Or maybe I just like efficiency more than I hate the phone.

This is me. Texting is great for simple questions but if any sort of extended back and forth is needed just calling tends to be faster.

Honestly in a use case like family photos, redoing it every x amount of time is probably a good idea anyway so new ones can be added.

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Plot twist, that's who Trump was actually trying to get but there was a misunderstanding when he asked for "that guy with the fucking cushions".

I remember on New Years Eve 1999 the local newspaper ran an article that was interviewing people who'd been alive for the last turn of the century and comparing the two New Years' celebrations. In hindsight I wish 10 year old me had had the presence of mind to save it, it was pretty neat.

While it's definitely PRESENT in Lord of the Rings, one could argue Frodo himself is a subversion of it. Giving the ring to someone powerful would almost inevitably result in corrupting them and (depending on just how powerful they were) would just make a new big bad. Hobbits work as ring bearers explicitly because they're not "special".

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Not as far as "dumb" per se but I would accept "less smart" in exchange for physical buttons and a removable battery.

Guessing that's a modular home that was being delivered, not an existing building being moved.

Somewhere in Gotham City, there's a planning and zoning guy probably making bank for playing dumb about all of Bruce Wayne's "totally not a batcave you guys" building permits.

Guessing less about the sign itself and more about the heavy equipment/traffic obstruction involved in getting it down.