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He's the US director of the FBI. He just shows up and they let him in. What're they going to do say no? They just let him in, do the photo op, and that's that. None of them are thinking about it. Half the dudes on the team probably don't even know who he is. Hockey players are so insulated, that's why the young guys always do the worst interviews, their entire life has been hockey, and that's it.

You can't wear cages in the NHL unless you have an injury.

I used to smoke a lot of weed in high school and after for a bit. One day, the panic set in. It wasn't always, but the frequency definitely increased slowly, until eventually the risk of having a panic sesh became too much for me to be able to enjoy smoking.

Kind of unrelated and in the middle of all this, I remember talking to my old man, and he had lived a similar life to the one I was, at the time, currently leaving. He smoked a bunch of weed until, one day, couldn't do it any longer because of the panicks.

So I definitely anecodotally agree with the ineritableness, and I certainly agree and am an example of the idea that cannabis can bring out symptoms similar to schizophrenic episodes. And they are so far from my norm that I really can't attribute it to anything but the pots.

I've always felt that mental disorders can be like a switch, you flip it and it turns on, kinda. And the flipping can be the result of something external, life events, trauma, and drug and alcohol use. I had a friend who I smoked with often as a kid who eventually kinda disappeared into a world of mental issues, and I wonder if it would've been the same had he not smoked.

I had to double check the post, but I've concluded that what you said has nothing to do with if.

Yeah, I'm a millennial but I hear (and feel) the same things. And I know Gen X are big on griping. I think it's human nature to gripe. And that's not to suggest that things aren't shit. It's just human nature to gripe about how shit things are, because sometimes it feels like the only recourse we have.

Yeah, my 8-year-old has the chrome book, but also gets physical homework, paper and pencil. Dunno how it'll be as she gets older, but I like how it is so far.

I was thinking about trying to find Mavis Beacon and somehow getting it to function on Windows 11. No idea if there's compatible versions. But I used Mavis Beacon all the time growing up and enjoyed the games, made learning to type (properly) fun.

Right? I've seen plenty of people who don't know how to swing a hammer.

The laptops should be a tool, in addition to other tools. Being well rounded is the best thing you can be.

Oddly enough Bruce was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure, so he takes a statin now. We thought he was just getting old and slowing down a bit, vet caught it, we've been doing meds, and he has returned to his old self again, with a touch of senility, a lot of meowing and nothing. But yeah, hopeful it'll help avoid a stroke.

I read your comment a few times before I understood it. Thank you

And the insurance did end up paying, but nine months later after what is referred to as a legal battle. So presumably these folks had to go into their own pockets for it. Typical bullshit.

I had two cats, one who goes out often, one who went out once in a blue moon. The tenses tell the tale here.

And I don't mean to suggest your statistics are incorrect, just that I find it funny to have experienced the opposite. Bruce Willis lives on, and it's entirely possible his life ends outside due to any number of reasons, but he just craves the outdoors, to the point of being really annoying about it.

And it's weird, I always attribute it to my wife having found him and our other cat on the streets, they were both 2-3 years old, but Rudi took to mainly living inside (maybe she'd hang on the porch from time to time, or sat some grass), whereas Bruce yearns for the neighbors' shrubberies. He's 14ish, and hopefully we get another 14 out of him, despite him clearly going crazy.