First World Problems...

We had some AC work done this week. Nothing out of the ordinary...just maintenance (mostly cleaning) and replacement of a capacitor that was on its last legs. The tech was methodical and careful, but was puzzled by one of my thermostats. Yes it is old. What's it to you?

He also needed the systems running during part of the maintenance, and didn't reset one of them to the previous settings. I woke up this morning to a bedroom at a chilly 63 degrees, with the AC running! I figured it out, and after I checked both thermostats I realized that it was indeed an existential crisis!

Yes, I should have taken the photo first, but still...

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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Posted by: Skip at April 27, 2025 02:03 PM (ypFCm)

2 Burn the house down and start over.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 27, 2025 02:04 PM (2UnvF)

3 Flux capacitor?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:04 PM (LO3k+)

4 You might want to put a Tesla emblem on it burn it to the ground

Posted by: Skip at April 27, 2025 02:05 PM (ypFCm)

5 My FWP: my house has a lot of windows. Which is nice, except birds like to fly into them meaning I have to clean up tiny bird carcasses from the flower beds pretty frequently.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:06 PM (l3YAf)

6 Wear a sweater.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 27, 2025 02:06 PM (u82oZ)

7 Just wondering- should the new thread (Ace or a COB) be considered 0th post?

Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at April 27, 2025 02:07 PM (efKQb)

8 I don't care if that IS an old 'stat – I like it (and wish I had one).

Posted by: Dr_No at April 27, 2025 02:07 PM (ayRl+)

9 How can a nutty sperg gain access to an Audi Suv? Was it stolen?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:08 PM (LO3k+)

10 willowed
enumerate
n verb
1 mention one by one.
2 formal establish the number of.

DERIVATIVES
enumeration noun
enumerative adjective

ORIGIN
C17 (earlier (C16) as enumeration): from Latin enumerat-, enumerare 'count out'.

Posted by: Ciampino - fixed it for you at April 27, 2025 02:08 PM (sPQoU)

11 innumerate
n adjective without a basic knowledge of mathematics and arithmetic.
n noun an innumerate person.

DERIVATIVES
innumeracy noun

Posted by: Ciampino - fixed it for you at April 27, 2025 02:11 PM (sPQoU)

12 How can a nutty sperg gain access to an Audi Suv? Was it stolen?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:08 PM (LO3k+)

I am guessing parents. Maybe taken without permission.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:11 PM (8zz6B)

13 Before I downsized, when one of my two A/C units gave up its capacitor, I got two of them and replaced the one in the second unit also (yes, I’m a diehard DIY).

Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at April 27, 2025 02:11 PM (efKQb)

14 The HVAC tech should be tortured for this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 27, 2025 02:11 PM (NRF0d)

15 Not so much a FWP, but I think 2025 will be remembered as the year my body turned against me.

Posted by: Savage Henry at April 27, 2025 02:12 PM (AOsQT)

16 My FWP: my house has a lot of windows. Which is nice, except birds like to fly into them meaning I have to clean up tiny bird carcasses from the flower beds pretty frequently.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:06 PM (l3YAf)

Oooh, that one is simple. Get a pet armadillo. They will happily clear up those dead birds.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 02:14 PM (D7oie)

17 Not so much a FWP, but I think 2025 will be remembered as the year my body turned against me.
Posted by: Savage Henry at April 27, 2025 02:12 PM (AOsQT)

I think that’s every year past the age of 29.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:14 PM (l3YAf)

18 What's the outside air temp?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 27, 2025 02:15 PM (/lPRQ)

19 Before I downsized, when one of my two A/C units gave up its capacitor, I got two of them and replaced the one in the second unit also (yes, I’m a diehard DIY).
Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at April 27, 2025 02:11 PM (efKQb)

Those motor-starting capacitors must be made of shitty stuff. A capacitor doesn't get "used up" like a battery does. If it overheats, and oozes dielectric oil, then it wasn't built tough enough to do the job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:15 PM (8zz6B)

20 Before I downsized, when one of my two A/C units gave up its capacitor, I got two of them and replaced the one in the second unit also (yes, I’m a diehard DIY).

Can't even buy parts here without an HVAC license now.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 27, 2025 02:15 PM (McYvC)

21 At least it appears to be communicating with a satellite.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 27, 2025 02:16 PM (63Dwl)

22 My first world problem is...

Our new gas dryer had a small gas leak in the line. I've lived with natural gas appliances for most of my life and if I say I smell gas, it needs to be checked out. I mentioned this to Hubbymayhem several times in the few months since we got this dryer. He would go in the laundry room sniff around and say.... I'm not smelling anything.
Then after a few days I would tell him again, rinse and repeat. Finally I got really annoyed with this and said stop sniffing, you can't smell it. Pull the dryer out and use the soapy water to find the leak. Hubbymayhem pouted, as men do sometimes, but he pulled the dryer out and used the soapy water and found a tiny leak. After taking it apart he found that he didn't have the gas pipe tape he needed. Got that and discovered the fitting was damaged. Back to the hardware store. But now it is fixed! The yahoos that did the install..
A) damaged the fitting
B) used pipe tape where they shouldn't and
C) didn't use pipe tape where they should have.
Lowes needs better training for their installers.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:17 PM (2J/Lj)

23 My FWP: my house has a lot of windows. Which is nice, except birds like to fly into them meaning I have to clean up tiny bird carcasses from the flower beds pretty frequently.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:06 PM (l3YAf)

I got iridescent window clings that are supposed to stop the birds from doing that. They also act as sun-catchers, so I get rainbows every day.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 27, 2025 02:19 PM (lFFaq)

24 Her FWP is student loans. (45 seconds, NSFW because of language)

https://shorturl.at/G0wI6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 27, 2025 02:19 PM (L/fGl)

25 Oooh, that one is simple. Get a pet armadillo. They will happily clear up those dead birds.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 02:14 PM (D7oie)

Heh. Recent visit with a Moron who sahll remain nameless. Me, "What made all these holes in the lawn? Moles?"

"Armadillo, but I got him." ".22?" "No, 30-06. Wasn't sure if a .22 would penetrate the armor."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:19 PM (8zz6B)

26 Can't even buy parts here without an HVAC license now.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson

Amazon got you covered.
Same shitty chyna cap that HVAC guy uses for 1/5th the price (labor not included).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 27, 2025 02:19 PM (/lPRQ)

27 I agree with AOP - I think the starting caps are made by internally connecting two regular electrolytic caps back-to-back so can be used in AC (alternating current) circuits. Also made in Chinastan.

Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at April 27, 2025 02:21 PM (8oYMo)

28 Lowes needs better training for their installers.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:17 PM (2J/Lj)

Our good ones all got deported!

Posted by: Lowes at April 27, 2025 02:21 PM (8zz6B)

29 No central AC. My FWP was it was 45F high outside on Friday and chilly in the house, 65F I think, but even though its baseboard electric so just dial on/off I didn't want to turn the thermostats up because it was going to get quite warm this weekend and having the house mass start out cooler would keep it from getting too warm. I won't drag out the window AC units for another 6 weeks or so.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 27, 2025 02:21 PM (bP/i4)

30 Shouldn't this be in centigrade?

Posted by: toby928 at April 27, 2025 02:21 PM (jc0TO)

31 Be thankful you have central air. That’s my FWP. And don’t get me started on heating.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:21 PM (vm8sq)

32 Armadillo piercing rounds?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:22 PM (LO3k+)

33 Armadillos will also clear up any dead cows you have in your lawn, too. They burrow under it and eat on the carcass until it is gone, or too far blown to be palatable for an armadillo.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (D7oie)

34 Her FWP is student loans. (45 seconds, NSFW because of language)

https://shorturl.at/G0wI6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 27, 2025 02:19 PM (L/fGl)

How is that even possible? If she’s accurately representing what happened, that sounds messed up, but I feel like she’s lying.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (l3YAf)

35 Also made in Chinastan.
Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at April 27, 2025 02:21 PM (8oYMo)

Hey! That’s us!

