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  1. He is, at heart, a fairy. NTTAWT.
  2. So, I just was procrastinating this because I got mad about having to pay someone to do it. Figured I'd wait for some rough running or a blinking CEL. Well, the CEL went away. The code was P015b, which is O2 sensor "delayed," which I interpret as a precursor to failure. It was also cold as balls when it tripped, as I recall. Anyway, I suppose I'm still on the hook for the 02 Sensor, but I can safely put it off a bit longer.
  3. Yeah I think your fundamental point that they are sophisticated business operations remains. And we probably shouldn't think of Farmer Brown and Elsa, Babe and so forth when we think of farms. Somewhere years ago I had come to the same belief that it was all ConAgra and ADM and all them. And I usually don't make stuff up out of the whole cloth. Maybe at one time they were renting and operating a lot of farmland.
  4. Man, I HATE the noise and light of a TV in bed trying to sleep. I can sometimes get to sleep but the infiltration of noise and dialog into my fitful rest is crazy-making. Wife likes it a lot though, but she'll pass and and then fuss at me if I turn it off. Might have to look into some of these things.
  5. Not true, ackshually. Also:
  6. In one, as the Brits say.
  7. As said elsewhere, this ignorance is quite similar to maga and they probably are maga, if they can even vote or do vote.. But it has its genesis somewhere else.
  8. Oh I know. And a lot of those fuckos are Trumpkins. But they're off everyone else's radar, except maybe the family that's abandoned them to their social security. And you know who pays zero taxes, much of the time @fattyflattie? Fuckin olds that's who. But there are a lot of upper-middlers whose ox would get gored by that. And I'm gonna guess that if payments were skipped or delayed on a widespread basis, the assisted living would have to make some accomodations for late rent.
  9. He is proving to be a complete, Peter Navarro-level, dipshit. We pay a shit ton for MIL's assisted living and her SS check defrays some of it. I am going to be one pissed off motherfucker if they skip a check and I bet everyone else at the assisted living will be too, or their family.
  10. Well, we heard about it in 1959, when the F4 exceeded Mach 2.5. And again in 1967 on the bomber front with the F111. And then again in 1969 with the F14. Still again in 1974 with the F16. And yet again in 1985 with the F-15. So, yeah, not that often. If you are a military aviation ignoramus.
  11. Undoubtedly. One polyannaish hope I have for this shit is, assuming we recover and elect a sane candidate again, someone who understands government and the United States will have to rebuild things. And hopefully we can build it back better, faster, stronger. /six million dollar man
  12. Yeah, what I'm trying to do is when I charge it, turn off airplane mode/turn on wifi and let it reach a steady state so that when I come back and may need to download a book, I'm good to go. Turning off wifi and saving battery is a blinding glimpse of the obvious. But until recently, I was leaving wifi on most of the time and watching the battery drain pretty fast thinking the battery had just lost a lot of capacity, which it no doubt has. Then flew not too long ago, keeping it in airplane mode and was kind of stunned how long it stayed at !00%. Like the whole flight. One thing that is kind of a bummer: while the ereader apps seem to make minimal use of resources and operable without internet, one thing I had gotten kind of in the habit of doing is looking up words, places, historical events while I read and I can't do that easily anymore. Maybe to my benefit, because I got completely stalled out on Guns of August once refreshing myself on shit like the Zimmerman telegram.
  13. Haha yeah I know. Being a Lenovo device, it was good for only one OS update. So the OS itself isn't taxing the hardware, I guess. But probably updated apps are. More than anything, I guess I'm just curious about what happens when a device starts its death throes. On the one hand, I'm not really a "power user" of electronics; on the other, I have been doing this long enough that I do things like close tabs, close apps, clear caches and clean up storage, and avoid the memory and resource hogs until I really need them, etc. so I can generally milk life out of devices beyond what a lot of people could tolerate. As I said, it still works alright as a reader with the exceptions noted. And I only have one or two apps "outwardly" open or active usually, the reader and maybe chrome or something else and with wifi off it works reasonably well. Turn the wifi back on and it just crawls and glitches, at least until it reaches some steady state after 10-15 minutes. One thing I do have a lot of on there that I rarely use is "media" apps, Netflix, Prime, Max etc. I just don't usually watch movies or videos on small-screen devices. I suppose those are bigger hogs even "inactive" than I might think.
