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tl;dr: “Don’t worry, be happy”

@Steve-Miller said in Anybody doing wild New Year's Eve stuff?:

Remember tinsel?

I remember finding it in the cats poop. Sometimes he’d walk away from the litter box with a poopy piece of tinsel hanging out his rear end.

Prolly good for them that we stopped using it.

I made a skirt steak, which I'll be making payments on into 2027. ($57 for 2.27lbs!! at Stop & Shop, not some gourmet market).

The boy was at his buddy's house until about 1am. Mayla and I went to sleep at 10:30.

Happy New Year!

In the 80s it took us 12 years to get tired of losing.

Lovely indeed.

As I put it next door, we’ve seen this movie plenty of times.

1 - select your desired opinion
2 - look in the Bible for supportive phrases
3 - declare your desired opinion biblically correct
4 - tell everyone there can be no other Christian opinion on the matter, since you believe in the infallibility of [your interpretation of] the Bible. The part in brackets is unspoken but implied.

Though I almost never use cash, I think it’s a good law just to prevent an electronic-only payment system from turning into a social credit regime. At least offline.

Great story.

I can’t imagine what such a monotonous diet does to someone year after year. It seems like a high risk that it would be missing some key vitamin or mineral.

it’s hard for me to disagree.

No treadmill for me today.

In some cases. If you need to log in to shop then they know who you are.

I’m all for differential pricing to clear shortages but when they do it because they think person A or person B is willing to pay more I get miffed.

Yeah I’ll peruse politico and/or the hill if there’s some big inside baseball political story that I know they’ll cover better than the majors.

I’ll look at Reuters now and then.

Capitalism is the worst form of economic organization. Except for all the rest that have ever been tried.

This is probably a good messaging bill for the Dems though.

It’s a center right never-trumpian group. If you’re the kind the person who seeks a range of views but doesn’t want to dive into cult fandom in the attempt then it’s a great site.

Most people aren’t looking for a range of views, they’re looking for confirmation. So I only recommend it selectively.

Wapo, NYT, The Atlantic, The Dispatch. I pay for a few podcasts and/or substacks - Sam Harris, Andrew Sullivan, Ken White, Matt Yglesias. I think that's it. Nate Silver during election season only.

So Delta screwed me. I had originally paid around 1300 for the ticket. The day I changed it, they were going to charge me another 400.

Because a few days (5) had passed before I contacted them, the new itinerary AND the old itinerary were going to be about 2600, they wouldn't budge despite it being their fault.

So I told them to credit me the original 1300 and bought a ticket on United.

Yeah, I'm pretty pissed.