I am somewhat reliably informed that there are about 2.5 pounds of copper and about 1.5 g of gold in the large Flock cameras.

Someone should know that.

When I first started driving electric, I went through tires like candy. They are already expensive (>350/ea). Putting tax on those is one big chunk.

A monthly by tare is smooth and predictable.

I often use Ezra as Exhibit 1 when explaining why progressives, leftists, socialists, communists, and free thinkers all use the word "LIBERAL" as a slur on privilege posturing.

Tax based on weight. Turn if from annual registration USA style into monthly subscription w/ annual tag renewal automated if you are current.

Back when the Orange Alzheimer Gangster was elected, I moved half of my laughable 401(k) into tangible gold and silver (not certificates). It isn't a perfect hedge, but I'm up hella and might still be able to retire before my 90th.

Meanwhile, as you ask, it'll show soon.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

Well, alas, yes: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

*IF* your characters are reliable narrators, of course.

"Removed by author."

... and "remove" is an interesting word. It usually implies something was already moved, or simply existing, premoved as it were.

Yeah, I learned a lot of management tricks from my wife, who teaches K-2 autism.

Humans be humaning, and people in office structures tend to emotionally connect w/ managers much as they did with their parents.

Dysfunction? Nah....

Eczema on Black skin is more common, often more severe, and frequently is not diagnosed — and it simply doesn't look the way most doctors are trained to recognize it.

@eczemasupport.bsky.social #eczema

So we've got a nifty article up that we hope might help, with cites.
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Us Mudders would have been good company, though usually a bad influence...

one they is science and engineering

the other they is PE and politics

less stress on crew, faster, easier

I was a kid watching the first Apollo launch and landing, on an old school B&W tv in a big wooden box.

Flashbacks, kinda sort. I figure anyone at NASA who saw that has only got a couple of years to retirement.

What a fabulous achievent!

Meanwhile, the spineless tools of the system known as the @democrats.org can't even pass an internal rule that no AIPAC money can be accepted.

Fuckers couldn't find their dick even with professional help.

dumb fuckers

we'll let the swiss and the chinese have it all

@democrats.org "DNC members rejected a symbolic resolution to limit the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and dark-money corporate groups in Democratic primaries"

Really? Okay, we get it. You fucks are all owned tools.

PURGE THE PARTY.

Filth being fillthy, no surprises there.

GRRRRRR.... We did a house library audit here last fall. Donated about 850 books to the local library.

Threw out about 80 ancient collapsing almost orange trade paperbacks. They don't last.

Which is why I always buy favorite author's books in hardcover. Also they are just nicer to hold, read...

Please please do let us know when the USA last won a war?

I'm gonna say we were helpful in Europe w/ the Nazis (Russia did the heavy lifting) and lead in Asia w/ the Japanese. So I'll allow that "we" won that one.

Since then?

We spend more, do more, get less, fuck shit up regularly.

My friends who write fantasy (also guilty here) or develop RPGs have insanely detailed world building and explanations for how magic "works" - IMHO fantasy and SF are more separated by tone & setting. And there are some overlap novels, thinking of Pohl for example.

Don't forget the Chicken Tax (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken...)

But what about the oil companies? Surely they deserve decades more of subsidies, tax free profits, and insane profit margins? Don't you have any feeeeeelings?

Told my wife she should never spend more than she can expense or deduct.

The IRS code says she can *DEDUCT* not more than $250, and in her tax bracket that is compensation at about 28%.

So - since the mega-billionaire money is mostly based on their tech stock options and holdings, BLOW UP AI!

I feel like there is one of these every week, at least.

All the options trading on the markets a few minutes before any of Trump's "tweet things"

Family biz suddenly doing drones? The rugpullS with crypto...

Happy Confederate surrender day!

This should be a national holiday, and it says a lot that it isn’t.

It's one of my top ten.

At least three different copies in my library. If I ever get coin to get originals this will be first, then I'll shift to Robertson Davies.

Nobody said winning was free!

So, basically, NVM fuck it. This timeline is too stupid to comment. The author lost the plot last year and the cat is sitting on the keyboard.

And for nostalgia, a quick dose of "Ding dong, the witch is dead" ?

"Oh, just think of the fun we could have!" - Dr. Seuss, I believe.