Cool then hot. When you’re hot you’re hot, so cool you’re hot… I feel like singing today. No idea why. Anyway, yesterday was as expected and today will probably be too. Unless the forecast squeezes just a little rain out on us.
I did get a bunch of things done yesterday, but they were all little, and at home. I put off pickups until I had my pickup back, and just stayed home and chipped away at stuff.
I broke down the brisket, and cooked some. 3 pounds in the crock pot with salt, pepper, garlic salt, and four onions sliced thin. 6 hours later, it was filling the house with good smells. Unfortunately, the beef fat I was rendering on the stove didn’t smell so nice. I did get 2 cups of tallow at the end of the day, and I’d have just thrown that fat out. There was almost a cup in the crock pot too, but I didn’t render that.
As a side I made a recipe for dinner rolls from a magazine put out by our local electrical co-op at the BOL. Every month they feature other co-op members’ recipes. They were quick and easy, even from scratch. Unfortunately, the gamma seal lid on my bucket of flour failed, and the bucket went wet and rotten. I had a backup, so I opened that and made the rolls. That’s the second bucket of flour to turn into stinky glue.
My storage conditions sux teh bunnies, so I’m glad I don’t have even more breakage, but gamma lids are supposed to be good. They aren’t fool proof, and I’m the fool to prove it. Use a real lid for long term, and gammas only for the bucket you are working out of.
Moisture is my biggest problem with long term storage of anything, followed by sunlight. I’m the opposite of a cool dark place, and it shows.
Still, nice to know I can make light fluffy rolls with simple ingredients and only a little time. I think we’re most likely to be eating flat bread during any prolonged event, just because you don’t have the time for rising dough, or the energy for long baking. Just look at what poor people around the world eat, and it’s mostly flat bread.
I may try them with bacon fat instead of ‘solid vegetable shortening’ next time, just because I’ve got more bacon fat, but I try to make a new recipe as closely as possible the first time.
Late in the day I got my truck back. I’m $1500 lighter, but the A/C works again, and the oil got changed. There is a list of things that need attention, but most of it isn’t critical or in the budget for this year. In a couple more years it will be an antique and then maybe I’ll do a half arsed ‘restoration’ for D2. I can’t replace it for $100/ month, and that’s about what I’ve been spending on it. Plus, it’s a simple and reliable design, without all the tracking, ads, and “driver assistance” that I don’t want.
Today I’ll be doing those delayed pickups. And more stuff around the house. I have two specific missions for W as birthday requests, so I need to get them done.
Of course there are all the usual things on the list too, and stacking. Busy busy me…
nick
That’s not definitionally a liberal vs normal thing, it’s a “can’t do math” vs “can do math” thing. MC and SS, like all Ponzi schemes, rely on an ever-increasing pool of “contributors”. In practice, SS and MC rely on an exponentially-increasing pool of “contributors”. If that increase ever falters, which is what we are seeing, the Ponzi scheme falters, which is what we’re seeing.
Supporting MC and SS is not definitionally a liberal position, as I said, but, while individual libertarians and conservatives and what-not may support MC/SS or may oppose it, I don’t know of any liberals who favor getting rid of MC/SS unless it’s to replace them with a more comprehensive social care system.
All of that is too bulky to toss into a typical conversation. The short version is, if you support medicare and social security, you’re a liberal.
I’ve been deliberately eating down my stored food for a few months, in expectation of moving. I hope that my timing isn’t terrible.
Related: I vaguely knew that I had a lot of food etc stacked up but hadn’t realized quite how much. A shelf here, a box there, a 50# bag of salt tucked behind something, you know how it goes. Once I got most of it in one place, huh, that’s a lot of stuff. Essentially no losses, from what I’ve seen. Some of the older flour tastes off and a few of the older canned goods separated and look unappealing but seem ok when heated. (Not necessarily recommended for others. My digestive system and immune system are conspicuously robust.) I did lose about ten pounds of sugar last year when a bottle of olive oil fell off a shelf and soaked the bottom of a 50# bag of sugar that was resting on the floor. I’d moved the sugar off of the thing which was keeping it elevated from the floor, so that I could get at something else, then forgot to put it back up. Simple carelessness on my part; if not for that, my total losses since early 2020 would have been a pint of oil. Other than that, no losses to bugs or mice or environmental conditions, not that I’ve noticed.
