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pantone159

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  1. That is Guatemalan, not Mexican. You can tell by the repainted Bluebird logo.
  2. In my book, this makes Android Auto absolutely unacceptable for use in a car. Period. I don't want to mess with the phone or car to decline the call, I'm busy driving. With my phone by itself, it is easy enough to ignore the ringing. But with Android Auto I just can't ignore it, the ring is too loud, and so I am distracted either by the sound or the anticipation of the distracting sound, until the ringing stops. The #1 most important feature that any car app MUST have is to make it easy to mute the phone so the driver absolutely NEVER has to respond to an incoming call. Android Auto fails miserably.
  3. The part of his background to figure out is who financed Santos. Both his campaign, and also how he improved his personal finances in the past couple of years, with no obvious job skills or initial connections to do that.
  4. It is oddly satisfying to put somebody on ignore when they still have 0 posts, and be completely sure that was the right call.
  5. My worry is mass bankruptcies when the 'guaranteed' cash from USA government obligations does not arrive and bills cannot be paid. I don't know how that shakes out and I don't really want to think about it, but I guess I gots to, sigh.
  6. Do the rules need 218 to pass?
  7. Any deal has to include that all the concessions to the nutbars are dropped. So basically McCarthy reneging on everything he has promised so far.
  8. Yeah, medical issues don't necessarily follow the schedule you want. And as a general principle, health is more important than any job.
  9. Lulz. Literally the first completed action of the new House of Representatives is Santos lying about it.
  10. I don't understand the refusal to pay bills. I guess if you are a billionaire you can just ignore whatever bills you want to. Generally I expect that businesses pay their bills, but not Elon it seems.
  11. In Capitol Reef: My favorite hikes were Cassidy Arch, and Rim Overlook (4.6 miles RT from the Hickman Bridge trailhead) which had a fantastic view at the end. Panorama Point/Goosenecks were also pretty near sunset and very easy. And +1 for the pies. I did not have to rush too much, I was able to do a hike in the morning and then get a pie as a post-hike snack, though I had to settle for rhubarb one time. Last June the road was under construction which made it kind of a PITA to drive (you might have to wait 15 minutes), but you could get wherever you needed. I mostly did not think too much of the places I ate in Torrey, but I did like the Rim Rock Patio, which had open seating under the sky and fire pits to keep warm in the evening, and sometimes live music. The food was not memorable but the setting was cool. They were open a little later than the rest of Torrey which seemed to close about 9 pm. In Canyonlands: The Island of the Sky area is easy to check out, you can drive the roads to the viewpoints, and pick which short hikes you want to do. Aztec Butte took you to an old Anasazi granary, and I thought Whale Rock was really cool, but all the short hikes I did were fun. The next day I went to the Needles area, drove to the Elephant Hill trailhead, then hiked 6 miles RT to the Chesler Park viewpoint and back. That was a really cool hike with varied terrain, slickrock, climbing up and down rocks, through narrow cracks, cool views. The trail is often only visible by the cairns so you have to pay attention a bit to stay on trail. In between Torrey and Moab, I checked out Kodachrome State Park and hiked the Panorama Loop Trail, maybe 3-4 miles, also with cool views, and little shade. Mid-May is probably a good time. I went mid-June last year, and it was way too hot, at least at the start of my trip. I was 'escaping' the hell-heat from Austin then, and when I got to Moab it was even hotter there. I liked Moab Brewery in town. Moab is a lot more fun to check out (and way more walkable) than Torrey.
  12. Yea, the not reliable is new to me too. (So Brisket, they haven't lost me yet.) I haven't flown them since the pandemic, but I remember consistently that they were usually not that competitively priced, but sometimes they were, and those times they were a little quirky but fine, and I never regretted flying them.
  13. Would you sit in the airport for most of a week before taking Spirit?
  14. Don't know about CleverNickname, but the term "junk silver" is often used for the 90% silver coin that used to be used in the US, that is not in nice enough condition to be collectible. So, quarters/dimes/halves from 1964 or earlier.
  15. Yeah, this is some kind of money laundering. At first, it all sounded completely ridiculous (as you would expect), but after even all the Trumpers said this was ridiculous, and then they all sell out immediately (even though it seems very hard to actually download them), there is funny business going on.
  16. This. The zero interest rate environment that we have had for about a decade and a half now, is not normal or healthy. It meant that savers got jack-squat in returns, and there was all this capital chasing any kind of return which led to all kinds of crazy things like crypto. I am of the opinion that avoiding a recession is more critical than avoiding inflation right now, but much of the interest rate increases is really things getting back to sort of normal and not really trying to slow things down.
  17. Sea Skua has supposedly just been replaced by an upgrade (Sea Venom, I think), so they might just have them as surplus not quite disposed of, and it could be effective against small ships. But it does seem to be a rather old weapon design, and you need the right radar for it.
  18. Sea Skua, probably.
  19. pantone159

    USMNT 2022

    This. We have a tournament game where we need a win, and anything that distracts from that should not be on the agenda. I am no fan of the Iran government, but all that USSF should have to do with that is claiming all 3 points tomorrow.
  20. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11478827/CHAOS-Juventus-ENTIRE-board-resigns-following-stunning-meeting-Monday.html Well since the Daily Mail is now a more reliable news source... the ENTIRE board resigns following a stunning meeting on Monday amid charges of false accounting... with president Andrea Agnelli and director Pavel Nedved leading the exodus
  21. And then you will need a software developer to do the very strict and unambiguous specification of the requirement. And then you will be back to exactly the result of every software writing automation system that has ever been developed (over probably 40+ years of trying). Namely, there needs to be a human software developer to specify exactly and unambiguously what you want. Only this time, you will be working with a system that has much inferior tools (like debuggers) than the programing language that you just 'eliminated'.
  22. pantone159

    MUNDIAL XXII

    Do they let flags of Mauritius or Seychelles in?
  23. So why do so many of them become real estate agents? Answer me that one!
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