Insider trading with two chicks at the same time!

Huh. Still waiting:

I can’t and I don’t anymore. My sweet treat is frozen blueberries with 2% milk, nuts, and cinnamon.

Nothing in this picture is worth getting fat over. And, it all tastes so fake once you start paying attention. Yes, disgusting.

It’s good that it’s going to trial. I don’t have much hope that the Florida judge will rule in favor of the plaintiff.

In her own life, when Barkhuus’s daughter first started taking the subway alone, she kept a close eye on her location, and would text if the app showed her on a train going in the wrong direction. Several times, her daughter called her mom lost, asking where to go.

I wasn’t sure, at first, how Barkhuus felt about micromanaging her daughter’s subway rides. But when I told her about Shaw’s story of getting lost at 7, and his worry that parents are no longer giving kids the opportunity to navigate these situations on their own, she responded, “I think it’s completely correct.” In the moment, though, what mother is going to hang up on her panicking daughter? “We’re oversurveilling our children in a way that’s not necessary,” Barkhuus said, “but I don’t know how to take it away.”

Google and Samsung. Two well-respected stalwarts in the privacy sphere.

Jeff. Over and over, Jeff.

I’ve been acquainted more than my fair share of Jeffs over the years.

At one point, there were four Jeffs. My roommate, one at work, and two in one class I was taking.

Until recently, there was not a time in my life when I wasn’t somehow connected to a Jeff. I don’t know people anymore, though.

Not delighted.

I’d eat it to be polite, because one time won’t kill me. Although, I’d probably regret it later.

Since the pandemic, I’ve made all my own meals.

I used to enjoy singing (not that anyone else did.) I used to have a range of almost three octaves. I lost that in the past ten years, down to about 1.5 octaves.

I’ve never had a whistling range of more than one octave, but I can whistle higher than I can sing. So, I’ll sing the lower notes and whistle the higher notes.

Strange. I’d think they’d want everyone shopping.

Some do.

Once, when I was flying on stand-by, I missed a flight because it was full, and had to spend ~14 hours in the Honolulu airport, because I couldn’t afford to get a motel room, or anything else. All I had in my pocket was the return ticket. All I had was the water from the water fountain. The next flight I got the very last seat, and it was in the smoking section. Ugh. But, I took it. Fortunately, I was so exhausted from getting almost no sleep the previous day, I slept through the entire flight. It took hours to clear that shit out of my lungs.

This was 40 years ago.

I mean, maybe? Big corpo business certainly has the ear of our government agencies. I wouldn’t be surprised if the request was made, and granted for an extra, generally unnecessary hour added to the recommendation.

Touch tone? Man, that’s a new one.

Easy jokes can be good, too.

Population of U.S. ~340 million.

Population of Canada, UK and Australia combined: ~138 million.

Chances are, native English speakers on the internet are American.

I don’t assume people who speak other languages on the internet are American, but English speakers probably are. Unless they’re in country specific communities, like Canada, or UK. I do check the community before I butt in with my American take in country communities, usually, I don’t comment at all. But, I do see my fellow Americans making fools of themselves in those places sometimes.

Last time for my was 2008 for a funeral. I don’t think I’ll fly again unless I go overseas.

They keep pushing this to make us think we won something.

It was far from a “blue wave”, more like a lapping at the shore.

Until we’re consistently voting in a super majority of DSA into both Houses, we’ve gained almost nothing. That is what it will take to win this war by voting alone. If you think that’s impossible, then maybe it is.

Pretty sure they mean Congress.