I turn off the AI assist in MS products. Can't stand it and actually wonder if having it in there working means that MS is looking over my shoulder as I create things.

Grew up with one of the 1950s beetles - they had a gas fired heater, no waiting for heat in the cold.

The answer for banks is actually quite simple: close your accounts and move to a Credit Union. Especially if you do your business banking there. I did this with Wells Fargo back in the day - but also made sure I was a shareholder at the same time to write shareholder relations

Eat the rich

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Guess two is a favorite of mine (amateur archeologist), three an elimination of half the remaining words and the answer, really? Well, the streak continues.

Haven’t heard that one in a while.

Bayer manufactured Zyklon-B for the Nazis as well.

At this point if you’re still a Republican you are a shitty human being.

It’s an identity statement.

If you’re still frequenting Starbucks you’re a scab. Full stop. And their coffee sucks ever since they automated

When you start seeing these in Lubbock Tx or Bumphuk MI we’ll be cooking with gas.

This is for JUST the front part of the exhaust - Chrysler replacement part is $1495 - mechanic thinks it must have the catalytic converter (read platinum) components in it. The rest is clamps, gaskets and labor - actual total (looking at the quote) is $2044.57.

The Boomtown Rats. I Don't Like Mondays. YouTube video by sueuk

January 29, 1979, Brenda Spencer (16 YO) killed the principal and a custodian, injured eight children and a police officer at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California.

Boomtown Rats wrote a song about her

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yte...

Yup, bringing my second car in to see if they'll buy it - 2017 Jeep Cherokee with 115K miles and a muffler with a hole in it - $1900 quote on the muffler replacement and the fiber glass wrap doesn't seem to be working. Ah well, she's been a good steed all these years ...

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Good tee up with my seed word led to a great elimination word for my second guess and the answer in #3. No surprises today. And no "Field of Green". Ah well, the streak continues.

So for anyone who remembers Newt Gingrich and his "Contract with America" - this was one of the key conservative points where compromise or finding common ground was no longer permitted on the conservative side, which has led directly to our dysfunctional Congress and where we are today.

Cool - have Socialists ever delivered anything for you on a nation wide basis? Recently, in you lifetime - FDR or LBJ really don't count at this point.

You see, the oligarchs and their captive party, the RethugliKKKlans, have done a great job of dividing the opposition to render them ineffectual

Trump's signature shows as a klan rally

Sure, sure, but he gets to put HIS signature on it.

When Trump is GONE, the press in its entirety should be replaced. It's no longer a FREE press, it's owned by the oligarchs who are behind this fascist coup in the first place and no longer are playing the part of the fourth estate.

And as for the oligarchs ...

I make my own. Unless I'm traveling, then I'm generally stuck eating out. After 30+ years of management consulting - 4500+ nights on the road, I really don't care to eat out anymore. 3 star restaurants are a dime a dozen - fast food has no place in my life.

Ah, I see - I'm somewhere between Democratic Socialism and Communism on the political spectrum after 10 yrs in MI and 30+ years as a management consultant. However, I'm also a pragmatist - we need to build coalitions to have mass, and need to negotiate - that means we don't get everything we want

So I'm confused - you're lumping liberals, leftists and who else into a heap of similar (?) yet different (?) ideologies (?) and somehow (without saying it) complaining that liberals are mad at the leftists over Harris' loss?

I must have missed the tee-up

I'll just leave this here
www.thegospelofmary.org/the-gospel

Interesting.

So what's the purpose of raising this point?

Divide the forces against Trump, the oligarchs and fascists?

Get them arguing about things amongst themselves rather than facing the common enemy?

Please take this crap back to X where it belongs.

Chik fil A also brings with it the particularly nasty disease of homophobia and false interpretation of scripture. The owners are heretics posing as pious Christians, promulgating their hatred and intolerance with every sandwich they sell.

Naw, it's just shite food with poor food handling protocols. You want "Mexican" food - go to a real "Mexican" restaurant. OR learn to make it yourself. Taco Hell is just gross

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Brute force, that's all I can say. Simple letter elimination of common combinations and, yes, endings yields results in 4. And the streak continues.

Wait. Aren’t they just tourists taking in the building? Like the tourists on January 6th?

Absolutely. It's also an opportunity for Trump and others to make $billions in the market. If you aren't an outright idiot you've learned to read the tea leaves and play the odds. I'm up $15 million so far. Can't wait for the weekend to double that. Oil futures is where it's at folks. 🤪

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For me this was about filling the penultimate letter - common endings make the difference. Guess two eliminated about half the potential words, guess three was going after maybe half again - lucky in that it was the answer. And the streak continues ...

Of course the $billion a day in armaments we rained down on their homes, schools, and infrastructure were also “kinetic acts” on sovereign territory.

That’s the plan, you do know.