Wet and warm. Whether it’s still raining, or just the soggy aftermath, it’s gonna be wet today. It was raining when I went to bed, and had been for hours. Not crazy hard, but steadily enough.
Spent Sunday wrapping up at the BOL. The forecast was for bad storms, so wife and kids bailed early to beat the rain. I stayed to do a few things I didn’t get done. After a brief light rain, it cleared up and was a nice day for most of the afternoon. I got several things done, and made progress on a couple more. Then the rain started again, and it was time to head home. LOTS of rain on the way home. Several tornado warnings, and local flooding… lots of people had a bad day, but I dodged most of it.
Today I need to make some progress on my lists here. First off, the rat problem didn’t solve itself. I am going to have to block some more access, mainly through the soffits and the breezeway that links the house attic to the garage attic. My neighbor paid a pest control company $1200 to do the same blocking I’m thinking about. It’s a huge pain in the butt, which is why I’ve put off doing it. But the rats aren’t going for the traps or poison, so I need to step up a bit. It won’t get done today, but maybe I can do some exploration.
I’ve got other paperwork stuff to do, and this week will be busy with stuff too. I should visit my client for a new issue and get him back up. And I’ve got a friend moving away that has been storing some tools for me, that I have to sort out. One of them is a laser sintering 3D printer, which is about 7ft x 5ft x 7ft, and includes a dozen barrels of powder, and a sifting and cleaning station that is 4ft x 4ft x 7ft. I don’t have anywhere to PUT the stuff, which is why it was at his place. Time to sell the powder and break down the printer. We should end up with parts for a 30w engraver. Getting the powder sinter machine to work ended up being too big a job, given where we had to do it. We couldn’t meet the power requirements, or the need for nitrogen gas to fill the build chamber. And neither of us had the time available that we thought we would.
All the normal stuff will be happening this week too, so it should be a busy and full week.
It’s a great life if you don’t falter, right?
So don’t falter. Stack.
nick
@Lynn
Top sirloin at Costco today was $10.99/lb.
“At 30% inflation per year, it will be $53/lb by 2030.”
The war on farming will ensure that you can’t get beef at all.
Flavored and textured bug protein will be a bargain at $30 a pound from GatesCorp.
I don’t believe that is true. If it were, they would never eat.
I use Waze to stay awake when driving late.
The alerts are frequent even on a Sunday night on I-10 or I-35. I assume I-45 is similar.
Bug protein will be for special occasions. Soylent Green is coming, just in like the movie.
I’ve seen top sirloin up above $10 a couple of times before at Sam’s and Costco as a test. We’ll see if it holds.
Chicken thighs at $1.59/lb didn’t hold at Sam’s, but wings above $2.50/lb have been the norm for four years.
Bug protein? Who doesn’t like lobster? Crab? Crawfish? Bugs of the sea…
That said, I would also find eating land-bugs difficult. Aversion programmed in during childhood.
I remember an article on the chitin in bugs is a problem when consumed. Does anybody remember that article? Bugs of the Sea aren’t consumed whole, just the flesh.
um,,, crustacean =/= insect.
Crustaeans I’ve eaten have been delicious COOKED. Insects I’ve eaten have been bitter, nasty. I”m a believer that if it tastes good, you can eat it. If it tastes bad, there is a reason not to eat it.
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apparently we got lucky, at the house I have 1″ in the buckets. There are rain gauges with 10+ inches of rainfall overnight. Lots of flooding in different areas. Gonna be more as the rain works its way down the watersheds.
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the air has a very slight chill to it this morning, which feels nice, but I’m sure won’t last. Heavy overcast and grey to the south and east, but clearing elsewhere.
n
I said the very same thing about one of my dates.
Well, it depends how far back you go. I mean, in the end, we are flatworms.
Crustaceans and insects both belong to the phylum of arthropods, which is basically everything with an external skeleton. Of course, that covers a lot of territory, and I was being snarky, so…
@brad
”Bug protein? Who doesn’t like lobster? Crab? Crawfish? Bugs of the sea…”
Get back to me when cicadas taste like lobster.
