Check the location of where the apples come from. If they come from across the country or the world, they will taste terrible. Ignore the type of apple, or whether it’s organic or whatever.

Definitely. Dude does not know his apples. Dude has Honeycrisp at number 2. His taste can be safely ignored.

The best apple is the one fresh from the tree. Any common variety is going to be good. That’s why they are cultivated.

There’s no confirmation of that. This is literally just a “Michael Bolton” situation. It could be him or an unrelated person.

My point is that the media has repeated it as fact, while the registration information used his full name (including middle) and birthday. Maybe address too (I forget). They just want to stir up drama before confirming anything.

You learn these things doing genealogy. You need a high number of data points to confirm who someone is. People get all excited if they have the same last name as a famous person. There are literally a million people with similar last names.

This is a good lesson in how much “research” goes into most breaking news. Those “trusted news sites” just saw a common first and last name and assumed it was the same guy.

It’s just “Michael Bolton” all over again.

People have been saying that more and more recently.

Hitler copied segregation from the Jim Crow South. Also, before that is even worse in the US. A sizeable part of the US population was forcibly taken from their families and subjected to a lifetime of hard labor and rape. This was considered legal and normal at the time.

Every so often you hear about some freako who has kidnapped someone and kept them alive for years chained in a basement. Maybe they have to work or do sexual favors for their captor. We now consider that person a victim and their captor the worst kind of criminal. That disgusting criminal was an average slaveowner in the US South.

I am not in security, but I have worked in secure areas. The way you prevent issues is having multiple layers of security that watch each other.

Like you prevent individual employees from committing fraud by having other employees sign off on their work. Then you prevent those employees from colluding to commit fraud by having another group of employees monitor their actions. Finally a third group of employees audits everyone occasionally (at random).

This way it requires at least 4 people who don’t know each other to do anything illegal. I’m sure the Secret Service could do with some audits. Like literally have an entire team of Secret Service people test them, trying to trick them into making a mistake.

That’s because they’re authoritarians. They are protecting a hierarchy that they believe exists in the world. That’s why they don’t mind if rich white men hurt them. Those people are higher in their hierarchy, so it makes sense to them.

They don’t like it if non-white people or women in general try to subvert this hierarchy. They believe if someone else rises in status they might fall in status. To them it’s “not right”; it’s a moral issue that people should “stay in their place” in the hierarchy.

Teddy Roosevelt: Shot. Told the crowd not to kill his assassin. Delivered his entire 50 minute speech, from start to finish.

Schrank’s bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest after penetrating Roosevelt’s steel eyeglass case and passing through a 50 page thick (single-folded) copy of his speech titled “Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual”, which he was carrying in his jacket pocket.

Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not reached his lung, and he declined suggestions to go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for 50 minutes before completing his speech and accepting medical attention. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Theodore_Roosevelt

Trump: Injured by teleprompter. Claimed victory. Carried off stage.

It maybe takes 5 minutes total, and that’s only if you put a bunch of stuff on it. It’s not hard. You literally just dump the kernels into the pot.

It’s about as much time as making it in the microwave. For both you’re just waiting around for most of it.

Why use anything but a pot on the stove:

1. Put a thin layer of canola or vegetable oil in the pot. Enough to cover the bottom but not so much that a popcorn kernel is covered.

2. Put 4 or 5 kernels in the pot and turn on the stove to medium heat. Cover.

3. Wait a minute or two until all kernels have popped.

4. Immediately add the serving size listed on the popcorn kernel package. Half a cup or whatever. Cover the pot.

5. Wait for the kernels to stop popping. Turn off the stove.

6. Transfer to a serving bowl and add seasoning (salt, garlic powder, nutritional yeast, cayenne pepper, paprika, etc.).

7. Eat a better bowl of popcorn than you’ve ever had.

I often drive miles in standing water.

This is a good way to ruin your engine.

Trump needs to explain this by having a press conference, possibly multiple press conferences where his every word is scrutinized. He’s been running away for too long. Voters are losing confidence in his abilities in general and this issue is getting away from him.

If he can’t tamp down the speculation and rumors, he needs to step down so another candidate can be nominated at the convention.

Definitely not a time to be using an automated response. Banks and credit unions have to comply with strict regulations so the most annoying customers need to be babied like this.

If you read the message, they are sticking closely to the specific rules they have to follow. This is the proper way to deal with anyone demanding things like this: assume that all communications with customers will be used as evidence in court.

Those things are funnier because it’s Quark doing them. The joke is even dyed-in-the-wool libertarians get it.

This is bad.

They forgot Libertarian Alien who’s there for comedic relief. His kooky libertarian plans reliably blow up in his face like Wile E. Coyote.

Why can’t your wife adjust her schedule? She’s the one with the medical degree. She can ask for anything she wants, within reason.

Tell her to say that she needs more time between patients to avoid a lawsuit. She doesn’t want to miss anything. They’ll listen to that.

Why does it matter? I thought trump dropped out. Lots of people were calling for him to explain himself or drop out. He can’t even give an interview about it so I thought he stepped down.

That’s what I heard. Everyone is saying it.