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Harris talks about what she'll do, but she's had nearly four years in the White House and hasn't done them. I don't care for either candidate but on balance I have to say I prefer Trump.

It depends what follows the but. I've come across a few strange misconceptions about what Christians are like in the world, and more than a few people who are Christians who give the impression you have to be on your best behavior around them (I suspect at least some of those have their own...

I'd use what's necessary, although the definition of "necessary" may vary :)

Hard run today, my watch finally stopped suggesting I do recovery runs and proposed a hard threshold-level run. Three threshold intervals today, I managed the first one without any trouble, the second one was hard although I maintained the suggested pace, and the third one was more than I could...

I largely agree with Albion in that the people who are more involved and more outgoing are naturally more popular. The person who shows up for the Sunday service and leaves the moment the last amen is said can hardly be surprised at being less popular than the person who attends more events and...

If they are organised 123 456 789 then my preference is 3-4 but 2-7 are within what I'd consider acceptable. I'd put 1 back in the toaster and probably throw out anything that got to 8-9 and try again.

Sounds fun. Is it a botanical garden with the focus on specific plants, or more like an open space where you can walk around and there happen to be more cultivated plants than a wild forest? I always enjoyed finding unexpected things in the woods when I was hiking. One day I found a couple of...

Hard to say without knowing a whole lot more about him.

It's definitely a problem, when you combine the tribal voters who always vote the same way even if they don't know why, and the ones who vote for someone because they have a nice smile, or they are a "good Christian man" or whatever other vague term is thrown around. Perhaps we deserve to be...

I didn't watch it, I'm not really that interested. A while back (shortly before Biden dropped out) I was talking with a guy about the candidates and he made the point that Biden performs badly in debates but the president doesn't necessarily need to be a good debater. Whatever our opinions of...

They can be handy for backups. Aside from that I seldom use them. I have a load of them kicking around. They can also be handy if you have an operating system update that breaks the network, or some other technical glitch that makes networking impractical. And if you're wanting to transfer data...

That seems like a long way to go to church. Sometimes you can tell where Amish church is going to be if an oversized buggy shows up at one particular house. Years ago I was talking to an Amish man and he was telling me a little bit about their church. He showed me a buggy loaded with benches...

My cat struggles with a 15 minute drive to the vet. I can't imagine how he'd cope with spending hours in the car going to the airport, then waiting in the endless lines, then enduring a flight (I assume his ears would pop much like ours do, but he wouldn't know why and wouldn't know what to do...

I honestly can't imagine subjecting an animal to the stress of a flight.

How far do you drive to go to church?

Time. More or less of it, depending on the cause. And express grief in an appropriate way, or it will never heal.

This thread kinda died. My suggested workouts for the last several days have been either "rest" or very light runs. Today I decided to tick off the month's long run challenge so ignored the suggestion to do 30 minutes at a tediously slow pace and did a 10-mile run instead. Today was a really...

We've typically used cheap disposable plastic containers and take food that's as ready to eat as we can manage. If it needs to be reheated you'd put it on a microwave-safe plate before heating it. I've heard of some people buying cheap crockery from thrift stores so they won't need it back...

I can't comment on shut-ins specifically but my wife and I have taken food to people recovering from surgery and to new parents. We usually take something that's easy to deal with, so either hot and ready to eat or something that can be microwaved to make it ready. We also take it in containers...

It's not entirely clear why being "a woman of color" is a reason to vote for or against Kamala Harris. I thought we were supposed to be judging candidates on their merits and politics rather than their pigmentation.