Daily Tech News 2 February 2024

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Total Pixy Recall: Snap has issued a recall of every Pixy. (The Verge)

More specifically, they are recalling the Pixy battery, but since they are recalling the Pixy battery because it catches fire, they very much do not want you to send back the battery.

They want you to send back the Pixy, without the battery, although the Pixy itself is perfectly fine and it's the battery that's the problem.

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Pairing the new Ryzen 8700G with DDR5-9000 memory increases performance by 15%/ (Guru3D)

Moving from DDR5-6400 to 8000 already doubles the price, and I couldn't find DDR5-9000 for sale at all.

Pairing the slightly cheaper Ryzen 7700 with a Radeon 6600 would cost no more and would deliver around twice the graphics performance.

The 7800G is a good all-rounder chip if you mostly use your computer for work with some occasional light gaming. If you care about that extra 15% of graphics performance, just buy a graphics card.
Speaking of memory, you can now add 256GB of RAM to regular Intel desktop systems except you can't. (WCCFTech)

64GB memory modules should be here soon, but right now it's just a check box on the motherboard feature list.
Speaking of check boxes on motherboard feature lists, it seems that Intel started supporting ECC memory - two years ago.

The Core i5 12500 and up, 13500 and up, and 14500 and up all support ECC RAM, both with DDR4 and DDR5.

Finding a motherboard that enables that support is harder, but Gigabyte looks to be a good bet. Several of their motherboards, again both DDR4 and DDR5 models, enable ECC.
There's another security vulnerability in GitLab. (Tech Radar)

This one is marked critical, but it's a privilege escalation bug, so it only applies to users who are already logged in to your GitLab server.

Disclaimer: 256GB should be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:02 AM (omVj0)

2 >>>They want you to send back the Pixy

They can't have our Pixy!

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:03 AM (weK7N)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 02, 2024 04:04 AM (T4tVD)

4 >>>Total Pixy Recall

Maybe they just want us to remember and to think on the Pixy.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:05 AM (weK7N)

5 Evening and morning to early risers and late toilers! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished. For me, today, five days next week, and then I have a four-day weekend (Mawdi Grass -- the last I'll ever have to suffer through, I hope). MG is fun when you're a kid. In fact the parades came by half a block from my house until I was in college. But as a grownup, if the parade is not in your neighborhood, you have to battle traffic, find a parking space, walk blocks to the route, then battle your way home. No.

If it is in your neighborhood, fine, but you have to get home before it all starts in the evening, or you'll find it hard to cross the parade route. And you can't get out until the parade and traffic are over.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:07 AM (omVj0)

6 Annette O'Toole is guesting on a 1976 Barnaby Jones!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:07 AM (omVj0)

7 They want you to send back the Pixy, without the battery, although the Pixy itself is perfectly fine and it's the battery that's the problem.

Boss said: "DO SOMETHING"

So we did.

Posted by: Bruce at February 02, 2024 04:08 AM (vd8XM)

8 "They don'tt want you to drop your battery at a battery drop off big box store."

Ummm, sure, yeah i won't drop it there like i clearly do with all the other batteries i dispose of totally properly and not just in the trash.

Posted by: Rbastid at February 02, 2024 04:11 AM (rYS8C)

9 a cheery Friday thought:

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:11 AM (weK7N)

10

Mardi Gras!

Man, I LOVE having King Cake shoved up my ass and then eaten out by quadriplegic tranny dwarves with hepatitis and borderline personality disorder!

That's a good weekend right there!

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at February 02, 2024 04:14 AM (V+Ela)

11 That's a good weekend right there!
Posted by: Don Lemonparty

HA!

Posted by: Bruce at February 02, 2024 04:15 AM (vd8XM)

12 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:16 AM (fwDg9)

13 Seems weird to have Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day on the same day …

Posted by: Adriane the Intersectional Movie Critic . . . at February 02, 2024 04:18 AM (4Winp)

14 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2024 04:20 AM (sAmhv)

15 Seems weird to have Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day on the same day …
Posted by: Adriane

Especially during Black History Month

Posted by: Bruce at February 02, 2024 04:20 AM (vd8XM)

16 If it is in your neighborhood, fine, but you have to get home before it all starts in the evening, or you'll find it hard to cross the parade route. And you can't get out until the parade and traffic are over.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Pick up a 2nd hand saxophone at a pawn shop and pretend to be part of the parade …

Posted by: Adriane the Always Practical Critic . . . at February 02, 2024 04:21 AM (4Winp)

17 >>>Total Pixy Recall

So you're going to Mars?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2024 04:22 AM (sAmhv)

18 Seems weird to have Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day on the same day …
Posted by: Adriane the Intersectional Movie Critic . . . at February 02, 2024

***
I hadn't thought of that! I have to find some V-Day wrapping paper to wrap up Miss Linda's present, I mean, aside from the usual chocolate and card she'll want. Dollar Tree usually has all kinds of wrapping paper.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:24 AM (omVj0)

19 I am still feeling it from when I feel down over a week ago

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:27 AM (fwDg9)

20 I am still feeling it from when I feel down over a week ago
Posted by: Skip

Oh no! Did you hurt something?

Posted by: Bruce at February 02, 2024 04:29 AM (vd8XM)

21 19 I am still feeling it from when I feel down over a week ago
Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:27 AM (fwDg9)

I missed the story, Skip. Could you tell it?
And get better soon.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:30 AM (weK7N)

22 I just saw a meme with a guy holding up Puxatawney Phil.

Phil says, "Two more weeks of Taylor Swift"

Posted by: Bruce at February 02, 2024 04:31 AM (vd8XM)

23 Falls are bad.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:31 AM (weK7N)

24 Man, big ol' cup of no-caff "mountain tea" and I am rocking it, here.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:32 AM (weK7N)

25 Good morning! Currently 57 on the way to 64 with a little rain this evening. Golf is on the calendar this weekend, but more importantly, it's Friday so that means take the grandkids to get ice cream!

A couple of weeks ago, I had lunch with a guy I worked with about 20 years back. He's working a really big project up at Alliance. Looks like I'm going back to work on Monday.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 02, 2024 04:34 AM (YRsIm)

26 at goodreads.com, top-of-the-page banner:

Celebrate Black History Month! 100 essential new books to read

"100 Essential New Works of Fiction by Black Authors"

In celebration of Black History Month in the U.S., this year we've gathered together a collection of fiction from Black authors going back a decade.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:35 AM (weK7N)

27 just saw a meme with a guy holding up Puxatawney Phil.

Phil says, "Two more weeks of Taylor Swift"
Posted by: Bruce at February 02, 2024

***
In Da Swamp, I've always thought we should have Big Cockroach. On August 2 he comes out, and if he sees his shadow before somebody steps on him, we'll have six more weeks of summer!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:39 AM (omVj0)

28 Doggeh's got diaxxxxxh again started Tuesday. Had to take him out at 3am & 4am poor baby.
Might as well.stay up and cook fresh batch of rice & beef for later, see if it helps.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 02, 2024 04:40 AM (L4her)

29 Seems weird to have Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day on the same day …
Posted by: Adriane

It does

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 02, 2024 04:41 AM (L4her)

30 It's 55 F. here with a high projected near 70 -- you know, the kind of temps civilized climes have in April or May, not February. Big rain chance tomorrow, but then nothing more than the usual showers until next weekend, if then.

I guess I won't be washing the car until Sunday, then. When did it happen that weekends were full of errands instead of at least a little fun?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:44 AM (omVj0)

31 Actually started weeks ago at work slipped on snow/ ice on left side but got up and shook it off, week or so later getting tires checked had a way too long extention cord and feet git caught up and went down again.

