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: ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ก๐ 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.
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.
๐๐๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฑ๐น๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ผ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ป๐ถ๐ฎ
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
Itโs early Iโm 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
๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ก๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ก, ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐, โ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฆ๐๐๐ .
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐ค๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐กโ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ โ๐ ๐ค๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ 2020. ๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ, ๐น๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐ท๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ก ๐ด๐ก๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐กโ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ก ๐กโ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐.
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..
๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐โ๐๐ก๐ ๐ป๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก โ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐๐กโ๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐ข๐กโ๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐ก๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐.
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 thatโll 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: ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ก๐ 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.
๐๐ป ๐๐ผ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐๐๐ฃ๐ง ๐๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ป
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
๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ ๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ป ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐
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/
"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.
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. ๐
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.
OPSEC
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzlmMTU0ODQtYWRkZi00YjdjLTliMzEtMjQ4YTg4ZTk4NjQxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjg0Nzk2Nzc@._V1_QL75_UY281_CR155,0,190,281_.jpg
I asked him below. I have only resources and encouragement, nothing bad.
I think he is catching up to the German Cat Lady. I might hit her up, too.
Morning all. โ
#Worldle #574 X/6 (81%)
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Good morning!
I think I would've got it in a couple more guesses.
#Worldle #574 X/6 (98%)
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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."
๐๐๐ณ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ผ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐บ๐๐บ ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐ด๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฏ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ $๐ญ.๐ฐ๐ฌ/๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ $๐ฌ.๐ฑ๐ญ/๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐๐๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
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.
Happy Friday!#Worldle #574 2/6 (100%)
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Nice!
I got the right continent on the first guess and was lucky on the second. Maybe I am starting to remember the shape of some countries.