I recall getting a June bug in the teeth on a high speed bicycle run in high school. I was spitting that shiite out for half an hour.
On coffee:
Since I can’t give it up, I’m trying to drink it just black. My mouth has always been heat sensitive, so I have to let stuff cool that is around boiling. Once the coffee cools to the point I can tolerate the heat, the flavors really come out. Batch brewed coffee at shops (Seattle, Starbucks, etc) all taste burned beyond tasting pleasant. Drunk real hot it just tasted burned, after cooling, guess what, it still tastes burned.
My experiment with carbonated ice coffee is a success. I go to the fridge and the kids have polished it off.
Doesn’t work for me. On the way home from LA, Waze goes silent when I get past the edge of population, which is where I really need something. As I have said before, chewing gum works for me. Maybe it is partly because I don’t like chewing gum. Driving is the only time I chew gum. It is especially effective after the flavor wears off.
Caffeine doesn’t work. I can drink coffee just before bed and sleep fine. I used to chew a NoDoz tablet while driving, but I think the bitter taste was what worked, because it would wake me up in seconds. For really long haul driving, I would stop for a half hour nap. Only once did I sleep longer, and it messed up my schedule.
I have a friend who is older than me, and is about to drive 2200 miles. He never stops at a motel; just for naps.
Question for the hive mind:
When you stop the microwave before the time is up, do you save the remaining time for the next use or do you throw it away?
If I am driving alone, which is usually the case, I try to find talk radio with which I disagree. That is not terribly difficult, and it allows me to use words I would not use in polite company.
Also, those spicy/salty almonds or peanuts one can buy at the gas stop help.
I reset. The wife just leaves it until she needs the microwave again.
That’s sociopathic behavior. Get her the help she needs.
“Soylent Green is coming, just in like the movie.”
Not even if they have a Hamadhole-free brand.
“Also, those spicy/salty almonds or peanuts one can buy at the gas stop help.”
Try chocolate-covered expresso beans.
Subbing again today. Same class as a couple of days ago. I was informed the problem child would remain in the office during the class. It was a joy to escort him to the office in spite of his pleas that he has to pee (which I don’t believe). He is an out-of-county student who has being thrown out of this school system. He will have to attend another school system. It is amazing how much one child can disrupt a class. With him gone things are much better.
It is amazing how much one child can disrupt a class.
– this is true for society at large. Hate it or love it, social pressure and a uniform population or group curtails this bad behavior.
Too bad those days are gone.
n
re: class disruption
Back in the day (“get off my lawn”), we had this thing called “tracking”, where the bright and/or hard-working kids were put into different classes than the more average kids. There was a third track for those who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, keep up with the middle track. All separate from the “special” class, so basically 4 tracks.
Except only academic classes were tracked. We were all randomly lumped together in PE, shop, Home Ec, and History classes. So I got to know people from all the tracks. By “getting to know”, that might include “being bullied and robbed by”, along with nodding acquaintance.
It was striking to me how the fast track college-prep classes moved and covered a lot of ground, while the shop class and history class were mostly focused on not hurting yourself. Lessons that were imperfectly learned in both cases. The PE classes were taught by morons, aimed at morons. But by golly they were good coaches.
Our school was integrated, and had been for a long time, so that was only a political issue during the race riots of the late 60’s, when blacks burned down half the school for some reason or another. This was only slightly before my time there. Things were mostly settled down by the time I arrived. Hispanics and other first-generation foreign were an insignificant part of our population.
The college prep track was mostly white and evenly split by sex.
Disruptors knew they’d be kicked out of the track, and that was sufficient to keep them at bay.
Yeah, we had tracks as well, and it worked. Of course we had no blacks, and only about three kids with hispanic heritage. No asians either. Tracks force people to acknowledge that kids are different, and that is the socialist no no… everyone is a lumpen, interchangeable cogs in the wheels of the machine. 19th century fear of industrialization taken to stupidity.
n
n
So a while back we considered what it would look like if the world was getting ready to go to war again.