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:45 AM (fwDg9)

32

Kill Whitey An Rape His Beatches An Sell 'Em As Slaveses!

Equity! Reparations! JUSTICES!

An Purple Drank an Fent8s.... Floyd!

Posted by: Stop Selling #1 Black Author as Seen on Oprah! at February 02, 2024 04:45 AM (V+Ela)

33 I am still feeling it from when I feel down over a week ago
Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:27 AM (fwDg9)

Mebbe see the Doc, or a Chiropracter ?

Posted by: JT at February 02, 2024 04:46 AM (T4tVD)

34 The other thing many people don't get about Mawdi Grass, aside from it's not just one parade but multiple days of them, is that it moves. When I worked for a courier company based in NJ, every year the supervisors had to explain to the home office why city routes could not run on that Tuesday. The bigwigs could not understand why the sudden day off shifted every year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:46 AM (omVj0)

35 And have to go to Delaware for work tomorrow. Have feeling might be back to night shift next week.

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:46 AM (fwDg9)

36 31 Actually started weeks ago at work slipped on snow/ ice on left side but got up and shook it off, week or so later getting tires checked had a way too long extention cord and feet git caught up and went down again.
Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:45 AM (fwDg9)

Darn, Skip! Ouch!

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:49 AM (weK7N)

37 Actually started weeks ago at work slipped on snow/ ice on left side but got up and shook it off, week or so later getting tires checked had a way too long extention cord and feet git caught up and went down again.
Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024

***
Skip, in late '22 I fell *up* a short flight of steps. I know how to fall and I rolled with it, landing on my left side, and shook it off as you did. A week later, suddenly, I had aches and steady pain -- on my *right* thigh and hip! I had to put in for Workmen's Comp and go to physical therapy. Took about a month to set it right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:49 AM (omVj0)

38 Sorry you're being recalled, Pixy.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 02, 2024 04:50 AM (L4her)

39 The Killer Kittens From Outer Space are ready for breakfast. I leave them some dry chow in a bowl overnight after they have a mix of canned and dry in their own bowls, but they polish that off in no time. Usually I feed 'em at 4:30, just after I shower and before my own breakfast, and then again about 5:00 pm when I get home. Little Dagny stalks around, glancing at me, as if outraged that her bowl is not full. Stirling jumps up on the couch, chirps, and bumps me with his head.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 04:53 AM (omVj0)

40 Skip, you probably should get checked out for injuries...

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 02, 2024 04:53 AM (L4her)

41 FREE PIXY

FREE PIXY

FROM THE LAND TO THE SEA, FREE PIXY!

Posted by: Ped Xing at February 02, 2024 04:54 AM (V+Ela)

42 Homey doesn't do chiropractors

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:56 AM (fwDg9)

43 Skip since you're 29, you should think about going to see the doc.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 02, 2024 04:57 AM (YRsIm)

44 42 Homey doesn't do chiropractors
Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:56 AM (fwDg9)

Me, too.

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 05:00 AM (weK7N)

45 Have to love early Lent years. Something something headlong rush of time something.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 02, 2024 05:02 AM (di6C2)

46 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 02, 2024 05:08 AM (ju2Fy)

47 Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 04:46 AM (fwDg9)

I think it must be very hard, Skip, and tiring to go back and forth between days and nights, but I expect that you do a service that is needed by other people.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:10 AM (3wz5R)

48 A nice story about a from TN, his daughters first communion and Christ coming to us :

http://tinyurl.com/4w3hhdu2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:17 AM (0mAH4)

49 http://tinyurl.com/mrxxtds5

The bill decreases the rate of increase! That is a win!

-Dan Fucking Crenshaw, R-Idiot

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 05:21 AM (2ovLw)

50 Crenshaw makes me rethink sending vets to congress.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 05:21 AM (2ovLw)

51
The average American household owes $10,000 in credit card debt, $58,957 in student loan debt, $241,840 in mortgage debt, and $22,612 in auto loans, per YahooFinance.

Ouch!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:22 AM (nIvob)

52 Celebrate Black History Month! 100 essential new books to read

"100 Essential New Works of Fiction by Black Authors"

In celebration of Black History Month in the U.S., this year we've gathered together a collection of fiction from Black authors going back a decade.
Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 04:35 AM (weK7N)
----
Considering the average American only reads about 4 books a year, it's gonna take them a good quarter of a century to read them all.

So how essential could they possibly be?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 02, 2024 05:29 AM (BpYfr)

53 Nice story about firefighters. a baby and a couple:

http://tinyurl.com/23vmpr3k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:37 AM (P7PPV)

54 My take for a long time is almost anyone sent to DC can easily be turned into a Swamp Creature.
A very common WWII Russian story line is anyone Russian who got into the German lines, no matter why was suspected to be a turncoat. Think it's exactly that

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 05:38 AM (fwDg9)

55
The latest episode of Tucker Carlson about the Darien Gap in Panama is frightening. Cliff Notes on this longer then an hour episode: There is a 60 mile gap in the Pan American highway from North and South America where it appears 'migrants' from all over the world come together. Predominately males from China (who are silent about their reasons for migration) blend with other migrants from other countries to be less noticeable in sheer numbers.

Is it an invasion force poised to strike upon some signal and bring the USA down? Time will tell. Scary stuff.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:39 AM (nIvob)

56 Story about a loyal dog:

http://tinyurl.com/3968jz6d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:40 AM (P7PPV)

57 @54, yeah, Skip, the one-two punch is either:
- they put you on the millionaire track
- you go out partying with "colleagues" and end up on video

one or the other is sufficient to ensure compliance in most cases ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 05:42 AM (QwWES)

58 Please listen to the advice from your fellow horde members and go see the doctor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:42 AM (P7PPV)

59 I love how the professional idiots always appropriate buzzwords from the right, but many years later and without seemingly knowing what the word actually means.

Gaslight was a great example. Now it's grift. I'm sure there are many many more examples to be thought of.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 05:44 AM (9UlRk)

60 FenSpouse made me laugh. First go lol at the picture and cover caption at Bing:

https://www.bing.com/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:45 AM (P7PPV)

61 thank you for that FS!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 05:46 AM (QwWES)

62 Meant " look at "

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:46 AM (P7PPV)

63 And here is FenSpouse's comment:

Phil is outstanding in his field.

I'm tired. Maybe I'm easily amused.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:48 AM (P7PPV)

64 it's not like they can think for themselves all that well, W-o, they can only steal, and stealing is a step on the path toward their only goal, destruction.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 05:48 AM (QwWES)

65 FenSpouse made me laugh. First go lol at the picture and cover caption at Bing:

https://www.bing.com/
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024

***
The Fat Rat!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 05:49 AM (omVj0)

66 Ouch!
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:22 AM (nIvob)

It wouldn't be terrible in a strong economy, where people can actually service that debt and use that leverage of present and future income to buy the nice things things they can eventually afford, but not all at once. But the important corollary information is how much people are actually keeping up with their debt. A quarter million left to pay off on your mortgage is a breeze if your payments are a quarter of your income. If they're three quarters, you should have never been given that mortgage in the first place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 05:50 AM (9UlRk)

67 "The average American household owes $10,000 in credit card debt, $58,957 in student loan debt, $241,840 in mortgage debt, and $22,612 in auto loans, per YahooFinance."

Those poor average Americans. Sucks to be them.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 05:50 AM (vFG9F)

68 Foggy but oddly warm for February, everything is wet, wife said it poured down at 2am.
Forward Dog 9 hitting a short road today.
Too bad it's not Friday

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 05:51 AM (fwDg9)

69 64 it's not like they can think for themselves all that well, W-o, they can only steal, and stealing is a step on the path toward their only goal, destruction.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 05:48 AM (QwWES)

"*You're* the grease monkey!"