Well, that’s not quite right. There were considerable losses to stored food and other supplies because my wife kept going into them, but that’s a different topic.
Regarding MC/SS and their need for an ever-increasing pool of “contributors”: In most ways, a slightly declining US population would be good. The panic comes because of problems caused by the various governments: MC/SS can’t be funded without young workers paying for old non-workers. Pensions for old former government workers can’t be funded without young workers paying into the general fund. Government debt can’t be paid without workers paying taxes. And so on.
I don’t fully buy into twenty-somethings’ anger at “boomers” (by which they mean anyone over 50) having ruined everything for the younger generation, but they do have a point.
I always believed that my wife’s prepper patient in Florida had plans on providing for his grid down medical needs by sticking a shiv in Skippy.
He’s not alone in terms of patients and employees being possessive of the other adult in my household because of the skills she possesses.
I don’t expect to last long.
The courts ruled long ago that Social Security is “general welfare”, paid at the discretion of Congress.
Fleming v. Nestor.
Helvering v. Davis.
Medicare has always been welfare.
The checks from both could stop at any time.
Yet they trusted Corn Pop and the Boomer members of Congress to deliver them from their student loans.
73F and the kid’s lunch is made. Everyone seems to be sleeping in this morning. Except me. I’m up.
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I expect and plan for losing stuff to my local poor conditions. Buckets degrade in the sunlight. Cans sweat and rust. Adhesives fail from the heat. Even new alkaline batteries will fail in the package, years early. I just suck it up. Even then, it’s not terrible as most of the stuff isn’t expensive by itself.
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Today is the anniversary of the death of my good friend and mentor. The guy was a legend in the early music touring industry, a father, husband, friend. He waited too long to seek medical attention for his stomach pain, and when he finally did, they gave him 6 weeks to get his stuff in order. He didn’t make it that long.
My life would have followed a very different path if he had been available for a gig that I got instead, and then later when I worked with him and learned from him.
There are points in time where my life branched, and everything in the new path could be traced back to that one moment, decision, or person. RIP brother.
n
but they do have a point.
– yeah, things were objectively better. Still, it’s victim mentality and not something to be encouraged.
n
I think this is true of many people. My current path can be traced back to my 4th grade teacher, as well as a decision in college that I had no idea would lead me to my current life. I wouldn’t change anything. Even the really shirtty -r events helped guide me to where I am now.
More on Tricolor.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/subprime-crisis-20-red-flags-fly-alleged-fraud-triggers-billion-dollar-auto-lender
– it would be very easy to overvalue the sort of used cars they ‘fixed’ and resold. Hundreds to thousands per car adds up quick with the size of their operation.
There is a bit more in the article, I didn’t want to quote the whole thing, but it’s worth reading.
n
Retail apocalypse continues.
The article is about PetCo closing stores but then sums up with this…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-15107457/pet-store-closing-locations.html
That’s a lotta stores.
n
That one could make a lot of derivatives contracts explode.
Derivatives are behind many “stable value” funds offered in 401k plans so the Tricolor situation could get ugly in a hurry,
Cracker Barrel is trying to backtrack this week. I think the issue there was the wake up call delivered to a lot of people about Vanguard, et al.
Vacuum sealer. I’ve put sugar, salt and flour in vacuum sealed bags and they keep very well.
My little adventure in retail shopping earlier this week was 4 stores and a strikeout.
No product and no floor staff.
Buy here pay here car dealers have always been a dumpster fire. When times are good, they can be lucrative, but the risk is crazy. I used to consult for an auto dealer group, and one of their stores was a buy here pay here franchise. The whole model was subprime. The process was to get the customer into a car based on payment alone. Part of the sales process was doing a monthly budget with the customer to see what they could afford. You can imagine the clientele.
Pre pandemic, Mama would sign off on Papi’s “man” truck as long as the payment stayed below $500. With 2% paper, this was possible up to $40k if the F&I room was clever and called in a favor or two … or four.