New weapons systems, increases in equipment orders, conversion of manufacturing to a wartime footing…
I’ll remind people that the run up to WWII was very obvious when you look for those things.
n
The generals and admirals then were forward looking, and doing their very best to be ready, tactically and technologically.
Far different from today’s politically correct brass.
The current top military commander went awol, and there were no consequences and no questions asked in congress.
And the new AF1 has been another football for quite awhile. The new $5B! Marine One fleet has been prohibited from the White House due to scorching the South Lawn. Somebody’s BIL must be available to pave a circle there for a few million. Mebbee cobblestones to make it purty. The Ford finally got commissioned, wonder how well the catapults and elevators actually work.
But to your point, uh, yeah.
The Pentagon’s new neighbor across the freeway, Boeing, needs an order to keep the 747 production line running past delivery of the two new planes which will receive the Air Force One designation.
The current E4Bs date back to the 70s.
Trump drove a hard bargain with Boeing over the new Air Force One so Sierra Nevada is also involved to fill soup bowl in the deal, which should go for a solid decade.
AstraZeneca isn’t mRNA technology.
That jab wasn’t approved for use in the US, probably because it would allow people to remain part of the Control for mRNA.
J&J was grudgingly approved but try to get one of those shots now.
I’ve wondered for a longish time why SSD’s haven’t supplanted spinning rust HDDs. Seems there is a new tech that will make that happen one of these days:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-game-of-chicken-samsung-set-to-launch-new-storage-chip-that-could-make-100tb-ssds-mainstream-430-layer-nand-will-leapfrog-competition-as-race-for-nand-supremacy-heats-up
One of the core tenants of the military is decentralization. We spend way too much money on protecting POTUS. $ billions for one guy who usually is a military numbskull. The FLOTUS stenography could fill in for plugs. Something happens and the President and Vice President go to different locations to preserve decentralization. We would be better off with a plane for each of the Joint Chiefs and their staffs. I would rather have a functioning military after WWIII than a POTATUS.
I get it. Military members are expendable, POTUS is not. Yeah, no.
Freefall: Florence Is Not a Dog
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4100/fc04053.htm
Florence is an AI in a genetically modified wolf !
Florence thinks of herself as a dog! Even while knowing that she’s a Bowman’s Wolf.
http://freefall.purrsia.com/default.htm
“Rogue Prosecutors and the Rise of Crime” by Cully Stimson
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/rogue-prosecutors-and-the-rise-of-crime/
“The writers of our Constitution placed their faith not in specific guarantees of rights—those came later—but in a system of checks on government power. Foremost is the separation of powers among the three branches of the federal government, as well as between the federal government and the states. For this system to work as designed, people in each branch of the federal government and in the state governments must do their jobs and stay in their respective lanes.”
“But what happens when district attorneys—members of their states’ executive branches—refuse to execute the laws of the land? We are witnessing the results today in blue cities across America.”
“Approximately 90 percent of criminal cases in the U.S. are handled by the 2,300 elected district attorneys spread across 3,143 counties. The rest are prosecuted by U.S. attorneys operating under the Department of Justice. Until recently, elected county district attorneys upheld their end of the social contract by firmly and fairly enforcing state criminal laws and protecting citizens’ rights. Regardless of party affiliation, these gatekeepers of the criminal justice system did their job. Over the last 30 years, they played a critical role in driving down crime rates, which peaked in 1992, by prosecuting violent criminals, while at the same time creating thousands of alternatives to incarceration, such as drug courts, domestic violence courts, mental health courts, and other highly successful programs.”
