Because Trek fans were the first to organize conventions. They started out small in the late 60s. Now every single weekend, somewhere on this planet, there's a Trek convention being held. The conventions also raise massive money for charity. They are the nerds other nerds want to be, in terms of organization. I'm here for the memes.

[Drops everything to read the article. ]

It depends on what you want out of it. Consider being more specific with your questions. If you love hosting dinner parties or playing ping pong, then no. Source: about 5 years full time RVer 🤨

Yeah, so have a dead lady talk to no one, without asking her relatives if they mind hearing Great-Auntie promoting Instagram, while they're doing the school drop off. They will not mind, they love OFF. Real estate agents are contacting this family like mad, as they are about to acquire a chain of radio stations.

No one from Intuit has any business asking an interviewer to, essentially, falsify data that can easily influence share price. If Goodarzi can't take the heat in an important interview, then her minions failed to prep her adequately. That's a "you" problem, Miss "I am Intuit", not the reporter's problem.

My post-surgery biopsy says no cancer, we removed the sad stuff just in time.

I got some chickens.

Dang, that Mountain's grandfather is one dapper scoundrel. He should be in the Riviera, convincing oil heiresses that he is a prince or something.

Baking bread. At first, your results will be uneven. (brick like, over baked, underbaked, too much yeast, not enough kneading, etc.) Just don't give up, the first time you get it close to "right", you'll be addicted to home made bread. It's about training your hands and other senses until you don't need a recipe any more.

Thanks for the reminder.

At a garage sale, I mentioned to the homeowner that I found an empty camera bag for sale, but was looking for photography stuff and she asked me about how far I'd gotten into 35mm film, etc. Then she gave me her old Canon Rebel X for free. Changed my life.

Merrell hiking boots.

Cages placed over the top part of all skeeball games to prevent cheating in order to get tickets to trade in for prizes. Game room, Mike's Grill, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA, 1993-present.

I just got done learning how to turn off Copilot in group security policy, yay! Get away from me, even if you worked according to the spec in the marketing hype. I am the admin. I drive you out! :::holds up holy water and a crucifix:::

Themed wedding ceremony. One was lightly medieval themed and one was heavily Civil War, complete with historically accurate costumes. It was important to the bride. The groom didn't care for it and had a temper, which he couldn't control, even during the reception. She finally had enough of him about a year later. Last I heard, she upgraded to someone better and got full custody of the kid. Could have saved her a massive investment in handcrafted hoopskirts......

....and sunflower seeds.

I'm on your side, ok? Your neighbor sounds like a PITA nuisance. Give me a second here, I'll show you one way to cover yourself. Salt is not likely to kill the tree, the roots will still be there, even if the upper parts were dead, might take years for upper parts to die in any case. Salt WILL fuck up your soil, if it's sandy soil,the salt could spread a long way beyond your intention and fuck up your groundwater. Enough salt to kill one thing will kill everything, grass, flowers on your side, maybe for years. Contact code enforcement for your city first. Contact a lawyer and ask about your options, a quick consultation doesn't cost much, you don't have to retain him. THAT WAY, you look like the reasonable but understandably frustrated GOOD NEIGHBOR to everyone else. Get other people on your side, first.

Contact your bank or credit card company and explain, they will take care of it. Source: I was in a similar situation a few years ago, just not VPN related.

A bottle opener.

Hahaha, this makes my afternoon. Sippin tea, watching a syphilis-driven psycho have his toy bricked.

That was graphic,yet eloquent.

Fake chocolate flavors.

"He don't know shit from shinola." [I've never asked what "shinola" is.] EDIT: Another one my Dad uses (Oklahoma born and bred): calling someone a "mudcat".

I understand that your patio and your property are important to you. I understand what you want. Regardless of what kind of soil you have, salting it will not get you what you want. It will not solve the problem. It will only create more problems for you. I'm sorry that lawyers couldn't help. If your place is unincorporated, you won't have code enforcement. Have you appealed to your HOA for help? You pay fees, they're supposed to help you. That's another box to check to show that you're the good guy.

There are antibiotic creams for scabulousness these days, how advanced is your case? 🧟‍♀️

By popular DEMAND, here are some of the chickens mentioned yesterday. They don't have names, so we don't get attached, as they are for improving our soil and, eventually, for homemade stock.

This is quality ranting, which the world needs.

I love it when the passengers are spilling the tea, before Boeing's lawyers can get to them and attempt to smother their words with money. By the time the NHTSA gets to interview passengers, they've "calmed down", it seems. I don't know if that's good for screw ups of this magnitude. Hurrah for a plane of pissed off, uninjured survivors! God bless them.

I tried to order "freedom fries" at a burger restaurant once. My mom looked at me like she didn't know me. It was a tough afternoon for 13-year-old me. My face is heating up just remembering.

Yes and yes.

I started therapy again and it's really helped me put the work in and learn to forgive the weird shit in my childhood. Feels good, mayn!

Emptying the dishwasher. Good golly.

A Hyundai Elantra, it let me down in so many ways. Financially, spiritually, etc.

Surgery complications. I had just had an eye socket taken apart and put back together, with plastic clips and metal to hold it together so it could heal properly. I was in the recovery room waking up from the anesthesia when my new internal stitches started to hemorrhage. I had blood pouring down my face, but it was under a heavy layer of surgical dressings. I could feel it, though, so I said that my face hurt. My mom believed me and so did one of the recovery nurses, who had the guts to ignore another nurse, who was wrong, then go straight to the surgeon and say something's not right. Do you know how you get a surgeon to clean a surgery suite that he just rolled out of successfully? He will even pick up a mop and re sanitize it! Thanks, Tina!

Yeah....I want to like him and he's got more character development than any other, but yeah. So your high school crush didn't "get" your personality disorder and then slipped away. That's what happens in high school. But then he goes back to teach AND LIVE at his old high school and never moves on? Snape my man...marry Denise from your gym and get over it. Get a job somewhere else, join a pickleball league or somethin.

I had to count noses twice, just to figure out how many were in there.

Control Minor Static Charges Woman. It would make housecleaning easier and my keyboards would always be clean. I wouldn't have to get near dust bunnies, I would be able to slowly guide them to the trash can.

Online bartending school. I cancelled after 5 minutes of reflection.

Anna's Archive can always use help

I'm sorry. Hope you find a better job, on the inevitable downswing of the hype, when someone realizes that a prompt can't replace a person in customer service. Customers will invest more time, i.e., even wait in a purposely engineered holding music hell, to have a real person listen to them.