so many facepalm memes available in Star Trek must mean something. Like they see our future...

They wouldn't use the word competitive though. They use that word for the lower employees, and its meaning is "we'd pay you lower if we could". Well actually I guess for a few hundred they did just that by going to zero. Nothing can be done though, line is all. The joke at my work is about the company stock price. All praise stock. We don't see anything from it, but it's glorious.