I’ve wondered for a longish time why SSD’s haven’t supplanted spinning rust HDDs. Seems there is a new tech that will make that happen one of these days:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-game-of-chicken-samsung-set-to-launch-new-storage-chip-that-could-make-100tb-ssds-mainstream-430-layer-nand-will-leapfrog-competition-as-race-for-nand-supremacy-heats-up
A friend of mine works for a three letter company and makes 300 TB SSD 1U rack NAS drives for them. They sell out immediately and had a 18 month backlog at the last time he told me. He is the head of the device driver team and told me the other day that they roll their own operating system. The operating system C code looks like this:
while (1)
{
… lots of code …
}
“Tesla stock surges on ‘watershed’ full self-driving approval in China”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-stock-surges-on-watershed-full-self-driving-approval-in-china-171449770.html
“Tesla gaining approval to use FSD in China makes its vehicles more attractive and unlocks another revenue stream for the company.”
Get ready to dodge, here they come !
“More pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at UT-Austin”
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/29/university-texas-pro-palestinian-protest-arrest/
“Last week, 57 people were arrested during protests on campus.”
These people are insane.
“To Sail beyond the Sunset” by Robert A. Heinlein
https://www.amazon.com/Sail-beyond-Sunset-Author-published/dp/B00GX3I1YU?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number eight in a very loose series of eight science fiction books. There are also many short stories and novellas that are a part of the universe. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace in 1988 that I bought new in 1990 (I think !). I plan to reread “The Rolling Stones” and “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” soon. I am going to pass on rereading “The Number Of The Beast”.
This book starts with Maureen Johnson Long, the mother of Lazarus Long, waking up in hotel with a dead man in bed with her. And the cat who walks through walls, Pixel. She is subsequently arrested for murder and finds out that she has been kidnapped and purposefully put into this situation in a quite nasty time line where the First Prophet was never deposed in the year 2100 like Lazarus Long’s original time line.
If you are offended by sex, and I mean lots of sex, in a book then I would advise you to stay away from this book and series. Except for the first book in the series, “Methusalah’s Children”. All of the books, except the first book, have group marriages in or mentioned in them which was first expounded by Heinlein in “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” book.
The book is also an in depth examination on how society in the USA changed from 1880 to 1980. Technology changed radically in that time and so did societal morals about sex and drugs, not for the better.
The rather loose book series is (there may be more):
1. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
2. The Rolling Stones
3. Methuselah’s Children
4. Time Enough For Love
5. The Number Of The Beast
6. The Pursuit Of The Pankera
7. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
8. To Sail Beyond The Sunset
There is a rather excellent timeline of Heinlein’s books at:
https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/579486/
Jo Walton, the Heinlein apologist, says that “To Sail beyond the Sunset” is Heinlein’s worst novel. I disagree.
https://reactormag.com/heinleins-worst-novel/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 of out 5 stars (263 reviews)
Lynn
Musk had best watch his back, the $300B that Tim Cook sank into China didn’t net him a long term ally.
The “journalist” arrested last week was a doughy Faux News camera guy who stepped into the wrong place to get a shot.
He isn’t really a “journalist”, but Texas Tribune isn’t really a newspaper.
As with BLM, the goal is to get a pretty blonde co-ed hurt, preferably killed by a cop. UT police would be good, but DPS (TX state troopers) would be much better.
That would be the end of DPS not only on campus at UT Austin but patrolling the streets of the greater metro and, possibly, the border.
“Trump Takes Commanding Lead Over Biden, Even CNN Poll Shows 45 Holds a Major Advantage”
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-takes-commanding-lead-biden-even-cnn-poll-shows-45-holds-major-advantage/
It is a long time to November. And the dumbrocrat cheating will take your breath away with their audacity.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-13362249/wall-street-analyst-mcdonalds-chipotle-starbucks-fast-food-expert.html
D1 told me her McDs meal was $12 while we were shopping today. You can still buy a good sized steak for that amount.
n
Musk had best watch his back, the $300B that Tim Cook sank into China didn’t net him a long term ally.
Tim Cook still has fantasies about taking over Tesla.
Fixed that for you.
The White House toilet cleaner could fill in for plugs.
I am so glad I am not in the military anymore. It would be against regulations to criticize or say anything disparaging against the president as he is the commander in chief. My thoughts posted on here would probably get me a dishonorable discharge.