  14. Yeah, there's just a certain level of privilege where the "team" aspects of politics aren't really in play anymore. A whole lot of us are there. Thankfully, I don't have many magats in my life at least that I'm aware of, because I don't bring it up with clients and business relations, and neither do they. One of my main clients imports most of their stuff from China (but then again so does most of their competition). I have made only the gentlest of inquiries as to what this bullshit is doing to their "prospects."
  15. Doesn't surprise me much. Paul Weiss is a Wall Street firm, basically, and, as such more magat-aligned than not (not really referencing their political allegiances, but rather their likely client base). I was rather stunned they were on the wrong end of a Trump EO in the first place. And all apparently because of one lawyer. Paul Weiss is the kind of firm that Trump would have wanted to be chummy with when he was still attempting to curry favor among the Manhattan jet set. Now that shoe is on the other foot. Perkins Coie is a West Coast firm and relatively new to the national big leagues. Although their client base in terms of mega corps is probably quite similar to Paul Weiss, and both are "national law firms" now, I think they perceive they have less to lose by defying Trump, and more to gain. That "acknowledged wrongdoing" thing I think is probably fabricated from the whole cloth. And I bet that Karp dude is spitting mad about it. But they won't do shit about it.
  16. That's usually the mark of a shithead in my book. Chip Babcock, for example, is a media/defamation lawyer that's tops in the field with victories in some very high profile cases. And no one outside the legal profession has heard of him. Perhaps I am naive or a retrogrouch (fully confess to the latter), but that makes Chip Babcock:
  17. No, Chip Babcock. He's been Texas' leading defamation lawyer for a long time. From what I know of him, he's a good guy that's just good at what he does, on the substance, the merits. One thing that's interesting and maybe telling about him is all this time he's stayed at "lil ol" Jackson Walker, never chasing huger superstar "paychecks" at the latest national carpetbagger law firm. He's not one of these blowhards like this Freedman guy that seems to be effective, if he is, by being a shithead.
  18. Yeah, although similar to MAGA in many ways, this is a kind of uniquely ignorant and benighted segment of society. I mean, they've lived here and in Mexico for a century or more and still speak an obscure German dialect. What's kind of amusing is that MAGA isn't meeting them with demands that they aSsImIlAtE!
  19. I have a Lenovo tablet that I use mostly for reading. It's several years old (just checked it just turned 4). Runs Android 10, 2GB RAM, and some mediatek processor before they were anything but a cheap option. About half of its storage of 32GB is used. I use the Kindle App on it and FB Reader. It still takes a charge (at least a day's worth anyway) and I recently "discovered" that if I leave it in airplane mode or turn off wifi, the battery life is much better. So, wifi is off one way or the other most of the time except when I really need to surf something from the net, or to download content for the readers. During normal operation, it's tolerable for reading and very light surfing, so maybe only two or three apps "open." But I notice that if I turn on wifi to commence a download or do some surfing, it becomes super-glitchy and slow. It almost always then has some updates from Play queued up. Fairly obviously, letting those install while trying to get anything done just about freezes it, but it's bad either way. So, I guess this has become officially the oldest android device I have ever owned. I do tend to extend phone use beyond the usual one or two years without suffering much, Is this just the nature of an old, cheap android device? Would there be any benefit to a factory reset? Should I uninstall apps with heavy background use (isn't that really all of them anymore?). TIA.
  20. I think the Park Cities country club set still abides by the general notions of don't discuss politics or religion in polite company. That, together with the assumption that if you're wealthy you're with em probably means it doesn't get brought up much. And even if racism has been rampant in that area forever, there's still some shame in it, and, again, doesn't get explicitly referenced. It's really the grievance/blame culture that makes the super-culty un-self-aware Trumpers, and they're mostly poor idiots. The Park Cities set is more "muh taxes" than any grievance.
  21. Addendum. I used to kind of buy in to the homogeneity idea. But research has shown the more important factor is whether the citizens trust one another. So, rather than being an "inherent" characteristic of a society, like ethnic homogeneity, it has more to do with learned behavior (trust, or distrust). I suppose it's easier to trust those who look and sound just like you and go to the same church, but there's no real reason to distrust those who don't, unless someone is teaching you that. Trumpism is completely dependent on divisiveness and blame, and Republicans have been at it to a greater or lesser degree for several decades.
  22. And he has a M1917 Trench Knife stuck in his wall.
  23. I think it's been more than 24 hours. Just sayin.
  24. Fuck all that, he's a loudmouth drug addict with no business in our national security. He would never in a million years obtain a security clearance of this level through normal channels.
  25. Fuck the conflicts of interest, what possible legitimate interest could the government have in disclosing military secrets to Elon fucking Musk?
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