I think it’s technically written as 10 years. If a vice president replaced the president, he could serve 2 more terms as long as he only replaced the president for 2 years. If he served out more than 2 years, he could only be president for 1 additional term.

Dammit, there goes my degree.

If going outside and looking up is one of my favorite things, I’ll wear the patch. Also, she couldn’t focus with that eye anyway (no lens, no iris), so no depth perception anyway.

Or remove the eye and go glass. Even a contact lens could be used to limit the light intake. I’m calling bullshit. Insurance companies suck, but there’s more to this story than just that.

Sounds like PTSD to me. Your fight/flight mode is getting switched randomly to flight. For me it was “freeze”.

There’s a website set up by a white-hat hacker to solicit work as a network penetrator. It has some odd name that’s assassin related (contractkiller.com or something similar, I can’t remember offhand). He set it up, and forgot about it. When he went back to it, a lot of the messages were people asking him to kill someone.

He sent all the info to the police, and left the website up. Now it’s just a honeypot for people trying to have someone killed. I visited it a while ago, it’s very tongue-in-cheek. But people are stupid and willing to believe anything.

"Looking up and feeling the sun shining on your face is one of the simple joys in life, but Jennifer Sanders was deprived of that sensation for nearly 15 years. "

“The mom of two suffered an orbital globe rupture in her right eye in 2010. Ninety-five percent of Sanders’ iris was destroyed, half of her retina was detached and her eye lens had to be removed. She had no way of regulating how much light was getting into the back of her eye.”

I don’t understand this. Why wouldn’t she wear a patch?

Downtown of a small town in the middle of winter, late at night when nobody’s around. Cold enough that the snow squeaks under your feet as you walk, but no wind at all. Just the memory of the smell of sub-zero air makes me think about a destination with warm walls a nice cup of hot tea waiting for me.

…but I live alone.

My first car had a cassette storage tray on the transmission hump. I made a mount for my portable CD that fit there, and ran the adapter wire underneath the dash. So fly…

Why yes there is, from the 19th century. But it’s not about abortion, so surely is unenforceable.

To Kill A Mockingbird

And read the book.

But billionaires are the only source of jobs and if nobody is there to buy yachts how will the trickle-down economics work?

Did they find the Grail? And a weird knight from the crusades that speaks perfect English?

The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982). Not gory, so much as gooey.

The Babadook.

The Mist. Based on a book by Steven King. King admits the movie ending is better than his own.

10 Cloverfield Lane. It’s standalone, don’t worry if you haven’t seen Cloverfield

Annihilation. The bear freaks me out.

Event Horizon. Sci-Fi/Horror

Original Ghostbusters from 1984.

Gremlins

No One Will Save You. The ending is weird, but the suspense is top-notch.

The 'Burbs. Classic Tom Hanks comedy.

Tremors.

What We Do in the Shadows

One incidental purpose of the Interstate Highway System is as emergency landing strips. But a VTOL craft should be able to make use of even the roughest roadways in the event of an emergency. Activate your hazards to alert the craft and any surrounding drivers of extraordinary circumstances.

Be prepared to render aid as necessary.

Keep in mind this is “X, the everything app”. Musk expects it to be your one stop on the internet for everything, including online banking.

and also universal remote controls.

The system starts out as a big cloud of debris orbiting a central point. Each particle is orbiting in its own way, there isn’t any organization. Since there is no organization, most of these particles are going to bump into each other. This changes the speed and direction of the particles, some of them will clump together and most of them ending up gathered at the center of gravity of the entire system. This eventually gets large enough to become your star.

As the remaining particles become clumped together into larger items they will begin exerting gravitational pull on other objects. One plane of orbit will become dominant, and the remaining clumps will gradually settle down into their orbits, in the same general plane, in the same direction. Those that don’t will have their orbital speed reduced enough that the object ends up gathered into the center.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hlW0W03_pA

It sounds like things are working exactly as intended.