Not to mention, and I'm speculating bathed in ignorance here, you don't ever have one bat. If a bat colony is hosting a particular virus, and 50% of the colony are so affected by disease that they can't function well enough to infect you, that still leaves a lot of bats that presumably have been exposed and carry the infectious agent and are function well enough to get you sick, too.

While you're eating the pineapple, it's busy trying to eat you.

There's an enzyme in pineapple that dissolves protein. You're made of protein.

If a friend asks for help, you help him.

Finland's resistance is not limited to fake news.

They didn't (and don't) just dig randomly. You're more likely to find water at a lower spot on the terrain than a higher spot. The type and amount of growth is a tipoff, too. Plants like blackberries love water and are a good indicator of an available source, for example.

Do people actually like touchscreen laptops?

I would guess that HBO can read the, "what kind of porn people search for most" posts as well as anybody else.

I remember doing battle with a raccoon in the middle of the night who had come in through the cat door to have some kitty crunchies.

Ten year old me and a broom against a big fat raccoon. He was completely unimpressed as I tried to shuffleboard him out the door.

If that were in the US, it would have been an exhibit of something else that a raccoon had broken into.

I live in Central Oregon. As it happens someone has been laying thousands of miles of conduit which I have been told is for fiber, though I haven't been able to discover by whom or if there is any "last mile" plan.

Writing this out loud makes me feel kinda silly wrt my original comment. We've just been burned by big telcos on this subject for a long time.

I would love to be proven wrong.

Well, we're certainly not getting any infrastructure out here.