I was like, no way, that's way too tiny, but then I remembered that roos are born into a pouch and that that one had in fact grown quite a bit since it had been born.
A friend of mine - American but not an opossum - discovered she had two uteri when she had discomfort after an abortion and went in to see the doctor, who discovered that there was a second fetus - in a second uterus.
Mr A. and I were having a conversation about our favourite childhood TV themes just the other day. He favours Skippy, mine remains firmly and forever Champion the Wonder Horse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amq5kaCpGr0
Sometimes the bad news gets to be too overwhelming emotionally but sometimes something comes along to ease the burden. I look at this wonderful presentation and think, "Joey, I'm not angry anymore."
I'm so grateful for the morning gifs. They help a lot better than a lot of other meds out there. Gets you out of those dark spirals to think of the cuteness of another lifeform and out of human issues.
yeah, the anti-ev stuff lately, in Cali, where we lead trends, over 20% of cars sold last year were electric. That's some serious numbers. So much for e cars not selling... whatev... a change is comin' - quick.
Individual pricing is not a novel idea, the concept is implicit to basic supply and demand and specifically covered in introductory courses in macro economics. One of the major arguments in favor of antitrust legislation is that monopolies and monopsonies facilitate tiered pricing to better take advantage of individuals' willingness to pay prices higher than the median mandated by perfect competition.
Which suggests the true problem here. It is not A.I.'s ability to predict the maximum price that a customer is willing to pay. The problem is that there is so little competition among sellers that they can take advantage of this ability without losing the sale to someone else.
Robert Reich has been screaming about the many, many ways that rising monopolization is screwing over everybody but the uberwealthy (and, in fact, driving income inequality). This is just one more example.
You wanna kill "personalzed pricing," attack monopolization. They can't do it if they have competitors who will undersell them.
I've noticed though that even in areas where they is still *some* competition, many retailers are now taking away the ability to check their prices online, even within their proprietary apps.
So, we're both losing true competition due to monopolization, and losing pricing transparency and availability where that only serves the sellers.
that's the point, though; they can, because there's no longer a "public price." everything's all black box. sure, you can shop around, if you've got the time and energy to do so, and they might lose that sale to someone else. but in most cases, the poor will just get screwed, monopoly or not.
That's true only to a point. If there's enough competition, somebody is eventually gonna see an advantage to counterprogramming the thing by advertising a set price that undercuts the individualized price that other suppliers are offering, at least to a significant fraction of their customers. Remember, a competitor doesn't need to steal all the customers, just enough of them to make a profit, and as long as that's possible, somebody is gonna do it.
I want a pouch! Inside pouches there are no magats. Rethugs trying to find a reason to arrest and kill Dr. Fauci is the ultimate in insanity of the right. What percentage of these morons know everything they do and say is bullshit?
Okay, I lied, I do have a further thing to say about the Goldman piece.
"Sessions’s replacement, William Barr, proved more willing to bend ethical rules to do Trump’s bidding."
This is a quibble, but words matter. "Ethical rules" only have a passing relationship with morality. They exist as a way to AVOID the need to make a possibly questionable and error-prone moral judgement, and the loss of institutional or public confidence that would entail.
"Ethics" would preclude Barr from appointing an investigator or prosecutor who had had a prior beef with Clinton on the grounds that it MIGHT lead that person to make questionable choices, regardless of whether Barr believed that would actually happen, for example.
Barr also violated ethics in going after Trump's enemies in the absence of anything like probable cause. But the real issue isn't an ethical lapse, it's abuse of power. That's a moral and criminal issue, not an ethical one. Collins's language should reflect that.
The only thing I wanna talk about for the Goldberg piece about Trump is my instant reaction as I pulled it up. That picture of Trump.
It's weird. I never cease to be shocked at how such a rich man wears such cheap, shitty suits. Look if you're a man and you have to wear a suit on a regular basis, one of the great joys in life is to own good ones. They look better, obviously, in mysterious but unmistakable ways. But even better is the way they make you FEEL. It's one of the things that the movie Kingsman really got right.
