An airport not an airbase.

The bigger issue is you can’t call the customer an asshole as your hang up the receiver after having already pressed the button to disconnect the call. Now you have to pause the profanity for a few extra moments.

I can’t even hang up my office desk phone by hammering the receiver disconnect button with my finger anymore, the receiver has a sensor that detects it is close to the cradle.

Technology has gone too far.

For me specifically it is because I have dyscalculia. Which made all mathematics is school quite difficult. I could understand reasonably complex ideas and through my own methods could solve equations but I couldn’t show my work because it was all done it my head.

It took me until grade 10 or so to come up with a method to know the multiplication table but it still takes more than a moment to work a simple calculation out.

Oddly I can work out and calculate the weight of a trailer of freight within a few hundred pounds with very little information in order to balance it for shipping but 9 x 8 involves 10 x 8 = 80 - 8 = 72

I failed math multiple times until I was put into math B for the slow people. I did better than the teachers assistant on tests. Went back to regular math the next year thinking I could do it if I was so good at remedial class and failed within a few weeks and stopped going.

Adding claymore mines with pressure sensors to existing concrete barriers would do what you want.

Are subsonics the bass sounds that are so low that you can’t hear it but can feel it if the space is small enough?

I used to listen to some electronica that would move my cars subwoofers like crazy but you couldn’t hear an audible base.

Flat Beat by Dr Oizo

The Vegas album by The Crystal Method

If you aren’t a Jewish person you are a second class citizen.

Literally no one saw it, he can’t get the image out of his head because it wasn’t there to begin with, except in his lying imagination.

Tortoises ≠ Turtles

Unfortunately if that were the case we are still many years from discovering the Epstein drive. Still having to deal with the oligarchy and shit conditions unless you are the 1%

My favorite fiction still isn’t good for most people, Hard Sci Fi.

The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn’t communicated with us.

People with vending machines aren’t going to be happy, those new ones won’t fit.

Hold on tightly, let go lightly.

The Croupier in Croupier.

It doesn’t come with extra instructions, so it means what I want it to mean and someone else may have it mean something else entirely. For me it means hold on to the important things tightly while they are important and when they aren’t then it is time to let them and other things go.

Don’t carry things that don’t need to be held onto, especially if you can’t control them. I hold onto the memories of my sister both good and bad, I embrace the pain of her not being here anymore when they come, then I let the pain go because I keep ahold of the happiness she brought into people’s lives while she was here.

Specifically that song, it was my favourite song of theirs. I tuned in late to their last concert when it aired on CBC, I thought I must have missed them singing it because I was so late but it came on next. I was happy I didn’t miss it but I cried as they sang it.

I have heard parts of it in the years since then, I have probably heard the whole song a few times but it hurts to hear it.

Videos of my now deceased sister playing violin.

The Tragically Hip - Ahead By a Century

I will cross a room to turn the radio off when it is playing.

Both died from the same brain cancer and I can’t handle listening or watching either of them yet.

There is a doctor who episode where people live their whole lives caught in a massive planet wide traffic jam.

The 401 is 18 lanes total in one section going through Toronto. 4 express lanes and 5 regular, add in more lanes when they exit and enter.

It is a ridiculous highway because all of that and it is still a fucking parking lot every day.

One train running past every 5 minutes would change a lot of people to transit instead of sitting in their cars.