@ C H Jervey, thanks for commenting. I’ve tried to avoid putting loose bulk into vac seal bags, just because of the logistics of it. It’s a pain in the @ss to pour 30 pounds into small bags. IDK of any easy or good way to do it without making a mess.
I have done it with rice, and then put two of the bags in a bucket, or three bags. That has the advantage of not losing the whole bucket if one bag is compromised.
I accept a certain amount of losses, but it is inconvenient. I thought I’d be using this bucket more often so I left the gamma lid on it when I should have replaced the real lid. Probably shouldn’t have left it on the patio in the sun and rain either.
One of the difficulties with bulk food is not using it often, so it doesn’t get rotated. My feeling is that it’s cheap enough that losses are ok, but of course others might come to a different conclusion.
n
re: SS and MC
Sudden changes in major programs are deadly pain points. cf. US Slavery.
While you can recognize that SS and MC are socialist/communist programs that deserve cancelation, and that will eventually fail if left alone, you really should make a good effort to slowly phase them out rather than stopping them cold turkey. If you can. After all, every working man in the US has been paying into the program his whole life. He’s been given a certain expectation there will be payback, no matter how economically illiterate that is.
Politically, you can’t fix it. At least, as long as there exists a Democrat party. And even the idiot Republicans won’t touch them.
So instead of a gentle, phased approach over a generation, we’ll have a huge crash, with the commies will use as an opportunity to strike. People will die, and the media will blame it on the right wing, because of course they will.
I buy sugar in 10# bags. I just wrap the bags in a plastic grocery bag. No problems other than one bag so far was lumpy. Salt goes on the top shelf. I vac-seal 5# bags of flour and then into the freezer for a couple of weeks to kill any weevils. Then on a shelf. It’s works so far.
I just opened a box of Keebler “Sandies Almond Crescents” cookies. They are not bad, I wouldn’t refuse one, but I’d rather have almost any other flavor of cookie. They are covered with powdered sugar and are messy to eat.
I put the box in the deep freezer when I bought it. They are perfect. Expiration date of July 04, 12.
The “working man” has been deliberately deceived about Social Security being a trust fund or, as Gore put it in 2000, a “lockbox”.
Helvering v. Davis declared it to be welfare in 1937.
That’s what I expect. Politicians can’t stomach a little pain now (especially when it’s electoral pain with the consequences falling directly on themselves) so they push it off and push it off and let the big crisis be someone else’s problem.
I don’t use the web browser on my phone very much. The only time I use my phone on my Wi-Fi is to connect to the Starlink. But when I need to tether the phone to the PC for an internet connection, I don’t get too many extra ads. But with a 6Gb data plan, I don’t do crazy places like Home Depot or Walmart.com. I have AdBlock Plus on the PC, that seems to catch most of the junk.
I use the phone’s data plan. I suspect Verizon filters a lot of junk. Less traffic on their network.
I have a Pi-hole for DNS. The new Kindle gets tons and tons of ads. I saved a few links to add to “myhosts.txt” for the Pi-hole. At least one was already blocked. http://www.googleadservices.com but without the www. I don’t think the www matters, nothing else blocked has www.
I looked in the Kindle. In the browser settings for DNS it shows 192.168.0.24 which is the Pi-hole. It also shows 8.8.8.8.
I think the Kindle browser wants two DNS servers. It’ll use the router supplied address and then “fill in the blank”.
I don’t see a way to change the setting in the Kindle. I haven’t looked to see what the phone shows. But different versions of Android, so….
I think the answer is in my router. I only have 192.168.0.24 for Preferred DNS in the DHCP settings. I think the answer is to enter 192.168.0.24 in the currently blank Alternate DNS field.
Only one way to find out.
The very worse than can happen is bricking the router.
https://www.wate.com/news/top-stories/tva-type-one-energy-new-initiative-announcement/
Just 30 years away. Just like predicted 30 years ago when results were just 30 years away. Another contracting nightmare in Oak Ridge. Dozens of companies involved with half a dozen layers of contractors involved. Typical of the area.
