The US has legally defined retirement ages too. And if you plan, I know malice afore thought isn’t your strong suit, you can have a decent retirement also.

I started before that. I did some LTL and OTR driving. You could find showers and some washing machines, if they were working, to wash your clothes along the interstates, but get off the road any distance and that all went away. I always loved getting to Ohio because their wayside rest stops had free showers for truck drivers. A welcome relief from paying $5 to $8 dollars to take a shower. If you wanted a free shower, you had to buy enough fuel for that.

He might be pissed now about driving 16 hours, but I can guarantee that he did drive those hours at times back in the day.

Just like the Japanese and Chinese right?

That’s the cool part. You never could get those things. So don’t think this is anything new.

Source: In my youth, I was dumb enough to drive for a few years, but I was never stupid enough to own one…

Sorry wrong place to reply.

Carry on please!

US auto makers have done such things before. For a few years, GM sold the Chevy Luv which was a rebadged Izuzu. Ford has done the same with Volkswagon and others.

There is a surprising amount of “ancient” hardware out there still chugging along doing very useful work.

They were Amazon long before your mommy and daddy were born. Do you think Bezos had an original idea? Amazon will be as impressive as Sears if they last as long.

3.5 floppy disks. They still exist and still get used. I used them regularly up through the 2010s.

Sadly, I think there is a lot of truth to that. They don’t develop an interest in math because they don’t know how they are going to use the math. So the “formal operations” thought process is never taken aboard and they lose what little they did have due to lack of practice.

Nope. The work assignment is the transition counting a tangible 3D item to counting a 2D picture. The next step is to go from the 2D picture to using just the numbers. And all the while they are learning to use counting and basic addition and subtraction. We are teaching from real world items to more and more abstract ideas.

Remember: The numbers are real, the exact units don’t matter.

Having taught math to young kids, I used cubes at the beginning to give a real feel to the numbers. Having tangible items to play with gave them a real world demonstration of how numbers work.

And when the kids grasped the physical manipulation, I would transition to paper exercises like you are looking at. And I would call those squares “cubes.” because doing so linked the physical with the abstract. And for some students, to suddenly switch terms could be confusing at first.

Teaching is about linking back to things the student already knows and is comfortable with.

At this point, a dead Mitch McConnell is more effective at governing than Trump.

We could maybe have done that. But Konqueror has never been that good every time I tried it.

I’m using Zen now. it took me a while while to get the hang of the UI. But once I did I found it to be very nice to have those spaces that I can organize for different tasks.

If you have time to activate your 4-way flashers before braking, you didn’t need to. And if you need to abruptly brake and you reach for the 4 way flasher, it too late to brake.

Hhhmmmm, sounds perfect for the subscription model…

If you want to really be shocked by Hollywood butchery, watch the Thin Man movies - They are raucous 1930s fun and totally worth it. I’m surprised they haven’t been remade. Then read the book. Hollywood literally just pried the title off for their own use and then burned the character to ashes and launched it in to the sun never to be seen again.

He has four of them? And they sing?

James Bond is cooler than all of them for sheer fun. But Peter Gunn books is the detective I grew up on. He even came with the coolest of theme song of all time, thanks to Mancini.