I'm going to guess the real facilities are about 500 ft under solid rock.

An excuse to sell even more US weapons overseas? $$$$

Elizabeth, you might want to save your energy until 2025

We are afraid to use common greetings now? How about we all refer to each other as "carbon units"?

This is a misinterpretation of a study on peasant life. It called certain religious days "holidays". What it meant was those days were days they didn't have to work for their lord. Peasants were obligated to work a certain number of days per year on the lord's land. The other days they still had to work their own land. Agriculture was back breaking work and if you weren't working in the fields you were constantly working on things like making cloth, repairing things, preparing food, etc.

Lemmy is too quiet and has little local activity so I still glance at FB and Reddit

I lost my 10+ yr old account because I got auto banned from a mess of subs for leaving a comment on an anti vax sub CRITICAL of them. You have to love lazy mods who ban without any consideration of context. Now I just glance at the posts and comments and avoid the urge to participate.

In old fashioned diners in the US the older woman would call you "Honey" frequently. This seems to bother the woke crowd. Me, I like the old school waitresses.

How dare they ask me how I'm doing! None of their damn business!

I treat people like that like I'm dealing with a rabid dog. I detach emotionally and treat them like a thing to be careful around.

Probably because it was a popular name for a while so the odds they'd have that name are good.

Another name ruined