With properly applied swearing and 40 flights of stairs cardio (well, second floor bathroom and basement workspace - over and over and over) you too can fix that leaky shower. Not pictured: Several hundred dollars in parts and about 10 hours of labor. Sometimes, maybe it would be easier to hire a plumber. I'm tired boss.

USPS total budget $90 Billion, shortfall last year $9B. $80B was self funded, no tax dollars required.
Cost of the Iran war so far: $30 billion, $1B/day estimated going forward. 100% tax funded, no self funding.
Postal Service and the Armed Services are both government services required by the Constitution.

'noun' is a noun. 'inuendo' is.. (or can be ) an inuendo. Is there a word for things that are the thing they define? I guess neologism I guess was a neologism ~1772.

There are 10 kinds of people,
those who know binary,
those who thought is was base 3,
those who thought is was base 4,
those who thought is was base 5,
...

A Judicial "hearing" was common because literacy wasn't commonplace - the evidence, the witnesses, deposition was about establishing truth via spoken word and memory. Over time photographic and other evidence became more and more important, but now the barrier to forgery of those things is so low, I wonder if we'll return to human witness / hearing / discussion again. Not saying its better, or we wouldn't have introduced those other ideas - but I think our justice system needs to reevaluate.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

#SuperbuildSunday .. anybody building/writing/creating anything cool?