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neighborhood kids, picking up a little extra cash, along with what they made from their newspaper routes, easily paid for 4 years of university education (with room and board and books)

two things that strike me about this photo, the lack of any people of color, and the fact there were fleets of housewives home, just hanging out

look up preprepared pasteurized food, it will be an eye opener. you can pop a can of campbell chunky soup and eat it cold. science is amazeballs.

“they must not be scattered, mess is the mind killer”

the english syntax of this article gave me an aneurysm. was this ai?

I was there when the deep magic was written (or soon after to catch reruns), Monty Python was skewering the Post War Conservative British cultural zeitgeist in ways which audiences hadn’t quite seen before, through the lens of British toffs (oxford and cambridge) playing at being proletarians skewering toffs. It was different for British TV, but it was like a sea change when American audiences finally caught up and began taking notice. It was smart comedy, pointed, brutal, and hilarious. America wasn’t doing anything like this, at that time, going more for the broad jokes that would appeal to the lowest common denominator. Sure others have mentioned Brooks, and Berle, and Cartoons which had been sending up cultural norms for decades, but they weren’t Python, Python, at the time were a thing of their own. Monty Python’s Flying Circus ran from 1969 to 1974. Saturday Night Live started in 1975.

with lots of cream and sugar? never heard of that kind of magic, but it sounds like dessert to me, and i love dessert.

best: keep working and collecting a paycheck while you secure other employment, for as long as possible

pedantic, ignoring the historical ramifications or even existence of racism. in a perfect world it wouldn’t matter.

most of the villagers were farmers, thanks for coming to my ted talk

Fuck China. Any news coming out of China is a lie. Grow up.

I bought a $300 HP i5 laptop from Walmart Black Friday sale three years ago, the battery drains when the laptop is supposed to be off, and now the HDMI port, and audio out don’t work, usb solves both these issues. Got the extended warranty for something like $29 for 2 years from HP when the 1 yr warranty ran out, but can’t be without my laptop to send it in for servicing. For $300 it’s been worth it, probably looking for another one sometime later this year. It’s cheap and it won’t last long, but it’s cheap. (*edit: just noticed this offering is an AMD chip, and I don’t fucks with those, so personally, I wouldn’t buy it, but that’s just me)

I’ve tried the old spring one’s too, and the spring quality determines the accuracy, but again, not over time. Turns out the Inkbirds are equally as accurate as the Protmex showed, all the TermoPro’s were junk, and after a brief chat with ThermoPro customer service they refunded my entire purchased which was over 6 months ago, so that was nice. I think my body has been conditioned by bad Hygrometers to misjudge waht 40% rh should feel like, but the inkbirds were a good find, am gonna keep the protmex to do spotchecks on the inkbirds every nowa and again

I’m sad to say you should prepare for the worst. Trump is the worst, he will do the worst things, without care for those his actions will hurt.

After this thread the other day I bought some Inkbird’s on sale from Amazon to test them out, have had some ThermoPro TP39 around (and outside) of the house, and one of the Inkbirds was about 5% above on a salt test in a bag, out of the bag, they are all, seemingly reading LOW. Little sick of this, so I bought a Protmex HT607 to test out to see if my feeling is right, that the only one of the hygrometers in the photo that’s near correct (3%+/-) is the center ThermoPro. If my feeling is right, I’m going to return all the Inkbirds, and give ThermoPro some shit, make a warranty claim, where I’m sure they’ll send me 3 more junk hygormeters. I’m not prepared to spend $800 on a scientific hygrometer that can only do push button spot readings, can continue to be amazed that the market hasn’t produced an ADJUSTABLE always on moisture/humidity monitor. It’s pretty maddening.

Donald Trump doubled (+100%) the black vote he received in 2020. Across the board minorities saw change in putting Trump back in the big seat, as apposed to the disaster he will bring to them, and their families. People went through the pandemic, only to be hit with what’s felt like the largest peacetime inflation, which was not handled by the Biden administration. Normal people don’t care about economic numbers when their paying 30-50% more for milk, eggs, bread, and rent. When faced with more of the same with no real enumerated plan to get better, and back patting, they voted for different, come what may. You know which minority group didn’t break right, Jews (+5% 3.5% being the margin of error).

After Donald Trump called every stripe of Latino, rapists and murderers, publicly, often and loudly, More Latinos voted for Donald Trump in this past election than have ever voted for any Republican candidate in any American election ever. Spin it any way you like.

dude, if they voted right, they shifted right, that’s what the word shifted means

that’d be awesome abe, thanks

cheers mate