Oh hell no. I toured an authentic recreation of La Niña. It’s so small as to be terrifying. People had to sleep on the deck so the more valuable animals got the hold. Don’t have the cojones to get out of site of land on that toy boat.
NOTE: Doesn’t look as small in those pics as it feels IRL.
Digging a hole with my 10-yo son was the only work he didn’t bitch about last summer.
Used to hate digging, but now I’m in NW Florida where there’s 2" of topsoil, sandy clay all the way to China. Only thing stopping a man is how fast he can sling it out of the hole.
You can spot the tourists at the beach based on pinkness levels. I feel so sorry for them, but still, haven’t they been swimming before?! I guess they’re not prepared for the extra light reflecting off the Gulf and the white sand. Not a fan myself, too intense out there.
I’m wondering if Trump will be fit for public appearance in 2.5 more years. I mean, he’s not now, but soon enough I feel they’ll have to pull him from the public eye. Dementia comes with temper issues, he’ll be raging on camera, screaming about clouds, etc.
That’s maybe going to be the argument. First words of the amendment:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…
Before this Trump bullshit, I thought the limit was 2 consecutive. Took me 10 seconds to look it up. But they’ll argue it anyway and the fascists won’t take those 10 seconds to check it.
A week ago I posted on this, making up a plausible defense strategy. Then concluded that no way in hell this guy slides. If we didn’t have video, he’d walk, even with his past history of violence, DUIs, etc. But we do have video and it could not be more clear that self-defense was not an issue.
Apparently not a problem around here. A new Publix (expensive grocery) went in a mile from the Winn Dixie, put them out of business. I should note that the Winn Dixie was very clean and modern. People opted to pay more because Publix is “nicer”.
Aldi has since moved into the Winn Dixie space. Went shopping last night and passed the packed Publix lot while Aldi was fairly empty. We generally spend $230 and get food for 3 weeks. Went to Publix when they first opened, long before the spike in food prices, spent $65 on a partially full hand basket.
There’s a shitty little Pic-N-Save down the road and it’s empty but for the poorest people. Wife and I went the other night and were laughing at how delightfully cheap everything is. Best tomatoes in town! People won’t go there because it looks like a 70s grocery.
For context, this is not a bougie area. We’re the redneck suburb of a very poor metro area.
The 2008 recession saw a GDP contraction of 4.3%. The Great Depression was 29%.
People are saying “depression” because we’re facing many of the same issues as in October, 1929.
We are in deep shit. AI investment is the only thing keeping the economic numbers looking good, and that bubble is going to pop far harder than the dotcom crash. 7 companies hold 40% of the stock market’s value (or is it S&P 500?) and everyone of them is all in on AI.
I expect a series of mini crashes where they halt trading to stave off panic. No idea how that plays IRL though, may be very wrong.
You got me thinking. Pretty sure I do this when addressing groups, like teaching a class in the workplace. Maybe I finger point in place of the fishing rod? Next time I hold a talk, I’m going to record it.
After 20 years I’m still not used to NW Florida. Highs in the 80s all month, just yesterday the high was 68F.
It’s gotten a little warmer here but the two big things that are new are the summer droughts and the freak winter storms.
60+ hour work week
You honestly believe that about America?
I haven’t worked 60 hours a week for over 20 years, and I was a contractor then, my time, my money. I’ve never met anyone that works 60 hour weeks, and no employer is paying that overtime. Maybe if you’re on salary at some insane tech startup? Maybe 2-3 people at my last gig (software dev) worked hours like that, but that was because they loved what they were doing. And HR frowned on that.
Ashamed to say I had to look that up. I can usually figure Roman numerals pretty quick. :( I’m losing it as I age. Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
Given what they sound like fighting, I was afraid to look up their mating call.
Yep. About what I thought. Satanic. If you heard a human making that noise, you’d be calling John Constantine.
Got to camp today and pulled out a thing my wife found. 1980’s ashtray from a San Francisco bar. Had a solid laugh about your post. (I put my .22 rounds in it while I shoot.)
Nothing to do with moving data. But you can’t move data without authentication.
I want my service to do a $thing. It won’t do $thing without knowing who I am and what permissions I have. The data doesn’t have to cross borders, the service simply needs to function.
Does that make sense? As I said, didn’t do much in AWS, but the principles are sound.
The N word doesn’t compare, not to me. GenX always saw that word as evil. But the F and R words (can’t believe I had to type that out) were general insults.
“NOAWW! I was called those words as a child and it HURT me!”
Words didn’t hurt me. Getting my ass beat down on the playground, while the teachers watched, hurt me. Perhaps, grow a spine? (Not you DioramaOfShit.) (Can’t believe I had to type that as well, but here we are.)
Don’t eat meat. Other people will. Enjoy leather.
“Beware the quiet man. For while others speak, he watches. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest… he strikes,”
If y’all think America has always had anti-government sentiments, wait till after the fascism has destroyed us and we’ve moved on. We had a long history of ridiculous backlash to events. Hope I live to see this one.