And creativity in using the courts for political advantage.
I would not be surprised for him to tell us that he was at the Battle of the Bulge while carrying a musket for General Lee while keeping an eye out for Custer.
The Boeing 747 produiction line closed in January 2023. The Presidental planes are ones produced for one of the Arab airlines and never paid for. They are being reworked.
>> “Soylent Green is coming, just in like the movie.”
Not even if they have a Hamadhole-free brand.
Eat it or be eaten as it.
Your choice…maybe…
You can get Soylent now…
https://soylent.com/collections/all-drinks
n
Chris Lattner gave Tim Cook the complete rundown on what was going on inside Tesla, and that’s when the rumors about an Apple takeover seemed to stop.
I’ve seen job postings locally which hint that Apple may be moving to do something about being behind on servers as well as AI.
Everyone still believes in the mythical man month, that if you throw enough money and people at a hard task it will get done that much faster.
Apple more or less abandoned the IT department, but catching up on servers now would mean making nice with Intel and, if they’re serious about AI, Nvidia.
Even making nice may not be enough. Dealing with Nvidia AI hardware involves a lot of gotchas that don’t make the specs, and Nvidia sources their own boxes which compete with customers’ products so they aren’t very forthcoming with information at times.
You know, I bought it when it came out, read it, don’t recall a lot now. I don’t recall it being bad, per se, just kind of “more of the same”.
By that point Heinlein was often revisiting the same plots and even the same characters, over and over.
Friday, at least, had a bit of meat to it, the balkanized USA, Shipstones, global pandemics, AI’s, a protagonist that did not want to be a mother…
@Nick
Yeah, their greed lost them this occasional customer. It’s been at least two years since I walked into or used the drive-in window.
The last time I had anything from MacD it was a large fry that a friend got me with a coupon.
The article admits they increased prices on some items to increase margin. ‘Course that’s what businesses do, attempt to earn a profit.
The more telling thing for me was the analyst suggesting that beef prices still had a way to go up…
n
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Says It Can’t Calculate Diversity Training Costs Because Congress Defunded DEI Offices
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/29/exclusive-pentagon-says-it-cant-calculate-diversity-training-costs-because-congress-defunded-dei-offices
Put the hold back on promotions and start the stopwatch.
“The more telling thing for me was the analyst suggesting that beef prices still had a way to go up…”
Judging from the size of the U.S beef herd, a long ways to go up.
I put a half in the freezer every spring. All my hamburgers are made with ground beef from the one animal that is butchered to my specifications, which includes putting the round steak into the burger. The family-owned locker has reservations out a year. MacDonald’s best burger is an inferior joke, and their worst is a doorstop that doesn’t deserve to be called beef.
I eat McDonald’s about once a week.
I order from the alacarte menu: Two ¼-pounder beef patties, 2 cheese, plus a large diet Coke.
Served “for here” for $6.66. The staff knows me know and they treat me right.
No carbs at all. No bun, no sauce, no fries. Just beef and cheese. I often use it to break my weekly 42 hour fast. If I really wanted to save money, I’d stop my diet Coke and I’d save more money.
It was suggested that I sell the van. Because you’d be surprised what the Blue Book is. Nope. It was worth $400 when Mom went to the nursing home. I looked about a year ago for some reason and it was about $3800. I don’t care.
The battery is almost two years old. Have you priced one lately?
The tires are almost a year old. Maybe two years old this coming July. I have to find the receipt but I recall the bill being about $850.
So a $400 van with funky electric locks and a front passenger that does not work (and it was wonky from the factory, a receipt from the dealer is in the glovebox with “no problems found”) has over a grand in it just for the battery and tires. No man, it’s maybe $1500 because of the locks and the window. It’s a 2004 with about 55,000 miles. It needs a can of freon a year.
Anyway. It’s easy for the dogs when we do trips to the vet. If I have to buy feed right now and it’s raining, even if it is a pain in the back to unload, I have the van.
