(Reason I bought 4, was wife and both daughters as well. .)

Samsung, too. . .bought a bunch of Galaxy phones, new-in-box, about 2 releases behind the then-current model. The charge port broke, and the vendor asked that I return it to them for warranty repair. Got it back in about a week, good as new. About six months later, but still inside my one-year warranty, it developed either a software or a hardware fault. Sent it back to Samsung for repair. After a six-month wait, got the phone back, unrepaired, with a letter saying that as Samsung didn't do the original fix (replacing a cracked socket) the entire warranty was void.

That was the last Samsung product I ever bought. . .

I rather suspect the original poster was referring to the degree of elevation of the Moon over the horizon. . . .

Luckily, in 2021 America, zombies would starve to (un)death.

Brains are nowhere to be found (grin)

. . . .in my B-52 days . . . 30+ years ago. . . about 1 in 6 bombers was in maintenance and unflyable, generally due to parts shortages.

Of course, the BUFFs had left the assembly lines 30+ years previous to **that**, and had been through a war. . . .

Depends. Are they Telemarketers ??

Nuke **them** from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. . . (evil grin)

Modify DNA via 5G signals ? Who do I have to bribe for them to activate the Latent Mutant Powers in our DNA ??? (grinning, and looking for an X-Men costume. . . )

. . . .back in the 1990s, there were routines you could add to emails, and a signature block generator, that generated a list of keywords supposedly tracked by the ECHELON monitoring system.

I suspect some wag will find a way to do something similar with SMS messages , and jam the systems through sheer bulk of messages to process . . . .

. . .the known difficulties of Facial Recognition algorithms when dealing with darker skin tones. . .

. . .a bad use of an inadequate technology. . .

Well, there are always the safer designs we've never implemented, like LFTRs or Modular Pebble Bed Reactors. . .

Of course, there is the minor little problem that most of them are still primarily theoretical, but it would likely be worth building a test-bed or three. ..

Well, let's start with ending 'baseline' spending, the process of seeing increased requests for a given service, and scoring the increased level of spending as 'no increase'.

Then we apply the O'Rourke Fiscal Circumcision Principle, and cut 10% off the top of ***all*** budget lines.

And we require "emergency" spending to have equal cuts from 'routine' spending.

In other words, budgeting the same way the rest of us have to do at home...

. . .and still have an increased level of professionalism ??? (evil grin)

. . . or. . .you could just cut spending to stay within current revenue. . .

Yeah, I know, that's crazy talk. . . .

. . .but there's PLENTY of money there! In fact, I just got an email about accessing several million dollars from a bank account there. . . . (grin)

I deleted my profile on Monster 10+ years ago. I ***still*** get pings from employers who say they found me on Monster. With one exception, they were all insurance companies looking for salesmen. The exception was a new, local supermarket, They were looking for shelf stockers and checkout clerks.

Mind you, I'm a Security Engineer and Architect with 35+ years experience. And someone thought I was a match for ***ANY*** of these positions ???? /boggle