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Gatorubet

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  1. username checks out
  2. Everyone keeps ducking my penguin meat question…
  3. While I never knew there were so many dip shits in this country, the numbers still show we are a 1-4 % difference between who gets in power. I count on Trump and Company being absolute liars. And so they will not issue numbers that are unfavorable. But the bright side is they are also incredibly stupid. Which means they will either just quit issuing reports, or say that we have 100% employment when two out of three of your neighbors were laid off. While maggots will have no problem with that, I would bet my life that unemployed people with no health insurance will not react kindly to this administration lying about those issues. I’m not saying this guarantees a blue wave, but I am saying that the GOP is going to have to put in a lot more work in their election chicanery efforts to pull this off.
  4. Any chatter about freezing or terminating existing plans? I assume it would have an extremely negative impact on employee morale. I have no idea what the overhead is to continue existing 401(k) plans.
  5. “Testing Methods: The rest of the world, including Russia, primarily uses the Research Octane Number (RON), which is a single measure of a fuel's anti-knock properties. US Method: The United States uses the Anti-Knock Index (AKI)(or (R+M)/2), which is the average of the RON and the Motor Octane Number (MON). Conversion: Since MON is always lower than RON, the AKI is typically 4-6 points lower than the RON for the same fuel. How A-76 compares The number 76 in A-76 refers to the MON. Since A-76 is defined by a single number (MON), this is the equivalent of the other number found on Russian fuel pumps. Given that a fuel with a 92 RON in Russia is about an 88.5 AKI in the US, a Russian A-76 fuel would be roughly equivalent to the 85 AKI (or lower) range, fitting into the lowest tier of US gasoline grades.” Comment: if a 92 Russian RON classification is closer to 88.5 US AKI octane rating, then a 72 Russian RON classification would be closer to a 64 US octane rating. Yikes! That also means the Russian 95 gas is closer to 90 octane US.
  6. That will buff right out.
  7. La Boulangerie is great. Here are the monthly dad-son dinner lineup possibilities:
  8. Odd. Like last Friday’s tetanus/Covid/flu triad of shots, my first shingles vaccine shot three weeks ago wound up being a nothing burger as well. It makes me wonder whether my immune system is reacting at all.
  9. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-declares-partial-diesel-export-ban-until-year-end-extends-gasoline-ban-2025-09-30/ Not enough diesel or gas to sell outside Russia. Who needs rubles?
  10. There is exactly zero chance that the Russian black market isn’t selling the now precious fuel at inflated prices to people who have money to purchase far more than 8 gallons…. and the ability to stock up on as many gallons as possible before things get worse. Which will lead to further shortages. There is a Lada Facebook group that shares information, and it appears most get between 8 to 11 KM per liter. Basically call it 20 miles a gallon. So each driver will have 150 to 160 miles per 30 liter fill up. The problem, of course, is that there needs to be a gas station - with fuel available - when you start to run out, and you always have to save enough fuel before you wait in line to be able to eventually make it to the station. As always, people who live in large metropolitan areas can take the bus and subway/train. The rest of the people who live in vast rural Russia (and depend upon driving to get to work and the grocery store) are going to be suffering. Edit: i’m not sure which vehicles need the 95 versus the 92 to work properly. The one time my cheap kid borrowed my BMW and brought it back filled with cheap 87 octane gas, I knew it immediately. I have no idea which octane brand is still available and what impact that has on anything..
  11. VAPA:
  12. it kind of looks like he just finished the “welcome to the platoon” initiation.
  13. My oldest son just took me to dinner at Herbsaint. He is a manager at Peche. He recently moved from the Brennan organization to Donald Link’s restaurant Empire. The managers get a couple hundred dollars a month to go to other Link entities within the organization. They want managers to try the food and check out the other places. My son is determined that I need to be his dining companion every month when we do this.
  14. Know what else they abhor?
  15. That’s not his true fur color. He dyes it.
  16. ABC to the death!
  17. Dude. Don’t. I have no problem with you being LDS, as I come from LDS stock. My ancestors were there in Nauvoo when Brigham Young supposedly spoke in Joseph Smith’s voice - but a quick and simple comparison of LDS beliefs and what the dudes in the Council of Nicea decided were core Christian beliefs shows that you guys….aren’t. And really, people who believe in talking burning bushes and an actual ark and a 6000-year-old earth have no business taking a dump on LDS folks just because Joseph Smith looked in his hat at the magic stones and deciphered the text that turned into the book of Mormon. But what you call yourself is not relevant to the current situation. That doesn’t mean people get to shoot up your church no matter what your beliefs. And other than the quirk where you insist you are Christian when you are clearly not under any definition except the one used by the LDS church, almost every LDS neighbor and co-employee I have worked with are absolutely wonderful people. I would rather hang with them (and you) than the many horrible evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians who fit the Christian definition box better (despite not caring for the poor and strangers). I obviously ran into a ton of LDS people when I was a scout leader at various BSA summer camps, and we always had a great time together and respected each other‘s beliefs. We switched from our usual 5 gallon jugs of sweet ice tea to lemonade in case our LDS friends needed to hydrate.
  18. Not that I think it will matter, but Trump not being smart enough to stay within a lane that would make his unilateral usurping of Congressional tariff power more palatable to Roberts and company is at least some good news. He has no strategy and he has no nuance. He just has a variety of sledgehammers at his disposal that he picks up and uses with his mood changes. But the way he is using those sledgehammers actually supports the legal position that he doesn’t have the power to do everything that he’s doing. At some point the conservative Supremes might get a clue that he’s destroying the country more than they will allow for partisan dipshittery, which might mean a key vote or two in the future as things get worse prior to the Supreme Court’s consideration of the constitutionality of his tariff debacle. See again, not that it will probably matter, but I’m looking for any faint sign of hope. imagine if some smart Autocrat was in charge instead of that dip shit.
  19. Not gonna lie, the high of 87 today was just gloriously nice and lacking typical New Orleans humidity. Morning walks with the mutt in the low 70s is gloriouser-er. But I’ve had to water the lawn to keep it from dying too early, as we’ve had about a half inch of rain in almost a month. I’ll take it!
  20. For reasons unknown, images that show up above like in Brisket’s post appear to me as an orange blank field with a small blue square question mark box in the middle instead of an image. I assume that those are all mostly really choice nude shots that I can’t see while the Texans all laugh…
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