I learned that as an adolescent. When I joined a youth organization that would require me to wear a suit on a regular basis, my parents bought me one. A "value" suit, from Sears. They weren't being cheap or ignorant, as later events would show. It's just that as a kid I had a history of intense but short-lived passions, and they weren't gonna spend a lot of money on a suit that I'd only wear a few times before losing interest.
Four or five months later, when it became clear that I would continue to attend events several times a week that would require a suit at least through my high school graduation, they took me out and bought me a GOOD one. Still off the rack, but the best quality available, and top-notch tailoring. Oh my God, the difference! I fell in love with that suit. I wanted to wear it at every opportunity, even at times when a suit wasn't even really required and still dressy but more casual clothes were really more practical.
I had to get a top-to-bottom retailoring after boot camp, just about every dimension of my body had changed except my inseam, even my hat size. But I kept that suit, and kept wearing it for another thirty years. Because I loved it, not just enough to keep it, but enough to TAKE CARE of it. And styles in men's are very stable; it takes a long time for one to start looking out of date as long as it doesn't look old abd worn.
I never owned a bespoke suit, the few times I could technically afford one, I just couldn't justify the expense. But I really can't wrap my head around the fact that a guy like Trump doesn't have a closet full of them. WTF is wrong with him?
WTF is wrong with him? I'll stick with just the suits. TFG is a cheap bastard. This has been shown throughout his lifetime. He doesn't spend money if he doesn't have to (though he will overspend to get what he wants such as an airline). If tailoring were offered for free TFG would take it but it isn't so he doesn't take it. He doesn't have anyone around him who will tell him the truth (or if they do they don't stay long) so he has no idea how bad he looks. When TFG looks in the mirror he only sees what he wants to see and since he is a narcissist that means he always looks great. Delusion is a strong drug and TFG is drowning it it.
The only possible other explanation is that he thinks it’s easier to con people if they think he's a bumpkin. Which is true, but is he smart enough to think of that?
But in any case, you'd still think he’d dress better for more recreational activities. He's always been a climber as well as a greedy son of a bitch; you'd think that for social events, at least, he’d wanna impress people.
I dunno if your explanation is right, but I sure can't think of a better one.
Director, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Building 31, National Institutes of Health 31 Center Drive, Room 7A03
Bethesda, MD 20892-2520
Dear Dr. Fauci,
The NIH All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to gather data from over a million participants to accelerate research and improve health. Lessons from the All of Us (AoU) Program will transform the practice of medicine from a one-size- fits-all paradigm to a more individualized approach. Currently readying for its national launch, AoU Program research will help link the impacts of environmental exposure, diet, and genetics to our understanding of health and disease, which will subsequently impact recommendations for treatment and care.
On March 21-23, NIH is holding a stakeholder-driven All of Us Research Priorities Workshop to identify key requirements for advancing precision medicine research at NIH. The program is seeking public input on potential research questions or use cases. Other funders (including other NIH Institutes and Centers) may consider use cases that are not incorporated into the All of Us protocol for additional funding opportunities. As these historic efforts get underway, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) urges the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to promote infectious diseases (ID) research considerations as a critical component of the AoU Research Program, and also consider ways to link current and future Institute efforts with program data.
Precision medicine and ID research
Since the advent of the All of Us Research Program, IDSA has been ramping up our ID precision medicine efforts and working to establish infectious diseases as an AoU research priority. In 2016, the Society formed a working group that surveyed the landscape of infections and precision medicine to consider research recommendations at the intersection of both fields.
IDSA has also been invited to participate in the upcoming All of Us Research Priorities Workshop. IDSA’s submitted use cases to the public portal may be found here, here, and here. Attendees will review submitted use cases, identify gaps, create new use cases, and identify data types common across multiple use
PAGE 2—IDSA Comments to NIAID RE NIH All of Us Research Priorities
cases. Factors that will determine whether a use case becomes part of the protocol include impact, scope, scalability, budget, and value to participants. NIH will make all use cases available on the All of Us website as a searchable reference and as a principal database for informing the program’s plans.