Posted by: Xinjiang at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (vm8sq)

36 My last dryer was installed by a team from Sears. The boss was from somalia. The dryer caught fire the second time I used it. Bastards.
I got a free new dryer and fresh paint.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (W/lyH)

37 The boy spawn new house is set in place. They now have to do a bunch of finish work. They over scheduled four other houses and are now running two weeks behind on all of them. And it's supposed to rain this week.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (2J/Lj)

38 Her FWP is student loans. (45 seconds, NSFW because of language)

https://shorturl.at/G0wI6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 27, 2025 02:19 PM (L/fGl)

How is that even possible? If she’s accurately representing what happened, that sounds messed up, but I feel like she’s lying.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (l3YAf)
***

Yeah. There is something hinky about this.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2025 02:24 PM (W/lyH)

39 His FWP? Completelyoutoftouchwithrealityitis.
⁰
Rep. Jason Crow@RepJasonCrow
Americans don't want a handout or someone telling them how to live their life.
They just want a level playing field and a fair shake.
Folks want to work hard for an honest day’s pay, and know the system isn’t rigged against them.
That’s what the Democratic Party stands for.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 27, 2025 02:24 PM (L/fGl)

40 I agree with AOP - I think the starting caps are made by internally connecting two regular electrolytic caps back-to-back so can be used in AC (alternating current) circuits. Also made in Chinastan.
Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at April 27, 2025 02:21 PM (8oYMo)

Yeah, I have seen that. Motor-starting caps commonly used to be paper. They would fail eventually, too. One should be able to build very durable caps out of mylar. It has replaced paper caps in most electronic equipment.

Posted by: Lowes at April 27, 2025 02:25 PM (8zz6B)

41 Elon Musk is her scapegoat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:25 PM (LO3k+)

42 It still gets pretty cold at night for me. When I wake up the house is around 63,64 degrees since I turned the heat off.

That’s perfect sleeping weather.

Then through the day the house will warm up to 67,68.

Rinse and repeat.

Spring is like a natural HVAC system.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 27, 2025 02:25 PM (sfVwj)

43 Actually weather is nice this week coming up so turn it off and open the windows

Posted by: Skip at April 27, 2025 02:26 PM (ypFCm)

44 My FWP is the link JUMP TO BOTTOM OF COMMENTS sends me off to a bunch of ads that I have to exit out. When I reopen, my previous comment posted, but is also appears in the comments box.
I am vexed.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2025 02:26 PM (W/lyH)

45 "An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead".

Posted by: John Dawson 1971 at April 27, 2025 02:26 PM (G5+As)

46 Armadillos will also clear up any dead cows you have in your lawn, too. They burrow under it and eat on the carcass until it is gone, or too far blown to be palatable for an armadillo.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (D7oie)

Does Oregon have armadillos?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:26 PM (8zz6B)

47 34 Her FWP is student loans. (45 seconds, NSFW because of language)

https://shorturl.at/G0wI6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 27, 2025 02:19 PM (L/fGl)

How is that even possible? If she’s accurately representing what happened, that sounds messed up, but I feel like she’s lying.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (l3YAf)

This makes me smile. I paid mine off. I went to ROTC to defray the cost of education among other things. She very clearly has an issue with maturity.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:27 PM (vm8sq)

48 "An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead".
Posted by: John Dawson 1971 at April 27, 2025 02:26 PM (G5+As)

I remember that song. NRPS, right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:28 PM (8zz6B)

49 Armadillos are rats in greasy armor. Nasty.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 27, 2025 02:28 PM (ne3+i)

50 Crow is just a very good liar. He knows his district is purple, and tends patriotic (used to have an old R veteran before Crow convinced them he was a better veteran).

Posted by: PaleRider at April 27, 2025 02:28 PM (bP/i4)

51 "Trump can't be Hitler because GWB was Hitler."

It's like whoever is playing Doctor Who. They retrofit a new one.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 27, 2025 02:28 PM (Gqoy+)

52 Elon Musk hasn't even knocked her up, yet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:29 PM (LO3k+)

53 No AC here.

I opened the windows a couple weeks ago. They will stay open, almost constantly until October.

I have a couple little fans for when it gets in the 80s.

My electric bill during those months is $60. For two months.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 27, 2025 02:29 PM (mT+6a)

54 *a pack of armadillos approach a dead cow*
"Boys" says the leader, "we're gonna eat for weeks!"

Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2025 02:29 PM (W/lyH)

55 33 Armadillos will also clear up any dead cows you have in your lawn, too. They burrow under it and eat on the carcass until it is gone, or too far blown to be palatable for an armadillo.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (D7oie)

It’s a dead cow’s party. Who could ask for more?

Posted by: Armadillos at April 27, 2025 02:29 PM (vm8sq)

56 Her FWP is student loans. (45 seconds, NSFW because of language)

https://shorturl.at/G0wI6

She has Stacey Abrams teefs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (8zz6B)

57 When you say old thermostat my mental image is of one of those round Honeywell thermostats with analog dial and setting. What you show is far too modern. The blue color made me think fluorescent display, which would put it in a certain era, but, no, satellite or cell phone tower connection shown makes your thermostat rather recent in my book.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (XbCq8)

58
"An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead".
Posted by: John Dawson 1971

A Flintstone vehicle.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (63Dwl)

59 This makes me smile. I paid mine off. I went to ROTC to defray the cost of education among other things. She very clearly has an issue with maturity.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:27 PM (vm8sq)

If you make the minimum payment on a 30% interest credit card for 14 years you’ll pay it off. It won’t double during that time.

I don’t know anything about student loans but I suspect she just refused to pay for years and accumulated interest and penalties?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (l3YAf)

60 My yard stays free of dead cows.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (LO3k+)

61 Mrs. E sets the a/c at Oslo/January, so I sleep wearing thick jammies under 3 covers, with at least one cat, a thirteen-pounder.

Posted by: Eromero at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (LHPAg)

62 This makes me smile. I paid mine off. I went to ROTC to defray the cost of education among other things. She very clearly has an issue with maturity.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:27 PM (vm8sq

And...if you pick the right school, the ROTC scholarship is essentially a full ride.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (W/lyH)

63 The fact that your display appears to be crying might be the problem

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 27, 2025 02:31 PM (Er3Q7)

64 Finally warm Enough to plant flowers today. Not so much warm enough since it’s been in the 60s and 70s. But warm enough at night where I can know for sure it won’t drop below freezing anymore. 10 day shows coldest night will be 41. In the clear.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 27, 2025 02:31 PM (sfVwj)

65 And unfortunately people in Mr. Crow’s district go along with it. I do hope they get an alternative.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:32 PM (vm8sq)

66 These are the good months. No AC or furnace. Just open the windows.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 27, 2025 02:33 PM (NRF0d)

67 I have the old round thermostats, but I also have an indoor/outdoor thermometer that looks a lot like CBDs. I don't think that pick is of one of his thermostats.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 27, 2025 02:33 PM (bP/i4)

68 Worst FWP that never seems to get resolved is women farding in cars. Rush Limbaugh brought attention to this danger, but it has not gotten better over the years. Putting on mascara while merging onto a highway is not good.

Posted by: Sarah, Plain And Tall at April 27, 2025 02:34 PM (G5+As)

69 Doesn't look like a thermostat. More like one of those temp monitors you get off Amazon

Posted by: Halfhand at April 27, 2025 02:34 PM (/sf65)

70 This is the time of year where I sometimes need the furnace at night and then a/c the next day.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:35 PM (l3YAf)

71 Possums eat dead cows, armadillos eat bugs and worms.

Posted by: Eromero at April 27, 2025 02:35 PM (LHPAg)

72 And...if you pick the right school, the ROTC scholarship is essentially a full ride.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (W/lyH)

Especially if you pick a degree the military has a screaming need for. (What you describe pretty much happened to me. The semester after Field Training, which concluded with me signing the paperwork where the AF would pay for college in exchange for a service obligation, I did get a tuition bill: $50. For some fees the AF would not pay.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:35 PM (vm8sq)

73 Her FWP is student loans. (45 seconds, NSFW because of language)

https://shorturl.at/G0wI6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 27, 2025 02:19 PM (L/fGl)

How is that even possible? If she’s accurately representing what happened, that sounds messed up, but I feel like she’s lying.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (l3YAf)
_______________

That leads to an imputed interest rate of ~5% (doubling time of 14 years)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 02:36 PM (YqDXo)

74 The rule of 72.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:37 PM (LO3k+)

75 My thermostat has an app. I can control it all from my phone. Comes in handy when out of town for a few days, I can turn it on a couple of hours before arriving home.

