The New Coffee Room

I ventured into the congestion zone in my car yesterday, first time.

I was coming down the FDR (highway on east side of Manhattan island) and the exit one before the zone was backed up. People were avoiding the zone, as intended.

I went on. Perhaps there was a little less traffic in the zone but I don’t drive it enough to notice the difference. Plus if I drive there 5-10 times a year it’s at a different time of day so that probably adds too much variability for me to notice a difference.

@George-K said in The Difference Between Campaigning and Governing:

Now USA has to insert the age of the President-elect...because TDS.

Well it’s also pretty historic. He will be the oldest person ever to be sworn in to the office. By a number of months. lol

I haven’t either but when AO discussed the case they mentioned who he was.

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Apparently there was discussion about whether ‘false in context’ is a third thing (between false and misleading), and whether there’s any difference between ‘false in context’ and ‘misleading’.

It would be popular outside the beltway, that’s for sure.

They announced the store closures some months ago.

I guess I can say I’m proud of my town, I don’t believe anything is locked up. Maybe the baby food but stores were hiding that behind some kind of security for years.

I have had to get an employee to unlock really basic shit I needed in CA during my August vacation. I believe even toothpaste was locked. And laundry detergent.

In my case it wasn’t a big deal but if I lived there I’d definitely make a habit out of getting it delivered from Amazon rather than go through that every time I need a toiletry or OTC med. especially since AMZN is cheaper.

I still haven’t gone through the pickleball stage of late middle aged white folk yet. Puzzles and then finally bingo are even further out.

It could be that Obama was more targeted. I remember there was concern about sentencing disparities between black drug users crack cocaine and white the powdery kind, for example. Maybe he target those things. I’m too lazy to look it up.

What I don’t get is how there were any left. Obama and Trump both pardoned non-violent drug offenders.

Plus it’s always been a small number. The reformers fantasy has always been you have all these nice guys in federal prison who’s only crime was they did inhale but it just wasn’t true.

Maybe earlier rounds excluded people dealing? And now this gets the dealers? I really don’t know.

I’d tell the truth.

‘Of course not. and don’t even bother asking any other nominees. If we were such people we wouldn’t be here because he’s selecting for fealty, not strength or independence’.

Gotta purge the Reaganites.

The funny thing is he tells Turner there’s too many headwinds from mar a lago then smiles to the camera and says ‘it’s a House decision’ and went on about what a great job Turner did.

I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t remember firing anyone who was doing a great job.

@George-K

‘Some guy?’

That was the nephew and grandson of the Mayors Daley.

~20 flights apparently.

I like how the compress all the graphs so that any decline looks like a collapse