ID precision medicine research questions consider different factors than other fields, such as oncology, that are typically associated with personalized care. Infectious diseases treatment often occurs in a time-pressured setting (e.g., initiating empiric therapy for pneumonia or sepsis). Infectious diseases often intersect with other specialties. Additionally, the field stands to benefit from the increased study of the microbiome – a current NIAID priority that can be realized through AoU – as well as continued human genome research. These considerations should be integrated into AoU research priorities at the program’s outset.
It is critical that IDSA, NIAID, and other stakeholders work together to emphasize the importance of ID precision medicine research as NIH prioritizes efforts in this area. AoU data can be harnessed to improve ID patient care, diagnostics, vaccines, pharmacogenomics, and drug development. Suggested research topics at the intersection of ID and precision medicine include:
• Using precision medicine to predict patients at risk for post-infectious complications of vector-borne illnesses;
• Identifying the metabolic features of patients who develop mild vs. severe manifestations of influenza;
• Improving precision management of acute infections and sepsis (as a major burden to healthcare systems);
• Using AoU data to track and test individual responses to population-level emerging infection interventions;
• The “other” genome: microbiota and the pathogenesis of infectious diseases;
• Using precision medicine to determine optimal antiretroviral therapy in aging people
living with HIV;
• Exploring precision vaccinology to determine who may benefit from particular vaccines,
doses, and/or formulations;
• Discovering microbial causes of illnesses previously not considered to be infectious
diseases.
As the AoU Research Program matures, the integration of electronic medical record (EMR)- generated and big data platforms will aid in the advancement of precision medicine. The NIAID Genomics Centers for Infectious Diseases (GCID) can leverage these advances to improve innovative applications of genomic ID technologies and more efficiently sequence microbial isolates, host microbiomes, and invertebrate vectors of infectious diseases. Likewise, the Clinical Genomics Program builds upon large-scale gene sequencing analysis to better understand, diagnose, and treat immune system disorders, and the program’s combined focus on genetics and immunology and multi-disciplinary approach align with the AoU research philosophy. NIAID should harness AoU program data to help researchers study the etiology of antimicrobial resistance, autoimmune disorders, host responses, and host-pathogen interactions.
PAGE 3—IDSA Comments to NIAID RE NIH All of Us Research Priorities
IDSA will continue to emphasize the importance of infectious diseases precision medicine research as AoU shifts its focus from data collection to research considerations. We applaud NIAID’s work in this area to date and recommend that the Institute join IDSA in championing critical ID research questions as NIH prioritizes its efforts in this area. We look forward to continued dialogue as this important issue evolves and appreciate your consideration.
I often wonder if our "honorable opposition" is using AI to formulate their arguments and political strategy, as they are so often completely disconnected from reality and human decency. I mean, what were the $hundreds $of $billions pumped into the development of AI for if not the upper hand?
They're already using it to make pictures of the GOSS (greasy orange shit stain) hanging out at BBQs with groups of not-traditionally-fascist voters. Why not use ChatGPT (or some high-end equivalent) to formulate strategy, like some adderall-infused college student frantically-maniacally-psychotically trying to get it past the goal-line during finals?
Just looking around my community my guess is immigrants do a lot of the jobs. Especially as we live in a known retirement area, we need people to do those jobs.
Update: We missed you. (FedEx didn't even ring the call box at my gate, because there'd be a record of that call on my cellphone). Pick up your package at this location 25 minutes away.
This was a carryover from yesterday when they didn't deliver because the sender got the zip wrong. At some point between noon and 2 it got here, was even on the doorstep (a neighbor must have dropped it off because we have a secure bldg)
You'd think the gas-loving EV-haters would start to think strategically. If more people drive EVs, demand for gas will come down, and it'll be cheaper at the pumps.
