I know it isn't the point of the article but that's passive as hell. Lost documents? You mean had all their stuff stolen? Or had all their stuff thrown into a dumpster by LAPD in one their raids on encampments?
Blurg. I've been up since 3 because I drank too much Lavender Gin last night. Headache, gurgly tummy. Bleh. I stayed up 'late' (for me) drinking gin and playing Blackjack on my computer. Paying for it now.
I broke my thumb, the metacarpal, in February, falling off my motorcycle. It's almost as healed as it's going to get now. Still a bit to go. Healing ain't what it used to be.
I love it! My dad and I used to listen to it together all the time when I was a kid. Last time I was at his house, he played a few cuts from it and we had a nice time remembering.
Virginia Dare was born in the Roanoke Colony in what is now North Carolina on August 18, 1587, the first child of English parents born in the New World. "Elenora, daughter to the governor of the city and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter in Roanoke".
I remember showing up to a friend's wedding in the Berkshires and seeing trees cut off halfway up from a tornado. I had lived there for a while before that and never seen such a thing. You could see the path that just mowed shit down. Just chunks taken out of the treeline. Not at all normal, but it does happen. This was probably late 80s. Driving up the Taconic I saw one clear path of destruction that crossed the highway. Freaked me right out.
1590: A governor comes back from a supply run to find the place he runs deserted. DeSantis? No, it's John White coming back to discover that Roanoke Colony's abandoned.
1868: Pierre Janssen discovers helium. He loses credibility when he announces his discovery in a high-pitched squeaky voice.
1877: Astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars' moon Phobos.
1920: Suck it, assholes. Women have the vote now!
1958: 𝐿𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎 by Vladimir Nabokov gets published. People named Humbert get the side-eye.
1963: James Meredith becomes the first Black man to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
LOL, I imagine the entire FTX team short-circuited like a TV robot. "We made a bad investment, but we are brilliant techbros, we cannot make bad investments, but this was a bad investment ..dkarrjkdkkkkkkkkkkk".
There was a lot that was fucked up with the medallion system. It was in no way equitable to drivers. Lyft and Uber came in, crushed the existing system pretending that they'd be a more equitable system, and once they'd fucked the competition out, turned into something even worse. Fuck them.
That shit was 100s of thousands + for one. Mostly, they were owned by the companies, and the cabbies were effectively serfs. It was a shitty system, and begged for something like Uber to come along and fuck it up. The problem is, Uber then wound up being worse shitheels, and acted as though there could be no regulation on their business model. Again: fuck them.
Same as corporations threatening to up and leave entire countries.
They won't, because A) they'd be cutting themselves out of significant market share and their shareholders would have their nuts for cutlets and B) Uprooting from an entire nation costs fuckloads of money. Real money, not the fake bullshit maybe numbers they hallucinate on the stock markets.
I was just in Bumblefuck northern Idaho, where they have no Uber or Lyft, and the town had a single taxi, who worked when he felt like it. The core town was walkable, but everything else required a car (or a rented bus, which is how we got to the wedding site).
Living out in Western MA (for now) I can confirm that there are no Ubers or Lyfts regularly, and the two existing "cab" companies are basically two randos with cars who operate a business when they can.
"applicants so often lost the documents"
I know it isn't the point of the article but that's passive as hell. Lost documents? You mean had all their stuff stolen? Or had all their stuff thrown into a dumpster by LAPD in one their raids on encampments?
𝗛𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/18/hurricane-hilary-mexico-california-weather-warnings-storm-category-winds
https://hurricane.terrapin.com/storm/09E
HURICANE KILLARY!!!!!
And the storm is predicted to hit southern CALIFORNIA! Maybe this is the "storm" they've been tooting about for five years?
Blurg. I've been up since 3 because I drank too much Lavender Gin last night. Headache, gurgly tummy. Bleh. I stayed up 'late' (for me) drinking gin and playing Blackjack on my computer. Paying for it now.
I noticed as I get older that I am paying more and more for things that aren't even cool or fun
Like the other day I tripped over a tree, it happens in the woods, and my knee and shin are black and blue.
Or like last night I had a bit of trouble sleeping and did not manage it until 11 and now I am all zombie moded
Yup. Getting older is not for sissies. I try not to fall anymore because I don't bounce back like I used to.
I broke my thumb, the metacarpal, in February, falling off my motorcycle. It's almost as healed as it's going to get now. Still a bit to go. Healing ain't what it used to be.