"That doesn't even make sense!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 05:51 AM (9UlRk)

70 The only Black fiction/poetry writers I have read are Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes and non fiction writers W.E.B DeBois and Thomas Sowell. What would be good to read ? and no, I don't want to read "Roots."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:52 AM (P7PPV)

71 Silly tech joke:

What do you call a computer super hero?

A screen saver.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:54 AM (P7PPV)

72 Why is not the Bill Murray movie a Feb. 2 tradition? I know, it's still in copyright, but you'd think some of the streaming services would run it on this day?

It's odd. I'd never have said Bill Murray was my favorite actor. Yet, of my short list (ten) of Movies in Which I Would Change Nothing, he appears in no less than three (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Larger Than Life). Maybe it's that the material he picks to appear in appeals to me as well.

(Though I didn't care too much for Lost in Translation. Maybe I wasn't ready to appreciate it. I've never seen his version of Maugham's The Razor's Edge, either.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 02, 2024 05:54 AM (omVj0)

73 "USWNT captain blasts American soccer fans: 'Most of them aren't smart'"

You don't say.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 05:55 AM (vFG9F)

74 "Those poor average Americans. Sucks to be them. "

Sheesh, no kidding.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 05:55 AM (QwWES)

75 Distortion of markets is everywhere. What is a college loan besides a mortgage on a diploma? When the borrower and lender are both insulated from the onus of biting of more than they can chew, through fanciful regulatory schemes and legislation, you get a product (diplomas, houses, cars, Healthcare, whatever) that has no upper bound to price increase pressure.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 05:55 AM (9UlRk)

76 Bonus corny tech joke:

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:56 AM (P7PPV)

77 Now I have ☕
ho ho ho

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:57 AM (geLO8)

78 I've never had close to that amount of debt, even when buying a house and starting a new business at the same time. It would drive me mad.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 05:57 AM (vFG9F)

79 Not funny but true

The real danger of computers is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

Sydney J. Harris

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 05:58 AM (P7PPV)

80
☑ First Mortgage - Paid off
☑ Second Mortgage (student loan) - Paid off
☑ Credit cards - Paid off and gone forever
☐ Car loan - $12,000 but could pay it off

It only took about 35 years to accomplish

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:59 AM (nIvob)

81 To chew on the idea a bit more, think about how these goofball and charlatans use buzzwords wrong... they know a word like "grift" appears to have traction on the right, mostly because the left and the gope have dropped the curtain entirely on how it is they operate and so they think "i want that kind of rhetorical traction too!" and then bolt on extra vocabulary like a set of snow chains from Sears. But... the fascinating thing is that it means they *do* hear us. They do get at least some exposure to the arguments of the right... but they literally have no idea what the words mean. It is the purest form of politics as team sport.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:01 AM (9UlRk)

82 Woman's soccer captain:

"Compared to European fans, Horan — who plays for Lyon in France — claimed Americans aren’t as sharp about the game, "

Calling soccer fans dumb is a great way to get more soccer fans.

Don't you want to be more Europeeun? Smarten up America!

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 06:03 AM (vFG9F)

83 "Compared to European fans, Horan — who plays for Lyon in France — claimed Americans aren’t as sharp about the game, "

Soccer is like a lot of art. If I've got to work that damn hard to appreciate it ? The I'm not the problem.

Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 02, 2024 06:05 AM (Y0bPE)

84 >"Compared to European fans, Horan — who plays for Lyon in France — claimed Americans aren’t as sharp about the game, "
---

kick the ball in the net
don't let them kick the ball in your net
got it

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 06:06 AM (geLO8)

85 Compared to European fans, Horan — who plays for Lyon in France — claimed Americans aren’t as sharp about the game, "

Calling soccer fans dumb is a great way to get more soccer fans.

Don't you want to be more Europeeun? Smarten up America!
Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 06:03 AM (vFG9F)

I think there's actually a case to be made. The average euro either lives and breathes soccer, knowing every intricacy of the game, or doesn't watch at all. (It's a bi-modal distribution, then. Whatever. Shut up. You know what i mean.

) The average American fan just sits around with the game on bullshitting with their buddies and occasionally paying attention to the screen whenever the announcer gets loud.

That's no knock on Americans. It just means you play for our amusement. Like the little trained fleas and monkeys that you are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:08 AM (9UlRk)

86 RC truckers arrive in TX

http://tinyurl.com/bdfz8854

From "Church Militant" site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 06:09 AM (YfM3f)

87 It's Friday, it's Friday, happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 02, 2024 06:10 AM (PzBTm)

88
I'd rather watch a bunch of white dudes running around and occasionally scoring a goal as opposed to a bunch of melanin enhanced dudes kneeling while the National Anthem is being played.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:11 AM (nIvob)

89 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:12 AM (a1415)

90 there's the twirl
thank you

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 06:12 AM (geLO8)

91 The average American fan just sits around with the game on bullshitting with their buddies and occasionally paying attention to the screen whenever the announcer gets loud.

Header ... HEADER ... out of bounds. Oh well.

Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 02, 2024 06:15 AM (Y0bPE)

92 The vast majority of sports journalists have almost no idea how the game of real football is actually played. Nor do the fans. It's incredibly complicated, and what's "actually happening" isn't always readily apparent until the coaches and players sit down and analyze footage of it from multiple angles several days later.

People still like to watch football. (Real football). Because hooray touchdown or yay loud crunching sound. They don't need to know what a Sweep Red 59 Vegas is to enjoy the game.
And I had to make that up. Because i don't know what any of that crazy shit is called either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:15 AM (9UlRk)

93 ☑ First Mortgage - Paid off
☑ Second Mortgage (student loan) - Paid off
☑ Credit cards - Paid off and gone forever
☐ Car loan - $12,000 but could pay it off

It only took about 35 years to accomplish
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Congratulations. I still have a mortgage that is in price of a modest/average car. The good news is I could pay it off anytime I want but I won't/ don't because I make more money in the stock market with those funds. I was blessed by never having to take out large student loans and was able to save sufficient funds that my son, who recently graduated, came out debt free. I've never had credit card debt and never will unless something extraordinary goes wrong. As for car loans, I never had one, which reflects that I drove beater cars for years until I had enough wealth accumulated to where I could buy new cars from time to time.

So welcome to the club. It's a fantastic place to be.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 06:18 AM (otQSo)

94 >88 I'd rather watch a bunch of white dudes running around and occasionally scoring a goal as opposed to a bunch of melanin enhanced dudes kneeling while the National Anthem is being played.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:11 AM (nIvob)

I had the good fortune to take my son to Liverpool to see a Premier League match last year. It was the best live sporting event I have ever attended. The fans were great and even got invited to a supporters club pub afterwards - which was even more fun.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 02, 2024 06:18 AM (GTqXr)

95 Rabbi's daughter reflects on "Fixing our eyes on the future and a passage from Proverbs:

http://tinyurl.com/5n982cm2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 06:18 AM (Ki//m)

96 I didn't see Groundhog Day until a few years ago, figured it was just a corny movie, but it's very good as it turned out

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 06:19 AM (dagd5)

97
'Soccer is boring' say the people who don't realize that the 60 minute football game can be completely condensed into 7 minutes of action.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:19 AM (nIvob)

98 I had no idea that protesters had shut down traffic into DC again yesterday morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:20 AM (a1415)

99 When debt is leverage, it's a wonderful way to pay a little extra for a thing you could really use sooner rather than later.

