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Good morning.

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So exactly how many Senators are either dead or are in a vegitative state or otherwise unable to function?

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Good morning.

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We have to limit or remove a lot of the non-constitutional powers of the President of the USA as part of our post-Trump reforms.

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True reforms will not come from centerist Democrats, because they answer to Big Business.

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Free Luigi.

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#random

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Read: ‘Cartoonishly Evil’: Indiana Residents Furious After Data Center Project Cuts Power to Tornado Warning Sirens | Nerd Stash

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“With Russia, you either kneel or you are the enemy. There is nothing in between.”

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– Former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė

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Source.

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Read: Defending Angels by Mary Stanton (Book 1 - A Beaufort & Company Mystery)

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Mystery, Urban Fantasy

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Entertaining. Good characters. The whodunnit puzzle is obscured a bit by the fantasy elements, but still a fairly good read.

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Good morning.

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Notice how Trump, the conservative Supremes and many of the conservatives in Congress, pay lip service to Federalism until the states get in their way of their agenda. Then they are all about consolidating ever more power to the Federal Government. Especially Trump.

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Good morning.

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It occured to me while running errands: I have not seen a MAGA cap in ages. Nobody around here is wearing them anymore.

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It tells me the MAGA’s know, really know, they messed up with Trump. They may not admit it publically, but they know and are laying low.

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Word is Australia is sending wildfire firefighting management experts to the US because between DOGE and forced early retirements Trump got rid of most of ours. Duh.

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Read: DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites | NPR

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Trump wants you to have to get in your car and burn gas that can’t get through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Good morning.

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Headlines: Elon Musk seems to be trying to rehabilitate his image by admiting mistakes with DOGE. It’s way to late. We taxpayers are still paying the price for DOGE and will for years to come. I think DOGE was illegal and Elon should be prosecuted.

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Good morning.

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Trump’s Forever War with Iran would be much more popular if he just added cheer leaders. Rah!

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Way way back everything computer, particularly software had “Turbo-” attached to it. Turbo this, turbo that. Today everyone is slapping “AI” in some way onto every product. Soon we will have AI enhanced peanut butter.

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Although the backlash against AI has already started.

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Read: A Grave in the Woods: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel (Bruno, Chief of Police Series Book 17) by Martin Walker

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Cozy, mystery, culinary. Something of a procedural too. Strong setting and characters. Mystery plot not as strong in this one. Series good tho and still an enjoyable read.

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I’m losing track, is Mitch McConnell alive or dead? Or maybe undead?

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Read: US data center protests go national as backlash grows | Reuters

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PSA: You will NOT be served explosive diarrhea lettuce at White Castle.

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Good morning.

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World Cup visitors are shocked that American yellow school buses are real, not just movie props. Interest in why they are yellow in color goes back well before the World Cup. You never know, stuff we take for granted might be of interest to others.

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Good morning.

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The Internet is so slow here it’s not worth trying to post anything significant right now. I suspect it’s Comcast doing network stuff in the middle of the night which makes sense.

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Read: Pamela Prendergast Mysteries by Cecilia Peartree.

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I just read all 3 books in this series and enjoyed them. They are very direct and to the plot point, which is good IMO, and not padded out with excess romance and mushy stuff. Good characters.

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I’m debating going to Subway for supper. After a year’s absence, I got a pretty good sandwich there last week. But it was expensive and they expect a tip on credit card payment just for preparing the food, although you can bypass. Thinking I might go somewhere else instead.

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It’s garbage day so I put the bins out. Not news here in the US but I thought I’d post it for freinds in the UK. :-)

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Wow, the air is thick with haze and smells of burning. I guess from western fires. It’s gonna be hot again as well. I think I will put off running errands outside today.

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Read: It’s a Long Way from Pitkirtly (Pitkirtly Mysteries Book 25) by Cecilia Peartree

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This book answers the question about how to get most of you main cast of characters out of town (Pitkirtly) together and sleuthing without it looking too far fetched. This worked and was a good read.

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Hot dogs are Universal Replacement Meat sort of like SPAM used to be back in the day.

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Iran is starting to look like a forever war. Trump’s MAGA forever war.

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@bradenslen Wormholes are all tricky that way.

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@adders Excellent news. Congratulations.

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@ChrisJWilson :-)

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@markpltz.bsky.social It’s not that odd!

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@Miraz Great! I hope you enjoy it. I wasn’t sure if I iiked the characters in Book One to be frank, but I had bought the first 3 books and so continued on and got to understand and like the characters and setting until I feel at home with them. Now I like the whole series.

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@firefly I agree RWD would be less good in the mountains. I’m not sure how that would effect range.

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@DiplomaticDiva Yeah.

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@JohnPhilpin Not sure, but the internet seems to have a habit of cutting out right when one is doing something important. It’s a rule.

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@DiplomaticDiva Wifi is sneaky that way.

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@rom LOL! I think Bezos said something about people using less water. The nerve. But it’s got me asking questions like, why can’t data centers recycle water use and what happens to all the water they do use, etc.?

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@DiplomaticDiva Second Breakfast is the best.

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@chrisaldrich Have a great time.

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@LiseAndreasen Very true.

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@JohnPhilpin Those are both good and thanks for searching for them.

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IMO both are right in that everything is broken and the old definitons no longer work. The problem is the different sides disagree on who to blame. And it gets more complicated because we have an entrenched two party system and the elites of both parties are to blame.

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@JohnPhilpin That is good.

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What strikes me is that there is dissatisfaction with The Establishment from both the Right and the Left throughout many parts of the Western world, not just the US.

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@adders Yikes! That usually only happens in sci-fi movies.

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@rnovotney.bsky.social Thanks I will look into it. Is this a “Kirkwood” brand or something else?

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@JohnPhilpin I could buy into that!

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@fgtech Perfect. I’m gonna steal that.

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Just think, soon they will be New and Improved with built in advertising.

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@adders Best wishes on your recovery.

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@JohnPhilpin That’s fine John. All the Philpin’s are welcome. Hehe.

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@rnovotney.bsky.social “Everything becomes an ad infested flow.”

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Back in the day, the attraction of cable TV was no ads, and then ads slowly trickled in. Same with streaming I guess.

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@aaronpk Great sign!

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@cambridgeport90 Good point, is this a one off or the start of a trend? I guess we will find out.

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@ceciliapeartree.bsky.social I always love it when something I really enjoy turns out to be good for me.

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