Imma bend the rules:

Thunderbirds.

I’m terrified of rewatching it and it not living up to my nostalgia.

The new she-ra is rad.

It remained as the sole evidence of the existence of the cup cakes.

Dog ate 24 cup cakes that were cooling on the counter, and 23 cup cake wrappers.

Best of luck, hope it all works out of the best!

If you can, ignore it or dismiss it as “old man yells at clouds”.

Either way, unfortunately, you have to find a way, somehow, to deal the issue so that it stops causing you problems. It’s hard and it sucks.

IMHO as a parent, my kids owe me nothing and I owe them everything. I created them after all.

This is kind of rubbish advice, sorry.

You could ask him what he expects you to do about it. Force him to follow through on his line of reasoning to the conclusion. Does he want it paid back? Does he want to estrange his children?

That can work because, rather than contacting contradicting him you’re facilitating him reasoning through his position. Hopefully for the best.

It probably had those little metal outsets to prevent sliding.

“it’s just the way it works over there”

That’s the real news for me too.

They’re using it wrong.

For those, like me, ignorant of that jargon:

RESA

A runway safety area (RSA) or runway end safety area (RESA, if at the end of the runway) is defined as “the surface surrounding the runway prepared or suitable for reducing the risk of damage to airplanes in the event of an undershoot, overshoot, or excursion from the runway.”

EMAS

An engineered materials arrestor system, engineered materials arresting system (EMAS), or arrester bed is a bed of engineered materials built at the end of a runway to reduce the severity of the consequences of an aircraft running off the end of a runway.

Diplomatically recognising Taiwan/RoC would probably be enough, or stationing a carrier group in near by waters to defend it.

CPC would lose their shit.

I mean, windows itself can be reasonably secured. All the “security” crapware that CxO’s get sold by shysters become the attack vectors.

An envelope of cash probably helped .

innocent Christian

Isn’t that impossible by definition? Original sin ‘n’ all?

DTF?

searches interwebs

Roger.

No shit. Complicated machines usually fail noisily regardless of the cause.

find ~ ... would be quicker, auto generated files are likely stored in ~/. cache per-profile.

Quicker… as in for a first-stab, then /var. Rather than scanning the whole disk.

Especially as the nice response is “we’ve had feedback about that app from too few users to support it, unless you’d like to try”.

Or, pretty much any other response.