As an old, I’m fascinated by not having any way to iron.
I only use my iron for Girl Scout patches. Otherwise: if it needs ironing, it needs a different owner or a dry cleaner. We send DH's work shirts out to be laundered.
thos reminds me of a local dispute. We had a new neighbor move in who became convinced a neighborhood cat was abandoned and neglected because he was after roaming and had no collar. He has no collar because he had a history of climbing and getting the collar caught on things. New neighbor was ready to call the humane society over a beloved pet. Luckily someone told the family about the post on nextdoor.
Why shouldn't a person call the humane society/take a cat to the shelter it it's outside roaming?
Because it comes to you every day at the same time from the same neighbor's back yard and then goes back every evening when they call for it? It's been doing that for years before they moved in, Do you really call the shelter on every outdoor cat you see?
There are about 5 outdoor cats in our neighborhood. I recognize all of them and would never just snatch one up. Personally, I worry about them with all the coyotes and wish they stayed home for that reason.
Swimming is a hobby (and lifelong fitness) but not a career, KWIM? So I’d look long term. What will set her up best for a university where she can thrive and get the training she needs for her post collegiate life. Athletic ability can be a stepping stone on that path. It can open doors. But it isn’t the destination. What will get her to the destination? There are private schools that are all about sports, or money or academics. If this is the third, it’ll set her up for future goals. The first two are temporary.
I say this as someone whose sibling competed not just nationally but internationally in swimming - things like Pan Pacifics, etc. when it came time for college, swimming opened doors but he kept his focus on long term goals. Instead of going to the top swimming option, he went for the best overall. it made all the difference for his career.
Baseline, I think it’s great this cat has people who want to love and care for it.
thos reminds me of a local dispute. We had a new neighbor move in who became convinced a neighborhood cat was abandoned and neglected because he was after roaming and had no collar. He has no collar because he had a history of climbing and getting the collar caught on things. New neighbor was ready to call the humane society over a beloved pet. Luckily someone told the family about the post on nextdoor.
One factor that complicates rental duration is landlord/tenant law. In some places, landlords prefer to rent Airbnb style because residing somewhere for 30days (or some other time frame) triggers certain tenant protections. Those protections exist for a reason. But some landlords don’t want to be bound by them. I am more than a decade out of landlord tenant work in NYC so I don’t remember the specifics there.
This is the central issue. Not urban v. suburban v. rural. Locations where AirBnBs proliferate suffer the consequences of its infiltration. The units gut local affordable housing stock for residents and workers, whether it's NYC or Tahoe or Maui or the Bay Area. Local regulations and licensing requirements can mitigate some of the damages.
Side note, I keep eyeing references to this and I have no idea what I missed. Even googling for news article I didn’t find anything that seemed unusual.
Honestly, I've seen all these points and none seem particularly shocking, unless you really want to read a lot into them.
"Government has UAPs" Of course the government has UFOs. Any country with any interest in counteracting espionage would collect unfamiliar flying things to learn about the capabilities of others.
"Government has recovered non-human biologics" Another of course. Every space shuttle we send up is full of non-human biologics - mold experiments, fruit fly experiments. Every international plane flight has pets, plants, a rouge fly or spider. We tried/almost sent bats to Japan during WWII. That plane was full of non human biologics. Almost all biology is non-human and it's everywhere.
The reporting process isn't transparent? What about espionage and counter espionage is?
People are silent about things that are stigmatized? Has anyone ever gone to high school or held a job?
Strange readings and sightings - this isn't new news.
I'm someone who believes not all life/evidence of life in the universe is on our planet nor sent out by humans. But that leaves so many things possible that are nothing like the "aliens" of everyone's fear. An asteroid with intergalactic mold spores? Sure, I'll buy it. "The government is hiding decades of evidence of aliens out joyriding and crashing into the earth? Not so much.
we have Gender Queer. You really have to look for that one image (unlike that mailer). I can’t find it right now to check, but I think It isn’t even a penis in the book. It’s a dildo. So it’s not even a drawing of genitalia, when read in context. It’s plastic. These same people have no issue with a million images of murder or violence which is so much more disturbing and awful than a dildo. (Or oral sex)
Do they have consequences though? Because if they hit and kill a pedestrian or cyclist, THEY are always physically fine, and they're also rarely prosecuted. But the person with no protection is usually far from fine.
As of today, Paris has banned e-scooter rentals (think Lime and Bird) because they killed literally three people. In 2020, 6,516 pedestrians died in traffic crashes, and 938 cyclists died in the US. Police reports most often cite a failure to obey traffic laws as causes for fatal pedestrian or cyclist deaths.
Hell (can't remember if I mentioned this above) my city won't even enforce the state law of giving 4 feet of clearance to cyclists because "the streets are too narrow" instead of, you know, insisting that drivers just NOT try to squeeze past a cyclist on a one lane street.
