Well, maybe we will get a bit more misty drizzle today. We got some the last two days. Not much, barely got the street wet, but still enough to make it slick on the roads and to make it even moister than usual. Weather map shows clear, but I’m still going with overcast and threatening.
I spent most of the day messing with computers. Far too much effort and time on that stupid Chromebook. Far too little time on selling or getting stuff ready to sell. And too much time on domestic bliss. Oh well, momentum lost.
We’ll see if I can get any back today. Depends mostly on the weather I think. Who am I kidding? It depends entirely on me. And I’m slack. Now, acknowledging that, we are still going to try. At least I don’t have 2 ft of snow to deal with.
If I can poke at 4 different project today, and still make dinner, I’ll call it a good day.
I won’t even count stacking amongst the 4.
nick
*title was a youtuber lamenting criticism of a brand that encompassed a wide variety of choices. I disagree. If the brand doesn’t have at least some continuity across the choices, it isn’t really a brand, just a collection of stuff. And broad strokes act as a summary, letting you move to big picture discussions without getting bogged down in details.
Wednesday. Good morning!
Short schrift this morning. I have to get to the fang doctor, and mustn’t be late. Talk among yourselves.
P.S.
You can’t broad stroke it, but you mustn’t short stroke it!
IYKYK
I saw the first ex-wife’s posting in my YouTube subscription yesterday.
I believe Adams deliberately let himself get cancelled rather than leave the Dilbert IP behind to fund the second ex-wife’s lifestyle.
Another Bang Bang from what I understand.
DEI is over in IT but management has gone back to their old favorite – age discrimination.
I also heard a management type use the relatively new “on the spectrum” label behind the back of someone who was pushing back on a legitimate technical issue late last week.
That line always flips the “bozo bit” in my head about the individual applying the label.
I never heard that before moving to Austin. Ironically, it seems like most of the management types here are on Adderall (men), Wellbutrin (women), and/or T-therapy (both).
People in the US always look for a shortcut or pharma helper first. Propaganda and conditioning are strong there.
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47F and the coffee is brewing. Kids are both moving, wife is not. Sky looks clear to the east.
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Weird dreams this morning, full color, full plot.
n
And then there is Clarence Carter. When I was faking my ID and hanging out in a little college bar in Indiana, this was a several times a night favorite on the juke box.
n
Something is coming at my employer in the next few months, whether or not the Monkey Trick runs out of gas during that period.
The stock is at around the same point now as it was when the execs got their stock grants last Spring.
Harmeet Dhillon Refutes Claim That Lefty DOJ Lawyers Rage-Quit Over Handling of ICE Shooting (Updated)
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/01/13/doj-lawyers-resign-after-harmeet-dhillon-declines-to-investigate-ice-officer-n2198072
#1 did not sound likely on the face of it–the timeline was way too short.
#2 and #3 are not mutually exclusive.
We’ll see.
I’m hoping for prosecution for Spouse Ms. Cook.
I’m also hoping that President Trump lends his attorney’s to Officer Ross to sue the socks off every news outlet that characterized the justified shooting death of the domestic terrorist as murder.
KBJ Comes Up With a New Word in SCOTUS Trans Athletes Case That Has Everyone in Stitches
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/01/13/kbjs-incredible-new-word-in-trans-athletes-case-that-has-everyone-in-stitches-n2198097
Spice Girls Reboot.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is starting to look like one of the best conservative picks for SCOTUS ever.
“Debt fueled”
– some things look obvious in hindsight. I bet you couldn’t convince a board or the ‘activist’ shareholders to not take the easy money though.
n
best BB front page ever:
https://babylonbee.com/news/white-house-announces-over-1000000-new-jobs-were-created-in-december-but-they-were-all-filled-by-marco-rubio/?utm_source=nypost
“Spouse Ms. Cook.”
Good.
Multitasking my errors this morning.
Time for me to get to work.
Private equity, No one in the management is actually interested in doing actual retailing.
Yeah, it’s all financial shenanigans.
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Lock them up.
Inside armed police raid of Timothy Busfield’s mountain hideout: Door rammed as he turns himself in on child sex abuse charges… and wife Melissa Gilbert’s angry reaction is revealed
Heavily armed US Marshals raided the upstate New York home of Timothy Busfield and his wife Melissa Gilbert less than an hour after the actor turned himself in to police 2,000 miles away.
