Yes a little harder. But all states are already offering Real-ID for driver’s licenses , permits, and ID cards.

@Steve-Miller said in Internal conflicts: Rooting for injuries. Plus one.

I thought Macroeconomics was the time-saving benefit of using a stored series of commands in excel to perform repetitive tasks. (source -I was a economics major about 50 years ago…)

Good grief.

Link to video You can see the solid back. Perfect. Yeah, miss it.

If we didn't know that person was bad news we do now.

Then there is this, culturally a Japanese import but it has gotten very popular in the Sinosphere, especially in shops and businesses: [image: O1CN01gUvHgY1dPTEozZb4a_!!6000000003728-2-yinhe.png_468x468Q75.jpg_.webp]

Roast potatoes are truly the tastiest way to eat potatoes, even better than chips. Best when the potatoes are first chopped into smaller chunks... Mrs A can do them perfectly. I usually microwave and then mash spuds, using butter and pepper. I actually leave the skin in the mash for a bit of healthy roughage.

I keep telling YouTube I am "not interested" in YouTube Shorts (TikTok-like short videos) and they keep showing up anyway.

@wtg thanks! I knew I could count on you! forwarding to mr. pique now....

@AdagioM we have filed an extension most years, usually because I was on deadline and resented the interruption of preparing my taxes. We have never paid anything at the time of the extension, and we have never had to pay a penalty. I was going to do them early this year, but now I am thinking of not doing them at all. My accountant is sympathetic, politically. I expect I'll be calling him for advice on this. Thoreau went to jail for not paying his taxes because he objected to his tax dollars being spent on war. Then he wrote a book about it, "Civil Disobedience," which inspired both Mahatma Gandhi and MLK. Things are in such a dire state at the moment, I'm afraid those of us who can, need to follow their example.

https://i.postimg.cc/KYLdcGbv/IMG-1943.jpg Hopefully improved resolution

I called Gaviscon Canada today. I try to limit sodium and wanted to have a better idea of how much I might be taking in while I'm taking the Canadian Gaviscon. I knew there was some sodium bicarbonate in the tablets but the amount wasn't listed on the label, so I couldn't calculate an approximate sodium content. Final answer: Regular strength: 22.6 mg sodium per tablet Extra strength: 29.95 mg Max Relief: 34 mg I can live with those numbers with the number of tablets I'm using daily. I asked why the alginate products aren't available in the US. He said that the US Gaviscon is made by a company called Haleon, and that the Canadian Gaviscon is produced by a completely separate company that is only licensed to sell and market in Canada. I had looked at the various Gaviscon products that show up on various sites. They all have different formulas. Some have aluminum or magnesium, some have potassium carbonate instead of sodium carbonate, and I saw different sweeteners, too. Sugar, aspartame, and saccharin. With these GI and ENT docs developing their own alginate product lines, I wonder how long it will take Haleon to launch one here. Clearly there seems to be a market developing for it. The US Gaviscon does list alginic acid as an inactive ingredient in their product but from the anecdotal stories I've heard, people haven't had as good results with the US product because there isn't enough of it to form a good raft. Plus the US product has magnesium and aluminum and people often try to avoid aluminum. Your useless facts for the day!

The minute I saw Google walk away from DEI I quit using Chrome. DuckDuckGo is a much better browser and you can't be tracked. They have email addresses too, btw.

@RichL said in The Test: Poor Australia--reduced to a rounding error, lol In this article as populous as the Arctic and Antarctica.