He had to resign as mayor before I moved here. I cannot have any respect for a guy who wrote a check to a hooker., much less bounced it.

Give that elephant a drumstick and let it play. I bet it would.

@jon-nyc said in The party of Gun Care and Health Control: kick an estimated 600,000 people off health insurance. They will ask some able-bodied adults with no dependents to do some work. And this will reduce some Medicaid. Obamacare (ACA) will still provide free health insurance to all who want it, sick, healthy, old, young or otherwise.

I didn't realize I was such a wimp. Just reading that list made me nauseated.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/01/business/first-republic-purchase-hnk-intl/index.html First Republic Bank took over by the government then bought by JPMorgan Chase.

@Jolly said in Cowboy Mounted Shooting: Horses are trained to drop their heads and stand still, when you drop the reins on their neck. Nothing like a well-trained horse. I trained Simon to "ground tie." If I dropped the lead rope onto the ground, he would stand still, as though he were tied to the ground. I could walk away, and although he would look at me, he's stay put.

In my youth I knowingly bounced a couple checks so we could eat. You'd be surprised what you do when you have very few choices.

Our days are numbered, I fear.

Kinda the point. She is a star in her league. She wouldn't even make a team in the NBA.

@Mik said in Caption contest. Air Equus edition.: Over to the right you can see a person standing up. I wonder if he's there for the duration of the flight. He's probably just doing the safety presentation.

@Jolly I posted the RT offer when it came out. The Russian State TV offer was new to me. Your guy is very popular in the Kremlin. They must have a thing for Principled Truth Tellers over there.

@Jolly said in Vaccine Side Effects: Yet, it is undeniable some people have had some nasty side effects from the vaccine. Yes, and it is undeniable that some people have had some nasty side effects from NOT getting the vaccine. (Like dying!!!). :eek

@Aqua-Letifer Very interesting and beautiful pictures.

It will be interesting to see if they can finally come up with a "root" cause of this.

@George-K said in Hay Cast! Your "I got yer alarm clock right here" post of the day.: In the comments: Him 4 hours later. [image: 1682767933011-image.png] Exactly. I hate living next to roosters!

OOPS! https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1652867704066326534?s=20

@Axtremus said in Meanwhile, in New York...: @Doctor-Phibes , I once visited an underground coal mine and had long talks with the engineers there. One safety engineer, in particular, went into all sorts of spark prevention safety measures that they had to take with just about every piece of electronic they are allowed to take into the mine. It was quite eye opening. That's my job. Intrinsic safety. You limit the energy to levels that won't cause an ignition. Coal mining is a little different, as the underground aspect causes additional hazards, but the concepts are the same. The alternative method is to put the electronics in an explosionproof enclosure (i.e. a big metal box), that prevents an explosion from spreading, but that's a little unsophisticated, as are the people who do it.

Depends on what one needs to do. In agrarian societies it seems people have to get up early and start work early else the day gets too hot for outdoor work. So, circadian cycle or not, teenagers or not, you get up early else work does not get done. For the most part we are not an agrarian society anymore but old habits mislabeled as virtue still telling us that getting up early is good. But more practically, we are limited by transportation and childcare. Grownups have to get to work, so children have to be dropped off (or at least picked up from the house) before grownups start working. For certain age range, school takes on the childcare function. Add transportation time and the desire to avoid adding more buses to “rush hour” and voila, school age children has to get up early and get onto school buses early, circadian rhythm be damned. Local high schoolers (some of them, anyway) have been advocating for later school start time. They have been at it for years, but has yet to succeed. The pandemic has mixed things up a bit, showing us some alternatives. Maybe that will shake somethings loose for the high schooler’s plight. :man-shrugging:

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