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n
The face of “thirtysomething”.
Geesh Boomers ate that show up.
Back to our normal 32F-70F daily temperature swing here in the California high desert.
My excuses for not exercising are disappearing…
A dragon capsule is bringing back the space station astronauts tonight, flying from north to south just off the California coast at hypersonic speed, it might be visible from here.
We don’t know what the medical emergency is, but rumor says (NASA is mum) it was discovered while suiting up for a space walk, and something that wouldn’t be noticed in normal (station) life and sponge baths, and something that couldn’t wait even a month longer.
After 10 days my friends are back from visiting the grandchild in Colorado, and I am off Chihuahua watch duty, feels strange not to be thinking about them.
Fuel prices have stayed stable this week – or even come down a few cents locally, despite the state capitol regulatory antics causing multiple refinery and station closures. It can’t last, but for now retail fuel is in the $4.50/gal range, higher for diesel, lower for petrol.
There is some speculation over at the Silicon Graybeard’s blog that the exigency might be a pregnancy, which would explain the urgency of a return to normal conditions of gravity and radiation. It would also explain why it is not a condition that can be handled by the physician on board.
On the other hand, pregnancy is hardly likely to crop up suddenly during robing for a space-walk, and it wouldn’t explain why two astronauts are returning if one is ill, unless it takes two to operate the vessel.
No doubt the real situation will come out in time.
One more issue that requires planning for long-term spaceflight. How to deal with illness. The ISS obviously gets young, healthy crew who have been screened intensively, but if mass spaceflight ever catches on, space medicine will have to become a thing.
I wonder if we will see humans on the moon in my lifetime?
They already have, but I get what you are saying.
$2.09/gal at Costco yesterday for 87 octane. There’s a cashback bonus that lowers that a bit too.
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Sun came out. Looks nice, if a bit windy.
n
Cochrane Review Reveals Masks Ineffective Against Flu-Like Illnesses
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/01/14/cochrane-review-reveals-masks-ineffective-against-flu-like-illnesses-n2198130
Millions of deaths and trillions of dollars later, we get the medical establishment admitting what an engineering student would conclude after a basic course on filtration.
Respirators could theoretically be effective filters, with 5-6 caveats to start. In addition to filtration there is the difficulty in verbally communicating while wearing a mak, and the 600-lb gorilla: The additional stress on heart and lungs, lowered blood oxygen, and other effects that make wearing a respirator for eight hours, much less a double-shift in the ER, a real treat.
I paid $2.14 per gallon in Austin on Monday at QuickTrip, but they put a $600 hold on my debit card for two days.
more of this.
n
Mask mandates were a dry run for jab mandates.
Now the masks are symbols of allegiance which all Good Germans have at the ready for when ze old days return, ja.
There have been no humans on the moon in my lifetime. The last man on the moon was was December 1972 and I was born about a year later.
Took me a minute, but I finally got it.
I immediately thought of alien moonbases on the dark side…
which says more about me than I’d like.
n
Owned and owned:
ICE: “I love my job. I can’t believe I get paid for this. I’d do this for free.”
PROTESTER: “I get $200k. I’m a physician assistant.”
ICE: “How long did you have to go to school?”
PROTESTER: “7 Years”
ICE: “I only went to high school and I make $200k.”
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/01/14/this-may-just-be-the-best-response-from-ice-agent-to-protesters-n2198117
ACLU Lawyer’s Response Shows How Badly the ‘Transgender’ Lobby Was Spanked During Oral Arguments
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2026/01/14/aclu-lawyers-response-shows-how-badly-the-transgender-lobby-was-spanked-during-oral-arguments-n2198120
Hey! I’m technically a boomer, and I thought it was a yawning pit of display of yuppie hubris in soap opera form, full of shallow self-centeredness.
OTOH I’m one of the boomers who was too young for Woodstock and the Summer of Love, and too uptight to be a streaker.
The definition of Boomer is just wrong. My sister was born in ‘46, myself in ’54, my girlfriend in ‘64, and we’re all the same generation? We don’t even have the same (pop) music.
I tried wearing my dust mask with upgraded filters on a plane during COVID. I was denied since it didn’t filter the outgoing. Respirators don’t do that either, or gas masks, etc. The CDC needs to get their shite together.
