@Jolly said in DACA Dollars: You know what, scooter? Life ain't fair. And man is not perfect. The only way to have a functioning society, is to have fair laws, reasonably enforced to try to create equal justice under those laws. People who break laws should be treated with a modicum of compassion, but break the law they did. Therefore, should they be rewarded or penalized? The only logical thing to do, is to penalize them in some way, not reward them, which is what you desire to do. And then you wish to double down and increase the number of people entering the country illegally. Newsflash, scooter...Those illegals are sucking resources. Money that either should never have been spent or money that should be spent on citizens. Schools, healthcare, infrastructure, etc., all cost more than they should, factoring in the illegals. Read on the news today: https://nypost.com/2023/03/03/bidens-migrant-mess-costing-new-york-city-5-million-a-day/ That's $5,000,000/day in one city. Now, tell me again about how wonderful illegals are?

@89th said in Parler is back: Their slogan ends with "speak free"... Shouldn't it be "speak freely"? Yes, I know Apple's famous slogan should also be Think Differently. "Speak free" could just be a riff off of Apple, but I doubt that's all there was to it. There's a growing trend in some corners of U.S. conservative marketing that, thinking about it now, is a lot more prevalent in Australia. (Some of Cooper's new beer ads offer pretty good examples.) Pragmatic plain-speaking is seen as a virtue whereas sounding educated in a particular way is not a good look. I'd bet part of the tone there was deliberate.

I could consult. I'm just too lazy...

@taiwan_girl said in USD$100K in DIMES stolen: Not sure how you would be able to spend these. I guess 10 cents at a time. LOL https://news.yahoo.com/1-million-dimes-worth-100-192800238.html You don't think a fence would take cash?

Investing your savings in Apple is probably higher yield. Ironic.

@LuFins-Dad said in At the Ballet: Has anybody considered the dancer that didn’t make the cut in favor of this guy? Somewhere deep down I have faith that a position was opened for this person, which did not take away from the normal positions. I mean the admissions people are apes like everybody else, and they've devoted their lives to the pursuit of this art. The admissions category for this specimen would be beyond obvious for them, regardless of cultural programming.

@Axtremus said in TAR: It says the fictional Lydia Tar character is largely based on Marin Alsop, a Bernstein student. Yeah, I've seen that as well. Gotta wonder how much is factual.

Bro gets props for using "Tocquevillian localism" and "LARPing" in the same paragraph. Loses some points, though, for using the latter unconfidently. Same goes for Pac-Man. Anyway, yeah, good points.

And yet...The military says the Pentagon is too small and they want to build a bigger building. Seems to me, the right hand has no idea what the left hand is doing, so why do we need more hands?

@George-K said in Charge up!: @Doctor-Phibes said in Charge up!: They have charging points where I work. It might be a good choice for the daily grind to work. With the new house and the stupid management in the office rule I'm commuting 350 miles a week, and the gas cost is adding up. Of course, there's no way I can afford another car. I humbly suggested it was high time I got promoted - the next level up get a car allowance. I suspect my pleas fell on deaf ears. I get it. How long would it take to charge up if you can't do it overnight in your garage? Are your charging points at work "free?" You're burning 70 gallons a week (at 20 mpg). That's probably about $220 a week in gas. I think we might have to pay, but they're cheap. There's a ton of them, but they never seem to be used. I'm not using anywhere near that much gas - it would be 70 gallons a month at 20mpg, but I think I'm getting between 32 and 35 mpg - it's pretty much all highway, and it's not a big car, so that's what, 10 gallons of gas a week commuting, maybe slightly more

He's aged almost as well as I have... [image: 1681431527750-339909873_603863698464818_2953491832358349645_n.jpg]

"A little meat...a little bacon." "It glues..." Unless you pull it up, LOL. This is a LOT of work. Interesting to watch, but not gonna happen in my house.

https://hasanjasim.online/worlds-longest-walk-the-14000-mile-journey-from-cape-town-to-magadan/?fbclid=IwAR090NYoP-LnFuXKM75nFoVzyrq8JOwhtZ6iwJXR7t8CdHWvsQ1llnq-rF8 Looking for a fun walking holiday to get back in shape? Here’s a challenge. Stretching 14,000 miles (22,387km) from Cape Town in South Africa to Magadan in Russia, this route might be the world’s longest walk, and it certainly sounds gruelling. Credit for this lengthy route goes to Reddit user cbz3000, who drew it up on Google Maps in 2019. Claiming it to be the longest walking distance possible on the site, they found a route that required no flights, ferry’s (sic) or other boat-crossings: just open roads and bridges. The route takes the brave traveller up through Africa, past the Suez Canal, through Turkey, Central Asia and across Siberia to Magadan. [image: 1681421618423-image.png]

He should have been worth $100M. He was worth $18,000 when he died

@Jolly said in Someone here has a birthday: Or have his wife do it for you? Mrs. (I like my steak like a hockey puck) George is treating me with lasagna. Almost 46 years of marriage, and she's not the best cook (she'll even agree with my assessment). Should be...interesting.

If it had been in Chicago, they'd still be looking. Most recent stat I saw is that about 60% of murders don't even result in an arrest, let alone a conviction.

@George-K said in Is there *any* doubt he's running?: He already won there. No, I mean Floridians seem to require hearing messages more than once. Maybe it's the alligator pee in the water system.