I guess that's the difference between "I want what I want" and "You better want what I want too!"
It’s Pippa the little rescue ‘roo! Your hed gif deets are here, so hop on over: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/pippa-in-a-pocket
Another restoration of my faith in the humanity of humans.
Waiting for that moment of inattention. Then straight for the jugular!
He's so TINY!
I was like, no way, that's way too tiny, but then I remembered that roos are born into a pouch and that that one had in fact grown quite a bit since it had been born.
Itty bitty Joey.
She's a cutie!!!
The female American opossum also has two uteri and male opossums have forked penises with which to accommodate them. Sounds complicated to me.
double the pleasure
It's where the colloquial "That's awesome, possum" comes from.
"Wait a minute, honey, I think I put the right one in the left place."
A friend of mine - American but not an opossum - discovered she had two uteri when she had discomfort after an abortion and went in to see the doctor, who discovered that there was a second fetus - in a second uterus.
Yipes!
Her own reaction was quite a bit more pronounced.
Rhythm and timing...
Possums are known for those traits.
Wee, slender 'Roo...
They grow up so fast! And so fierce!
Bunny!
After crawling in, though, he's wondering "Hey! Where are the tits?"
As one does.
Rocko’s Modern Life.
Spunky!
It’s the reverse of the cartoons where Sylvester thinks a kangaroo is a giant mouse - it’s a kangy that looks like a small mouse.
Also too: Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo! https://youtu.be/St9iemIhs2I
Awww. Happy childhood memories! Never realized how much that kid from that show looked like my brother as a kid. I'm not crying, you're crying.
Mr A. and I were having a conversation about our favourite childhood TV themes just the other day. He favours Skippy, mine remains firmly and forever Champion the Wonder Horse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amq5kaCpGr0
What's that, Skippy? Sonny's in the well? AGAIN????
Thanks for that!
You find the best gifs.
🥰
The Gifted Giffer
You mean the Jifted Jiffer?
Sometimes the bad news gets to be too overwhelming emotionally but sometimes something comes along to ease the burden. I look at this wonderful presentation and think, "Joey, I'm not angry anymore."
I'm so grateful for the morning gifs. They help a lot better than a lot of other meds out there. Gets you out of those dark spirals to think of the cuteness of another lifeform and out of human issues.
Anyhoo, TY all
I wore that cassette OUT.
Played it for days and days, I bet.
and play it when I need a good cry.
If I really need to let some tears out I go for Wendy, tomorrow.
Thank the universe for some aspects of tech. I also have a better sound system and services do try to update the best audio (within reason).
🤣
Go Pippa! I follow them and their posts are beyond! A recent one featured a group of snuggly joeys basking in the sun.
Oooooh, if Sequoia Grove is doing falcons and wine-tasting again around my husband's birthday, I think that's his present.
yeah, the anti-ev stuff lately, in Cali, where we lead trends, over 20% of cars sold last year were electric. That's some serious numbers. So much for e cars not selling... whatev... a change is comin' - quick.
Individual pricing is not a novel idea, the concept is implicit to basic supply and demand and specifically covered in introductory courses in macro economics. One of the major arguments in favor of antitrust legislation is that monopolies and monopsonies facilitate tiered pricing to better take advantage of individuals' willingness to pay prices higher than the median mandated by perfect competition.
Which suggests the true problem here. It is not A.I.'s ability to predict the maximum price that a customer is willing to pay. The problem is that there is so little competition among sellers that they can take advantage of this ability without losing the sale to someone else.
Robert Reich has been screaming about the many, many ways that rising monopolization is screwing over everybody but the uberwealthy (and, in fact, driving income inequality). This is just one more example.
You wanna kill "personalzed pricing," attack monopolization. They can't do it if they have competitors who will undersell them.
I've noticed though that even in areas where they is still *some* competition, many retailers are now taking away the ability to check their prices online, even within their proprietary apps.