Check Out President Trump’s ‘Appropriate and Unambiguous’ Response to Heckler
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/01/14/trump-ford-worker-middle-finger-n2669428
The Ford employee has been suspended. Really? If the Ford CEO was touring the plant and got the same treatment, would the employee only be suspended?
If Ford wants to bring him back later someone should publicize what vehicle line he’s working on, so people can vote with their dollars.
No live humans. After the Israeli’s took out the secret Nazi Antarctica base in 1979 with a nuke the crew on the moonbase had no supplies and no way home. Their mummified corpses are probably still there.
“I tried wearing my dust mask with upgraded filters on a plane during COVID. I was denied since it didn’t filter the outgoing. Respirators don’t do that either, or gas masks, etc. The CDC needs to get their shite together.”
You should have just put a surgical mask on over the respirator.
I used N95’s at the time for that very reason. Real ones. Made in the USA by the company that invented the non-woven bra cup and ultimately found a better use.
About that: when I first read about ‘generations’, in the early ‘80’s, Boomers cut off in 1959. It was maybe 20 years later that all the generations were adjusted to their current cutoffs. I notice that since that change, ‘cusp’ groupings have been defined, possibly to allow people to identify with the generation of their choice. FWIW, I consider myself GenX although my upbringing was Early Boomer.
“more of this.”
Put him in a dress, give him a tube of bright red lipstick, throw him in genpop, and let it be known that if the DNA tests shows over a hundred “donors” it will be steak on the menu after services on Sunday.
The face of “thirtysomething”.
Busfield? Naw. Fourth-banana by billing, sixth in the cast photo.
Busfield directed a bunch of episodes and brought the ratings cred from “Trapper John MD”.
Update: three episodes.
Busfield did direct a bunch of cult TV, however, including “Ed” and “Studio 60”.
All the astronauts who flew up together, are returning together. If only a couple of them came down today on the Dragon, then there wouldn’t be room for everybody to get down in the Russian Soyuz if a REAL emergency happened on the ISS.
Billions Flown Out of American Airports While the Feds Just Watched
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/01/14/billions-flown-out-of-american-airports-while-the-feds-just-watched-n3810830
The simple solution to preventing these frauds in the future has several pieces:
First, get the federal government out of the business of shipping money to the states for social programs of any kind.
Second, require any legal immigrant to have financial sponsorship for twenty years and make them automatically deportable if they are found to get any taxpayer support. (Details, details, details, but, yes, that includes their children, who are not eligible for taxpayer support for twenty years and not eligible for permanent citizenship for twenty years.
Third, apply RICO to immigrant families. If they are found guilty, ship them all back. If there are any honest ones in the bunch it will make them keen whistleblowers.
Fourth, award a percentage-based fee to anyone reporting financial crimes involving taxpayer funds.
Fifth, make failure to report financial crimes involving taxpayer funds by a public employee a felony with penalties that include loss of pension.
“Danish intel warned last year about Russian and Chinese military goals toward Greenland and Arctic”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/danish-intel-warned-about-russian-and-chinese-military-ambitions-toward
“While Denmark’s leaders downplay the threat to Greenland posed by Russia and China amidst President Donald Trump’s outspoken desire to acquire the frozen island, Denmark’s Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS) recently released an assessment bluntly warning of Russian and Chinese military ambitions toward and expansion around Greenland and the Arctic.”
Trump has obviously known about this for a long time. So if China occupied Greenland would you get excited about it then ?
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Busfield played a whiny bee-otch on the show, and was obviously a natural.
David Clennon was the primary reason to watch the show. “Two samurai in the rain” heh.
My parents were pre-war so not boomers. I’m very early genX, although culturally, I grew up with adults and my older cousins so I liked Jethro Tull as well as CCR, but also my cohort with Bowie, Thompson Twins, OMD, and other New Wave bands. MTV was still playing music when I was in high school and they say that you will always love the music from high school.
Of course, I was listening to floyd, zeppelin, santana, ozzy, etc too. Kansas, BOC, Foghat, Styx, and The Who. AM radio was still a thing for rock and pop (WLS), but FM was growing for music. We had WLUP (Steve Dahl and the Disco Demolition) and WXRT (which I share with Zendo Deb- playing all sorts of alternative and more non-commercial artists.)
