Finally, TV worth watching.

While this is slop, there is a similar product with this name

Here’s a review of the product on the well-regarded site, The Big Gay Review:

https://thebiggayreview.com/drilldo-spiral-collection/

This is going to keep getting worse. Laws to protect us are a long ways off, I expect. Regardless, we know cops don’t care much about laws.

We’re just going to need to be careful where we use our phones and what we use them for.

At around 84, my dad caused a small fender-bender, that’s when my sister told him he had to stop driving. He couldn’t turn his head to see behind him. That sucked for my sister, because it fell on her to get him out of the house for grocery shopping, etc. She was the only one who still lived in the same state. He ended up in an assisted living home for the last two years of his life with dementia.

Public transportation is great, but they don’t go into the suburbs. I suppose Uber and Lyft are the solution there, but my dad had no idea how to do that, he didn’t own a cell phone.

Capitalism has been fucking us hard for over 100 years, the offenses keep piling up, and only now are people starting to realize how bad it’s gotten.

Faraday bag, so you have it for emergencies. As long as your “emergency” isn’t checking TikTok every five minutes.

Addiction to phones is a hellava drug.

My hope is the people on the ground, in charge of the voting process, who work for the state, not the feds, will do their job. From what I’ve seen virtually all of them are dedicated to fair elections, which is why almost no fraud has been found thus far.

You can help by urging people in your circle to vote and letting them know that their employer must give them time off to vote, by law.

If you’re tempted to help voters standing in long lines, say, by handing out water bottles, or letting them borrow a folding chair, you should check your state’s “line warming” laws. You could contact your local officials and offer to provide such items ahead of time in a way that doesn’t break the law.

Chocolate is fine, but I’d add a layer of cinnamon powder in the middle. I like cinnamon and chocolate together.

Three different Wikipedia sources:

Tiramisu is an Italian dessert of ladyfingers, coffee, mascarpone, eggs and cocoa.

[Ladyfingers] are low-density, dry, egg-based, sweet sponge cake biscuits roughly shaped like large fingers

Mascarpone is a soft Italian dairy product obtained by acid-heat coagulation of cream.

I could eat that anywhere.

Money aside, the publicity and legal precedent will also harm them.

Since this has been known since 2022, they should have fixed it by now. My guess is the fix is in the software and probably already exists. It was probably written as soon as the issue came to light, and is just waiting to be deployed.

Shuffling the ballots is also an easy fix, the excuses given not to do this are bogus.

Something fishy is going on. The point that this leaves the election open to legal challenges is the main issue, and perhaps the main intent.

It’s cheaper to just send him out of the solar system.

Swimming.

Swimming two lengths of the pool was a requirement for graduating high school. They got me a college student tutor. I tried and tried and never got good enough to pass. They let me slide, I suppose because they could see I was trying.

Sportzing generally has never been my thing. I learned to ride a bicycle without a problem, and I can throw and catch a frisbee. That’s about it.

Slippery/sliding/rolling things underfoot.

I wanted to learn how to skateboard when I was a kid. I tried for several weeks, with a friend trying to teach me. I got tired of hurting myself, and gave up.

I know people don’t “grasp it easily”, but most people eventually get the hang of it, and it doesn’t seem to take them long.

Over the years I’ve tried roller skates, ice skates, and skiing. And, failed at all of them.

Twenty minutes to download a 1MB image.

Yes, really. 9600 baud modem.

ASCII art was popular then, and before: https://www.asciiart.eu/

The list is long and varied.

Can’t afford: New floors and AC in my house (~$20K)

Can’t justify: a XGIMI Aura 3 Max 4K 120Hz UST Projector ($2K)

Can’t afford: A camper van (~$60K)

Can’t justify: A new PC (~$3500)

One thing I did justify recently was $2K on a new bed. My old bed was over 20 years old.

Mitigations:

1. Use a range hood that vents outside, every time
   This is the single biggest lever. A range hood vented to the outdoors at high fan speed captures 80–90% of NO₂ before it disperses into the rest of the home. Run it before you start the burner, leave it on the entire time you’re cooking, and run it for 5–10 minutes after you finish.
   If your “range hood” recirculates (charcoal filter, no exterior duct), it does nothing meaningful for NO₂. Many over-the-range microwaves are recirculating-only — check the back of yours. Replacement with a true vented hood is the highest-value indoor-air upgrade most kitchens can make. [Editor’s note: replacing with an outdoor vent is expensive to very expensive, depending on where in the house the vent needs to be. Better to learn this when choosing a house to buy, local laws do not always require outdoor vented hoods over gas stoves.]

2. Open windows during and after cooking
   If you don’t have a vented hood, the next-best move is cross-ventilation: open a window in the kitchen and another window or door across the home to drive airflow. This is less effective than a range hood (slower exchange) but still drops NO₂ by 50%+ during cooking compared to closed-house operation.

Powered doesn’t mean the vent exits outside.

Vents that vent to the outside over gas hoods need to be required by law, otherwise, it may, or may not.

When I bought my house, I’d never seen a range vent that didn’t vent to the outside, so I didn’t know such things existed. I didn’t check, and mine doesn’t. It’d be at least $8K to have a hole cut in my roof for the vent to run to the outside.

For which I shall gladly pay you on Tuesday.