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If anyone suddenly found themselves wondering if it's home in or hone in, from the grammerist.com

"Home in and hone in are different since home in is to direct attention, while hone in is to perfect a skill. The two phrases seem the same because of how they are used in sentences."

It also says hone in is used informally for home in and generally accepted even though it's not really correct usage. "Home in" exists because of the homing pigeons.

When we traveled out of the country for the 1st admin, we got treated with suspicion until we said truthfully we voted for the Democratic Party options.

To be clear: People were great until they (usually) guessed we were Canadian, then we'd get side-eye when they found out we weren't.

The difference in land border crossing experience into Canada got more overall hostile the further into 2018-19.

We haven't traveled like that since Covid. But I imagine voicing your distaste for fascism is required in polite circles now. Saying you voted Kamala and for the Dems is a good short-hand, even if you recognize they aren't anywhere close to Perfect-Good.

I remember a story at the beginning of the Arab Spring. A student journalist tweeted, "Arrested" to his few followers and it went viral. https://mashable.com/archive/twitter-get-out-of-jail

Who down-voted you? You answered my idle thought with the sauce!! Thank you!!

Ha, true! I burn easy, I hate missing a spot when applying sunscreen. For her sake, I hope it's both.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn Grok is a cell of unpaid prisone... interns typing out responses.

Yeah, she really really pale, or coated in sunscreen.

What happens if someone gets married a lot and keeps needing a new card with new name?

Now I'm wondering what the maximum number of times someone has been married. Elizabeth Taylor was married 8 times (twice to Burton, so she could have reused that one if she kept it) But if she took her husband's last name legally (while keeping her stage name) each time, she would have been pushing the limit, and over it if she went back to her maiden name, lost any cards, or didn't keep old ones... Or if her lawyers were like, don't change your name legally again after husband 5?

In slight fairness, your employer has to set up payroll so that part of your paycheck automatically goes to Social Security. So they kind of need it, since there's not another way to track that you get proper credit for paying in to Social Security. Unless you are self employed and you send the money directly in yourself.

Someone commented somewhere that I can't find now... Trump as Plague (covid, firing bird flu, ebola teams), Putin as War, and Netanyahu as Death. With Doge also trying to end USAid, Snap, contracts and programs our farmers rely on, and Social Security... that tracks well for Famine.

I don't believe in it, but the idea haunts me that people are trying to force it to happen.

I think they are counting on 2024 being our last elections.

Question: IF he were to surrender, would he be deported to the UK or to a South American prison?

If it's the latter, can he cross into Canada and just go home for his safety?

I'm not saying he should, I'm asking what his options are.