There actually are a few rich folks that see the need for more taxation at the high level and such. They sorta get there is only so nice money can make their lives before you get to the point where the earth in general has to get better to improve their quality of life. Many though seem caught up in some sorta game to have the most. Stan ridgeway has a great line in his I want to be the boss song about that. I have said before that I could only get so rich because if I got to a certain point im not going to be chasing that stuff and would chill like the my space guy.

Man I feel this. I sometimes think about how if everything was relatively better it would still not be good enough. Its like it might be more tolerable but still so much bad.

Its kinda funny because the concert I paid to see in chicago theater after having loved the band for ages was horrible but now I know its sorta a well known thing where anderson got sick and his voice never recovered. I likely heard him at his worst. Later though the flutist society had them for a free concert and I think because of the sponsors they played their most flute heavy stuff. Literally had a comrade fan at my side with tears in both our eyes we could not get over how good it was. The music has always had a lot of feeling and philosophy and such and I had someone tell me they did not like them because they were too political (we were talking about music from the 60’s and 70’s though which is like. dude it was all political at that time). Anyway anderson reformed the band and I was blown away by the first albumn that was influenced by trump1 and covid called the zealot gene. just summed up the feel of the time to me so much. They had this crazy outsized effect on music in general realtive to the popularity and recognition of the band. They had a lot of membership changes through the years and past members ended up in so many bands and they experimented a lot with stuff that you kinda see in other music genres later. Besides anderson, martin barres guitar in particular but its quite the rabbit hole. As you can tell im quite the fan. Getting away from the band, one thing that is kinda funny is at one point I thought I really liked a wide variety of music. Over time I realize I sorta tend to like a type of music that is related across time spans. progressive rock, new wave (the real stuff as it feels like in modern times they list all eighties stuff as new wave), alternative, no idea what the modern name would be.

yeah it left a lot out like a big increase in green cards and protection for dreamers.

Its like the religion I give most credence to when keeping to the wanting to stop wanting.

yeah “vulnerabilities” that require physical access to the machine while its logged in don’t exactly worry me.

You know its kinda funny. Im a masker but during the pandemic I was amazed at things people seemed to do or say they do. On the one side you had neighbors using their dog to trades stuff and its like. Um a big warm biologically active surface. Not the smartest. Then like people don’t seem to understand distancing and masking in terms of math. Outdoor is different than indoor and ventilation matters. I had some people saying they did not go outside during lockdowns (not lockdowns like someone actively had it in the household but city wide ones). Its like you can go outside just don’t get within ten feet. That being said really early on when we did not know shit my wife would spray down deliveries with lysol and only opened them to check what they had but left them be until needed rather than putting them on shelves and such.

Well my favorite band is tull and andersons flute is generally a giveaway but also just the use of odd instruments. Not totally though as the group has experimented with some different sounds. Still there were times I heard a song and I was like. That sounds like tull and it was. There are occasions where I think that sounds like tull and it was some other folk rock band though.

cops should carry liability insurance just like doctors and a cops rates will be effected by where they work. When one cop watches another break the rules they should be watching their monthly premiums rise.

I feel like this is action dependent. I mean if you decide to do something in an hour or the next day, week, month, year. and you mull it over and kinda go back and forth. I dunno. Now when things come out at you like an accident or your attacked. I think later you think about moving and doing things but maybe the point in time your limbs are moving and thinking about it later your like. I tried to shield my face like you made the decision but in reality your reflexes went off before it reached your brain.

The legends are true!

As scott said I don’t really want to follow users. That being said I really wish these things could be setup more like trust cafe where you can rate users. Basically you rate them 0-100 where 100 would be subscribe and 0 would be block and everyone defaults to 50.

I assume it will be challenged in court. Here is the meat:

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the federal workforce, issued a final rule on Thursday that creates a category of worker for high-ranking career employees whose work focuses on executing the administration’s policies. Workers who fall into that category would no longer be subject to rules that for decades have set a high bar for firing federal employees.
While political appointees at agencies are considered at-will employees who serve at the discretion of the president, career employees have long enjoyed strong job protections, including the ability to appeal firings, suspensions, or disciplinary action to an independent board. Workers that fall under the new category wouldn’t be able to appeal to the board.

AMERICA! Nyew Bee!

I think he hates the obamas more than anyone because they are so the opposite of him.

I find this hard to believe. How did they pass the exams to get in? Are they talking community college or ones with no real entry requirements?

I wish more people would understand how much worse of the palestinian people would have been under kamala and how much better off they are since we thankfully got trump. /s to the extreme.

they both be daddies.

ok yeah. it sounds a bit like what my brother had done but for diivrticulitus so he did not have to worry about anything else. If its just the surgery its not the worst but not the best kind of thing. He had great fun burbing his colestomy bag. I hope you all the best.

if you have a rice cooker you can cook lentils with the rice and they are so small it cooks right up. Can add any veg or spices you like and the key with the rice cooker is the harder something is to cook the smaller you need to cut it up. I know you said veg but you can throw raw chicken in if its cut up small enough without poisoning yourself. I put that in just to showcase the cutting things ups small. You just can’t beat beans and rice for macronutrients vs cost. If you want to go for a superfood that is not to expensive buckwheat is amazing.