I usually say “I was a child of the 80s” as that is a better summary than GenX. John Hughes movies, not Scorsese.
And I got infected with the Britcom virus in high school too, so that sensibility shaped me as well.
n
“SCOTUS Rules Congressman Has Standing To Challenge Mail-In Voting Rules”
https://conservativebrief.com/supreme-court-mail-in-98137/
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday revived a Republican lawmaker’s challenge to an Illinois absentee ballot law, ruling that he has legal standing to pursue his case. In a 7–2 decision, the court held that Rep. Michael Bost (R-Ill.) can challenge a state law that allows mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received and counted for up to two weeks afterward.”
“Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. Roberts wrote that candidates have a “concrete and particularized” interest in the rules governing vote counting in their elections, even if those rules do not directly affect their chances of winning or increase campaign costs.”
I have a serious problems with votes coming in after the day an election occurs. A serious problem !
IYKYK
https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/iykyk
“IYKYK is an abbreviation of the phrase “if you know, you know.” It is often used as a way of acknowledging some common knowledge, or a shared experience.”
Do you want to be the person that collects the samples?
Is Donut Lab’s Solid State Battery Legit?
spoiler: no
Solar swells, pastel winmells , and all-green EV batreez,
Fa-la-la.
I saw the first ex-wife’s posting in my YouTube subscription yesterday.
I believe Adams deliberately let himself get cancelled rather than leave the Dilbert IP behind to fund the second ex-wife’s lifestyle.
Another Bang Bang from what I understand.
Looks to me like the second wife apparently divorced him when he told her he had prostate cancer.
Is Donut Lab’s Solid State Battery Legit?
spoiler: no
Solar swells, pastel winmells , and all-green EV batreez,
Fa-la-la.
Bummer. We need a good solid state battery that can be readily mass produced for a reasonable cost and a reasonable time. And hold the charge forever and be rechargeable a million times.
I thought it sounded too good to be true.
If someone gets the technology to working, it will be worth billions, maybe trillions of USA Dollars.
Heinlein called them Shipstones.
“Trump Admin Freezes All Visa Processing for 75 Countries With People Who Are Likely to “Become a Public Charge””
https://economiccollapse.report/trump-admin-freezes-all-visa-processing-for-75-countries-with-people-who-are-likely-to-become-a-public-charge/
No immigrants should be on welfare, period. Go home if you cannot support yourselves legally without scamming us.
This is also why I voted Trump in for Prez !
Another hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Pearls Before Swine: A Weekly Goal
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/01/12
Man, that is not even an annual goal.
Hawaiian judge saying “no” any minute.
Scott Adams: “He Made Me Laugh”
https://www.reddit.com/r/dilbert/comments/1qcpopq/he_made_me_laugh/
Cool.
I use to tell my wife to immediately divorce me if I get a fatal disease or dementia. The assets will be split so she would at least get to keep something when I go in a nursing home. That is now moot as I now qualify for a veteran home or nursing home paid by the VA.
That is precisely what I meant. Like you, I was born after Apollo 17.
Bedtime on Wednesday. BR-Klassik just ran “Spiegel im Spiegel” by Arvo Pärt, one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard, right up there with Beethoven’s moonlight sonata.
Goodnight, all.
I’ve read several tributes to Scot Adams.
Maybe John Wilder’s is best
https://wilderwealthywise.com/scott-adams-rest-in-peace/
@Denis
“Bedtime on Wednesday. BR-Klassik just ran “Spiegel im Spiegel” by Arvo Pärt, one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard, right up there with Beethoven’s moonlight sonata.”
Being largely ignorant of classical music, I went to YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe3mXlnfNc&list=RDFZe3mXlnfNc&start_radio=1
Lovely. Thank you.
@dkreck
I suspect there are going to be more good ones.
When The Dilbert Principle came out I bought a copy, took notes as I read it on a plane, then typed the notes in Word and printed copies. I posted one by the office coffeepot and left a few others anticipating that some people would take them before the posted copy came down.
I had a dilbert strip made into a t shirt and wore it to work to poke my boss.
https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2002-07-01
Still have the T shirt, in fact I just washed it and it’s sitting in my bedroom.
n
“EIA: Global oil inventories will continue to increase through 2026, 2027”
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/economics-markets/news/55343239/eia-global-oil-inventories-will-continue-to-increase-through-2026-2027
“Global oil inventories will continue to increase through 2026 and 2027, albeit at a more gradual rate in 2027, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicted in its January 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). Brent crude oil prices are forecast to average $56/bbl in 2026 and $54/bbl in 2027, compared with an average of $69/bbl in 2025.”