When I was working on contract I was paid something like $20.00 an hour. This was billed back to Lockheed Martin, a sub contractor to the Department of Energy, at $40.00 an hour. Lockheed Martin billed the Department of Energy at $80.00 an hour. Department of Energy billed the US Navy at $160.00 an hour. And somewhere in there the US Air Force, the developer of the software, was billing my time at $120.00 an hour to some entity in the entire food chain.
Each hour of my time was costing the tax payers about $420.00 an hour. I guess those benefits and overhead were really costly.
Just in time to be replaced by the commercially-viable hydrogen fusion power systems which will be just coming to the market.
Interesting.
I set the Kindle Fire to static IP so I can change the DNS address. It’s not going anywhere so DHCP is not needed. Big River has a “feature” where whatever you enter for DNS will have 8.8.8.8 as the last entry. I thought I was turning retarded.
However.
Without rooting the Fire, or messing around in the mysteries of ADB, it seems the simplest answer is to drop all traffic at the router level going to 8.8.8.8 . Perhaps also 8.8.4.4 for good measure.
So, maybe I can figure that out.
It’s a socialist/communist program by design inasmuch as the working man who was forced to contribute his whole life (with roughly half the forced contributions hidden as the employers share) does not have an individual account crediting his contributions, and additional beneficiaries have been added that have made minimal or no contributions at all.
I always knew it was there. It made my take home check look bigger. Sorta.
I always looked at it as “forced savings for retirement” because I would have spent the money.
Annnnd BINGO!!! We have a winner.
I’m sucking on the MC/SS/Milpension as long as I can. If they go away in my lifetime, it’s “game over, man, game over!” anyway. The goobermint will confiscate all digital assets at that point, so bye-bye IRA and Annuity. Say hello to the 100-story PRCs and draw your monthly soy ration. Water is free, but not guaranteed potable.
Poking in the router settings I find “IP Filter”. So, “allow all except listed”. I added 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
Certainly a broader brush than blocking by MAC addresses. But the point is to force all DNS through the Pi-hole so it can be filtered.
I’ll know for sure in a day or so.
All of that is too bulky to toss into a typical conversation. The short version is, if you support medicare and social security, you’re a liberal.
I disagree.
“Samsung brings ads to US fridges”
https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges
“Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.”
Solution1: do not buy a $5,000 refrigerator with a screen on the front.
Note: this solution may go away over time as screens and computers have become commodities and are incredibly cheap.
Solution2: do not tell the refrigerator the wifi password.
I don’t fully buy into twenty-somethings’ anger at “boomers” (by which they mean anyone over 50) having ruined everything for the younger generation, but they do have a point.
Technically, boomers are anyone between 1946 to 1964.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
The leading edge of the GenX’ers are turning 60 this year.
I always believed that my wife’s prepper patient in Florida had plans on providing for his grid down medical needs by sticking a shiv in Skippy.
He’s not alone in terms of patients and employees being possessive of the other adult in my household because of the skills she possesses.
I don’t expect to last long.
Your life expectancy in the apocalypse really depends on which apocalypse happens, there are many: Bacterial, Viral, Bacterial and Viral, Financial, Starvation, Climate Change, Change in Fundamental Laws of Nature, World War, Nuclear Attack, Nuclear War, Space Alien Invasion, Sudden Change in Sol (cooling / heating / etc), Super Volcano, Civil War, etc, etc, etc.
Medicare has always been welfare.
The checks from both could stop at any time.
No and yes. My various employers and I paid a lot of money into Social Security and Medicare over the last 50+ years. Over half of a million dollars if you believe what Social Security tells me.
Medicaid is definitely welfare though.
Over The Hedge: Banned Games
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/09/19
Yeah, the U-238 Atomic Energy Lab should be banned if it ever really existed. However, I did see the “Wargames” movie and have wondered how true that could be.
I had a cool thing happen.
I’m messing with the Fire and router settings and sometimes I want to punch the monitor because “I just saw that setting, where is it?”. So, get up, walk around, pet the dogs, get a beer or a drink of water and take time to think.
So I got a beer. Hey, it’s Friday. I’m looking out the sliding door, surveying my domain. I’m about a foot away from the glass. A hummingbird buzzes in. Gets a drink. Buzzes right up to me, at chin level, a foot away on his side of the glass. Hovers and then moves to my right, rotating, looking straight at me the whole time. Then buzzes off. Safe travels, dude.