So, we're both losing true competition due to monopolization, and losing pricing transparency and availability where that only serves the sellers.
that's the point, though; they can, because there's no longer a "public price." everything's all black box. sure, you can shop around, if you've got the time and energy to do so, and they might lose that sale to someone else. but in most cases, the poor will just get screwed, monopoly or not.
That's true only to a point. If there's enough competition, somebody is eventually gonna see an advantage to counterprogramming the thing by advertising a set price that undercuts the individualized price that other suppliers are offering, at least to a significant fraction of their customers. Remember, a competitor doesn't need to steal all the customers, just enough of them to make a profit, and as long as that's possible, somebody is gonna do it.
I want a pouch! Inside pouches there are no magats. Rethugs trying to find a reason to arrest and kill Dr. Fauci is the ultimate in insanity of the right. What percentage of these morons know everything they do and say is bullshit?
Okay, I lied, I do have a further thing to say about the Goldman piece.
"Sessions’s replacement, William Barr, proved more willing to bend ethical rules to do Trump’s bidding."
This is a quibble, but words matter. "Ethical rules" only have a passing relationship with morality. They exist as a way to AVOID the need to make a possibly questionable and error-prone moral judgement, and the loss of institutional or public confidence that would entail.
"Ethics" would preclude Barr from appointing an investigator or prosecutor who had had a prior beef with Clinton on the grounds that it MIGHT lead that person to make questionable choices, regardless of whether Barr believed that would actually happen, for example.
Barr also violated ethics in going after Trump's enemies in the absence of anything like probable cause. But the real issue isn't an ethical lapse, it's abuse of power. That's a moral and criminal issue, not an ethical one. Collins's language should reflect that.
Chesebro in deep doodoo in WI:
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-cheeses-story-has-some-holes?utm_medium=reader2&publication_id=283462&triedRedirect=true
I will be voting for Sarah Taber in Nov!
The only thing I wanna talk about for the Goldberg piece about Trump is my instant reaction as I pulled it up. That picture of Trump.
It's weird. I never cease to be shocked at how such a rich man wears such cheap, shitty suits. Look if you're a man and you have to wear a suit on a regular basis, one of the great joys in life is to own good ones. They look better, obviously, in mysterious but unmistakable ways. But even better is the way they make you FEEL. It's one of the things that the movie Kingsman really got right.
I learned that as an adolescent. When I joined a youth organization that would require me to wear a suit on a regular basis, my parents bought me one. A "value" suit, from Sears. They weren't being cheap or ignorant, as later events would show. It's just that as a kid I had a history of intense but short-lived passions, and they weren't gonna spend a lot of money on a suit that I'd only wear a few times before losing interest.
Four or five months later, when it became clear that I would continue to attend events several times a week that would require a suit at least through my high school graduation, they took me out and bought me a GOOD one. Still off the rack, but the best quality available, and top-notch tailoring. Oh my God, the difference! I fell in love with that suit. I wanted to wear it at every opportunity, even at times when a suit wasn't even really required and still dressy but more casual clothes were really more practical.
I had to get a top-to-bottom retailoring after boot camp, just about every dimension of my body had changed except my inseam, even my hat size. But I kept that suit, and kept wearing it for another thirty years. Because I loved it, not just enough to keep it, but enough to TAKE CARE of it. And styles in men's are very stable; it takes a long time for one to start looking out of date as long as it doesn't look old abd worn.
I never owned a bespoke suit, the few times I could technically afford one, I just couldn't justify the expense. But I really can't wrap my head around the fact that a guy like Trump doesn't have a closet full of them. WTF is wrong with him?
WTF is wrong with him? I'll stick with just the suits. TFG is a cheap bastard. This has been shown throughout his lifetime. He doesn't spend money if he doesn't have to (though he will overspend to get what he wants such as an airline). If tailoring were offered for free TFG would take it but it isn't so he doesn't take it. He doesn't have anyone around him who will tell him the truth (or if they do they don't stay long) so he has no idea how bad he looks. When TFG looks in the mirror he only sees what he wants to see and since he is a narcissist that means he always looks great. Delusion is a strong drug and TFG is drowning it it.