It was there when I bought the house. I wouldn’t go out of my way to install one though.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 27, 2025 02:37 PM (sfVwj)

76 56 Her FWP is student loans. (45 seconds, NSFW because of language)

https://shorturl.at/G0wI6

She has Stacey Abrams teefs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (8zz6B)

Social work is usually a government job, no?

I ask because there's long been a 10-year government work student loan forgiveness program.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 27, 2025 02:37 PM (V9cMX)

77 Just you wait until this digital fad is over! Just you wait and see!

Posted by: Weasel at April 27, 2025 02:37 PM (Axc90)

78 My 1st world problem is the Yankees are only the 2nd best team in NYC.

Did I say problem?

I meant how you like them apples?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 02:38 PM (viF8m)

79 33 Armadillos will also clear up any dead cows you have in your lawn, too. They burrow under it and eat on the carcass until it is gone, or too far blown to be palatable for an armadillo.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (D7oie)

It’s a dead cow’s party. Who could ask for more?

Posted by: Armadillos at April 27, 2025 02:29 PM (vm8sq)

One of the funniest "it happened to me" stories I ever heard was told by a nuclear power station worker who came home late at night after working a double-shift. He couldn't find his flashlight, so he stepped out of his truck and walked slowly towards the front door. About half-way to the objective, he stepped on an armadillo. He said a surprised 'dillo jumps straight into the air while making a loud hissing sound. The animal went up and came down on his foot, and his reaction was to send the critter into orbit.

Posted by: mrp at April 27, 2025 02:38 PM (rj6Yv)

80 Armadillos are called nature's speed bumps in Texas.
Hit one and knock your front end out of alignment.

Posted by: Case at April 27, 2025 02:39 PM (OrSPY)

81 Lowes needs better training for their installers.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

training? Moronette quality humor

Posted by: DaveA at April 27, 2025 02:39 PM (FhXTo)

82 80 Armadillos are called nature's speed bumps in Texas.
Hit one and knock your front end out of alignment.
Posted by: Case at April 27, 2025 02:39 PM (OrSPY)

And they are disease ridden...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 27, 2025 02:40 PM (VE6XX)

83 72 And...if you pick the right school, the ROTC scholarship is essentially a full ride.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2025 02:30 PM (W/lyH)

Especially if you pick a degree the military has a screaming need for. (What you describe pretty much happened to me. The semester after Field Training, which concluded with me signing the paperwork where the AF would pay for college in exchange for a service obligation, I did get a tuition bill: $50. For some fees the AF would not pay.)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:35 PM (vm8sq)
That ballroom dancing class you thought you got away with.

Posted by: Eromero at April 27, 2025 02:40 PM (LHPAg)

84 NYC has another team besides the Yankees?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:40 PM (2J/Lj)

85 Some of the armadillos diseases can be spread through skin contact.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:41 PM (LO3k+)

86 I do open windows in the evening for cooling as needed, and come summer they'll stay open overnight and be closed in the mornings. Then a small window AC in my upstairs office and one downstairs in the living room is all that is needed.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 27, 2025 02:41 PM (bP/i4)

87 The rule of 72.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2025 02:37 PM (LO3k+)
_____________

Yep. Although it really should be the rule of 70, since ln 2 = 0.69 and change.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 02:42 PM (YqDXo)

88 That leads to an imputed interest rate of ~5% (doubling time of 14 years)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 02:36 PM (YqDXo)

But she said she’s making payments, right?

The government just needs to get out of the student loan business altogether. First they had to subsidize, because the market didn’t want to take the risk at a low enough interest rate.

Then they had to make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, because the loans they were making were so risky that was a real possibility.

Then the Feds had to completely take over student loans over Obama. Sixteen years later and people have a bunch of debt and useless degrees and the commies want it all forgiven because four years of grab-ass and anti-white Marxism should be free.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:42 PM (l3YAf)

89 And they are disease ridden...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 27, 2025 02:40 PM (VE6XX)

Leprosy being one of the more interesting afflictions.

Posted by: mrp at April 27, 2025 02:42 PM (rj6Yv)

90 Send all the capacitors to AOP for rebuild/ reuse into our large, school bus sized Time Machine so we can go together on adventures!

Posted by: Piper at April 27, 2025 02:42 PM (p4NUW)

91 Our big old, poorly insulated farmhouse the electric bill wad about $150 per month on budget billing. This house? Its $85 without the budget billing.
Me likee!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:43 PM (2J/Lj)

92 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:35 PM (vm8sq)
That ballroom dancing class you thought you got away with.
Posted by: Eromero at April 27, 2025 02:40 PM (LHPAg)

You slander me and you owe me an apology!

(It was Basket Weaving 101.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:44 PM (vm8sq)

93 Solar panels + heat pump/AC here. Electricity bill? Negative. SDG&E owes us money. And they're not too happy about it, either.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 02:45 PM (YqDXo)

94 84 NYC has another team besides the Yankees?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:40 PM (2J/Lj)

Who are the Yankees?

Posted by: Baseball Is Dead at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (vm8sq)

95 91 Our big old, poorly insulated farmhouse the electric bill wad about $150 per month on budget billing. This house? Its $85 without the budget billing.
Me likee!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:43 PM (2J/Lj)

Around $250 a month here in NorCal with a senior discount in a small home

Posted by: It's me donna at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (VE6XX)

96 15 Not so much a FWP, but I think 2025 will be remembered as the year my body turned against me.

Posted by: Savage Henry at April 27, 2025 02:12 PM (AOsQT)

Amen. Mine accelerated its decline, mainly on the left side for some reason.

Posted by: javems at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (8I4hW)

97 >>NYC has another team besides the Yankees?

Why yes. Some know them as the New York Mets.

Others know them as the team with the best record in MLB. And we don't even have our best pitchers off the injured list yet.

I have 99 problems but baseball has been berry, berry good to me this year. So far.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (viF8m)

98 Armadillos are called nature's speed bumps in Texas.
Hit one and knock your front end out of alignment.
Posted by: Case at April 27, 2025 02:39 PM (OrSPY)

Maybe we need to get the dire wolf guys to retro this fellow:

thoughtco.com/doedicurus-pestle-tail-1093197

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (8zz6B)

99 That ballroom dancing class you thought you got away with.
Posted by: Eromero at April 27, 2025 02:40 PM (LHPAg)

You slander me and you owe me an apology!

(It was Basket Weaving 101.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Should have gone with ballroom dancing. Air Force would pay for that.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (2J/Lj)

100 But she said she’s making payments, right?

She said she's making income-based payments. That adjustment could easily leave her not paying enough to keep the debt from growing.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (V9cMX)

101 When my GF and I decamped Nouvelle Orleans for the outskirts of Baton Rouge (Central, to be precise) to avoid 'Katrina', she brought her 2 double-dappled Show Dachshunds and 3 longhaired 'kittehs' with her. One evening there came a great cry from outside: Her male Dachs, 'Max', had 'argued' with a 'dillo and was now to be found with it clamped firmly between his upper and lower jaw 'cos the 'dillo was now held in place by 'Max's teeth. Took a while to dislodge the 'dillo but he (it?) was none the worse for wear. He(?) still looked like he belonged on the cover of ELP's 'Tarkus' album ...

Posted by: Dr_No at April 27, 2025 02:48 PM (ayRl+)

102 I remember that song. NRPS, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Instant Armadillo Blues by the NRPS. You are correct!

Posted by: You Got Good Taste at April 27, 2025 02:48 PM (G5+As)

103 The government just needs to get out of the student loan business altogether. First they had to subsidize, because the market didn’t want to take the risk at a low enough interest rate.

Then they had to make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, because the loans they were making were so risky that was a real possibility.

