I want the god fearing sexbot to scream “dirty boy” and tackle me.

If I remember correctly, I think I may have not bothered because my initial readings were pre-constant internet access, and I think Holden was just remembering the poem, and he liked that particular part because he wanted to be what he imagined a catcher in the rye to be.

No! I’ve never gone down that rabbit hole! Interesting

That’s been my exact experience! When I read it as a teenager, I thought this world-weary, cynical misanthrope had it all figured out. When I read it again in my twenties, I thought Holden was an old fashioned troll, criticizing and feeling superior to all of this stuff that he was too young to experience or understand. One day as a man in my thirties, I just suddenly remembered the song Holden was trying to remember, and wanting to be a catcher in the rye, and it hit me, he is a child wandering blindly, and he just wants someone to catch him. As a father, I realized all of a sudden, where the hell are this kid’s parents?! Why does this kid need to do this? Why isn’t someone stopping him? He’s been crying out for help all this time. He’s an unreliable narrator, and I needed to know Holden for a while before I learned to see through his bullshit to the child he really is, just like everyone else in the book. I’ve tried harder to know Holden than anyone in there with him in there has. Maybe the reader is ultimately supposed to catch Holden.

It didn’t come with putty, it came with some cement that you’re not supposed to touch, and a hard plastic ring that becomes the new seat for the flapper.

O-rings where exactly? Like, in the flush valve?

Yeah, I’ve replaced a flush valve before. Not difficult, but substantially more time consuming than the flapper kit 😭

I’ll admit that I did not. You think it’s leaking under the cement?

Not since I did the work, but we have in the past before I knew that they could damage tank parts.

Yeah. Still relatively inexpensive.

My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it.

My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it.

Nothing provided by a Chinese company is secure. This has more to do with data and IP sovereignty than it does with technological advancement.