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My aunt had a small kitchen fire. She called 911 and asked "Could you send a firefighter with an extinguisher, please?"

The 911 operator responded "Honey, we only send them one way."

And like a dozen guys showed up.

We paid $17k ($12k after subsidies) to install 5kW in Arizona five years ago.

I worked tech support in the early 90s and we received more than one letter in the mail from customers asking about where the "any" key was on the keyboard.

Not the author, but I thought the Word Postmortem was fascinating.

10/10 story. I look forward to the forthcoming motion picture adaptation from Skydance directed by Michael Bay.

I, too, was confused for the longest time, but the secret is in the names.

En dash is the width of an “n”. Em dash is the width of an “M”, so a little wider.

3d printers making 3d printers making drones is a key plotline of the Bobiverse novels.

I just finished my umpteenth reread of AFUtD. It’s one of those books I can pull off the shelf every few years and enjoy from beginning to end.

The Cradle series by Will Wight, starting with Unsouled. Kind of hard to describe, but it’s an sci-fi/Asian fantasy martial arts cultivation epic. If you liked Dungeon Crawler Carl, it may be of interest.

According to a quick kagi, over 90% of US high schools have security cameras.

We used to play Diplomacy at work but it caused too many hard feelings and was a distraction.

Mid to late 70s? Their last years were nothing but medical issues (from the smoking, plus excessive drinking) and poor health. Certainly kept me from starting to smoke.

My step-father’s parents smoked a carton a day. Each. They started smoking before breakfast and stopped just before sleep. Their trailer home had a 2-3’ cloud of haze below the ceiling and every surface was sticky. I’m not how many years they smoked like that, but probably decades.

As a kid, I could not breathe in there. This would have been late 70s. No way they could have afforded that habit at today’s prices.