Before he goes in to start grabbing at him, you can see he doesn't have anything in his right or left hands. When he leaves, he's holding a pistol of some sort, most visible through the car windshield. When the man's shirt lifts up, it's because he's yanking it from his waistband.

It's one of those tall canisters of mace with a pistol grip

I only have the weird mini ones. No, you may not have two of them.

We see time and again that he falls down on the slightest pushback in court or just in general. He's the political equivalent of the guy going "You're lucky my friends are holding me back, or I'd destroy you", as he packs his things and walks out the door avoiding conflict.

The Soup Colony, delicately spinning out at Lagrange Point Umami

"They're adequately tolerable!"

Remembering the Apple Genius guy in 2009 who insisted I had to give up my laptop for 2 weeks while they replaced the entire motherboard due to a bad fan bearing. Jokes on him, I never replaced that fan for nearly 20 years even though it idled like a Model T. Took one drop of lithium grease to fix.

It's actually incredible you can still get 3rd party parts for this thing. Core2Duo, only 8GB max in RAM. Slow by today's standards, but Linux is pretty usable still for non-web things. Oiled up the fan, tore out optical drive, swapped to SSD. Things basically silent now.

"Everything in this laptop is Phillips head... except that now that you've torn it entirely apart, the final two screws are Torx, for some reason. Design." - Jony I've, I guess

Entire philosophical texts being written about the existential question of chicken fries.

Polling my refrigerator every minute to see if any new snacks showed up

I don't know if the offloading of cognitive tasks, like remembering, is as harmful as some of the headlines suggest, but at a basic, human, level "remembering you like to take vacations," and factoring that remembering into my decision making is not something I want or need an AI to do for me

So much of modern technology makes sense under the lens of "What if you didn't have to be alone with your thoughts... at all?"