The only possible other explanation is that he thinks it’s easier to con people if they think he's a bumpkin. Which is true, but is he smart enough to think of that?
But in any case, you'd still think he’d dress better for more recreational activities. He's always been a climber as well as a greedy son of a bitch; you'd think that for social events, at least, he’d wanna impress people.
I dunno if your explanation is right, but I sure can't think of a better one.
March 19, 2018
Anthony Fauci, MD
National Institutes of Health
Director, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Building 31, National Institutes of Health 31 Center Drive, Room 7A03
Bethesda, MD 20892-2520
Dear Dr. Fauci,
The NIH All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to gather data from over a million participants to accelerate research and improve health. Lessons from the All of Us (AoU) Program will transform the practice of medicine from a one-size- fits-all paradigm to a more individualized approach. Currently readying for its national launch, AoU Program research will help link the impacts of environmental exposure, diet, and genetics to our understanding of health and disease, which will subsequently impact recommendations for treatment and care.
On March 21-23, NIH is holding a stakeholder-driven All of Us Research Priorities Workshop to identify key requirements for advancing precision medicine research at NIH. The program is seeking public input on potential research questions or use cases. Other funders (including other NIH Institutes and Centers) may consider use cases that are not incorporated into the All of Us protocol for additional funding opportunities. As these historic efforts get underway, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) urges the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to promote infectious diseases (ID) research considerations as a critical component of the AoU Research Program, and also consider ways to link current and future Institute efforts with program data.
Precision medicine and ID research
Since the advent of the All of Us Research Program, IDSA has been ramping up our ID precision medicine efforts and working to establish infectious diseases as an AoU research priority. In 2016, the Society formed a working group that surveyed the landscape of infections and precision medicine to consider research recommendations at the intersection of both fields.
IDSA has also been invited to participate in the upcoming All of Us Research Priorities Workshop. IDSA’s submitted use cases to the public portal may be found here, here, and here. Attendees will review submitted use cases, identify gaps, create new use cases, and identify data types common across multiple use
PAGE 2—IDSA Comments to NIAID RE NIH All of Us Research Priorities
cases. Factors that will determine whether a use case becomes part of the protocol include impact, scope, scalability, budget, and value to participants. NIH will make all use cases available on the All of Us website as a searchable reference and as a principal database for informing the program’s plans.
ID precision medicine research questions consider different factors than other fields, such as oncology, that are typically associated with personalized care. Infectious diseases treatment often occurs in a time-pressured setting (e.g., initiating empiric therapy for pneumonia or sepsis). Infectious diseases often intersect with other specialties. Additionally, the field stands to benefit from the increased study of the microbiome – a current NIAID priority that can be realized through AoU – as well as continued human genome research. These considerations should be integrated into AoU research priorities at the program’s outset.
It is critical that IDSA, NIAID, and other stakeholders work together to emphasize the importance of ID precision medicine research as NIH prioritizes efforts in this area. AoU data can be harnessed to improve ID patient care, diagnostics, vaccines, pharmacogenomics, and drug development. Suggested research topics at the intersection of ID and precision medicine include:
• Using precision medicine to predict patients at risk for post-infectious complications of vector-borne illnesses;
• Identifying the metabolic features of patients who develop mild vs. severe manifestations of influenza;
• Improving precision management of acute infections and sepsis (as a major burden to healthcare systems);
• Using AoU data to track and test individual responses to population-level emerging infection interventions;
• The “other” genome: microbiota and the pathogenesis of infectious diseases;
• Using precision medicine to determine optimal antiretroviral therapy in aging people
living with HIV;
• Exploring precision vaccinology to determine who may benefit from particular vaccines,
doses, and/or formulations;
• Discovering microbial causes of illnesses previously not considered to be infectious
diseases.