But if the weight on the other end of the teeter-totter is too big, your ass is left hanging off a plank in the breeze.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:22 AM (9UlRk)

100 Maybe if I put up a link to the DC protest, that might help.

http://tinyurl.com/34hsrcn3

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:23 AM (a1415)

101
I had the good fortune to take my son to Liverpool to see a Premier League match last year. It was the best live sporting event I have ever attended. The fans were great and even got invited to a supporters club pub afterwards - which was even more fun.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 02, 2024 06:18 AM

Sounds like you had a blast. I saw a pro soccer team in person in Cincinnati a bunch years ago and it was a completely different experience then tv. Some of those players are like really big and tall and lighting fast, something that the television doesn't really reveal. Like what I imagine the ultimate wide receiver would be in football.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:25 AM (nIvob)

102 Good morning, Hordelings!!

Posted by: Doof at February 02, 2024 06:25 AM (eNASR)

103 For a thirty year mortgage, you wind up paying about double the sticker price on your house over the length of the loan. Which sounds ridiculous. But in return, you get to live in the house you wanted to live in for about half of your lifespan. Which isn't a terribly rapacious transaction if you think about it.

It's only bad if you can't afford the leverage, either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:26 AM (9UlRk)

104 73 "USWNT captain blasts American soccer fans: 'Most of them aren't smart'"

You don't say.
Posted by: fd

This broad sure knows how to win hearts and minds.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2024 06:27 AM (sAmhv)

105 Apparently in Maryland, being waitstaff is a direct descent from slavery.

http://tinyurl.com/498jfb7c

Who knew?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:28 AM (a1415)

106 Doof!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:29 AM (a1415)

107 Biden authorises sanctions on Israeli settlers for ‘extremist violence’ in West Bank. He's going to deny them access to the financial systems because the US government apparently now views the Israelis as a terrorist nation. Or full of MAGA sensibilities.

So there it is, the US is going to cram a Palestinian state down the throat of the Israelis and pretty much ensure Iran has a permanent base to attack Israel. Or to drive over the border and set off a nuclear weapon at the time and place of their choosing, If I may borrow this administrations scary language for
dealing with Iran.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 06:29 AM (otQSo)

108 My local online paper had a notice about a month ago:

"We removed the ability to reply as we make things better on the site."

Wat a load of malarkey. They removed the ability to respond because the stories are, of course, written from a leftist perspective and they don't like either the critiques they got or the fact that lots of people would write in complaining about horrible Democrat policies. "Making things better" is removing free speech." Uhh huh. Sure

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 06:29 AM (Ki//m)

109
For a thirty year mortgage, you wind up paying about double the sticker price on your house over the length of the loan. Which sounds ridiculous. But in return, you get to live in the house you wanted to live in for about half of your lifespan. Which isn't a terribly rapacious transaction if you think about it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:26 AM

In the end, if you're fortunate enough to make it to retirement, you don't have to worry about rent eating up nearly all of your SS every month. I don't know how some people do it unless they've saved a ton of money.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:30 AM (nIvob)

110 Who knew?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:28 AM (a1415)

So then..... don't.

I don't want some bitched up headcase getting their filthy paws on my two eggs over medium with scrapple and wheat toast anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:31 AM (9UlRk)

111 Doof!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:29 AM (a1415)

Howdy, VIA! How's things in your neck of the Palmettos?

Posted by: Doof at February 02, 2024 06:33 AM (eNASR)

112 98 I had no idea that protesters had shut down traffic into DC again yesterday morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Traffic is so bad around here, I'm not sure anybody noticed why.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2024 06:34 AM (sAmhv)

113
Or to drive over the border and set off a nuclear weapon at the time and place of their choosing, If I may borrow this administrations scary language for dealing with Iran.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 06:29 AM (otQSo)

It occurred to me recently that the miles of tunnels and provisions stored underground in Gaza might just have a secondary purpose for the day that Iran sparks one off nearby.

If Biden *can* get something horribly wrong, he will.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:34 AM (nIvob)

114 For a thirty year mortgage, you wind up paying about double the sticker price on your house over the length of the loan. Which sounds ridiculous. But in return, you get to live in the house you wanted to live in for about half of your lifespan. Which isn't a terribly rapacious transaction if you think about it.

It's only bad if you can't afford the leverage, either.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The paying double part is tricky to evaluate. You have to live somewhere and the other alternative is paying rent. If rents are roughly the same as paying a 30-year mortgage, the paying double part sort of doesn't matter. What does matter is you accumulate the capital gains and have had 30 years of tax write-offs which puts you so far ahead of renting. For mortals, here in the USA, owning a home is the biggest first step you can take to accumulating wealth. At least that's been my experience.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 06:36 AM (otQSo)

115 Being a good server isn't trivial. It takes a lot of stamina and concentration, with a glaze of cheerfulness on top even if you feel like shit that day.

Sneering at service industry jobs, or any job, really, is the province of assholes and stuck up idiots.

Who works harder? Who is smarter? Who is the more noble person? The server who is on their feet and running and suffering the slings and arrows of the biggest assholes in society (hungry people), or the academic who churns out regurgitated nonsense, sometimes verbatim, once every couple years, while otherwise sitting on their asses daydreaming about their own weird sex kinks?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:37 AM (9UlRk)

116 "If Biden *can* get something horribly wrong, he will."

his *real* handler, stan, is always watchful to make sure that is so.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 06:38 AM (QwWES)

117 Have a good one and stay safe, Homey !

Posted by: JT at February 02, 2024 06:39 AM (T4tVD)

118 "Sneering at service industry jobs, or any job, really, is the province of assholes and stuck up idiots. "

truer words have never been said!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 06:40 AM (QwWES)

119 Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 02, 2024 06:18 AM (GTqXr)

That's great. My BIL was a professional soccer player in England before he moved to play in Australia. Liverpool was one of the teams they played against. When I hear about the salaries some sport figures get today, it makes me roll my eyes. His salary wasn't nearly that high so that he did several full time jobs after he retired from playing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 06:40 AM (Ki//m)

120 Doof, do well.

Big wedding to attend over on Sullivan's Island, tomorrow, with tux, and everything.

So we will be on the other side of the bridge all weekend.

Oh...and we apparently just passed permetless open carry in SC yesterday.

Still need a permit for concealed carry, but it's start.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:41 AM (a1415)

121 Good waitstaff is indeed worthy of high praise, and commensurate tips.

The issue in MD is raising waitstaff to minimum wage of over $15.00 per hour.

And then exposing those wages to income tax.

It is simply a move to increase taxable income within the State.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:44 AM (a1415)

122
USWNT captain blasts American soccer fans: 'Most of them aren't smart'

The women's team doesn't represent the United States, it represents the women's team. No, girly, Americans, including soccer fans, are smart enough to ignore such a bunch of self-regarding, self-serving bitches.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 02, 2024 06:44 AM (MoZTd)

123
Oh...and we apparently just passed permitless open carry in SC yesterday.

Still need a permit for concealed carry, but it's start.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:41 AM

So you can wear an obvious gun at your hip, like a cop, but if it's not visible that's illegal?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:45 AM (nIvob)

124 Citizen Shocked By $45 Big Mac, Buys Two.

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at February 02, 2024 06:45 AM (vFG9F)

125 No, girly, Americans, including soccer fans, are smart enough to ignore such a bunch of self-regarding, self-serving bitches.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 02, 2024 06:44 AM (MoZTd)

Things no one has ever said:

"Yeah, well you just don't like me because I'm an asshole."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:46 AM (9UlRk)

126 "So you can wear an obvious gun at your hip, like a cop, but if it's not visible that's illegal?"