It's that time of life. I am so sad that a couple of drinks and I are no longer friends. : (
I really didn't think I drank that much last night! Not to feel this shitty.
It's not the alcohol, it's middle age.
Oh, I'll start Medicare in a couple of months. So, yes to 'age' part but a bit past the 'middle' part. ;-)
Lol. Middle. I get the AARP mailers now.
I still have FOUR MORE YEARS until I can get my shingles Vax though. -_-
If you are immunocompromised you can get the vaccine if you're over the age of 19.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/shingles/public/shingrix/index.html
It’s early I’m the mornin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-n7AiB5s-o
There's a cool doc on Nilsson on one of the streaming channels, great flick.
I have that album.
I love it! My dad and I used to listen to it together all the time when I was a kid. Last time I was at his house, he played a few cuts from it and we had a nice time remembering.
Sweet memory. The Jump Into the Fire is a tour de force.
I am blocked from liking this!
The first anchor baby!
Virginia Dare was born in the Roanoke Colony in what is now North Carolina on August 18, 1587, the first child of English parents born in the New World. "Elenora, daughter to the governor of the city and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter in Roanoke".
There goes the neighborhood.
For a weird moment my mind saw governor and assistant and thought he was bonking his secretary and I was all...figures the first would be a bastard
Woulda been a better story XD
She was sadly less famous than her brother Dan, who emigrated to England to join the battle against the rascally forces of the Mekon.
Donnie caves once again
𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒, ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑦𝑒𝑟𝑠.
𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘, 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 2020. 𝐼𝑛 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝐹𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡 𝐴𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑛𝑖 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝’𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟.
I saw on the tube today that the lawyers presented a request for a court date in that case.
For April.
2026.
LOL.
He said that his lawyers will be leasing a series of "legal filings," essentially nickel and diming the court to death.
Which costs him and his lawyers money. Soon, his current lawyers will be having GFMs to pay their Porche payments.
I'm sure the courts will love that.
If his lawyers ban bullshit, Trump's presidential campaign is over.
Pretty hellacious storms rolling through New England this morning ...
https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/?parms=ENX-N0Q-1-48-100-usa-rad
Woke up to a thunderstorm this morning in lower Manhattan.
Hm. Looks like it's gonna roll right past, over Holly and Paul's and then elsewhere.
Yeah ... just passed through here. Holly's mountain is up now.
Stay safe.
Lots of lightning and thunder ... but we don't get the tornados that accompany these kinds of storms elsewhere.
I remember showing up to a friend's wedding in the Berkshires and seeing trees cut off halfway up from a tornado. I had lived there for a while before that and never seen such a thing. You could see the path that just mowed shit down. Just chunks taken out of the treeline. Not at all normal, but it does happen. This was probably late 80s. Driving up the Taconic I saw one clear path of destruction that crossed the highway. Freaked me right out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Westchester_County_tornado
... yet.
Felt like we got the full monty in the E Village.
The storm woke me up, so I watched a pretty spectacular lightning show with my coffee.
IMHO they aren't wrong..
𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/18/opinion/healey-biden-adams-immigration-housing/
"Allowed" is doing a lot of work there.
Bostonglobe gonna bostonglobe
Didn't the SCOTUS tell em that they couldn't change the TrumpCo policies?
Well that’ll be great for the types of businesses that exploit them.
Today . . . in HISTORY!
1590: A governor comes back from a supply run to find the place he runs deserted. DeSantis? No, it's John White coming back to discover that Roanoke Colony's abandoned.
1868: Pierre Janssen discovers helium. He loses credibility when he announces his discovery in a high-pitched squeaky voice.
1877: Astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars' moon Phobos.
1920: Suck it, assholes. Women have the vote now!
1958: 𝐿𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎 by Vladimir Nabokov gets published. People named Humbert get the side-eye.
1963: James Meredith becomes the first Black man to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
They do a play of it outdoors every summer in Roanoke. Fun fact: Andy Griffith was in it a few years when he was starting out.
Croatoan!
Which, in the language of the Great Old Ones, is the equivalent of a three-star rating in Yelp.
That bible book first, please. Then shut the fuck up.
𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗼𝘄𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗮𝗻
Official: "It is simply not feasible to read every book" for depictions of sex.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/an-iowa-school-district-is-using-chatgpt-to-decide-which-books-to-ban/
lol
Itis simply not feasible to read every book XD
Mother fucker, less you are running the library of congress, you just outted yourself there
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ee/7a/11/ee7a1146471162a5d6344ab0938549c5--furry-fat.jpg
"It is simply not feasible" - seems to me y'all created a problem that y'all don't want to even remotely attempt to solve, because it's, like, hard.