Then the Feds had to completely take over student loans over Obama. Sixteen years later and people have a bunch of debt and useless degrees and the commies want it all forgiven because four years of grab-ass and anti-white Marxism should be free.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:42 PM (l3YAf)

I think if the government got completely out of the student loan business, you’d start seeing a lot less of $90,000 of loans for “social work” or other useless degrees. This because banks, credit unions, etc will want to be paid back and they might balk at backing such nonsense for that reason.

Posted by: Catch Yhirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:50 PM (vm8sq)

104 She said she's making income-based payments. That adjustment could easily leave her not paying enough to keep the debt from growing.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (V9cMX)

She ought to get a side gig at a strip club. That would pay off her student loan.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:50 PM (8zz6B)

105 What's air conditioning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2025 02:50 PM (RIvkX)

106 Thr33

Should have gone with ballroom dancing. Air Force would pay for that.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (2J
And basketweaving seems more suited to Marines. Or Seabees. Are you Red Horse, Thr33?

Posted by: Eromero at April 27, 2025 02:51 PM (LHPAg)

107 @ 89 And they are disease ridden...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 27, 2025 02:40 PM (VE6XX)

Leprosy being one of the more interesting afflictions.
____________________________________________

It's only the 9-banded variety that xmits leprosy ... the 7-banded receives FM.

Posted by: Dr_No at April 27, 2025 02:52 PM (ayRl+)

108 Should have gone with ballroom dancing. Air Force would pay for that.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (2J/Lj)

I was in ROTC. They would have paid for golf classes.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:52 PM (vm8sq)

109 Admittedly, I'm not a big A/C guy. I live in the Northeast, which allows me that luxury a lot of the time. I tend to use it mostly to remove the moisture from the air which (even if warm) makes things much more comfortable.

I noticed that it can be rather cool outside (and inside) and if there is a lot of humidity in the air, it's still uncomfortable...and vice versa. I guess you could say, most of the time I use A/C for the by-product of drying the air.

Posted by: Orson at April 27, 2025 02:52 PM (dIske)

110 FWP PART ONE -- During the AOL sign-in process, both my username and password are accepted ... However, in the past week, a message appears saying AOL needs to send a 6-digit security code to my "recovery" phone number (a landline phone number that's been associated with my AOL account for more than 30 years) ... In the past, AOL was able to successfully send voicemails to my landline phone; recently, however, AOL started sending TEXT messages to my landline phone which, of course, could not be received ... After much live online chatting with AOL agents and checking my computer and phones for all sorts of non-existent issues, I switched to live phone conversations, during which one AOL agent did admit that AOL is aware of the Text-to-Landline problem and is working to fix it ... continued ...

Posted by: Kathy at April 27, 2025 02:53 PM (qpw89)

111 Are you Red Horse, Thr33?
Posted by: Eromero at April 27, 2025 02:51 PM (LHPAg)

At one time, yes. Every RHS has a position for a logistician. It was a good experience.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:54 PM (vm8sq)

112 She said she's making income-based payments. That adjustment could easily leave her not paying enough to keep the debt from growing.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 27, 2025 02:46 PM (V9cMX)

One of the many reasons why I am glad the girl spawn chose a small two year college is that she got a full ride scholarship for two years of her education. She is pre-law so unless she gets more scholarships to a bigger four year school and law school, she's gonna be hammered by tuition. But at least she got the first two years free!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:54 PM (2J/Lj)

113 FWP PART TWO -- Unable to acquire AOL emails ... Okay, so in the meantime while waiting for AOL to fix its Text-to-Landline problem, I requested that AOL add a "recovery"
Gmail address to my AOL account so that AOL could (a) email the 6-digit security code (rather voicemail) so that I could then access my AOL email ... However -- and this is the most infuriating part -- none of the AOL agents would proceed to add a backup "recovery" email address to my AOL account unless I provided credit card information to pay for what the AOL agents are claiming is Tech Support Services by Phone ... ARGH!!!

Posted by: Kathy at April 27, 2025 02:55 PM (qpw89)

114 I think if the government got completely out of the student loan business, you’d start seeing a lot less of $90,000 of loans for “social work” or other useless degrees. This because banks, credit unions, etc will want to be paid back and they might balk at backing such nonsense for that reason.

Posted by: Catch Yhirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:50 PM (vm8sq)
________________

And say "goodbye" to all the various "studies" degrees, along with, e.g., sociology and other social "science" degrees.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 02:55 PM (YqDXo)

115 I think if the government got completely out of the student loan business, you’d start seeing a lot less of $90,000 of loans for “social work” or other useless degrees. This because banks, credit unions, etc will want to be paid back and they might balk at backing such nonsense for that reason.
Posted by: Catch Yhirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:50 PM (vm8sq)

This is my general thought too.

Though things have become so corrupt that I could easily see the federal government finding ways to coerce banks to make unwise loans, given how incestuous the education complex and big government have become and their mutual obsession with producing certain kinds of outcomes for women and minorities. Anything that would put a significant number of universities out of business is going to face massive resistance.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 27, 2025 02:55 PM (V9cMX)

116 My 1st WP seems I need new garden hoses

Posted by: Skip at April 27, 2025 02:55 PM (ypFCm)

117 She ought to get a side gig at a strip club. That would pay off her student loan.

Come On Girl!! Use your imagination. There are plenty of ways to make a little Sucklemental income.

Posted by: KAMALA at April 27, 2025 02:55 PM (KFH84)

118 With regard to the demotwit and her student loans. Didn't joey bidet put them all in abeyance during the Chinese lung rot. So if you were unable to pay, they wouldn't attempt collection. I don't recall, but I believe that the interest charge was not deferred. I suspect that this screeching harpy stopped paying entirely or, for a significant period of time. I could be wrong, eh.

Posted by: Edward at April 27, 2025 02:55 PM (93DJn)

119 What's air conditioning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2025 02:50 PM (RIvkX)

Based on my time working in the Bay Area, it’s something you turn on when the temp reaches 72 degrees.

I was there one time at a client’s office when the A/C was out. Everyone was panicking because it was going to get up to 80 that day, as there was a “heat wave”. I was amused.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:55 PM (l3YAf)

120 Does Oregon have armadillos?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 02:26 PM (8zz6B)

No, I would have to clean up all my dead cows myself.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 02:56 PM (D7oie)

121 One of the many reasons why I am glad the girl spawn chose a small two year college is that she got a full ride scholarship for two years of her education. She is pre-law so unless she gets more scholarships to a bigger four year school and law school, she's gonna be hammered by tuition. But at least she got the first two years free!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 02:54 PM (2J/Lj)

I went to a two year community college and took core curriculum for 60 hours before transferring to a university the school had an agreement with that made the transfer a guarantee. That saved quite a bit of money.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:57 PM (vm8sq)

122 Tarkus!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 27, 2025 02:57 PM (63Dwl)

123 105 What's air conditioning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2025 02:50 PM (RIvkX)

Life.

Posted by: Texas residents at April 27, 2025 02:59 PM (vm8sq)

124 No, I would have to clean up all my dead cows myself.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 02:56 PM (D7oie)

We have the dead livestock problem beat.

Posted by: Oregon Department of Highways at April 27, 2025 03:00 PM (8zz6B)

125 Hottest conference I ever attended was a multiday event held in conference rooms in a building on the MIT campus. It was summertime, and the building had no A/C. It was not at all comfortable, and it was hard to listen to the speakers with sweat dripping off my face. Whatever they use that enormous tuition there for, it wasn’t for any A/C in that building!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 03:01 PM (XbCq8)

126 "117 She ought to get a side gig at a strip club. That would pay off her student loan."
How desperate, drunk, high, vision impaired, deaf, all of the above would one have to be to set loose even a single $ bill to be subjected to that. Goes triple for the other part of the suggestion. Even penicillin has its limitations. Just saying.

Posted by: Edward at April 27, 2025 03:01 PM (93DJn)

127 In another 1st WP, Legalinsurrection.com another women judge says she isn't letting ICE get any illegal in her court room.

