The New Coffee Room

Everybody told me that the city wasn’t as bright once I left…

And 1970’s environmental wet dreams didn’t motivate prior administrations…

We’re using an accountant and I am backing it up with a Turbo Tax audit…

Wind farms suck, but offshore wind farms even more so. They are absolutely destroying marine life, the maintenance and repair issues are compounded exponentially because of their location, they utilize incredibly high levels of rare earths that require over extensive carbon investment to extract, and most of their broken old components aren’t recyclable. They are a 1970s wet dream that turned out exactly like most wet dreams of the 70s.

Trump’s mistake is pushing oil… Go Nuclear, baby!

Well, occasionally government works.

The bigger issue, IMO, is the failure to treat all of these small conveyances (including regular old bicycles) like vehicles.

The other day I went into DC and these asshats on the e-scooters were everywhere, cutting in and out of traffic, zipping down between vehicles at traffic lights, and then blowing right through the lights. If DC would enforce their own laws on these idiots, they wouldn’t need to have the most corrupt speeding cameras in the nation.

How? Did he accidentally roundhouse kick himself?

Not that I’m aware of. She really withdrew from Social Media, but she was a former employee of Jordan Kitt’s, and we have this informal network that keeps track of each other. I haven’t heard anything to that end.

@jon-nyc said:

I think Caligula became emperor on this day too.

So shit literally went down…

Speaking of Costco, big ass SUV behind me. 10 minute long line/wait to get to the pumps… Karen gets out of the Highlander, proceeds to put 1.5 gallons into the beast., then starts it up and proceeds to idle and wait while I pump the 15 gallons into the sedan. Who the hell sits in a line like that to put in 2 gallons at most? And hell, she probably used up a quarter of it idling….

One of the things that I love about the Genesis, it runs great on 87… I just spent $52 putting in ~15 gallons at Costco…

That’s 8 jobs gone…

On the other hand, who builds, maintains, and installs these devices? It might create more jobs on the other side…

@jon-nyc said:

I just finished up a Duke visit and have a couple hours to kill until my flight, so I found a local bbq joint.

1/2lb Texas brisket, fries, and baked beans.

The brisket (if lean) is the only part of that I am allowed to touch, right now.

In other news, .07% of NK Parliamentary Voters have just accidentally fallen off of rooftops, quite accidentally.

I’m personally against it, but not shedding any tears, either. I’ll support a candidate that opposes the death penalty, but only if they meet a laundry list of other positions, first.

While I hope that this brings closure to Nathan and the family, I don’t ultimately believe it will bring peace, and I hope they have found their peace in other ways.

As a complete non-sequiter, my store was visited by a great pianist with a completely reasonable and non-controversial political philosophy that I can agree with parts of but still has an unhealthy sexual ovbsesssion with the WaPo…

@taiwan_girl said:

That picture had to be taken exactly in the 40 seconds that the area wasn’t impacted with rain.

Do ye happen to have a little Irish in ya?

@xenon said:

@LuFins-Dad
Ha! Just cancelled it. I was under the impression Mickey was coming from Netflix. Should have thought a little harder.

Finley’s a little beyond MM Playhouse, but he occasionally sees it and wants to watch. He’s smack in that in-between phase.

@taiwan_girl said:

@LuFins-Dad Ah okay. Seems weird that the HBO, Paramount, etc. dont "encrypt" their streaming to prevent this from happening. I am guessing that they have thought about it, and it can't be done.

(I know absolutely nothing about how streaming works on a scientific basis).

I don’t know about Encryption, but you can use the device to have the actual HBO Max app, the same as any streaming platform… Smart TV’s, phones, PC’’s… You pay for the service just like normal…

Getting the illegal feeds are beyond me. I know they exist, but they exist on phones and PCs as well.