If you wear a 'ghost gun' open-carry, would anyone see it?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)

127 In the end, if you're fortunate enough to make it to retirement, you don't have to worry about rent eating up nearly all of your SS every month. I don't know how some people do it unless they've saved a ton of money.

Posted by: Divide by Zero

Yep. Typically housing is your largest expense. Getting that as close as possible to zero is a solid tactic. At least, it has been in my particular case.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 06:47 AM (otQSo)

128 Doof, do well.

Big wedding to attend over on Sullivan's Island, tomorrow, with tux, and everything.

So we will be on the other side of the bridge all weekend.

Oh...and we apparently just passed permetless open carry in SC yesterday.

Still need a permit for concealed carry, but it's start.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:41 AM (a1415)

Please send me a photo or 2 of you and Mrs. VIA in your wedding attire! Hope you have a great time.
And I expect to see one or both of you reflecting said open carry rights!!

Posted by: Doof at February 02, 2024 06:50 AM (eNASR)

129 Now that we are retired, we have no car payments, Credit card gets paid off every month, and our mortgage runs around $1,100.00 per month.

We are not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.

But I can afford two eggs over easy, white toast and scrapple at the dinner on an occasion or two per month.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)

130 I'm still amazed at the GOP House passing the welfare tax bill yesterday, which benefits only big corporate donors and Democrats. I had some naive hope the new Speaker would not be a total scumbag, but, wow, talk about in your face "education"...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 02, 2024 06:50 AM (pEm+o)

131 So you can wear an obvious gun at your hip, like a cop, but if it's not visible that's illegal?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:45 AM (nIvob)

Isn't that technically how it works most places?

I'm not saying that rhetorically. I actually don't know. I thought that was more or less how it works in PA. Anyone can open carry, they just don't unless you get out to where none of the roads have numbers. Concealed carry, though, can make a situation go from zero to holy shit a lot faster than open carry, so it gets regulated more.

I honestly have no idea. I'm only not deleting this content now so that others can laugh at my ignorance. I'm a giver.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:51 AM (9UlRk)

132 "And I expect to see one or both of you reflecting said open carry rights!!"

Maybe....just maybe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:51 AM (a1415)

133 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Wonder what long guns goes with tuxedo and gown.

And will they impeded ... dancing?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 02, 2024 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

134 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 02, 2024 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

135
Yep. Typically housing is your largest expense. Getting that as close as possible to zero is a solid tactic. At least, it has been in my particular case.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 06:47 AM

Even with a paid off home, between school taxes and homeowners insurance I'm paying close to $10,000 a year. So it's still my greatest expense. I'd like to say I live in an area where old folks get a break on school taxes but it doesn't seem likely. It's been a quarter century since I had a child in the school system.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:52 AM (nIvob)

136 If you wear a 'ghost gun' open-carry, would anyone see it?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)

Of course not. That's why one must add the audible "boo!" feature

Posted by: Doof at February 02, 2024 06:52 AM (eNASR)

137 Salty!

I'm thinking maybe one of the Mosins, with bayonet affixed. As Stalin intended.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:53 AM (a1415)

138 The biggest problem with 30-year mortgages that you pay off means you've lived in the same place for 30 years. This explains why the storage locker business is booming. If you're moving every few years you get sick and tired of moving that crap around so you get rid of it. It kind of keeps your garage, mental and physical, in check. Murica', can't live with it, can't live without it.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 06:53 AM (otQSo)

139 Huck Follywood

Lack of money is no reason to be so concerned. The fools want a burning time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 02, 2024 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

140 Steve Harvey hopes to bring 'moral integrity' back to Congress. He also hopes that penguins will fly out of his butt. The latter has a better chance of happening.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

141 Of course not. That's why one must add the audible "boo!" feature
Posted by: Doof at February 02, 2024 06:52 AM (eNASR)

Awwww, dammit. You just made me wake up the Mrs. from laughing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:54 AM (9UlRk)

142 Good morning morons

Local TV news is all about rain and restaurant break-ins and closures.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 02, 2024 06:55 AM (RIvkX)

143 Village Idiot's Apprentice

You have a band that plays a real Sabre Dance? Cool.

A Mosin–Nagant with a bayonet would be soo cool. And you can wear your fur hat with the Red Army Star on it!

Sounds like a fun wedding.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 02, 2024 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

144 If you have a 30 year mortgage and move, you should roll any equity into the new place.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 06:57 AM (2ovLw)

145 Steve Harvey hopes to bring 'moral integrity' back to Congress. He also hopes that penguins will fly out of his butt. The latter has a better chance of happening.
Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

Look ! Brown penguins !

Posted by: JT at February 02, 2024 06:57 AM (T4tVD)

146 I would have to look at our mortgage breakdown, but escrow contains homeowners insurance premium and property/school taxes.

Property taxes are somewhere around 2k per year, and we have no school tax due to being so....29 years old.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:57 AM (a1415)

147
I see the same attitude of the USWNT captain among many classical musicians. Never once have I seen any reference to their audiences as anything but stupid, dull, coughing, program-rattling, bourgeois meat lumps who should be grateful they're allowed to breath the same oxygen as these artistes.

250 years ago, musicians were sent off by people of affairs to go eat with the servants. That seems like a reasonable practice to return to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 02, 2024 06:57 AM (MoZTd)

148 144 If you have a 30 year mortgage and move, you should roll any equity into the new place.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 06:57 AM (2ovLw)

That's basically what we're doing. Place we're going to, nobody else wants. Place we're leaving, everybody seems to want.

Apparently you can make a fortune if you swim up stream in this market.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:58 AM (9UlRk)

149 " The fools want a burning time. "

LOL!
the core of Greek tragedy was the Olympian gods hear and answer your prayer ... but it turns out that you didn't really want what you thought you wanted.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 06:58 AM (QwWES)

150 "250 years ago, musicians were sent off by people of affairs to go eat with the servants. "

And actors ate with the prostitutes.

Good times....good times.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:59 AM (a1415)

151 Even with a paid off home, between school taxes and homeowners insurance I'm paying close to $10,000 a year. So it's still my greatest expense. I'd like to say I live in an area where old folks get a break on school taxes but it doesn't seem likely. It's been a quarter century since I had a child in the school system. Posted by: Divide by Zero

Yes, those are ongoing expenses and cannot be overlooked. I solved that issue by moving to New Mexico, a place that is inexpensive and I enjoy living at in spite of the Communist Governor. I have a very nice house in the 1500 square foot range and my property taxes run me $1,500 a year and my insurance is about another $850. I could have stayed in the Pacific Northwest but those expenses would have killed me because of property values. Sometimes part of the retirement equation is moving to places that match your new financial circumstances.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 07:00 AM (otQSo)

152 PA did a 2 year investigation into racism on it's college campuses where they asked as many as 7! Students on each campus if they experienced a racism. And some of them said yes!!! We need to do better and fund a multimillion dollar effort to make state campuses safer for black and brown people and crush fucking whitey!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 07:00 AM (2ovLw)

153 "That's basically what we're doing. Place we're going to, nobody else wants. Place we're leaving, everybody seems to want.

Apparently you can make a fortune if you swim up stream in this market"

So moving from Florida to California makes economic sense?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 07:00 AM (a1415)

154 I see the same attitude of the USWNT captain among many classical musicians.

Just like soccer players and abstract artists ... if you expect me to work that damn hard to feel entertained by your particular craft ? Maybe you're just not all that entertaining.

I'm sure it took some degree of skill to manually set bowling pins back in the day. Doesn't mean I'd care to pass the time watching.

Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 02, 2024 07:00 AM (Y0bPE)

155 My brain can't see USWNT without automatically parsing it out as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".

....

I am OK with this.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:01 AM (9UlRk)

156

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 02, 2024 07:02 AM (X4yCj)

157 I see we're still in the It Didn't Happen phase of the latest Democrat scandal. HuffPost: MTG Wants Ilhan Omar Censured For Things She Didn't Say

How long until we get HuffPost: Ilhan Omar Was Right?

Posted by: Wally at February 02, 2024 07:02 AM (hqVaF)

158
the core of Greek tragedy was the Olympian gods hear and answer your prayer ... but it turns out that you didn't really want what you thought you wanted.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades

"Can you tell what's good? This looks wonderful, this is for you. Yeah, wait a year and check that. This worries you to death; this is terrible! And what does this turn out to be? Only - the best break you ever got!" - James Gould Cozzens

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 02, 2024 07:02 AM (MoZTd)

159 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! All is right with Friday.
She is twirling!

* Does Happy Dance to Vince Guaraldi *

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 02, 2024 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

160 I bet I could come up with some things European soccer players don't understand.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

161 160 I bet I could come up with some things European soccer players don't understand.
Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

Etiquette. Flush toilets. Fractions....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:05 AM (9UlRk)

162 yeah, no kidding H7, that too!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 07:05 AM (QwWES)

163 That's basically what we're doing. Place we're going to, nobody else wants. Place we're leaving, everybody seems to want.

Apparently you can make a fortune if you swim up stream in this market.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Part of the trick in using your strategy of moving to undervalued areas is picking out places that are going to be the next hotspot. In my particular case, Las Cruces, New Mexico has been exactly that kind of place. I bought my house in Las Cruces in 2019 and it's doubled in value since I moved here. The amount of new development going on in select areas is significant and seems to just be getting started. One of the more interesting developments is more and more movies are being shot here and there is a sound stage being built right now.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 07:06 AM (otQSo)

164
At an historical average appreciation rate of 4% per year, the cost of home ownership vs dollars in appreciation is very favorable. Sometimes you have to look at things through that lens.

Often my wife forgets that and I have to remind her.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 07:06 AM (nIvob)

165 150 "250 years ago, musicians were sent off by people of affairs to go eat with the servants. "

And actors ate with the prostitutes.

Good times....good times.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 06:59 AM (a1415)

guess who picked up the check

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 02, 2024 07:06 AM (z+89e)

166 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 02, 2024 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

167 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:07 AM (ENQN6)

168 Lets say, in theory, that I did enjoy a free-flowing game of kickball, on a football field, with a net at either end. I can only assume that I'd want to see it played at the highest level.

Which begs the question ... why would I want to watch slower, weaker women play it at a much lower level ? Unless, of course, they were either attractive or at least compelling in some other emotional or intellectual manner. So why then would I ever want to watch this particular bunch of American harpies who hate men and lecture more than the typical wife ? Its not a question meant to be funny.

Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 02, 2024 07:08 AM (Y0bPE)

169 One of the more interesting developments is more and more movies are being shot here and there is a sound stage being built right now.
Posted by: Lost in Space at February 02, 2024 07:06 AM (otQSo)

Money wise, most definitely, but the big impetus for our move was to get the hell away from other people. We intentionally picked a place that there was 0% chance of it ever becoming developed. We're not in it for the money, we're in it for our sanity. We may take a bath on this place if we ever have to sell it, but we consider that just the price of not being crammed in cheek by jowl with other people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:09 AM (9UlRk)

170 Have a great day, everyone.

Work preps start now.

May no sanctimonious female soccer player harsh your mellow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 02, 2024 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

171 Snap is recalling Pixy.

Sounds like some kind of made up click clack language from some alien and distant culture.

Oh Snap!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 02, 2024 07:10 AM (Dc73h)

172 "Which begs the question ... why would I want to watch slower, weaker women play it at a much lower level ? Unless, of course, they were either attractive or at least compelling in some other emotional or intellectual manner."

Best to just go with Women's Beach Volleyball.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 07:10 AM (a1415)

173 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 07:11 AM (a1415)

174 Boker Tov Patriots

biden is seling Israel down the river

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 02, 2024 07:11 AM (pVWRI)

175 Hiya Cap'n !

Posted by: JT at February 02, 2024 07:12 AM (T4tVD)

176 Other things Euro soccer fans don't understand: Heterosexuality, smoking is bad for you, economics.

Posted by: Wally at February 02, 2024 07:13 AM (hqVaF)

177 Love watching Adam Carolla take down Gavin Newsom. "Narcissistic sociopathic douchebag"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 02, 2024 07:13 AM (RIvkX)

178 How many nations are newer than Israel, and yet get afforded that creepy Eternal Sanctity that all states in our post twentieth century world get by default?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:13 AM (9UlRk)

179 "biden is seling Israel down the river"

It's Biden...

It's what he does.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 07:14 AM (a1415)

180 Awwww, dammit. You just made me wake up the Mrs. from laughing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 06:54 AM (9UlRk)

Nice! Was merely hoping for coffee through the nose.

Posted by: Doof at February 02, 2024 07:15 AM (eNASR)

181 My town in NJ charges $2500 per $100k of assessed value in real estate tax, with a third to the county, a third to the town and a third to the schools. So an inflation-driven $1 mill valuation (done by the city assessor) results in real estate tax of $25,000

Which explains why people move away.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 02, 2024 07:16 AM (B1a/Q)

182 Best to just go with Women's Beach Volleyball.

The Gabriella Reese effect. Great T&A, combined with at least a pleasant superficial personality that was pleasing in two minute interviews.

So why would I want to watch Megan Rapinoe play soccer, unattractively, at a level far lower than any mens team ? Note that I would watch Megan Rapinoe play that game from the movie where the robot cat turns around and shoots her with its eyes.

Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 02, 2024 07:16 AM (Y0bPE)

183 You haven't paid your school lunch debt?

Here....have a cheese sandwich.

http://tinyurl.com/2fs7m4xk

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 07:20 AM (a1415)

184 Due to the break-up of the family biz, we had to pay off our house, which we had financed through it.

When the kids got older and wondered why we couldn't buy a "nicer" house, our answer was always "We own this one".

Pretty morning out there.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at February 02, 2024 07:20 AM (jN2/U)

185 Best to just go with Women's Beach Volleyball.

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I recently discovered that women's indoor college volleyball is worth watching, too. Those young ladies are competing like crazy and at the top of their game, with many of them playing beach and olympics when they're not at their colleges.

Also six foot tall lithe blonde women. We can't avoid the obvious.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 02, 2024 07:21 AM (AIJ3L)

186 140 Steve Harvey hopes to bring 'moral integrity' back to Congress. He also hopes that penguins will fly out of his butt. The latter has a better chance of happening.
Posted by: fd

You have to have a culture with moral integrity first. Politics is downstream from culture (ABreibart quote, I believe.). Our culture is broken and depraved. I don't see that being fixed.

And on that happy note, I'm off to bed, daywalkers. Got to go to work later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2024 07:22 AM (sAmhv)

187 The local "news" paper site wants an email address so I can continue reading and article, but they rejected fu@gmail.com as a valid address. Oh well.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

188 "A Georgia school district will start serving students who have unpaid meal charges a cheese sandwich and milk for lunch, instead of giving them what is on the lunch menu for the day...

“Children deserve to have dignity when they’re eating and they don’t need to be shamed at school,” Crowe-Houston said."

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A cheese sandwich.

You know. The same thing the kids that have food allergies get every single time the school serves something they can't eat.

