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The first time I saw that movie it was actually in the theater on Christmas day. It was me, one elderly couple, and one other guy in the entire theater. The elderly couple got up and left before the title even made it on screen, and I was already laughing. I’ve watched it every single year since.

Genealogy. I’ve done a couple of research projects for friends just because I find it interesting and challenging even if it’s not my family.

Thanks for digging that source up, that’s interesting

I have never heard of that guy before three minutes ago, but your comment intrigued me and I couldn’t figure out why gay marriage legalization would make someone “flee” the country. So I looked at wikipedia. Supposedly the reason he left seems to be more related to legal issues involving his not paying child support, and it was to Luxembourg not Morocco.

It’s a pretty short article and maybe there’s an escape to Morocco as well that just didn’t make it into the article.

It’s the same as some random-ass human walking down the street with their phone recording something. If you’re in public you have zero expectation of privacy, especially in the era of everyone having a handheld video recording device within reach of them at all times. Any one of those humans could share video with the LAPD and no one could really say a thing.

Almost without any privacy concerns. When I went to college around the turn of the millennium, I worked at the main food court on campus. We had a card system just like you’re describing. When we swiped the student’s card to pay for their meal, their student ID would come up on my screen. Their student ID was their SSN. Back then the first three digits of a person’s SSN was based on the state they lived in when they got their number assigned. For most people that was when they were a baby or at least very young, and for most people that’s the state they did most of their growing up in. I used to have most of the codes memorized, so when I’d swipe someone’s card and see that they had an SSN from someplace that wasn’t the state where the university was, I’d mention it. “Oh, hey, you’re from Ohio? My aunt lives in Ohio.”

“They’re not in the office right now, can I put you to their voicemail?”

I never got that either. It’s clearly the best of the three from the new trilogy. I mean, low bar, but still

No one appears to have yet mentioned Forrest Gump. In the book he was a chess grandmaster who wrestled professionally and was an astronaut. Also, the book sucks.