Maybe then don't just ban books because some asshole with a persecution complex feels a kind of way because this one scene gives them a sad?
Obviously, they can't be bothered to plow through all that boring literature just to find the "good parts".
what could possibly go wrong?
LOL
𝗕𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗽𝗲 𝗡𝗙𝗧𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
Lawsuit: Sotheby's $24M sale to FTX gave Bored Ape NFTs "an air of legitimacy."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/buyers-of-bored-ape-nfts-sue-after-digital-apes-turn-out-to-be-bad-investment/
LOL, I imagine the entire FTX team short-circuited like a TV robot. "We made a bad investment, but we are brilliant techbros, we cannot make bad investments, but this was a bad investment ..dkarrjkdkkkkkkkkkkk".
"Ape prices soared, then plummeted"
ROFL
No fair! We was tricked into thinking we could off load it onto some other fucker for profit!
These fucking people
"Oops."
that was actually 'a fart of legitimacy'
Goals for today:
1) Restart my digestive system. Take a walk round the block.
2) No more oxtcotin as THC gummies appear to be just as effective for my pain and do not have nasty side effects.
3) Enjoy meatloaf a friend is bringing over.
The Devil's weed for the win!
Can you restart Huckleberry's, too?
1- have you tried turning it off and on again?
2 - that's good news!
3 - I would do anything for love.....
Clever.
Mm, meatloaf.
Don't over do it ... but glad you're feeling better.
BTW, I slept really good the past two nights because I rotated the mattress. Rotate Your matress, all!
I rotate mine every few months. 😁
Every six months here. I am making it a Wonk holiday.
Everyone, I have an email written and ready to send to Fukui. It has some resources and words of encouragement. Who is going to give me his email?
What's up with Fukui?
I am trying to direct him to some mental health resources.
Fukui is headed on VayCay, Diane, and was just on an hour or so ago.
I don't think he checks replies, so ask him when he posts again.
I asked him below. I have only resources and encouragement, nothing bad.
Oh for sure! I think he was saying he's headed out today?
Really soon, hope you catch him.
I think he is catching up to the German Cat Lady. I might hit her up, too.
That's right, she is going to be seeing him.
OPSEC
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Morning all. ☕
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Good morning!
I think I would've got it in a couple more guesses.
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I was never going to get this one!
They keep threatening to "leave cities" when they're forced to pay a living wage. Then they stay anyway. "Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
𝗟𝘆𝗳𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗺 𝘄𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟯 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 $𝟭.𝟰𝟬/𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 $𝟬.𝟱𝟭/𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/tech/minneapolis-rideshare-minimum-wage/
Now do Airbnb.
There was a lot that was fucked up about the cab industry before those two came into being. None of that justified what they've turned it into.
Talk to the medallion owners in NYC.
There was a lot that was fucked up with the medallion system. It was in no way equitable to drivers. Lyft and Uber came in, crushed the existing system pretending that they'd be a more equitable system, and once they'd fucked the competition out, turned into something even worse. Fuck them.
True, I feel bad for the independent drivers who invested everything into their medallions that are now nearly worthless.
That shit was 100s of thousands + for one. Mostly, they were owned by the companies, and the cabbies were effectively serfs. It was a shitty system, and begged for something like Uber to come along and fuck it up. The problem is, Uber then wound up being worse shitheels, and acted as though there could be no regulation on their business model. Again: fuck them.
They were over a million before the crash.
Bye, bitch
Guess we'll have to go back to unionized cabbies
Unfortunately, the mayor will veto it, That is guaranteed.
Same as corporations threatening to up and leave entire countries.
They won't, because A) they'd be cutting themselves out of significant market share and their shareholders would have their nuts for cutlets and B) Uprooting from an entire nation costs fuckloads of money. Real money, not the fake bullshit maybe numbers they hallucinate on the stock markets.
good luck running an unregulated taxi service in Bumblefuck northern Idaho, assholes!
I was just in Bumblefuck northern Idaho, where they have no Uber or Lyft, and the town had a single taxi, who worked when he felt like it. The core town was walkable, but everything else required a car (or a rented bus, which is how we got to the wedding site).
Living out in Western MA (for now) I can confirm that there are no Ubers or Lyfts regularly, and the two existing "cab" companies are basically two randos with cars who operate a business when they can.
Big Jeb and his brothers wont take kindly to that.