I guess they know who fills the feeder? I’ve had two at a time land on my hand. They don’t weigh anything, just little bird claw feelings. Grin. I’ve had them buzz me in March because the feeder is empty. Just minding my beeswax on the patio soaking up some sun and drinking a beer and a hummingbird comes out of nowhere chirping the way they fuss, right in my face.
Today felt different. A goodbye of some kind. Only until next year, I hope.
“Why EV Batteries Lose Power & What To Expect” Written By: Jerry Reynolds
https://www.carpro.com/blog/why-ev-batteries-lose-power-what-to-expect
“Electric vehicles promise lower running costs and freedom from gasoline, but one issue every owner will eventually face is declining range. As batteries age, they lose some of their ability to hold a charge, which means the distance an EV can travel on a single charge shrinks year after year. It is not a design flaw so much as chemistry at work. Over time, the lithium-ion cells inside an EV battery undergo physical and chemical changes that reduce usable capacity. That results in fewer miles between charging stops and a gradual adjustment in how owners use their vehicles. According to iSeeCars.com, understanding why this happens — and how to slow it down — is key to getting the most life out of an EV.”
Chemistry sucks sometimes.
I’m sucking on the MC/SS/Milpension as long as I can. If they go away in my lifetime, it’s “game over, man, game over!” anyway. The goobermint will confiscate all digital assets at that point, so bye-bye IRA and Annuity. Say hello to the 100-story PRCs and draw your monthly soy ration. Water is free, but not guaranteed potable.
Water is not free and will never be free. Just wait until Lake Mead runs dry, or near dry. I understand that they are installing a new straw into Lake Mead.
“Tesla’s robotaxi crashes in Texas are shrouded in secrecy”
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/tesla-robotaxi-crashes-21055679.php
“Incident reports are redacted over possible “confidential business information.”
“Tesla, along with other firms operating self-driving cars, is required to report crashes involving the vehicles. But in Tesla’s case, the accounts of the crashes are being left out. ”
Not good.
“Silencing”
https://areaocho.com/silencing/
“The left is in an uproar over the firing of Jimmy Kimmel. I am actually glad to see that the right is now pushing the same canceling that the left has been doing for about a decade. They canceled talk radio when they wanted to point out election irregularities.”
“They made an enemies list. They silenced us on social media to the point where I had to move this blog from a free blogger account to this paid server. I don’t care that Jimmy Kimmel was fired.”
“If you are on the right, fighting against this, remember that they want to kill you. They won’t care that you “took the high road.””
Yup.
“Man who tried to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as transgender, new docs show”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/roske-trans-kavanaugh-killer-identify
Why am I not surprised ?
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Windows 10 users have 25 days left — here’s how to prepare your PC before Microsoft cuts its support on October 14, 2025”
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/end-of-life-how-to-prepare-your-windows-10-pc
“Upgrading to Windows 11 or opting for Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program aren’t your only options.”
Lots and lots of options. Me, I am going to ignore the date.
The Bloom County Boys: Opus’s One Phone Call Per Year
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1084827671602309/?multi_permalinks=24703597295965348
Sigh. Steve Dallas and the guys were almost always incompetent.
I may be crazy. Fire seems faster with 8888 blocked at the router.
Not quite as fast as the dead fire7. But almost there.
Still plenty of bloatware to get rid of.
I’ll look at the pi tomorrow to see what is blocked.
I’m sucking on the MC/SS/Milpension as long as I can. If they go away in my lifetime, it’s “game over, man, game over!” anyway. The goobermint will confiscate all digital assets at that point, so bye-bye IRA and Annuity. Say hello to the 100-story PRCs and draw your monthly soy ration. Water is free, but not guaranteed potable.
Plus the guberment will be going door to door and seizing your gold. I am not sure about silver, that may be stage 2 when they get really desperate. But civil war will have probably broken out by that point by the people who were planning on inheriting that gold and silver.
We have “just 30 years” left. Or so they say. I’ll be dead by then. I hadn’t heard about another “straw”. The last one popped, what, 2-3 years ago.