Posted by: Skip at April 27, 2025 03:03 PM (ypFCm)

128 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 02:57 PM (vm8sq)

Vincennes University is similar. They have agreements with several of the bigger colleges and universities in Indiana. Indiana University is one of them. They have a good law school.
The spawn has one teacher for all her law classes. This .... person.... has told the girl to go to law school outside of Indiana because our state hates lawyers. She determined this because the state expects people to pass the Indiana bar testing which is based on Indiana law.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 27, 2025 03:03 PM (2J/Lj)

129 >>I think if the government got completely out of the student loan business, you’d start seeing a lot less of $90,000 of loans for “social work” or other useless degrees.

Why do you think Obama had the government take over the college loan business?

That was always the plan.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:05 PM (viF8m)

130 In another 1st WP, Legalinsurrection.com another women judge says she isn't letting ICE get any illegal in her court room.
Posted by: Skip at April 27, 2025 03:03 PM (ypFCm)

ICE raid and “accidental” deportation to CECOT.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 03:05 PM (l3YAf)

131 Replacing the capacitor is right in the customer's price zone. Not too much to say no and just enough to not risk having to call service again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 27, 2025 03:06 PM (iqHvX)

132 We have a "package" HVAC system. Everything's outside in a single unit; A/C condenser, fan, propane furnace. Quiet as shit inside. I have the installers come out 2X a year to do preventive maintenance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 27, 2025 03:07 PM (Q4IgG)

133 So, let me get this straight. Indiana wants her, or doesn’t want her?

Posted by: Eromero at April 27, 2025 03:07 PM (LHPAg)

134 Ah you have a smart thermostat. Nothing like smart appliances to appreciate how dumb we mortals be.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 27, 2025 03:07 PM (wBaIH)

135 How is that even possible? If she’s accurately representing what happened, that sounds messed up, but I feel like she’s lying.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 02:23 PM (l3YAf)

I bought my home for around 133K (beyond the sizeable down payment to be considered for the loan) on a thirty year mortgage, and paid it back in 11 years working a job I am pretty sure paid less than what this young lady earns.
I can see how pissed she is that her interest kept accruing when she wasn't making payments because papa Biden was going to pay it for her. Interest really sucks, which is why I paid additional amounts each month, up to double what the standard payment was scheduled to be.
Social workers locally start at around 3K a month, and there are better options once they can show they are capable of working.

90K is a terrible amount to owe, but it is not the end of the world as long as you are employed and making more than just beans and rice money.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 03:08 PM (D7oie)

136 ICE raid and “accidental” deportation to CECOT.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 03:05 PM (l3YAf)
_______________

For the female judge?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 03:08 PM (YqDXo)

137 >>So, let me get this straight. Indiana wants her, or doesn’t want her?

No singing.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:09 PM (viF8m)

138 Going to a 2 year college then transferring to a 4 year university is a great way to save money. But students won’t do it. It’s not prestigious enough, and makes some people think you couldn’t make it into the 4 year school to begin with. If you need that degree, like you’re majoring in some STEM field, you should go about it as economically as possible. Great if you can get a full academic scholarship, but most people don’t qualify for that but would still be fine engineers or the like in the end.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 03:10 PM (XbCq8)

139 Had all our windows replaced this week. Our utilities were skyhigh because the single-pane windows were nearly 100 years old, and we were trying to keep Lil Pooky's room (second story, northwest corner) room warm during the winter using a space heater.

Posted by: pookysgirl, facing another social day at April 27, 2025 03:10 PM (Wt5PA)

140 "Everyone was panicking because it was going to get up to 80 that day, as there was a “heat wave”.

Before I retired my colleagues and I would regularly go to a work-related conference in Seattle in the summer. One year, one of my colleagues was very pregnant and Seattle was experiencing a "heat wave" of sunny days in the low 80s. A local resident told her, "You poor thing. You must be miserable being pregnant in all of this heat!" Our group--all Texans--immediately burst into laughter. Their heat wave was a delightful fall or spring day to us.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 27, 2025 03:11 PM (FEVMW)

141 My FWP is the link JUMP TO BOTTOM OF COMMENTS sends me off to a bunch of ads that I have to exit out. When I reopen, my previous comment posted, but is also appears in the comments box.
I am vexed.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2025 02:26 PM (W/lyH)

Ads? One word..."Brave".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 27, 2025 03:11 PM (5xuJ/)

142 For the female judge?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 03:08 PM (YqDXo)

Yes, sorry, should have been clear there.

“Whoops, it turns out during a raid to get a known criminal illegal alien, a judge who was harboring this illegal was accidentally deported. We’ve submitted a request to the government of El Salvador to get her back and expect to have her back home no later than January 19, 2029.”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 03:13 PM (l3YAf)

143 Before I downsized, when one of my two A/C units gave up its capacitor, I got two of them and replaced the one in the second unit also (yes, I’m a diehard DIY).
Posted by: Final Arbiter

I learned, have the hvac guy replace , you pay 250 for the capacitor, buy it for next time online... 17 bucks,

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 27, 2025 03:13 PM (gwUfb)

144 You shoulds always sets your termisterstat to 55 dgreees in the winter months to helps fight Globil warming .

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 27, 2025 03:14 PM (FDlb9)

145 Trump is hinting now that ActBlue will soon have a whopper of a FWP:

https://tinyurl.com/4wwdk92w

Waiting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 27, 2025 03:16 PM (/Anij)

146 We got a twenty year mortgage for our house, and paid it off in a little over ten years by paying additionally on top of the stated amount each month. It took us that long because I had to get in a good financial situation to do so. Investing in Apple in the 90s and General Dynamics before the Gulf War paid off handsomely.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 03:16 PM (XbCq8)

147 @AGPamBondi 3h

This morning @DEAHQ apprehended over 100 illegal aliens at an underground night club frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists. Cocaine, meth, and pink cocaine was seized. 2 people were also arrested on existing warrants

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 27, 2025 03:18 PM (iqHvX)

148 If you haven't, last week's CJN Speaks clears up the real laws on what Illegals have to face.

Posted by: Skip at April 27, 2025 03:20 PM (ypFCm)

149 >>Trump is hinting now that ActBlue will soon have a whopper of a FWP:

I will go an entire day sans pants when ActBlue gets exposed. I've been waiting for this for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:20 PM (viF8m)

150 She is pre-law so unless she gets more scholarships to a bigger four year school and law school, she's gonna be hammered by tuition.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem
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Madame,
I am a former pre law advisor for about 20 years as a professor teaching law at an undergraduate and graduate program. Lots of current law students and past ones who are lawyers. Try to avoid debt at all possible. One way is avoiding pre law as a major. Get a major that plays to her strengths academically that can serve as something marketable and buttresses areas of practice if she chooses to go to law afterwards.

I saw a fair amount of burnout among students that go directly into law schools. There is no hurry to do so and plenty of reasons not to. Working for a couple of years after BS/BA helps work down any undergrad debt and gives direction/alternatives when applying to law schools. Law is a profession requiring commitment and you really have to be committed a) to get through law school especially the washout 1st year, and b) take low paying apprenticeships before you reasonably earn some money if talented at it. So low/no debt is the way to go.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 03:20 PM (ctrM5)

151 My wife and kids are natives and they start to physically wither away at 80 degrees.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2025 03:22 PM (RIvkX)

152 Trump is an idiot and clueless when it comes to the Ukraine War. If I were President, I could solve this problem in 30 days...

Posted by: Joe Briben at April 27, 2025 03:22 PM (A2iSa)

153 FWP PART TWO -- Unable to acquire AOL emails ... Okay, so in the meantime while waiting for AOL to fix its Text-to-Landline problem, I requested that AOL add a "recovery"
Gmail address to my AOL account so that AOL could (a) email the 6-digit security code (rather voicemail) so that I could then access my AOL email ... However -- and this is the most infuriating part -- none of the AOL agents would proceed to add a backup "recovery" email address to my AOL account unless I provided credit card information to pay for what the AOL agents are claiming is Tech Support Services by Phone ... ARGH!!!
Posted by: Kathy at April 27, 2025 02:55 PM (qpw89)

AOL is now owned by Yahoo. The problem with them needing to send a "code number" is caused by clearing your browser of all cookies and history. I rested the theory and, sure enough, that's the issue. I clear all but the AOL log in cookie and the nagging stopped. It looks at the most recent login saved.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 27, 2025 03:23 PM (5xuJ/)

154 Is pink cocaine cocaine for girls?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 03:23 PM (l3YAf)

155 145 Trump is hinting now that ActBlue will soon have a whopper of a FWP:

https://tinyurl.com/4wwdk92w

Waiting.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Good luck with that. We can't get a clean Epstein file out of Blondie.

