AWD with a mini engine on each wheel.

why don't all our cars look like catfish?

that's really fucked up. don't get me wrong, i'm not judging you, our culture has probably fucked me up the same way as you, i just dont happen to have kids. but not preparing kids for the real actual world is fucked up, and there is a serious disconnect with reality being instilled by our culture in them, and also in you to make that happen. my point is that it is a serious dysfunction in modem culture required to make happen.

everything my parents ever did.

that's kind of awesome. the inverse of your story is what ive seen more often, the promotion that is more work for no more pay. both reflect the same corporate dysfunction.

laptop is just a more expensive desktop but it lets you do what you'd do on a desktop from the couch, bed, deck, coffee shop. it all depends on your habits.

note that this damage is not necessarily in the form of dissolving. it causes some plastics to develop fractures, as if you had dropped it. dont use iso on plastic unless you know it is a kind that it is safe for.

BTW, i just just want to plug for this fact: we are all totally brainwashed by marketing that we need special cleaners for each specific thing. dishsoap or some general purpose soap like Dr bronners and water works fine for just about everything.

You're throwing around the term 'black portal' very casually. I have no idea what it means, but it is certainly a big leap from whatever was observed to some conclusion about what it actually was. That's a big flaw if you are trying to get at the truth.

I don't remember what I did afterward anymore, but I did once have a laptop get wet getting caught in a downpour in backpack that wasnt waterproof. It needed a new power supply.

Funny, I just finally gave up on it just a few months ago and moved on Quod Libet.

One of the lost books of the bible featured Satan picking some especially sinful dude and telling him to build an ark too.

Then "your welcome" implies you might not be welcome. Seems like either both work or both are problematic, he can't have it both ways.