I don’t think you sufficiently respect the mess, the smell, the vermin, from a week of rotting exposed food waste. Not to mention the dog waste

By far the two largest races for my local election were nyc mayor and prop 50: all the press, all the publicity, all the talk …. And my ballot held city councillors and school board candidates who were mostly unopposed.

It’s actually unexpected: my town has had some contentious issues lately on school funding, higher density housing , bike lanes, pedestrianizing a section of our “main” street, and a war between a strong mayor and ineffective city council …. I expected to attract more candidates, more voters

If current “personalized ” advertising is any indication, the new ai ads will push

• whatever you most recently bought
• gambling
• something relevant to whatever demographic it’s hallucinating

But it will never do something useful like advertise things you’re searching for

You can always find more toxic stuff to worry about but fire fighting foam is independent of fuel toxicity and the concern is not lead

Jet fuel doesn’t contain lead and never did.

AvGas does still have a lead problem and it was commonly used before the jet age, but is now relegated to small general aviation aircraft - a miniscule percentage. If you look at aviation as a whole, leaded gas usage is effectively zero.

Really the problem comes down to contamination at and near small historical airfields.

I thinks it’s more that there is no acceptable solution for aviation yet, so yes there’s room

• batteries will never have sufficient power density
• plant based fuels are unlikely to scale
• hydrogen has technical challenges
• ammonia is dangerous

Every option has significant limitations but we need something to work

Even today there are longer term advantages to getting married. At least women now have economic alternatives so aren’t forced into it, but … you still have things like survivor benefits and inheritance rules that would make a huge difference later in life.

—- For example spousal benefits in social security

• https://www.ssa.gov/oact/quickcalc/spouse.html
• a couple generations ago, women were unlikely to have a career where they’d earn any appreciable social security benefits. But assuming the rule was similar back then, a woman could collect based on their spouses or even ex’s earnings
• my parents generation was very traditional, but my mom faced getting a job later in life with no work experience after my father passed. However as a married woman she collected survivorship benefits then and spousal benefits now, where she had very few options
• my ex has her own career and is doing ok, but when the time comes will likely get more from social security based on my income than her own. This is directly from being married long enough and even though we no longer are

Everyone stock up on paper towels! A Costco trip could save the world

Jimenez pulled up to three immigration officers, two from Border Patrol and another form ICE and “engaged in a verbal altercation,” it states.

It doesn’t even get any better if you just accept their version of what happened. Six agents vs one guy in a “verbal altercation”, and they think it’s ok to just start blasting?

No that just opens opportunity for more delay by saying “the right thing”. At that point MAGAts can say they cant spend money Congress hasn’t allocated, and is blocked on the shutdown.

In this case the executive does have a certain amount of money already allocated by Congress that they can spend to support critical government functions. Part of that was explicitly allocated to fund SNAP in case of a shutdown. But they’re also making choices like spending billions on ice and border patrol to terrorize dark skinned people and to suppress voting. Are those really critical government functions? Should they really be higher priority than keeping citizens from starving?

At the very least, maybe there will be a few people whose echo chambers ring with “it’s the dems fault”, who will hear this and finally start to think.

Presidential elections hinge on one or two percent of voters do every little bit helps

That would be the greatest day, when comedians mostly do jokes about dems. Imagine punch lines like “and the dem control all three branches”. Or we just love racist jokes, let’s do one about “the first dark skinned president since Obama, har har har”. And get a load of this one, it’s starts with appointing cabinet members for their expertise! What a maroon! And we’ll never get enough of “and then they passed universal healthcare and saved the environment”! LoL

It can’t be that simple since you’d always be identifiable to anyone who knows the trick

I wonder if there’s a technical limitation to the number of extensions. If a number can have six or seven digit extensions perhaps someone could allocate those randomly, with forwarding to your real number

Maybe but that flood or hurricane was an “act of god” even if society’s actions made it more likely and more serious. Meanwhile this crisis was directly and immediately man made. It’s not like you can blame probability or the vagaries of weather or claim climate changes indirect, this is directly caused by sociopaths that are somehow in control

Seems like Canada is making an impact.

It may not be official sanctions but If there’s any credence to the news, it seems like there are movements to fund more reliable trading partners. It’s tough to make an immediate impact but we’ll see over time how much we’ve screwed ourselves. Will Canadian snowbirds come back? Will China (or anyone) buy our soybeans? Will manufacturers, such as for automobiles, be able to stay in business?

Not so bad when you think about it …… Ring’s subscription isn’t too expensive and it gives you cloud storage and remote access. Bring on the hatred but I’ve found it one of the few worthwhile subscriptions

That would be so excellent! I became a fan of the blues going out to clubs: the rock bands would crank volume to painful levels and mumble the lyrics, but I could actually hear the blues, listen to the blues, grow to like the blues

My first reaction was also that it seems like an easy win in court. I hope that’s true

I’m due to rebuild my lab this winter so I’ll make sure to take a look

Personally I’m frustrated with always having to give a working phone number to accounts.

I have no idea if I’ve been at all successful in poisoning my data but all my accounts use unique generated emails in addition to generated passwords and fake profile info. It’s just habit now.

However all too often the one piece of real data I have to give is my phone number, and that would be really useful to cross-link all my accounts for data brokers building a dossier on me.

I have hundreds of fake emails but can create at most a couple phone numbers