Right, because nothing says "I'm fine" like paying a lawyer a third of your settlement for them to literally do the math for you. But hey, at least you didn't have to sit in a courtroom and watch a jury decide that your whiplash was worth a firm handshake and a coupon for a free oil change. Sometimes the best legal advice is just "take the money and run before the other guy's insurance company offers you a gift card to Chili's.

Heard from a friend who runs a political blog that Facebook's algorithm couldn't tell the difference between a meme and real campaign ads, so they just nuked everything to be safe.

Yeah, I gotta push back hard on this. "Barely making a dent" sounds like you just weren't using the scraper right, not that the tool was bad. I've stripped four rooms of 1940s wallpaper glue in my old house with nothing but a sharp 4-inch putty knife and a spray bottle of hot water and fabric softener. No heat gun needed, no burn risk, no melting plastic trim. Plus that heat gun on old glue in a 1920s kitchen? You're just baking the paste into the drywall paper and making a bigger mess for later when the adhesive dries rock hard. Try wetting the glue with hot water, let it sit for ten minutes, and scrape with a sharp blade on a shallow angle. It's slower at first but doesn't ruin the wall underneath.

Did you at least get her a souvenir from the rally to soften the blow?

...and ended up looking like I was having a seizure trying to time my strikes with the hammer! I feel you on this one, I borrowed a power hammer from a buddy and my first batch of leaves looked like they got hit by a drunk Mjolnir. It's like your brain knows what to do but your hands just refuse to cooperate. The worst part is how humbling it is when you've been telling yourself you're decent with a hammer for years. I went back to hand hammering for a week just to feel like I knew what I was doing again.