@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.

Imagine

An AI flop. Bigly. https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/humane-ai-shuts-down-flop-20175974.php

Hmmm. Don’t doubt they’re experiencing it, doubt it’s related to the vax.

In the rice cooker pot in the rice cooker. It doesn’t get hot enough to sear but it’s perfect for sweating vegetables.

Looks kind of like snakes. But I'll bet it's good. Is there anything the air fryer can't do?

I love the Czechs. Have been to Prague twice. Little old ladies would take my hand and take me to the spot to catch the trolley. They told me I looked like Vaclav Havel, their popular president, so they liked me. With one exception they were great.

Sigh. Watching the Mump trying to purge words like LGBTQ+ from previously published research reminded me of how important it is to have hard copies, paper versions of publications. Yes, you can try to brun books, but first you have to go out and round them up. Much more difficult than digital scrubbing... This new Kindle rule is more proof of the importance of physical copies.

I'm exhausted just reading this. I don't have the bandwith. The prospect of everything he's talking about feels just catastrophic.

Yeah, he had prednisone face.

Not around here. Lots of construction.

it's all just so wrong.

@wtg said in Another federal prosecutor resigns: A longtime federal prosecutor resigned Tuesday rather than carry out what she described as orders from Trump-appointed officials to take actions unsupported by evidence As this starts to happen more, it's really starting to make me worry.... wouldn't it be better to have these people of principle stay in their roles? Could they stay in their roles, but not comply? Like, workplace civil disobedience??

I use it, but in tandem with Goodreads. So many of my friends are on Goodreads and I stalk a couple folks whose reading preferences match mine to get suggestions. I do like Storygraph’s review mechanism as the pacing and mood parts really help me to determine whether I might like a book.