I am flabbergasted. Once again, Niels Bohr* has proven me to be an idiot. I was really hoping that crude oil and natural gas prices would be trending up now.
*”A quote attributed to many people, from the Nobel prize-winning Quantum physicist Niels Bohr to legendary baseball player (and philosopher) Yogi Berra states: “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.””
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33383160/
“Structure expects pills to capture 25% to 50% of GLP-1 obesity market by 2030”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/structure-expects-pills-capture-25-195957608.html?guccounter=1
“Jan 14 (Reuters) – Structure Therapeutics said on Wednesday that it expects oral weight-loss drugs to capture 25% to 50% of the GLP-1 market by 2030, a bullish estimate the CEO said was driven partly by pent-up demand for a pill from patients and doctors.”
My retiring tax accountant visited me today with a tax return for one of my four companies. He has dropped from 285 lbs to 210 lbs. He is 5’6″, 80 years old, and he is in much better health now. No longer diabetic and his back does not hurt. He has been on Ozempic for almost two years.
I am tempted, very tempted. Apparently 1 in 8 people in the USA are on GLP-1 drugs.
““More Than Just Stupid”: Dozens of Minneapolis Police Suddenly Seek Paid Leave With Morale at “All-Time Low””
https://thelibertydaily.com/more-than-just-stupid-dozens-minneapolis-police-suddenly/
“(WND News Center)—With Minneapolis, Minnesota, remaining Ground Zero for anti-ICE attacks in the wake of the killing of leftist activist Renee Good by an ICE officer last week, there are now reports that up to 70 city police officers are now seeking paid leave as morale is said to be at an “all-time low.””
I am shocked, shocked I tell you that the officers would want to leave the nice peaceful streets of Minneapolis.
GTE banned “Dilbert” in the office in the runup to the “merger of equals” with Bell Atlantic.
I don’t think it was the lampooning of the middle management that grated as much as the episode of the TV series which spoke a little too truthfully about the “Associated Way” charity that aired during May sweeps in 1999.
GTE managers in Tampa were really into the “Associated Way”, and that half hour was brutal satire.
Adams was in the writers room for most of the series.
Brought to you by the same people who created and approved the “safe and effective” jabs.
Tubi has the “Dilbert” TV series. Find the “Charity” episode.
The Dogbert subplot in the episode … well I don’t know if that would make it on the air today.
Maybe they read this news article: outrage-as-ice-agent-jonathan-ross-unlikely-to-face-charges-over-death-of-renee-good
Time for a trip to play some golf at the Windermere, FL retirement condo.
What? Below freezing temperatures in Orlando this week? Doh!
BTW, in case it sounds familiar, Windermere is where Tiger Woods lived until Mrs. Tiger Woods found out about the affair with the waitress and discovered another use for a nine iron besides hitting golf balls.
Well, I have my workstation mostly back.
I decided to replace the ‘too short’ cable on my right monitor, and the combo of stuff just didn’t work. I need DVI to DVI, longer than 6ft. I found a 10ft HDMI, and one DVI adapter. The monitor has a Display Port connector, and I found an HDMI to DP for the monitor end, because I only have one HDMI to DVI… well, something in that chain just doesn’t work.
So I’m slumming it with one monitor. I’ll keep looking for a longer DVI (I have a box full at the secondary location, but don’t know if I can get to it.)
I vacuumed out all the dust bunnies. Changed the CMOS battery and swapped in a new DVD drive. Trying to rip something that wouldn’t rip in the old drive.
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I am having some weirdness with my mint linux NVR pc. At some point recently it restarted and now the power saving shuts off the monitor. I’ve restarted a couple of times. The power management is set to ‘never’ but it still puts the monitor to sleep. I tried other long settings, and it still goes to sleep.
Fricking linux. SOMETHING somewhere is not being changed by the setting tool, or something broke.
n
Branco pays tribute to Scott Adams:
https://townhall.com/political-cartoons/afbranco/2026/01/14/213303?hpnl=true
So if this isn’t AI it reveals something interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ghPs2x_Gvmc?feature=share
It’s actually the second short of the same incident.
