There’s probably a sticker with the license code on the laptop somewhere.

Probably cilantro.

Confirmation bias or something IDK I’m not a statistician.

That’s the cholesterol clogging your arteries.

I used to work overnights at Walmart and nothing slapped harder on my midnight “lunch” break than a couple of red hot dogs from the Circle K, especially if their nacho cheese machine was still running.

He’s blond! He’s pissed! He’ll see you in the lists!

Some animals are big enough to just have fauna, nothing micro about them. See whale lice as an example.

Legit one of the best moments of my college life was sitting on the roof of my car with a friend watching the sunset from a Margs parking lot waiting to sober up.

Congrats, you just dodged a fae bargain.

I love Cowboy Bebop but that series is one giant unhealthy relationship.

There’s a romhack out there that gives this game a proper control scheme, though I haven’t tried it yet.

Until the pillow starts to get spicy…

I wonder if they’re banking on wireless chips lasting longer than physical ports. Though making them wireless also means batteries and charging ports, two parts notorious for failing.

I’ve got some decent smithing skills, I’d go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.

I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t pick up a stick or a rock during a hike. We’ve been gathering our own tools for hundreds of thousands of years and that curiosity and ingenuity is bone deep for us as a species.

To play devil’s advocate, is there any way you might be able to fix the Kindle? I’ve saved two for family members by swapping batteries and it’s not that hard if you have a spudger and decent set of screwdrivers.

A bunch of randos on the 'net won’t be able to tell you any better than she can. If she says she’s fine reaffirm your friendship and tell her you’re there if she needs to talk and otherwise carry on. Not much else you can do without jeopardizing the friendship.

The FDA actually requires that raw fish be frozen prior to consumption to kill parasites. Food Code 3-402.11-12.

I’ve had a Gameboy for most of my life so I’m a sucker for portables. Donkey Kong, Oracle of Seasons, Pokemon Crystal, and Super Mario Land 2 all get replayed with some regularity. For GBA the Golden Sun games are still in my top ten favorites to this day, and the SNES ports like Link to the Past and Super Mario World were great to have in my pocket.

A textbook example, yes. And Today I Learned something!

For work I use a database written in COBOL. Reports are simultaneously running and frozen until I either get the report results or sufficient time has passed that I’m certain the system has crashed.