Yep. Your pc won’t become a box of ashes. I haven’t used w10 but from what I see, w11 is mostly shell enhancement.
For me. W11 is mostly w7 but the shell is messed up.
Sort of like wine turned into win8.
The Federal Government never went door to door in the 30s.
The stories about drilling the safe deposit boxes are largely legend, but some banks may have availed themselves of the opportunity to help themselves.
That said, the bill Ford signed restoring private ownership did not repudiate the interpretation of law which Roosevelt used to issue the EO. A ban could easily happen again with a stroke of a pen.
wine should be winme
Auto correct just said a cuss word.
We’re starting to feel the heat from Nvidia throwing in with Chipzilla yesterday.
That is a lot bigger deal than many people realize.
Snake eyes.
The Federal Government never went door to door in the 30s.
The stories about drilling the safe deposit boxes are largely legend, but some banks may have availed themselves of the opportunity to help themselves.
That said, the bill Ford signed restoring private ownership did not repudiate the interpretation of law which Roosevelt used to issue the EO. A ban could easily happen again with a stroke of a pen.
The next financial apocalypse of the USA will be much worse than than the Great Depression. The people in the middle of it will call it The Greater Depression.
“The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047” by Lionel Shriver
https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/006232828X?tag=ttgnet-20
I just watched the Dark Knight Trilogy. Really good. Lots of story threads. The first movie stands alone. The next two extend and complete the story. And pull all the threads together.
The Joker was a let down. Just some insane dude.
Heath Ledger’s Joker was overrated. The Oscar was a political decision by the Academy after Ledger overdosed on drugs he took to deal with the career damage from “Brokeback Mountain”.
Heath Ledger was on fire in the late 90s/early 2000s. He was in everything … or, at least, it seemed that way.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-15107457/pet-store-closing-locations.html
That’s a lotta stores.
The ones closing that bother me are the grocery stores.
The big difference now is that no one really wants to work outside of about 20% of the population, and, even if they did, the industrial base is gone and not simply idle.
Don’t live someplace where the only grocery stores belong to Vanguard/Blackrock/State Street and/or The Geico Gecko.
Albertsons/Safeway and Kroger are going the way of A&P and Green Stamps.
Go back just 50 years, and A&P was the largest grocer in the country.
“Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas in Latest Crackdown”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-add-100-000-fee-175800503.html?guccounter=1
“(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a proclamation as soon as Friday that would move to extensively overhaul the H-1B visa program, requiring a $100,000 fee for applications in a bid to curb overuse, according to a White House official familiar with the matter.”
Woof ! That will shut that down.
The big difference now is that no one really wants to work outside of about 20% of the population, and, even if they did, the industrial base is gone and not simply idle.
Very few people want to work all the time but every one wants to eat all the time.
Don’t live someplace where the only grocery stores belong to Vanguard/Blackrock/State Street and/or The Geico Gecko.
Safeway and Kroger are going the way of A&P and Green Stamps.
Go back just 50 years, and A&P was the largest grocer in the country.
I will bet that most of these stores are in various ghetto areas. The thievery makes it impossible to keep the doors open.
“From the cities to the heartland: a new American exodus?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/09/from-cities-to-heartland-new-american.html
“Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox have published a two-part investigation into internal migration patterns in the USA. They demonstrate that more and more people are choosing to move out of or away from big cities, and move to smaller towns and rural areas, largely due to quality-of-life considerations.”
“The first article is “Exodus: Affordability Crisis Sends Americans Packing From Big Cities“.”
They will only move when they can find jobs or to retire. And a lot of people are retiring and looking to minimize their expenses.
I was talking to the couple living next to my mother in Port Lavaca recently. They are wanting to sell their bay house and move to a single wide on their five acres out in the country, mostly to minimize expenses.
So. how’s this tie into approval of a shit ton of jeets coming in?
How about stopping the entire h1b crap.
They so good, they can stay in Bombay and work from home. With Shaquenna or whatever they call their wives.
But I suppose we can do Cowboys and Indians again.
The Colonists will pay it, especially for a job in Austin to establish a foothold in this country for the family.
They have a thing for Austin like the Chinese have for Palo Alto. God only knows why.
