SOB_Van_Owen

I was there. Mid-70's southern Florida. The most batshit crazy fundies making my life an utter misery for around 4 years. Surely they don't still exist.

Only know about chicken fish from Tom Waits and John Lurie.

U.S. has the Dr. Bronner's soap label of currencies.

I'd like to see it more active. Long-term maintainer here. 115 lb loss. Kept off with little variation for over two decades. Life events impacted my equilibrium over the last 2 years and I've laid on ~15 lbs I can't afford to carry for health reasons. It is coming off, just slower than I'd like. Welcome support and happy to share experiences.

Seems to me that weight maintenance is inherently difficult. Given that such a small percentage manage to preserve a major weight loss. It's something that requires daily mindfulness that is difficult to maintain in the stresses of life in this era.

AT&T are trash. Took us far too long to dump them. Glad we did. Found much better service at a quarter the cost.

And I'm cracking up at the scammers phoning up my 85 year old father telling him his Windows has been compromised on his Linux desktop.

Sadly, the sociopath/idiotic formula does seem to resonate with the algorithms and/or the public. There is a local creator that I know to be a thoughtful, well-rounded person, yet they had to reduce themselves to a cartoon caricature in order to get traction. But that approach seems to have worked out for them, at least initially through Tik Tok and YouTube. Now I see them taking on increasingly sketchy sponsorships as their 15 minutes fades. And of course audience capture indisputably steers media makers into conspiratorial niches they can't escape without sacrificing views/payout. Authenticity be damned.

Whoa. "Going to Hell in a handbasket" just got literal.

Picard's alternate life on that doomed world inspires some deja vu bumping up against current events.

(purporpoise reasons)

No doubt. Some folks seem to believe everything has to happen in a vacuum.