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@Daniel Your story of the trike accident really shook me. It’s a miracle you came through it so well, thanks to your gymnastics training. I should learn how to fall since I’ve had two serious bike accidents — i.e. resulting in broken bones. Anyway, if the chain falls off a front chain wheel — this is assuming the bike has a rear derailleur, but maybe it works on others too — you position your stick-tool above the lower run of the chain and drag it forward and around the chain wheel (counterclockwise). The stick keeps your hand away from the chain wheel teeth that could pinch you. The spring in the derailleur allows slack in the chain that facilitates this maneuver. I’ve often wanted to show this trick to some poor kid whose chain had fallen off and dreaded a long walk home.

The prints are beautiful! Senior theses are printed on one page with its opposite left blank, as well. Lol.

4,200 people disappeared by ICE Link to video

I like "Magtard", Jon.. It need to be widely applied.

Harry, Meghan, Archie, Lilibet, Eugenie, and Beatrice to lose their titles when William becomes King. You heard it here first. Or not.

Yes, but it wouldn't take many to resign for the Democrats to take the House, even before the election, according to some reporter or another. Maybe they are shocked, and offended. Maybe. They are human beings, of whatever description. Maybe they feel a little bit like many people feel today. Maybe.

Link to video I admire people who have this kind of sartorial skill! I have almost none. I had what I called- "my middle class uniform" in high school. Jeans, two-button polo shirts, and sneakers. I naturally happened on sartorial glory once in my life. I was 21 and wore 501 Levi's and white t-shirts (t-shirt optional except in class and at parties). I had the body for it. Someone said I had no style. One of my best friends retorted-he has the style of James Dean. And I did. I didn't plan it. It never happened before and will never happen again! Today I work on my wardrobe as a never ending project with the goal of having a functional one and one that is as nice as possible with a heavy emphasis on elementary skills, e.g... colors that match, colored t-shirts I only wear at home, a set of the same t-shirts washed carefully and put away for going out, etc. I bought a belt that was too big and don't own a single pair of long pants. That's on my list. I don't move up in price point (although I've figured out how) because I am constantly replacing clothes that wear out and adding basic necessities. It's like having a hobby. Maybe I'll get better at it. But my reaction to a tie let alone a corset would be- are trying to trying to strangle me and suffocate me to death?! This man is phenomenal. So are the men who dress in period costume 24/7. Not me but ultra-talented.

said in ‘Shit for fucking poor people’: There was also this recipe for a chicken dish that looked pretty good: https://www.campbells.com/recipes/one-skillet-greek-chicken-with-orzo/ Could whip up some homemade tomato soup and give it a try.... Made it for lunch. It was very good. I didn't use the Campbell's tomato soup, but instead used up some stewed tomatoes, pasta sauce, the last of our fresh homegrown tomatoes and a tablespoon of tomato powder (great stuff!) Also the last of a box of fresh spinach that needed to be used. Definitely cleaned out the refrigerator. It was delicious!

No direct contact, but I do "see" him on Facebook fairly regularly

‘It’s terrifying.’ Wyoming leads country with highest jump in Obamacare costs For a 60-year-old Wyoming resident earning $63K a year, the average monthly ACA premium costs are increasing by 421%. https://wyofile.com/its-terrifying-wyoming-leads-country-with-highest-jump-in-obamacare-costs/

Very famous house. Nice to see that no one has messed with it.

It happen here too.

Not elegant as automobiles go but the bodyguards are a good look.

Ah ok. Guess Ben Nevis ain't on his list then (though it gives a fine view for moderate effort and a classic ridge descent with golden eagles for company). Kangchenjunga... respect, it has a kill rate of 1 in 5. I recall the first up (Joe Brown?) stopped very slightly short of the summit out of respect to its divine status.

