Yeah, I bet she is.

… certain crystalline materials

Kids, don’t let billionaires stick wires in your brain. Trust me on this one.

Oh, you know:

Actually, the atomic energy lab is before my time. I think the chemistry sets were the first to be cracked down on for safety.

I found this in my brother’s boy scout book and wanted to build a crystal radio just like it. My dad took me to an electronics shop, a real one, not Radio Shack, and I pointed at the drawing of the crystal and asked for one. They handed me a packaged crystal. I was a little disappointed, but I did get the radio to work, it could pick up a couple of stations.

I did a little searching to find the store we went to. It’s long gone, but I did find this tidbit. Quement Electronics is where my dad took me. It’s a check signed by Steve Jobs to buy components for Wozniak’s Apple computer prototype.

You’re a dying breed.

It’s not as scary as it seems, and quite a bit of fun.

Don’t be afraid to try.

Source: Am dad. But, it’s been a long time since I held a baby. Not that I think anything has changed about it in the intervening years.

I have my doubts it will work for acne. But, this is the plan.

First thing I did when I moved into my house was build a small, half-height room in the garage, that connects to the hallway via a cat door.

That’s where the cat box goes.

They get all dolled up before they go on their spree. They want to look presentable.

Failed, or promoted the narrative?

Hard to tell, but I’d guess the news outlets, mostly owned by billionaires, said what they were told to.

And, considering OP is talking to grandma, she might, too.

Oh, well. Thanks for the GIF, though. I’ll find a lot of use for it, I’m sure.

There’s always tarot cards and astrology, the old standbys.

This one crosses generational and political lines much more so than anti-vaxxers and the nanobots-in-the-masks crowd.

One way to fight it might be to politicize it, ironically enough, with Trump’s approval under 30% on many issues, if we can label AI support as MAGA, that might slow the advance.

In my town, MAGA supports data centers “because jobs.” Fucking idiots don’t know how few people it takes to babysit computers. The jobs are low-paying security, and a few IT staff, with the bulk of the work done off-site from other states.

Career politicians do follow the wind.

I support term limits for Congress to mitigate this and corruption in general.

Whether they “look bad” depends on how you feel about flushing grandma.

I have a small, 3" urn of my mom’s ashes, and ten years later when I was offered the same for my dad, I declined. It doesn’t mean anything to me, and at the time, I had actually misplaced mom’s urn.

Slava Ukraini!

“Terrible” is overstating it.

Maybe if you let grandma soak and she gets all clumpy it would have a bit of trouble. Nothing a plunger to the face won’t fix.

Also, the last time I went to a cashier, because it was the one time I saw a long line at the self-check lane, I stood in the short line, I was third, while the cashier chatted up the customers, left the line to help another cashier with something and was generally very slow. I suspect they’re not required to be efficient anymore, and perhaps even encouraged not to be. I watched as the guy I would have been behind in the self-check line left the store while I was still second in line at the cashier.