BarneyPiccolo

The entire problem is that automobiles have become an accepted housing option, and Roombas don't operate well in a vehicular environment, thus drastically cutting into their sale.

I got a bidet.

The MAGA government will get in on it. Trump will probably make some kind of ridiculous statement to kick off the plunge, so they can all profit on the slide, and rebuy at the bottom, and recycle the bubble.

The next year before the Midterms is going to be a wild circus.

America was founded on the ideals of personal freedom and lack of class structure. The idea that literally ANYONE can become President was a totally unique concept in the 18th century. National leaders were either Royalty who inherited the role, or Authoritarians who grabbed the role.

Freedom should be empowering, but Conservatives weaponized it by deliberately suppressing opportunities for many, while then blaming those same people for not taking advantage of America's unique promise

A lot of it is just figuring out a new routine. Once you do, and you work that routine for a couple of weeks, it will feel weird to NOT hit the gym after work a few times a week.

Excellent speculation. Add to that their out-of-control health care costs, which have been deliberately engineered to strip their wealth, and bankrupt families.

I truly believe that one of their objectives is to kill middle class inheritances. Back in the days when it was possible for the average person to actually build wealth through savings program, pensions, and Social Security. People would then inherit the result of their parents' saving efforts, hopefully two inheritances for a couple, and somewhere in the 50s or so, between decent jobs, a decent savings account, and an inheritance or two, and a person might be able to retire early, or quit and start their own business, which a company isn't going to like if if it's competition. Even if it's NOT competition, they don't want to lose a highly experienced worker who might hold an important role. They want to fire them when they gets older, at THEIR discretion, not the workers.

Today, pensions barely exist, financial corporations manage retirement programs to benefit the firm over the investor, and savings accounts don't have any significant interest. By the time someone dies, they have little or nothing left to pass on to their kids. If they died of a prolonged illness, they may even pass on debts.

So future middle-aged couples can't look forward to a decent inheritance from their parents to boost their lives into retirement.

And future generations will also die with student loans still to be paid, which will have suppressed any savings opportunities for their entire life, as the career they spent tens of thousands to pursue, is now mostly poorly-handled by AI. I wouldn't be surprised when the student loan generation starts to die, that the permanent MAGA government will force their heirs to pay off the loans, and saddle the next generation with the previous generation's debt, too.

The overall objective is to keep prices high (which rich people can always afford), and keep us economically enslaved with several low-wage jobs per multi-generational household in order to stay alive, leaving little time to plot a Revolution.

I'm on it.

Valid, and to clarify, nearly all of target shooting has been handguns. I'm not a hunter, so I haven't had that much experience with long guns, which are much more complicated. Handguns are generally just point and shoot. The safety is the only real complication.

I got a lot of my experience in a buddy's basement. He was jeweler, and his workbench was in this enormous basement of his ranch house. It was so long, that he actually set up a shooting gallery in it, firing at targets taped onto a big box of old phone books. He'd work on jewelry, and I'd shoot until I got bored, and then I'd go dig through his box of loose jewels, and look for the prettiest ones. I love rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. I think I'm off topic here, nice talking to you.

MANY people think Vertigo is his best, including my son, who is an encyclopedic film connoisseur. I think it's great, but it's not even close to my favorite. I find it too perfect looking, almost sanitized. I'm also not thrilled with Kim Novak in it. Grace Kelly would have been much better. Hitch probably thought so, too.

Frankly, of the films on my list, that might be my least favorite, but I get it. It's a beautiful looking film, and I love how he slow burns through the story until he finally reveals all in the very final scene. If you quit even a little bit too early, you won't get it. You have to stick around to The End, or Finis, or whatever he does, I don't remember.

It's not so much that I don't like it, it's just that I like all those others more. Vertigo is still an 8/10 for me. It's just that most of the others are 9s and 10s.

As for Jimmy Stewart's manliness, he was considered a really hot dude in his day. There's a famous scene in Rear Window when Grace Kelly reveals the negligee she intends to wear that evening, and his eyes nearly pop out. Unfortunately, we never got to see her in that get up.

I've been shooting all my life, it's not that hard. I've never understood the challenge. You got sights, line them up, hold your breath, and squeeze between heartbeats. Do it few times, and you get the hang pretty quick.

All my friends are amazed at my shooting, and I have terrible eyesight. I occasionally will put a round through a previous hole in the target. It's not that hard, I've taught it to lots of people with great results. Even people who think they already know how to shoot have improved. It's shocking how many people don't know to hold their breath while shooting. I think it's because a lot of people start breathing harder when they have a gun in their hand, heartbeat goes up, etc.

Keeping your cool while rounds are coming at you at the same time? That's a bit more challenging. But hitting a static target can be picked up in a single session. You might not make consistent head shots, but body mass shots will be good enough.

In Rear Window, Grace Kelly is the most beautiful woman on-screen than in any other film in history. Peak feminine pulchritude.