They know Mamdani doesn’t take office until January, right?

It’s defective, they’ll issue an RMA, just be sure to return the old one or they will bill you for it.

I used to have another great boomerang joke, I can’t remember it now, but I’m sure it will come back to me shortly.

Varies device to device, but it could have been a thermal shutdown. It got too hot and stopped working. Starting working again when it cooled off enough.

The last run of X-Men before the current run, they discovered 5 mutants working together enabled immortality through resurrection protocols.

Your brain is backed up to the cloud and downloaded to a cloned body on death.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Resurrection_Protocols

"Egg produces a number of nonviable biological “eggs,” equal to the number of mutants the Five have to resurrect.

The eggs are then injected with mutant DNA from Mister Sinister’s genetic catalogue, and then made viable thanks to Proteus’ reality-altering powers.

Elixir biologically gives the eggs life starting a new cellular replication process and husk growth

Tempus uses her time manipulation powers to quickly age the mutant husks.

Hope Summers uses her powers to enhance everyone else’s abilities. Hope’s powers allow the Five to operate at both their peak and in unison.

A telepath then copies over the mutant’s consciousness, recorded by Cerebro, from a copy made at the time of their deaths, onto the husk.

Through this process, the Five are effectively able to make new clones of deceased mutants, restoring their bodies, their powers, and their minds as they were at the time of their deaths."

I’d have to re-remember a lot of stuff I’ve forgotten, but late 70s, early 80s.

Unless you count “typing” as a marketable skill, then I could probably go back to 1872?

Lots of downvotes for what is, inherently an unpopular opinion…

But here’s the thing… Thanksgiving is largely a communal experience.

I’m going to say “generally” but I don’t have the numbers to back it up, but GENERALLY Thanksgiving dinner has multiple contributors.

It’s not one person over-spending to feed many, it’s many people coming together to feed EVERYONE.

My family is, weirdly, doing a big dinner this year, not sure why? Fine, my wife and I are invited. I expect all told there will be 11, 12, 13 people? Something like that.

I’m taking 3 loaves bread, 2 banana breads, 1 pot of cranberry sauce, and a tray of sweet potatoes covered with a layer of toasted pecans. All home made.

Not sure what everyone else is bringing, but I have the carbs covered. Baking is super cheap, for the most part. A 5 pound bag of flour is 2,270 grams and runs $2 to $6 depending on brand.

The bread I make needs 480g, so a 5 pound bag will get me 4 loaves with some left over. The banana bread needs 200g too.

But, yeah, I did over-spend. I bought a special local flour which ran me $18 for five pounds.

So each loaf is $4.50. I already made 1 to make sure it was good before inflicting it on Thanksgiving. 😉 3 to go!

I did, definitely an unpopular opinion…

I’m even being lenient giving them a shot at fixing it. 🤷‍♂️

Such a difference from the Curator, and that was, what? 13 years ago now?

https://youtu.be/Cn9yJrrm2tk

I actually really liked both, but I’m a giant data nerd. LOL.

I was teaching Filemaker on 9/11. Day 1 was 9/10. Day 2:

“Ok, everyone knows what’s going on, if you need to leave, no penalty, you can come back at any time and re-take day 2 for free…”

Everyone stayed.

Meanwhile, a co-worker of mine was in the second tower teaching a class when the first tower got hit.

Word came down from the building that everyone should stay in place and he told his class quote: “Fuck that, everyone get out.”

Everyone lived. We couldn’t find out for like 2 weeks because the cell phones weren’t working.

I taught both Access and Filemaker back in the day. Once people got into it they really got into it!