The real reason I bought these was because I wanted them. But one of the reasons was, as I said, so I could tune out my roommate (and other sounds). One recommendation I can already give is to spend the extra $30 and get the bigger ear cushions. One of the (the left one for some reason) seems to be sitting on my ear and pressing down on cartilage. It's a little painful and I still am trying to adjust everything to make it stop. I'm going to go off-topic now because I want to express myself in a "blogging" or "diary" way. But no worries! If you don't want to keep reading I wouldn't blame you-- at all. Roommate asked to borrow them yesterday. I said No. They're brand new, he was high, he was spilling cups and bowls, and passing out about every fifteen minutes. Well, he took offense, and carried his resentful disposition overnight into this morning and acted like you'd expect all day. Yes, in case you were wondering, his psychological development was stunted at five years of age, as it turns out. This is a rabbit hole I think I will discreetly skip. Well, we got into a fight that almost got violent. He took my laundry off the porch racks, he told me I can no.longer use them, and he dumped a roll of paper towels he had accidentally dropped in the toilet on a flannel sheet of my he had hung from two chairs in a haphazard way. I turned over his two racks with wet clothes into the dirt, told him he was getting no garbage bags or anything else from me and then I piled up all the household garbage I could find on the kitchen floor. I spring cleaned the kitchen floor yesterday. I changed the sheet that surrounded the bottom of the freezer as it leaked compost slime for a year and cleaned up hundreds of rotting hornet carcasses along the walls that I finally had access to because he had emptied the kitchen floor of a jumble of small appliances and other useless things. He didn't notice I did it, the didn't thank me, and perversely, he told me I don't know how to clean. His penchant for gaslighting is hardwired into his neurochemistry at this point. He's emaciated. He's lost weight. His teeth are falling out. He looks like any and every 60 year old who does meth every day. There are no exceptions. I'm sorry to say he looks ghastly. He let it slip the other day he's still doing QHB (Q I'm sure; I think H and B are correct but I'm not sure). It's the date rape drug for those of you don't know it by its initials. This is the same drug that put him in the ICU and almost killed him. He sold plasma and bought more meth today. He doesn't have three months rent, he had no money, he doesn't have a job, he doesn't have good credit. Nobody will rent to him. He doesn't even have the money to rent a room. He's been locked out of his mother's house (technically it's owned by his sister who's local and moving in with her husband to care for his mother at the end of January). His sister who's not local was visiting while his local sister (whom I know well after 7 years) took his mother to Tennessee for medical treatments since local sister can't leave her daughter's side after she fell into a coma after two consecutive heart attacks. I'll probably be able to leave in January but if not than almost certainly in February. I pay 100% of the rent. I have every month we've lived here. Roommate as reneged in every part of our financial agreement. He pays nothing. I continued to pay because it was my only option to avoid eviction. So, what does it all mean? It means a couple of things to me. The handwriting is on the wall. Roommate will be homeless and sooner rather than later. Finally, I've been feeling badly for him for months it not a year. Well, I no longer feel badly about it. I feel fatalistic and to be honest I don't care anymore. So, I feel liberated from the ambivalence and worry I've felt until now. He ruined his own health. He reneged on his responsibilities to me. He spent his money on drugs to the point he made no provision for himself. I'm not responsible. Also, I'm not going to live out my life with his toxic personality and chaotic and abusive behavior. I would count the day if I knew how many there will be. But it will happen. Thanks be to my beloved father, to my sister-in-law, and to my cousin.

@Steve-Miller said in The new system: Good grief. What does all of this cost? Not sure, but here’s a start. There’s the cost of the National Guard. $470M and change. https://ips-dc.org/fact-sheet-the-cost-of-trumps-national-guard-deployments/ And all those Kristi Noem commercials. $220M. Which she seems to have gotten a piece of. https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group What else? Feel free to add whatever you think I’ve missed.

Not the Italians specifically. If you draw a horizontal line across where the island juts out toward Brooklyn, that runs along I-278. Roughly north of there is “north shore” and it just so happens that that is the area more aligned with the rest of the city. More minorities, more creatives, more older. funky and interesting neighborhoods. (That’s where I live,) South Shore is more conservative, suburban, MAGA, Trumpy. Most of the Republicans voted for Cuomo (brown color), a dem running as an independent, out of fear of Mamdani. They even abandoned the Republican Curtis Sliwa, because he didn’t have a chance in a 3-way race.

@AdagioM said in It’s a Human Service I suppose: I’m afraid to click that link. The pop up ads that would result! It works with an ad blocker. You should still fear the link though.