As the AoU Research Program matures, the integration of electronic medical record (EMR)- generated and big data platforms will aid in the advancement of precision medicine. The NIAID Genomics Centers for Infectious Diseases (GCID) can leverage these advances to improve innovative applications of genomic ID technologies and more efficiently sequence microbial isolates, host microbiomes, and invertebrate vectors of infectious diseases. Likewise, the Clinical Genomics Program builds upon large-scale gene sequencing analysis to better understand, diagnose, and treat immune system disorders, and the program’s combined focus on genetics and immunology and multi-disciplinary approach align with the AoU research philosophy. NIAID should harness AoU program data to help researchers study the etiology of antimicrobial resistance, autoimmune disorders, host responses, and host-pathogen interactions.
PAGE 3—IDSA Comments to NIAID RE NIH All of Us Research Priorities
IDSA will continue to emphasize the importance of infectious diseases precision medicine research as AoU shifts its focus from data collection to research considerations. We applaud NIAID’s work in this area to date and recommend that the Institute join IDSA in championing critical ID research questions as NIH prioritizes its efforts in this area. We look forward to continued dialogue as this important issue evolves and appreciate your consideration.
Sincerely,
Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, MBA, FIDSA President, IDS
"Possibly not even people"
I often wonder if our "honorable opposition" is using AI to formulate their arguments and political strategy, as they are so often completely disconnected from reality and human decency. I mean, what were the $hundreds $of $billions pumped into the development of AI for if not the upper hand?
They're already using it to make pictures of the GOSS (greasy orange shit stain) hanging out at BBQs with groups of not-traditionally-fascist voters. Why not use ChatGPT (or some high-end equivalent) to formulate strategy, like some adderall-infused college student frantically-maniacally-psychotically trying to get it past the goal-line during finals?
Just looking around my community my guess is immigrants do a lot of the jobs. Especially as we live in a known retirement area, we need people to do those jobs.
FedEx used to brag that they could literally tell you where your package was at any given moment, back when my dad worked for them.
45 mins ago--"out for delivery, ETA 9:20-11:20 am."
5 mins ago--"delivery before 8pm"
Update: We missed you. (FedEx didn't even ring the call box at my gate, because there'd be a record of that call on my cellphone). Pick up your package at this location 25 minutes away.
This was a carryover from yesterday when they didn't deliver because the sender got the zip wrong. At some point between noon and 2 it got here, was even on the doorstep (a neighbor must have dropped it off because we have a secure bldg)
I'm en route to the bank now
And then: Your delivery will arrive tomorrow morning 9:20-12:20.
You'd think the gas-loving EV-haters would start to think strategically. If more people drive EVs, demand for gas will come down, and it'll be cheaper at the pumps.
I guess that's the difference between "I want what I want" and "You better want what I want too!"
I think they're scared gas will go away (it's not for a long time) and they might have to CHANGE. They're a bunch of scardy-cats.
cowardly fear of change is the defining trait of "conservatives," no?
change, of course, being the only constant in the universe, and why they lean so heavily on the "god" crutch
stop the world, i want to get off
Big maga he man PAB threatening Jill and Hilary with incarceration. What, no men on your list you PAB?
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rant-newsmax/?cx_testId=15&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0&cx_experienceId=EXQZWTHDAGO3&cx_experienceActionId=showRecommendationsSZFBANK586LR14#cxrecs_s
"no juror smiled at him"
Oh, the humanity . . .
and he has no idea why. Mom they're being mean to me!
What a freaking Snowflake!
"putting First Ladies in jail".
Melanie maybe should take note as well.
Good point.
"I dig this Irish death metal baron rewilding his Dunsany estate."
What a great story! But he still has a ways to go, to replace the 18th Baron as my favourite Dunsany!
That’s what I was wondering. He’s Lord Dunsany’s descendant! Or relative. Or whatever.
I think the 21st Baron is Lord Dunsany's great-grandson.