------------------

When we lived in GA the condensate drips continuously from the AC unit. In Arizona you rarely see any condensate dripping from the AC. Screw humidity.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 27, 2025 03:23 PM (/U5Yz)

156 Their heat wave was a delightful fall or spring day to us.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey

Preach it!!!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 27, 2025 03:24 PM (gwUfb)

157 Is pink cocaine cocaine for girls?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 03:23 PM (l3YAf)

it is a designer stimulant. TDA deals in it, so it is probably manufactured in Venezuela or Colombia

Posted by: Kindltot at April 27, 2025 03:25 PM (D7oie)

158 This Hezbollah weapons dump in Lebanon is going to need some serious home renovations.

https://tinyurl.com/w7cbh8fr

Ka-fucking-BOOM!

I'm sure it was actually a baby formula factory or a kindergarten or a rescue home for cute puppies or something. Because those always have secondary explosions of that magnitude. It is known.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 27, 2025 03:25 PM (W5ArC)

159 Power to the Swamp Cooler!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 27, 2025 03:25 PM (/U5Yz)

160 Replacing the capacitor is right in the customer's price zone. Not too much to say no and just enough to not risk having to call service again.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 27, 2025 03:06 PM (iqHvX)

The cap cost me 18 bucks plus tax at a supply house nearby. Damn thing only lasted 33 years! I installed the system myself in 1989.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 27, 2025 03:26 PM (5xuJ/)

161 > 154 Is pink cocaine cocaine for girls?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 03:23 PM (l3YAf)

Pink is fine.

No yellow.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at April 27, 2025 03:26 PM (W5ArC)

162 Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
CNN's full-scale collapse continues rapidly. It reaches a remarkable new low led by @kaitlancollins and @abbydphillip: fewer than 500,000 viewers total in prime-time! That's almost impossible to do even if you Also, they're well below 100k for viewers under 55.

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I guess stunning and brave doesn't attract viewers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 27, 2025 03:27 PM (L/fGl)

163 141 My FWP is the link JUMP TO BOTTOM OF COMMENTS sends me off to a bunch of ads that I have to exit out. When I reopen, my previous comment posted, but is also appears in the comments box.
I am vexed.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2025 02:26 PM

Same. I'm using DDG as my browser on an Android.
I've learned to just hit "refresh" and scroll to the bottom manually.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 27, 2025 03:28 PM (dg+HA)

164 > Can't even buy parts here without an HVAC license now.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 27, 2025 02:15 PM (McYvC)

Here, by contrast, you can carry a gun, openly or concealed with no permit of any kind.

You CAN get a permit, but that's only useful if you're visiting another state that has reciprocity.

Weird how different states are, isn't it?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at April 27, 2025 03:29 PM (W5ArC)

165 138 Going to a 2 year college then transferring to a 4 year university is a great way to save money.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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US News and World report guides are a curse on higher ed. and mislead as much as they give info.

Underground rankings matter most for very competitive graduate programs but often it is better to get a 4.0 at a anonymous state u garnering awards, faculty attention, etc. with a decent undergrad program than a 3.0 and being miserable and isolated at an elite school for a lot of students.

Mismatch of colleges (and even majors) to abilities causes a lot of students to have miserable college experiences that often result in failure.

People want what they want and often find when they get it, they really wanted something else entirely. This is especially true of young adults and given the massive costs now of college, it is often better to delay a couple of years to ponder these things than jump right in for many students.

My non traditional students were often far better focused as students and thus performed better.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

166 “Jump to bottom of comments” works for me.

Posted by: CLOSED: Not Reproducible at April 27, 2025 03:30 PM (l3YAf)

167 I have a similar background to whig's and I cannot commend his advice on preparing for and attending law school highly enough, particularly his comment on burnout during the 1L year. Pick a major you can live with if you don't get in, delay enrollment, or even choose not to go.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 27, 2025 03:30 PM (FEVMW)

168 Because those always have secondary explosions of that magnitude.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 27, 2025 03:25 PM (W5ArC)
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I don't see or hear secondaries. The noise at the end sounds like automatic weapons fire being shot in the air by local Cheeseballah cowboys.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 27, 2025 03:31 PM (/Anij)

169 >
My non traditional students were often far better focused as students and thus performed better.
Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

I also found that to be true, back when I was an academic (I got better).

Adult students were there to learn, on their own dime.

Many (not all, of course) "traditional" students were there to party on mommy and daddy's money.

Theres a difference there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 27, 2025 03:32 PM (W5ArC)

170 >>Weird how different states are, isn't it?

>>Posted by: Hunter Biden

In some states you can just toss a revolver in a dumpster and lie on your permit application.

I've heard.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:32 PM (viF8m)

171 https://tinyurl.com/w7cbh8fr

Ka-fucking-BOOM!
I'm sure it was actually a baby formula factory or a kindergarten or a rescue home for cute puppies or something. Because those always have secondary explosions of that magnitude. It is known.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom, rata ta, rata ta, rata ta,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 27, 2025 03:34 PM (iqHvX)

172 In some states you can just toss a revolver in a dumpster and lie on your permit application.

I've heard.
Posted by: JackStraw

Only works if the auto pen is active!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 27, 2025 03:34 PM (gwUfb)

173 FWIW, when I went to law school, of the six of us selected for law review from our section, four of us were "returning students" who had taken from two to ten years off before law school

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 27, 2025 03:35 PM (FEVMW)

174 Here, by contrast, you can carry a gun, openly or concealed with no permit of any kind.

You CAN get a permit, but that's only useful if you're visiting another state that has reciprocity.

Weird how different states are, isn't it?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at April 27, 2025 03:29 PM (W5ArC)

My state has “constitutional carry.” And you can pretty easily buy an MP-5 or M-16 if you have the money and the time to wait for the ATF to handle the NFA paperwork.

But you can’t open carry an MP-5 or an M-16. Wtf?

Also, I live in a dry county. You can buy beer (under a certain percent) and wine (under a certain percent) at gas stations and grocery stores, but no spirits.

But there are many bars and restaurants that serve hard liquor, so you can go drink bourbon until 2am and drive home. Weird!

Posted by: CLOSED: Not Reproducible at April 27, 2025 03:36 PM (l3YAf)

175 I don't see or hear secondaries. The noise at the end sounds like automatic weapons fire being shot in the air by local Cheeseballah cowboys.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs
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Those belted and magazine munitions touched off by the heat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 27, 2025 03:36 PM (iqHvX)

176 nephew worked the oil fields to earn money for law school. Got degree with no debt. Very smart nephew!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 27, 2025 03:37 PM (gwUfb)

177 >>Only works if the auto pen is active!

Trump should change his name to Otto Pen for a day and sign a bunch of EOs just for shits and giggles.

His constant trolling is one of the simple pleasures of my life.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:38 PM (viF8m)

178 Before I retired my colleagues and I would regularly go to a work-related conference in Seattle in the summer. One year, one of my colleagues was very pregnant and Seattle was experiencing a "heat wave" of sunny days in the low 80s. A local resident told her, "You poor thing. You must be miserable being pregnant in all of this heat!" Our group--all Texans--immediately burst into laughter. Their heat wave was a delightful fall or spring day to us.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 27, 2025 03:11 PM (FEVMW)
_________________

When I lived in Europe I was admonished against running "in this heat."

It was 70 degrees.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

179 >> Many (not all, of course) "traditional" students were there to party on mommy and daddy's money.

I think you mean uncle’s money. Uncle Sugar.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 03:39 PM (l3YAf)

180
His constant trolling is one of the simple pleasures of my life.
Posted by: JackStraw

He goads them to distraction.... and i enjoy it immensely.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 27, 2025 03:39 PM (gwUfb)

181 When I lived in Europe I was admonished against running "in this heat."

It was 70 degrees.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

70 degrees Celsius is pretty hot, ngl.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 03:40 PM (l3YAf)

182 Many (not all, of course) "traditional" students were there to party on mommy and daddy's money.

Theres a difference there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Age makes a difference of course for many, but nearly as valuable was experience at doing something in the real world. I came from a real world career to retrain as an academic at a relatively 'old' age and found grad school relatively easy. AF basic training nostrum, "cooperate and graduate" comes to mind.