Student teacher was upset by something a kid did. She sent a snapchat to her boyfriend and roommate saying she was going to or wanted to shoot the kid. FBI calls locals and an hour later they come and roll up the teacher.
Snapchat is the service where the messages time out and “disappear” once read. Mostly.
FBI (or someone) seems to be running real time monitoring on the whole service, and can identify a user and react pretty dang fast.
n
Watch: Tim Walz Hits Disgusting New Low As He Incites Violence Against ICE, Smears Agents As ‘Occupiers’
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/01/14/watch-tim-walz-hits-disgusting-new-low-n2198159
Walz is unhinged, and the feds are giving him ample rope…
Breaking: New ICE Shooting in Minnesota After Alleged Attack With Shovel (Updated)
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/01/14/breaking-new-ice-shooting-in-minnesota-after-alleged-attack-with-shovel-n2198160
Wounded when attacking agent with a shovel.
As noted last week:
Minneapolis police department officer levels:
14% below the minimum required according to the city charter.
Working a lot of OT, probably required.
Another 70 on leave would make it 26% below the required minimum.
534 would be below the low set after Saint Floyd was promoted.
Minneapolis Police Overtime Soars To Record $28 Million in 2024 Amid Staffing Shortfalls
https://minneapolimedia.town.news/g/coon-rapids-mn/n/322312/minneapolis-police-overtime-soars-record-28-million-2024-amid-staffing
Minneapolis police union claims MPD officer morale is at ‘all-time low’
https://alphanews.org/minneapolis-police-union-claims-mpd-officer-morale-is-at-all-time-low/
@Nick, check email
@Greg, re: GLP-1:
Not to say it’s safe long-term, but it has almost 10 years of history treating a sensitive population, diabetics. And those of us who are frustrated losing weight and have hypertension and other comorbidities are willing to accept the risk profile.
I’m on blood pressure medicine and gout medicine every day of my life. If I can lose 40 pounds,I could probably drop those, along with relieving my joints and potentially other benefits. It might be a worthwhile trade just for feeling better.
For the vax, no one shared the risk profile before mandating it. In fact, Pfizer lied about it, and got away with it.
The California Wealth Tax is Much Worse Than I Thought
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/01/14/the-california-wealth-tax-is-much-worse-than-i-thought-n3810853
My heart bleeds.
Google and Facebook are evil, and these three pinheads are disproportionately responsible for Cali flushing itself down the toilet.
Lots of people are using the drug who don’t really need to be on it, however.
The FOMO/YOLO thought process is really out of control right now.
The problem starts with the commercials. One actress who has been in several Wegovy ads over the past few years has definitely lost weight during the course of the campaign, but, based on her appearance, I’d guess she was on a serious workout routine. and not actually taking the med.
Your NVR is running an old version of Mint IIRC, but if your CMOS battery died, it might be a BIOS setting.
Anytime I restart my home server running Fedora, I have to log into the user account after reboot and lock the screen in order to keep the system from going to sleep.
I successfully made a Docker image of that version of Mint and managed to boot it under Windows as an experiment a few years ago, when the company sent us all to Docker training despite my group’s primary responsibiity being an embedded system running a limited amount of RAM.
Major league sports players are taxed by every state where they play games. Most of the audience is not present, but watching video over cable, and significant parts of that audience are not in the states where the player reside or the game is being played, and it can even be argued that the location of the game is irrelevant.
Corporations are taxed according to their infrastructure and sales in a state, and their shareholders are taxed according to their income and capital gains.
Traditional methods of taxation do not fully account for the wealth generated by the operations of monopoly internet corporations and their owners who derive income from users that is not directly connected to infrastructure and sales.
Companies like Google and Meta are valued in large part according to their users, who are not themselves infrastucture and whose connections to the company are not made through corporate-owned infrastructure, but through regulated utilities that the users themselves pay for.
It would seem that there is an opportunity to revise the traditional model and distribute the wealth in a fashion more closely accounting for how it is generated. I would hazard that somewhere a pointy-haired economist is hard at work doing so, and the irony is that he is probably in a blue state that benefits from the current model.
All taxation is theft.
They need to start figuring out how to reduce the tax burden.
n
With that, I’m headed for the land of Nod.
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