Wouldn't want any of the food stamp kids feeling bad about their lives and striving to improve their situation, though.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 02, 2024 07:24 AM (AIJ3L)

189 NGU, it makes me weep. Now Britain is pushing the two state bullshit as well.

I am doubting that the US has the munitions that should be going to Israel.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 02, 2024 07:24 AM (AmQpt)

190 If ever there was a moment in history where it was crushingly obvious that a pali "state" is utterly impossible....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:25 AM (9UlRk)

191 Beijing 's draconian legislation. While the CCP does not release its official figures, rights groups believe many thousands of people are executed each year - more than all other countries in the world combined, including the likes of Iran , Saudi Arabia and the US.

11 in 21 and 18 in 22. US execution are down 80% in last 10 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:25 AM (ENQN6)

192 I am pro two state so long as the moment they're officially a state they are treated like a state and get the crap bombed out of every water supply, port, road, etc.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 02, 2024 07:26 AM (AIJ3L)

193 Steve Harvey hopes to bring 'moral integrity' back to Congress.

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Moral integrity doesn't seem to be a priority with Californians.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 02, 2024 07:26 AM (lVIrT)

194 Cheese sandwich! Luxury! We had to eat square pieces of cardboard with ketchup on them that was presented as "pizza". What we would have given for a bit of cheese.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

195 Two states:

Israel and Judea

I'd be down for that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:27 AM (9UlRk)

196 (thinks back to how good 80s and 90s school rectangle pizza used to be and how the students looked forward to it every couple of weeks)

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 02, 2024 07:28 AM (AIJ3L)

197
11 in 21 and 18 in 22. US execution are down 80% in last 10 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:25 AM (ENQN6)

Read the fact section of the appeal judgement in these cases. It rapidly becomes clear that they aren't getting it for stealing a loaf of bread for their starving families.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 02, 2024 07:28 AM (MoZTd)

198 The thing I remember about school pizza is that it flys pretty good.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

199 They ultimately want a One State solution....

The United Economic Zones Of Earth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:29 AM (9UlRk)

200 (also remembers lunchroom staff actually cooking and not just opening bulk packages full of calories and preservatives to dump onto trays beneath BE SURE TO EAT HEALTHY!!! posters)

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 02, 2024 07:29 AM (AIJ3L)

201
We had to eat square pieces of cardboard with ketchup on them that was presented as "pizza".

This is, basically, British pizza.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 02, 2024 07:29 AM (MoZTd)

202 It's a go! High-speed electric train that will travel from LA to Vegas in two hours at top speed of 186mph gets $2.5billion in federal funds

Southwest gets you there in about 45 minutes.

We are a stupid society.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:29 AM (ENQN6)

203 Met the new neighbor. She asked if she could buy a piece of my property because the 3 acre lot she bought next to me isn't big enough for her horses. What? You bought a property with the assumption I would sell you some of mine? Lol. Gfy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 07:30 AM (2ovLw)

204 I am doubting that the US has the munitions that should be going to Israel.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 02, 2024 07:24 AM (AmQpt)

I doubt we have the munitions we need for our own Military

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 02, 2024 07:30 AM (pVWRI)

205
Look at the land area of all of the Arab countries in the mid-east, then compare to tiny little Israel then tell me why any part of that should be divided in any way.

O'Biden is just looking to appease his Nazi Jew-hating base.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 07:30 AM (nIvob)

206 You bought a property with the assumption I would sell you some of mine? Lol. Gfy.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 07:30 AM (2ovLw)

"Thirty million. And i get to ride the horses."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:31 AM (9UlRk)

207 Money wise, most definitely, but the big impetus for our move was to get the hell away from other people. We intentionally picked a place that there was 0% chance of it ever becoming developed. We're not in it for the money, we're in it for our sanity. We may take a bath on this place if we ever have to sell it, but we consider that just the price of not being crammed in cheek by jowl with other people. Posted by: Warai-otoko

Sounds fantastic. I am at the age where health can go south in a hurry so by choice I want to closer to medical services. Once my investments come back the from FJB fucking up everything I am going shopping for a more rural place. Until then I it takes me 15 minutes to get across town and about the same to be out hiking. Las Cruces is lovely. The thought of living a major metro area again is unthinkable.

Posted by: lost in space at February 02, 2024 07:31 AM (+8fGZ)

208 "I doubt we have the munitions we need for our own Military"

I doubt if we have the military that we need, as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 07:32 AM (a1415)

209 Met the new neighbor. She asked if she could buy a piece of my property because the 3 acre lot she bought next to me isn't big enough for her horses. What? You bought a property with the assumption I would sell you some of mine? Lol. Gfy.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 07:30 AM (2ovLw)

People are fucking ridiculous

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 02, 2024 07:32 AM (R4t5M)

210
I forget the rule for horses but I think it's three acres for the first horse, then two add'l acres for each add'l horse.

Sounds like she's already screwed if she has two.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 07:33 AM (nIvob)

211 Let Israel treat Jordan the same way.

"This is our land. It's not murder by rocket if we can't be arsed to aim the fucking things. You're colonizers. It's not rape-rape." Et cetera.

Really lean into it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:33 AM (9UlRk)

212 Groundhog Day marks 10 years since Bill de Blasio dropped famed Staten Island rodent

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:33 AM (ENQN6)

213 Ned
Ned Ryerson
*pow*

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:34 AM (ENQN6)

214 It's a go! High-speed electric train that will travel from LA to Vegas in two hours at top speed of 186mph gets $2.5billion in federal funds

Southwest gets you there in about 45 minutes.

We are a stupid society.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Odds on it will be out of service about 50% of the time and cost 2x what Southwest chargers. But it will be electric so it is instantly the bestest. The people that have control of the government are fools.

Posted by: lost in space at February 02, 2024 07:35 AM (+8fGZ)

215 Remember, it's not just another day. It's another day older and deeper in debt.

Pleasant morning!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 02, 2024 07:35 AM (4I/2K)

216 ....

I can't think of a single famous person from Staten Island.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:35 AM (9UlRk)

217 Far-left Rep. Ayanna Pressley accuses Walgreens of racism over Boston store closure

Law of unintended consequences you bald ass bitch

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:37 AM (ENQN6)

218 "Police believe four of the migrants arrested in cop beatdown near Times Square fled on a bus to California"

Be on the lookout for 4 men with flowers in their hair.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

219
I can't think of a single famous person from Staten Island.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:35 AM (9UlRk)

Bobby Thomson, the Staten Island Scot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 02, 2024 07:37 AM (MoZTd)

220 Law of unintended consequences you bald ass bitch
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:37 AM (ENQN6)

Ayanna Pressly is racist for not opening a drug store in Boston. How dare she turn a blind eye to their plight.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:38 AM (9UlRk)

221 Those parasites in the Jawja government skool system should get a slice of Nutraloaf and some imitation margarine to spread on it for lunch.

If it's good enough for Death Row, it's good for the little moochers.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 02, 2024 07:39 AM (Dc73h)

222 United States Women’s National Team captain Lindsey Horan didn’t shy away from saying how tired she is of American soccer fans not understanding the sport or her game.

“American soccer fans, most of them aren’t smart,” the midfielder said.

