I’m old enough to have a now-adult son who was dumb enough to try it. Although, at the time, I didn’t know what he was up to, so I just told him “it’s not sweet, the only reason you think it sweet is because it’s always mixed with sugar.” Fortunately, he didn’t take much of it.

Sorry to sully the name of the leech.

If it’s serving lasagna, I’m in. I haven’t had good lasagna in years.

Both.

The manager should be sitting up on the edge looking down.

That’s exactly how we hunted wooly mammoths.

It should just refer to the number of tentacles. So, for two of them, it would be sēdecimpus

Did you use pin nails to hold the back/bottom on? I assume it’s at least glued. Or, is that the “sketchy” part?

Having listened for the first time, I think Lost_My_Mind nailed the description pretty well.

I got distracted and started searching for pictures of Hawaii beaches.

Video Cassette Recorder, VCR.

As opposed to reel-to-reel video recorders:

I taught my dad how to find porn on the internet in the early 2000s.

Before that, though, he had two VCRs and a black box between them that let him copy rented porn tapes. He had a collection of 75 to 100 by the time he quit.

I thought Ohm was tightening the waist, like a corset, so Amp could get through. But, maybe I was distracted.

That’s just theft. I mean, how could I use a stranger’s card to withdraw money from my account? How would I get a stranger’s card?

There’s this:

https://thecashtracker.com/

If you get your cash out of an ATM, the machine could (I don’t know if it does, but I suspect at least some do) scan every serial number of every bill it gives you. To counter that, you’d need to “launder” it though some other person, the more times and the farther away the better, until it gets spent back into the system, where it can be, once again scanned.

If you get your cash out of an ATM, and then turn around and stick it in a bill receiver at some self-checkout machine, that could possibly be tracked. I don’t think this is hypothetical, I just didn’t find any evidence in a quick search, but the site above shows it happens somehow.

Yes, cash is much better than a card that tracks every purchase, but it’s not completely anonymous, either. And, it takes effort to ensure it’s anonymous. It’s not a given.

Hmmm. Since defacing a bill isn’t a crime, marking out the serial number of every bill you receive would break the chain, except that you’d be one of the very few doing it. That would need to become widespread for it to have any real impact. Oh, but probably the machine would reject a bill with a marked-out serial number.

You’re being downvoted for being right.

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” Blackstone’s ratio.

We’ve lost this as an ideal. The fear, hatred, and apathy of the billionaires for literally everyone but themselves has been spread by the media they control. The unavoidable endgame of unregulated capitalism.

It could have been the arms. That would have worked.