Accumulated experience in dealing with people (important for handling grad faculty just right), experience in real things like computer programming, politics, etc., and military service helped a great deal. If you can handle officers as enlisted, then you can handle faculty members as a grad student.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 03:40 PM (ctrM5)

183 One if my thermostats still has a mercury switch in it.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at April 27, 2025 03:41 PM (vTTFR)

184 A summer heatwave in the Boston/Cambridge area in the 80s Fahrenheit is probably delightful if outside in the breeze and appropriately dressed. Inside an unairconditioned building in a suit and tie, well I can tell you it’s not a breeze. And I worked a summer on a research project at Pan American University in Edinburg, Texas (now University of Texas Pan American, last I looked) where one day, walking back from our outdoor experiment tower to the offices, it was 114 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade. When I, years later, translated that to 45 degrees Celsius (it’s a little more) for some French folks I was living with for the summer, they thought I had made a calculational error. No place get’s that hot seemed to be their thinking.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 03:42 PM (XbCq8)

185 When I lived in Europe I was admonished against running "in this heat."

It was 70 degrees.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

70 degrees Celsius is pretty hot, ngl.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 27, 2025 03:40 PM (l3YAf)

70 degrees Kelvin is pretty cold, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 27, 2025 03:42 PM (VNX3d)

186 It's pretty amazing how you can acclimate to harsh weather conditions. I lived in the upper half of NH for a number of years, and would visit family in the mid-Atlantic states sporadically. Middle of winter just wearing a Fleece pullover.

Earlier in life, my brother got us both jobs to pay for college doing railroad track demolition in Texas over the summer. Guys, I'm telling you, the Texas summer sun, magnified by creosote and obsidian fragments spread across the ground gives you an acid bath wrapped in a bonfire type scenario. The heat hasn't bothered me since. There were prison work release guys on our crew, and half of those guys would pass out every so often. For some reason, my bro and I thought this was hilarious. I can't tell you how many times we quoted "Cool Hand Luke." Gettin' a drink, boss. Blowin' my nose, boss."

Posted by: Orson at April 27, 2025 03:43 PM (dIske)

187 173 FWIW, when I went to law school, of the six of us selected for law review from our section, four of us were "returning students" who had taken from two to ten years off before law school
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey
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Well done. I've published a few times in law reviews and found it a more pleasurable experience than journals in my field. Bluebook citation system makes more sense as well instead of Chicago or APA idiocy.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 03:43 PM (ctrM5)

188 CBD,

Did you call them on your rotary phone to set the service call?

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 27, 2025 03:44 PM (3K5oJ)

189 This one is for you, Scogg. I may be an old east coast boomer but one thing Gen Sexually Confused has managed to completely fuck up is music. We got that one right.

Turn it up. You're welcome.

https://tinyurl.com/4zjrvrdk

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:45 PM (viF8m)

190 Seems Becky Lobach did not turn left after both the tower and Sgt Eaves told her to.

Posted by: night lifted at April 27, 2025 03:45 PM (FZn/N)

191 Air conditioning is a tool of Satan.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 27, 2025 03:46 PM (muwun)

192 My Bad. CWO Eaves

Posted by: night lifted at April 27, 2025 03:47 PM (FZn/N)

193 191 Air conditioning is a tool of Satan.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 27, 2025 03:46 PM (muwun)

And?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 03:48 PM (vm8sq)

194 >>Air conditioning is a tool of Satan.

Ok boomer.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:50 PM (viF8m)

195 When I, years later, translated that to 45 degrees Celsius (it’s a little more) for some French folks I was living with for the summer, they thought I had made a calculational error. No place get’s that hot seemed to be their thinking.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 03:42 PM (XbCq

The French aren’t fans of out music I guess.

Posted by: Midnight Oil at April 27, 2025 03:50 PM (vm8sq)

196 When they started the government loans for college you just knew it was going to be trouble. The money would not be paid back and taxpayers stuck with the debt.

Posted by: Case at April 27, 2025 03:51 PM (OrSPY)

197 194 >>Air conditioning is a tool of Satan.

Ok boomer.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:50 PM (viF8m)

Pfft. You're talking to a guy whose air conditioning is hooked up to the internet right here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 27, 2025 03:52 PM (muwun)

198 I think CBD is woofing us about being in Fwance.
That there thermidor I can actually read.

Posted by: RI Red at April 27, 2025 03:52 PM (ct7EE)

199 Thus far, just this year, here at our place in Kentucky the low temp was -2.2F and the high temp has been 83.5F.

Last year's spread was over 100 degrees from low to high.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 27, 2025 03:53 PM (Q4IgG)

200 194 >>Air conditioning is a tool of Satan.

Ok boomer.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:50 PM (viF8m)

Yeah, we normally get WEEKS where it is over 110 during the day... sometimes 115...

Even my swimming pool gets so warm its like bath water...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 27, 2025 03:53 PM (QAkQ3)

201 Many (not all, of course) "traditional" students were there to party on mommy and daddy's money.

Theres a difference there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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I didn't have that problem as much as I taught mainly advanced undergrad or grad students. Course demand in law area made it rare that I taught intro classes (which I actually enjoyed teaching). So, the real party animals, were often departing from campus from academic failures before they would show up in my upper division classes. I would see glimpses of them in my rare 1101 classes. But, I used written essay exams and various classroom mini essays from class simulations, etc, instead of multiple choice, I only got a few party animals. Most went elsewhere for easier classes I think.

As an academic advisor in the program, I also only saw them when they were about to get kicked out and realized it. The oblivious ones, never came to see me. Bad program advising was a consistent complaint by non-majors and even some of our majors. It was not rewarded by administration as service nor particularly easy when admin wanted program changes all the time.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 03:53 PM (ctrM5)

202 >>When they started the government loans for college you just knew it was going to be trouble. The money would not be paid back and taxpayers stuck with the debt.

You don't say.

It's almost like they planned it.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:53 PM (viF8m)

203 176 nephew worked the oil fields to earn money for law school. Got degree with no debt. Very smart nephew!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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Oil field work also requires attention to detail and ability to have common sense to avoid injury. Sounds like your nephew has both.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)

204 Yeah, we normally get WEEKS where it is over 110 during the day... sometimes 115...

Even my swimming pool gets so warm its like bath water...
Posted by: Romeo13
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Desert climate. Has its advantages and disadvantages like any other.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 03:56 PM (ctrM5)

205 196 When they started the government loans for college you just knew it was going to be trouble. The money would not be paid back and taxpayers stuck with the debt.

I agree, I think that will be the resolution. All the more reason to get the Feds out of loan sharking to 18 year olds.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 03:56 PM (XbCq8)

206 >>Pfft. You're talking to a guy whose air conditioning is hooked up to the internet right here.

Oh that's nice. My last big boat had not 1 but 2 air conditioners.

Never get in the way of an old man and his air conditioner.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 03:58 PM (viF8m)

207 Oh that's nice. My last big boat had not 1 but 2 air conditioners.

You rich guys with your big boats.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 27, 2025 03:59 PM (muwun)

208 Desert climate. Has its advantages and disadvantages like any other.
Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 03:56 PM (ctrM5)

Actually... Central Valley Calif, 2 hours from the Bay Area...

Without the dams, this area at times was a swamp.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 27, 2025 03:59 PM (QAkQ3)

209 >>You rich guys with your big boats.