Plus it has Purple Heart license plates. $10.50 to renew vs $75.50 for my truck.
I’m ok so far for money. I don’t know exactly SS is going to play out. I’m pulling $1000 a month from my 401k. They hold $200 for taxes. 20% minimum. I could have more withheld. I’ll get that back when I file. I put the money in the 401k pre-tax and by golly, I’m going to do my best to withdraw it without paying tax.
Oh, and I have much of the money from selling Mom’s house sitting in the bank.
I paid off the truck early.
I have 30 grand floating around in t-bills with another 10 grand scheduled. I can do another 30 grand easy. Savings is paying 0.9%, t-bills are about 5.5%. Easy choice. Nope, I ain’t messing with “laddering”. If I was doing 100 grand t-bills maybe… but, nah. I just figure that if I have about 10 grand in the bank in case the well pump fails, I have the money. I have only a vague idea of the price so round it up. Add another 10 grand for things like tires and new refrigerators.
I’m stocked for a lot of groceries. I have stuff to get rid of, that I don’t eat like canned peas and green beans. I have what was about six years of TP but that just doubled. Same for Ivory soap.
Then there is doing the will to change names on the land and on the house. The boys will be on both deeds. So when I croak, it’s theirs. Their’s ? So some lawyer fees are going to happen.
I have so much swirling around in my head. I do think I have it sorted, it just takes time to settle.
I haven’t been to McDonalds for years. The last time we went, everyone ordered. Ok, Big Mac with NO ONIONS for me. Yeah, it showed up just as everyone else had finished eating. Hot and fresh and with extra onions.
Yes, it’s a local franchise. No, I’m not going back. Storm’s, which is a few blocks north, makes a better burger any day of the week.
Storm’s is better than What-A-Burger.
That would be a front passenger window. I’m pretty sure I typed in window. Shrug.
I just had a double dose of eBay circus–I think I’m done for the night.
Sold an item. Had the specs as a 4-pound weight for Priority Mail, package 12x9x4. Buyer got charged $24 and paid tax on it.
(I just opted out of eBay’s coming-in-May change where they charge the buyer the discounted rate for postage, which is what I pay when I buy the shipping label. Discount seems to be 35-40%. I opted out because eBay charges fees on postage. Their fee varies by category, but I figure 15%. No way I’m going to absorb the 15%–in ths example, the item was also $24, so the net effect would be to double my fee. I do a rough estimate when I list and typically discount the item price a bit to compensate.)
In this case the shipping calculator was off. That can go either way, hence it makes no sense not to have some cushion in shipping. In this case I ended up refunding $5. I mailed it in a discontinued Regional A box, which is significantly smaller than the Medium Flat-Rate box, yet the post office charged me a buck more to ship it. I should have used “the trick”* Welcome to the monkey house.
I also wanted to change the bank account where I receive proceeds from sales. I had to go through a secure third-party site to login to my bank. and verify the new account. Then I had to re-enter the old account number. Then it says I’m on a new computer and have to get a call or text on a phone line that I don’t have plugged into my office, because I’m on a new computer? WTF? I’m logged in on the account from this very computer, fer cryin’ out loud. Do they mean it’s a different compute than the one I used to enter that account number probably ten years ago? I pulled a vintage ATT Princess phone out of the closet, found the right jack, clicked “call me”, got the robo-call, and finished up. Monkeys throwing poo.
The world would be simpler if we used my proposal to dock time from scammers according to how much time they steal from other people, times a multiple. My bank account changed because a scammer got hold of the account number. I’ve got at least ten hours and probably closer to fifteen in the changes that had to be made, and at my age the multiple is at least ten and I’d argue for fifty. Times how many people who were scammed? And, yes, it’s not one guy it’s a criminal enterprise with who knows how many, but my accounting says they all get docked the full monte. Send them all letters to turn themselves in to the disintegration chambers.
*”the trick”
Small flat-rate box costs more to ship than a flat-rate envelope. Yet the SFRB will fit in the FRE.