Sounds like a good plan.
UBI! EBT! Let the government pay for it! It’s our right!
Lots and lots of options. Me, I am going to ignore the date.
– yeah, me too. Like I ignored the end of win7, and win8.
No way to update dads NUC style little arm box. No desire either. If Seattle finally stops intruding on my machine, and quits bugging me, I’ll be happy. I have a feeling it’s going to be like Photobucket with 2 years of “hey we’re gonna cancel your pix, come get them.”
Dinner time.
n
As they say, I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.
Did my pickups. Took all afternoon. Hit Costco for flowers, steak, and cake. They were handing out samples of smoked salmon. OH YES PLEASE.
Talked with one of my auctioneers. He says number of buyers is down. Price per item is down. And they’re having trouble getting good loads to have good items to sell.
He attributes low prices to the economy being bad, the high cost of food, and his buyers, many of whom are illegals, are afraid to leave the house or go to work, so they don’t have money to spend. He said people have told him both things. I guess it’s working.
n
Quality of life. Along with the high taxes. Also moving away from our dusky brethren. Aka the OFE.
Ja?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15114937/Putin-increasingly-carrying-attacks-SPACE-Western-satellites-targeted-laser-strikes-Russian-spacecraft-sneaking-them.html
–players are moving pieces into place.
n
Aka the OFE.
What is OFE ?
He attributes low prices to the economy being bad, the high cost of food, and his buyers, many of whom are illegals, are afraid to leave the house or go to work, so they don’t have money to spend. He said people have told him both things. I guess it’s working.
This is why the Tricolor used car dealership failed. The illegals are not buying old junkers and paying their notes. The illegals are self deporting.
OFE… obsolete farm equipment.
Perhaps a bit classier than “2G*.
“Victor Davis Hanson talks about the murder of Charlie Kirk”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzsAKJbAeLM
“Charlie Kirk’s murderer expects to be released from jail by a future democrat like John Hinckley.”
“The democrats are lowering the bar in the USA that it is ok to assassinate people who we say are hitler or nazis.”
Lots and lots of options. Me, I am going to ignore the date.
– yeah, me too. Like I ignored the end of win7, and win8.
I am still running three Windows 7 x64 boxes in my shop. They are necessary as that is the last version that runs our Fortran/C/C++ debugger for our calculation engine.
I am running one Windows 8 x86 box (a way underpowered laptop) in my shop.
I am running five Windows 10 x64 boxes in my shop.
I am running one Windows 11 box in my shop that jumped itself from a Windows 10 x64 one night while I was not looking.
I have a Windows 7 x64, a Windows 8 x86 (laptop), and a Windows 10 x64 boxes at home. I have a Windows XP x86 laptop but I have not booted it in a decade or so. I also have pieces for a Windows 11 box that I am going to finish any day now (bought in 2022).
I did not know this was a thing.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=vulva+balm&crid=186O5QE91SZEB&sprefix=vulva+%252Caps%252C172&tag=ttgnet-20
I guess we’re living in the future, where all your needs are met.
n
I did not know this was a thing.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=vulva+balm&crid=186O5QE91SZEB&sprefix=vulva+%252Caps%252C172&tag=ttgnet-20
I guess we’re living in the future, where all your needs are met.
n
Umm, menopause causes quite a few problems in areas that should be moist and are not. And menopause can cause UTIs that last for months. And menopause will cause shrinkage in female areas due to lack of moisture. Need I go into details ?
Lets just say that a product called Astroglide will help her get a stretch Cadillac into a space built for a Toyota Corolla.
https://www.amazon.com/Astroglide-Recommended-Long-Lasting-Compatible-Manufactured/dp/B00008NFL0?tag=ttgnet-20
Shutting down the blatant abuse of the H1B program will be a good thing. I don’t understand why it has been allowed to continue. Last I read, the number of H1B visas issued was something like 10 times the actual, legal limit.
Sure, some folks/companies will pay the fee, but a lot won’t. A lot of the workers are low-end: they won’t have the cash, and they won’t be worth an extra $100k to their companies. This is especially true if it is an annual fee – which I believe is the case.
Will big tech be able to buy enough Congresscritters to get this thrown out?