I like big boats and I cannot lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 04:00 PM (viF8m)

210 138 Going to a 2 year college then transferring to a 4 year university is a great way to save money. But students won’t do it. It’s not prestigious enough, and makes some people think you couldn’t make it into the 4 year school to begin with. If you need that degree, like you’re majoring in some STEM field, you should go about it as economically as possible. Great if you can get a full academic scholarship, but most people don’t qualify for that but would still be fine engineers or the like in the end.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 03:10 PM (XbCq

I agree, and people argue against this with me when I bring it up as a possible pathway. IMO, the arguments against going to a two year school and then a four year are rooted in snobbery.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 27, 2025 04:02 PM (vm8sq)

211 it was 114 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade. When I, years later, translated that to 45 degrees Celsius (it’s a little more) for some French folks I was living with for the summer, they thought I had made a calculational error. No place gets that hot seemed to be their thinking.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 03:42 PM (XbCq

__________________

When it's 80 F in the UK the media start talking about the asphalt roads softening and train tracks buckling from "the heat." They've apparently never heard of Arizona.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

212 FOODIE NOODIE UPSTAIRS

Posted by: Skip at April 27, 2025 04:02 PM (ypFCm)

213 When it's 80 F in the UK the media start talking about the asphalt roads softening and train tracks buckling from "the heat." They've apparently never heard of Arizona.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

... or West Texas.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 27, 2025 04:03 PM (VNX3d)

214 Seems Becky Lobach did not turn left after both the tower and Sgt Eaves told her to.
Posted by: night lifted at April 27, 2025 03:45 PM (FZn/N)

What's the military protocol in such a situation? The pilot in training is an officer, and the pilot-instructor is an experienced non-com? If the pilot in training refuses to take urgent safety-related advice, can the pilot instructor use force against him/her?

Posted by: Oregon Department of Highways at April 27, 2025 04:03 PM (8zz6B)

215 Actually... Central Valley Calif, 2 hours from the Bay Area...
______________

You don't have to go that far to experience a desert climate. Just cross over the Berkeley hills to, e.g., Livermore, which is hotter than the hinges of Hell.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 27, 2025 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

216 I like big boats and I cannot lie.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2025 04:00 PM (viF8m)

All I have is a little dinghy.

Posted by: Vulgar Boatman at April 27, 2025 04:05 PM (G5+As)

217 Actually... Central Valley Calif, 2 hours from the Bay Area...

Without the dams, this area at times was a swamp.
Posted by: Romeo13

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IIRC, probably due to monsoonal rains and snowpack melts and alluvial soils around the river basins from ages of flood and retreat.

Would it be fair to say that the climate itself though resembles more an oasis in a desert than a somewhere like the PacNW rainforests or somewhere like the Texas Coast?

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 04:07 PM (ctrM5)

218 What's the military protocol in such a situation? The pilot in training is an officer, and the pilot-instructor is an experienced non-com? If the pilot in training refuses to take urgent safety-related advice, can the pilot instructor use force against him/her?
Posted by: Oregon Department of Highways
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Either girl bossism--aka you ain't the boss of me or failed comms is my guess. In a split second situation, either can mean instant death.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 04:08 PM (ctrM5)

219 I agree, and people argue against this with me when I bring it up as a possible pathway. IMO, the arguments against going to a two year school and then a four year are rooted in snobbery.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
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Partially fear of their kid losing out, and perhaps partially living their life out through their kid as a symbol of their family status.

Doesn't help that peer pressure on parents and kids steers them often in wrong directions.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 04:10 PM (ctrM5)

220 I taught physics majors and engineering students. There is some self selection right there, more so with physics than engineering (engineering sounds like a cool way to earn big bucks, until you realize the hard work involved, physics used to be a sure ticket to a meager existence, so only a determined fool would choose that - confession: I was physics, BS, MS, and Piled higher and Deeper) so I had less problems with unmotivated students than some. This got worse as DEI crept in: I was pressured to give a female major a higher grade than she had earned, and I still remember the day a black engineering major said that once he got his degree that he could always get a colleague to help him with any problems he couldn’t solve. Sounds good on one level, you want to share talents, right? But that’s not the way he meant it. I pleaded with him to study seriously, and he did earn a passing grade in the class.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 04:11 PM (XbCq8)

221 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with Miami and Florida law enforcement, arrested almost 800 illegal immigrants during the first four days of Operation Tidal Wave,

...according to a report from Fox News.arrested include Jose Sanchez Reyes, a convicted murderer from Colombia, Rafael Juarex Cabrera, alleged MS-13 gang members and alleged 18th Street gang members such as Aron Isaak Morazan-Izaguirre.
_JustTheNews

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 27, 2025 04:11 PM (iqHvX)

222 ...according to a report from Fox News.arrested include Jose Sanchez Reyes, a convicted murderer from Colombia, Rafael Juarex Cabrera, alleged MS-13 gang members and alleged 18th Street gang members such as Aron Isaak Morazan-Izaguirre.
_JustTheNews
Posted by: Braenyard
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Looking forward to more lawfare from Dem judges and wailing from the media about the arrested dindu nuffin and were turning their lives around as solid immigrants by doing sex and drug trafficking that American citizens just wouldn't do.

Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 04:14 PM (ctrM5)

223 Either girl bossism--aka you ain't the boss of me or failed comms is my guess. In a split second situation, either can mean instant death.
Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 04:08 PM (ctrM5)

Really doesn't answer my question, though. What would have been the outcome if the pilot instructor had slapped her upside the head, and grabbed the collective and forced the chopper into a steep dive? No lives would have been lost.

Did the pilot-instructor refrain from from taking over control because he feared it would be a career-killer?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 04:14 PM (8zz6B)

224 The court ruled that position weakens due process and judicial authority.

Wow... So bringing back a MS 13 gang member must be done, because...

RESPECT MUH AUTHOHITY!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 27, 2025 04:28 PM (QAkQ3)

225 Did the pilot-instructor refrain from from taking over control because he feared it would be a career-killer?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 04:14 PM (8zz6B)

Or maybe it would have crashed if she fought back with seconds to spare.

Posted by: night lifted at April 27, 2025 04:32 PM (FZn/N)

226 Posted by: Romeo13 at April 27, 2025 04:28 PM (QAkQ3)

The goal is to weaken the presidency until some regal Democrat or a DEI gets in then, the judges will remain silent.

Posted by: night lifted at April 27, 2025 04:34 PM (FZn/N)

227 Would it be fair to say that the climate itself though resembles more an oasis in a desert than a somewhere like the PacNW rainforests or somewhere like the Texas Coast?
Posted by: whig at April 27, 2025 04:07 PM (ctrM5)

Summer heat gets trapped between the Coast Range Mountains, and the Sierra Nevadas... and with the Southern end of the valley near Bakersfield essentially closed off... it becomes a big heat trap... we'll go weeks with very little air movement, and very high temps.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 27, 2025 04:35 PM (QAkQ3)

228 225 Did the pilot-instructor refrain from from taking over control because he feared it would be a career-killer?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 27, 2025 04:14 PM (8zz6B)

Or maybe it would have crashed if she fought back with seconds to spare.
Posted by: night lifted at April 27, 2025 04:32 PM (FZn/N)

I'm beginning to wonder about her Mental Health. She had been working in the White House as a Social Director for the Bidens... Got canned when the Dems lost, and was now 'demoted' back to just being another Pilot... and apparently had not kept her flight hours up, which was why she was a Pilot under instruction?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 27, 2025 04:39 PM (QAkQ3)

229 Easiest way to navigate websites is to install the Vim extension, gg will take you to the top, shift g will take you to the bottom, there are also a great many other keyboard shortcuts as well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 27, 2025 04:39 PM (tZIYS)

230 Whatever they use that enormous tuition there for, it wasn’t for any A/C in that building!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 27, 2025 03:01 PM (XbCq

Ha!

Do you remember the building number?

When I was there, my frat brother asserted that the MIT President (Paul Gray) had the One Ring.

What nerds we were.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 27, 2025 05:46 PM (ufFY8)

231 Our previous house (w/fireplace) had 3 rooms heated by said fireplace--by chance only, there was no provision for this I could find, a purely serendipitous happening.

I spent many delightful evenings sprawled in front of the heat just luxuriating, some Chivas at hand.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 27, 2025 06:43 PM (hKoQL)

232 When replacing a capacitor, be sure that the voltage rating is at least double the voltage being used, if you can find it, or at least higher than the line voltage as possible.
Ya gotta allow for the line spikes that eat capacitors for lunch.

Posted by: boynsea at April 27, 2025 11:07 PM (cx155)

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