In this case, the discontinued Regional A box would fit inside the MFRB.
8 Police Officers Shot in North Carolina
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/04/29/8-police-officers-shot-in-north-carolina-n3787472
Felon with a gun shot at officers and was shot dead in his front yard, then more shots came from inside the house. Two “persons of interest” taken into custody.
Why am I certain that this will be yet another excuse to trample the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners?
Capital punishment is on the menu in North Carolina. If this was another straw purchase they need to turn the wheels of justice quickly.
A Massive Scandal Is Brewing in Los Angeles After DA George Gascon’s Number 3 Is Charged With 11 Felonies
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/04/29/how-arrest-of-gascons-top-assistant-blow-lid-off-rampant-corruption-la-county-n2173393
Let’s hope that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department personnel whose lives were ruined get an massive class action going to bankrupt the county before the county goes bankrupt from destroying their own tax base.
>> I order from the alacarte menu: Two ¼-pounder beef patties, 2 cheese, plus a large diet Coke.
Served “for here” for $6.66. The staff knows me know and they treat me right.
No carbs at all. No bun, no sauce, no fries. Just beef and cheese. I often use it to break my weekly 42 hour fast. If I really wanted to save money, I’d stop my diet Coke and I’d save more money.
The Diet Coke is probably most of their profit from your order.
A Massive Scandal Is Brewing in Los Angeles After DA George Gascon’s Number 3 Is Charged With 11 Felonies
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/04/29/how-arrest-of-gascons-top-assistant-blow-lid-off-rampant-corruption-la-county-n2173393
Let’s hope that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department personnel whose lives were ruined get an massive class action going to bankrupt the county before the county goes bankrupt from destroying their own tax base.
“Jeff Lynne’s ELO – Evil Woman (Live at Wembley Stadium)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7cyiWpX_HU
You know, I bought it when it came out, read it, don’t recall a lot now. I don’t recall it being bad, per se, just kind of “more of the same”.
By that point Heinlein was often revisiting the same plots and even the same characters, over and over.
Friday, at least, had a bit of meat to it, the balkanized USA, Shipstones, global pandemics, AI’s, a protagonist that did not want to be a mother…
And the protagonist was an artificial person made from four parents …
Almost certainly. Their cost for a paper cup, lid, and straw might be 5 cents, and the cost of the syrup another nickel. The soda water is too cheap to measure it. They probably charge $2.29. Fries and drinks are the most profitable part of a fast food purchase. That’s why they push the drink and fries with every order.
@paul, from watching it happen thru all the estates sales and sellers I deal with, it takes a year for most people to work thru the logistical and legal and financial issues involved in a loved ones death. You (the general “you”) have an additional burden in that your brain is not functioning like it used to during that period- you are absorbing a huge and monstrous change in your life and it’s a shock to your whole body.
Any progress you make is good considering what you are facing. Don’t be dismayed by the time it takes, and don’t make any really big irrevocable decisions right away. If you wouldn’t make the decision after pounding a dozen shots, it’s probably not something you should decide until some time has passed.
That said, everyone is different, and if working on the issues feels helpful to you then by all means, disregard what I said.
There isn’t any reason for sweeping changes in your life and living situation, take some time to absorb the biggest change.
Many here have been down this path and can help if you need it.
nick
And the protagonist was an artificial person made from four parents …
–which, iirc, led to one of the bigger themes in the book, what is it to be human? What makes someone or something a person?
n
Saw Alien on the big screen last night. Yelped aloud a couple times, generating a bit of laughter from those around me.
Today I stayed home sick with a chest congestion juicy cough thing. Staying home tomorrow too. Sleep. Between wracking coughs. Lots of mucinex, water, popsicles, and fisherman’s friends.
Sad news….
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/us/officers-shot-charlotte-north-carolina/index.html
Four LEO dead and four wounded. One shooter is also dead.
No, no, nothing of interest over at TSLA… but yeah, check out this Starlink deal right here…
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-offers-starlink-hardware-for-1-through-new-trial-offer