aramis87

Ex-prez, please.

Main Street looking North from Central Row, Hartford by Richard S. DeLamater.

View looking north on Main Street. The Old State House is immediately on the right, but is not visible. Tracks for horse cars are in the dirt street. Commercial buildings line the left side of the street. These include: Phoenix Bank, Thomas F. Duffey / Boots and Shoes, Jas. Daniels Hat Store, Brown & Gross, Clark and Booth / Printers, Office / of the / Evening Post, Hartford / County / Mutual / Fire / Insurance / Company, and R.G. Waterous / Hatter / Hats, Caps, & Furs / Gents / Furnishing Goods / The / corner Hat Store." Lamp posts and barrels are on the sidewalk. The Gothic tower of Christ Church is in the right background.

I agree they’re trying to get rid of the Palestinians; you could see that with the early slaughter, and their comments to the US, Europe, and the Arab states of, “Well if you’re so keen on protecting them, you take them!” And I think they’re okay with starvation, if that’s what it takes.

But honestly, at this moment right now I think they’re trying to thread the needle: starve and bomb them enough that their immune systems are weakened (which is already done). And then just wait for some disease or other to rage through the refugee camps. Everyone is packed in so tightly, and there are so few safe places to go, that disease is just going to rip through the population once it takes hold. And Israel will continue to hold up humanitarian aid, but (at the exact same time) proclaim that they didn’t have anything to do with those deaths, it’s all just very very sad.

Israel wants lebensraum.

Wikipedia:

In late 2006, programmer Jed McCaleb thought of building a website for users of the Magic: The Gathering Online tradable card game service, to let them trade “Magic: The Gathering Online” cards like stocks.[13][14][4] In January 2007, he purchased the domain name mtgox.com, short for “Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange”.[15][16][17][18] Initially in beta release,[19] sometime around late 2007, the service went live for approximately three months before McCaleb moved on to other projects, having decided it was not worth his time. In 2009, he reused the domain name to advertise his card game The Far Wilds.[20]

In July 2010, McCaleb read about bitcoin on Slashdot,[21] and decided that the bitcoin community needed an exchange for trading bitcoin and regular currencies. On 18 July, Mt. Gox launched its exchange and price quoting service deploying it on the spare mtgox.com domain name.[14][22]

I’m not sure when people started to refer to it as Mt Gox.

conservatives bullied the company for its inclusive policies for close to three weeks

Ooh, were they bullied for an entire three weeks, during Pride month? Poor babies!

Wasn’t it MtG OX?

Cokehead MAGAt says what?

Why the eff is everyone here letting James Comey off the hook? The guy who ignored DoJ instructions on not doing anything that night interfere in an election in the 90 days beforehand, and deliberately held a press conference just days before the election to say that Hilary was still under investigation, then ‘cleared’ her shortly after it?

The MAGAts who were pissed about a black President were never going to vote for a woman, but that Comey presser gave enough doubts to swing the election. And he conveniently ‘forgot’ to mention that Trump and several of his people were also under investigation. Fuck Comey.

They gave him an extension until mid-July, supposedly after the hush money sentencing is done. But now the hush money sentencing is pushed back two months because of the immunity decision, so who knows if or when.

I’m seconding Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection, Nonograms Katana, and Stardew Valley, all of which are in regular rotation and fill different niches in my soul.

Why are you paraphrasing the article like this is your own personal analysis?

:woot: !! Every step closer to poverty is a victory!

That’s been a general movement away from rural America for decades (and people have been leaving the countryside to make their fortune in the big city for centuries). However, this line stood out to me because of the timeframe cited:

A whopping 81 percent of rural counties had more deaths than births between 2019 and 2023.

Maybe I’m just still bitter, but maybe they should have tried social distancing, wearing masks, and getting vaccinated.

Since it went off in your hands, have you tried googling the make and model to see if there are any similar complaints or even recalls for them?

I know there’s a floor insulation issue, but what about redirecting air, and other sources of leaks? Does your basement have vents in it? Turn them off and maybe consider getting bent covers that can seal in the summer. Close the vents on the first floor so that (the majority of) the cool air comes in at the second floor and sinks down. Weather-strip and baffle the basement door.

Also, see if your electric company offers a home energy assessment. It takes about an hour, and there are usually two tiers: free, and a second tier where you pay for a blow test. They can make some recommendations on making your home more energy efficient.

True. But for the most part, squid are also not chittering outside at night, banging on the windows trying to get in.

Okay, yeah, thanks for that nightmare …

Mega insects?!!!

With that technology, no. But retailers track where you are in their stores. And even if you don’t bring your phone with you, they’re using facial recognition technology and will eventually try working with that.

So they probably have a good idea who you are. And they also have your purchase history - what you bought and at what price you bought it. They have your frequent shopper card history, your online purchases, everything they’ve put together from data aggregators.

They have all the pieces: they can track you in the store, they know the prices you’re willing to pay for things, and they can change the price as you walk down the aisle. Do you seriously think someone isn’t going to start putting all that together?