I would guess that most soccer fans are not that smart!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:39 AM (ENQN6)

223 Met the new neighbor. She asked if she could buy a piece of my property because the 3 acre lot she bought next to me isn't big enough for her horses. What? You bought a property with the assumption I would sell you some of mine? Lol. Gfy.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 07:30 AM (2ovLw)

Do any of her horses talk? Then no.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 02, 2024 07:39 AM (4I/2K)

224 Pixy what do you think of neural network designed analog chips like Mythic AI?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024 07:41 AM (2Jq3P)

225 $6k student loan for community college-paid off
$6k forcar loan -paid off

Paid off $10k in credit cards. Now have one with a $1k limit that gets paid off as I use it.
No mortgage. $600 property taxes. I don't care if the house goes up in value. That's like worrying about how much they'll make on my estate sale.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 02, 2024 07:42 AM (L8hCM)

226 "She asked if she could buy a piece of my property because the 3 acre lot she bought next to me isn't big enough for her horses"

Tell her you are going to use that space for a hog farm.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

227 Odds on it will be out of service about 50% of the time and cost 2x what Southwest chargers. But it will be electric so it is instantly the bestest. The people that have control of the government are fools.
Posted by: lost in space at February 02, 2024 07:35 AM (+8fGZ)

———-

I believe this is the company that built the private line between Miami and Orlando. Why the government is chipping in money I dunno.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024 07:44 AM (2Jq3P)

228
Horses drop huge piles of shit everywhere which doesn't smell so great, and then the flies come. Not the most desirable neighbor you could have.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 07:44 AM (nIvob)

229 I believe this is the company that built the private line between Miami and Orlando. Why the government is chipping in money I dunno.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024 07:44 AM (2Jq3P)

graft and kickbacks

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:46 AM (ENQN6)

230 Famous Staten Islanders include Karen Gravano, daughter of Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 02, 2024 07:46 AM (4I/2K)

231 Not the most desirable neighbor you could have.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 07:44 AM (nIvob)

I'll take it over a neighbor with a swimming pool and children every time.

(We're moving next to a horse farm)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 02, 2024 07:47 AM (9UlRk)

232 183 You haven't paid your school lunch debt?

Here....have a cheese sandwich.

http://tinyurl.com/2fs7m4xk
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 07:20 AM (a1415)

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Our school system does that too. Parents pay your bills.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024 07:47 AM (2Jq3P)

233 Horses drop huge piles of shit everywhere which doesn't smell so great, and then the flies come. Not the most desirable neighbor you could have.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

My house is way up the mountain. I have acres. There is a house, barn and pasture down at the main road that I also own. The listing puts the marker for the for sale property there. Lol. I think she bought sight unseen and found out she actually bought the house next door.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 07:48 AM (2ovLw)

234 BREAKING: 150 Democrats vote against a bill to deport illegals caught driving while drunk

In the course of a year I bet the average illegal breaks 20 to 30 state and federal laws.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:48 AM (ENQN6)

235 How much does a school lunch cost nowadays??

Posted by: tubal at February 02, 2024 07:48 AM (PCK5/)

236 203 Met the new neighbor. She asked if she could buy a piece of my property because the 3 acre lot she bought next to me isn't big enough for her horses. What? You bought a property with the assumption I would sell you some of mine? Lol. Gfy.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 07:30 AM (2ovLw)
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Why do you h8 horsies?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 02, 2024 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

237 Our school system does that too. Parents pay your bills.

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I like how it's completely backwards and such a great example of how we've gotten where we are.

"Starting Feb. 2, after a student has charged three meals to their account without paying them off, they will receive the cheese sandwich meal."

AFTER not paying for three meals you get the free meal. Not when you can't afford to pay. After you've eaten $15-$20 in free lunches already.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 02, 2024 07:50 AM (AIJ3L)

238 My house is way up the mountain. I have acres. There is a house, barn and pasture down at the main road that I also own. The listing puts the marker for the for sale property there. Lol. I think she bought sight unseen and found out she actually bought the house next door.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 07:48 AM (2ovLw)

———

Must be nice to be stupidly rich

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024 07:50 AM (2Jq3P)

239 "We intentionally picked a place that there was 0% chance of it ever becoming developed."

This!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 07:51 AM (QwWES)

240 183 You haven't paid your school lunch debt?

Here....have a cheese sandwich.

http://tinyurl.com/2fs7m4xk
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 02, 2024 07:20 AM (a1415)

———-

Our school system does that too. Parents pay your bills.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024 07:47 AM (2Jq3P)

The Union workhouses; are they still in operation?

Posted by: Scrooge at February 02, 2024 07:51 AM (4I/2K)

241 Not buying any real estate site unseen.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 02, 2024 07:51 AM (R4t5M)

242 235 How much does a school lunch cost nowadays??
Posted by: tubal at February 02, 2024 07:48 AM (PCK5/)

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$3 to $4.

My kids say the food is mostly horrible and my daughter fixes her own sandwiches for lunch.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024 07:51 AM (2Jq3P)

243 "Tell her you are going to use that space for a hog farm.

Posted by: fd at February 02, 2024 07:43 AM (vFG9F) "

LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 07:52 AM (QwWES)

244 Ground varmit Phil says early spring.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 02, 2024 07:52 AM (Dmh54)

245
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 02, 2024 07:52 AM (bEb2S)

246 $3 to $4.

My kids say the food is mostly horrible and my daughter fixes her own sandwiches for lunch.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024 07:51 AM (2Jq3P)
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Some things never change...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 02, 2024 07:52 AM (7fElN)

247 Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024

Not rich, but a lifetime of careful planning. And God's blessing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 02, 2024 07:52 AM (2ovLw)

248 YAY early spring! Thanks Phil!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 02, 2024 07:53 AM (QwWES)

249 I signed an Executive Order allowing the U.S. to issue sanctions against those who direct or participate in acts of violence against civilians in the West Bank, including extremist settlers.

I thot they were forcibly removed in 05!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:54 AM (ENQN6)

250 I think she bought sight unseen and found out she actually bought the house next door.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

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We met a yankee recently who did similar. BEAUTIFUL property, 15 or so wooded acres, creeks, etc. Still overpriced at $10K/acre, but that's become the norm for that area, and that's a decent chunk of acreage for that area now, too.

Pictures on the listing are stunning.

The only teensy little problem is they didn't take any leaving the driveway, where there are four trailers, three campers, and who knows how many vehicles, running and broken down, and trash everywhere. "The dozen residents only use meth and no one is a meth dealer" would be a best case scenario.

Enjoy your new property!

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 02, 2024 07:54 AM (AIJ3L)

251 Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 02, 2024 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

How is the job going?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2024 07:55 AM (Ki//m)

252 The Union workhouses; are they still in operation?
Posted by: Scrooge at February 02, 2024 07:51 AM (4I/2K)

————

It ain’t 1800’s England. People that can’t afford it can get free and reduced lunch prices, free breakfast, free school supplies and in many places free food sent back home with the kids.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 02, 2024 07:55 AM (2Jq3P)

253
Two words

SEF

TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2024 07:55 AM (ENQN6)

254 How much does a school lunch cost nowadays??
Posted by: tubal at February 02, 2024 07:48 AM (PCK5/)

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$3 to $4.

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I'm betting the actual cost of a meal to taxpayers is well over $10. Staff, retirement, admin over the staff, admin over the retirement system employees, admin over the staff of the retirement admin, etc.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 02, 2024 07:57 AM (AIJ3L)

255 Ground varmit Phil says early spring.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 02, 2024 07:52 AM (Dmh54)

Then there came a killing frost

Posted by: Michael Martin Murphy at February 02, 2024 08:00 AM (4I/2K)

256 Phil lives in the great western PA wilderness.

Posted by: pawn at February 02, 2024 09:37 AM (QB+5g)

257 255 Ground varmit Phil says early spring.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 02, 2024 07:52 AM (Dmh54)

Then there came a killing frost
Posted by: Michael Martin Murphy at February 02, 2024 08:00 AM (4I/2K)

LOL macabre

Posted by: m at February 02, 2024 01:29 PM (weK7N)

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