On top of this, vehicle/ped and/or bike crashes are rarely reported in the news because they're not novel/sensational. So while sonrisa may not have heard of any crashes, digging around would certainly pull them up.
The cyclists around think they are invincible and untouchable. They regularly launch directly into traffic (against the rules of the road), run lights and stop signs without looking. It used to mostly be entitled wealthy middle aged white men but has gotten worse with tweens and teens on e-bikes. They treat them like motorcycles for speed but don't seem to know or follow *any* rules of the road nor safety on multiuse paths. Cars haven't killed anyone locally in years. So far it's been cyclists hitting and killing pedestrians but it feels like only a matter of time before a cyclist also dies. n
All this needs is how cyclists don't pay road taxes and we have the general rant against cyclists that the no-necks around here spout.
I deleted because it isn't relevant to the thread or this kid.
There are good and bad drivers and good and bad cyclists. But shitty drivers get tickets, lose their license or have other consequences. As they should. But e-bikes have really led to safety problems. They move at motorcycle speeds without the licensing or regulation and are allowed in all the spaces bikes are. Irresponsible cyclists have killed multiple people within the last year around here and are never held accountable.
Thought maybe bento style would be a touch easier.
Perhaps with your kids
Mine never reach for those options (We have two compartment containers). When they do, they get get hung up on having one thing in each compartment but don't necessarily eat all of the things during the day and still take secondary containers for things that didn't fit by size. They usually prefer to grab one container per item. Our food thermoses are in high demand.
My kids want to bring lunch from home this school year. I would rather they ate lunch that is free again this year because its less work on our end, but I told them we could do a couple days a week.
I would love to try a bento style lunch box to cut down on the containers that would need to be used and washed. They will probably need it to hold a decent amount of food. Anyone have suggestions?
My suggestion: this is on your kid.
Last year is the first year our schools offered free lunch and it was wonderful. Not because they ate it every day. They didn't. But because creating an alternative was no longer something I need to worry about. They can eat the school lunch, or they can make one. They need to tell me what ingredients they want me to buy. They need to make it (in time for school - so that might be the night before), and they need to clean it up.
Sure, I sometimes grab a container out of my 4th grader's bag and throw it in the dishwasher, but we have nothing that needs hand washing. The decrease in whining about lunch has been amazing.
That's the problem: Washington has created a culture of "work until you drop" as if being in the Senate or Supreme Court was like being Pope (unless you don't get reelected). I think lilac's point about changing that culture *for everyone* would make a huge difference. We need stepping aside to be normalized again rather than some idea of irreplaceability so many current politicians hold. If retiring were normalized, RBG wouldn't have died on the Court.
Feinstein specifically should know better since her local crew have both done better. Boxer stopped running for reelection in 2016 and Pelosi has stepped down as speaker.
We'd like it to be normalized and considered dignified so *all* of them would plan to retire and do so in a timely way.
For me, this is not about Toxic Turtle himself, but more about the others. Toxic Turtle needs to go - but his health complications or age are about 83rd and 84th on the list of reasons for that.
But it’s a culture of their own making. Usually when we talk about something being “normalized,” we’re talking about people with less power needing to see something modeled by people with more power (the CEO taking paternity leave to pave the way for other employees, for example). Politicians have the power to control their own destinies — they’re not staying out of fear or external pressure.
Instead, everyone is so goddamn power hungry and concerned about their own legacies that we can’t expect them to change anything voluntarily. The only option, as someone said above, is term limits.
I don't disagree at all - especially with the bolded. It's one part power hungry, and one part egotism that makes them think they are completely unique, amazing and irreplaceable. They need to change this themselves, or we need objective criteria that forces change.
However, I stand by my statement that this is low on the list of *my* problems with McConnell. Frankly, a McConnell who fails to do his job is a McConnell I prefer.
lilac05 I’m not sure I understand what you’re referring to when you say we need to find ways to give someone a “path out with dignity.”
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Feinstein and RBG chose their paths too. Why is retirement somehow “undignified?”
That's the problem: Washington has created a culture of "work until you drop" as if being in the Senate or Supreme Court was like being Pope (unless you don't get reelected). I think lilac's point about changing that culture *for everyone* would make a huge difference. We need stepping aside to be normalized again rather than some idea of irreplaceability so many current politicians hold. If retiring were normalized, RBG wouldn't have died on the Court.
Feinstein specifically should know better since her local crew have both done better. Boxer stopped running for reelection in 2016 and Pelosi has stepped down as speaker.
We'd like it to be normalized and considered dignified so *all* of them would plan to retire and do so in a timely way.
For me, this is not about Toxic Turtle himself, but more about the others. Toxic Turtle needs to go - but his health complications or age are about 83rd and 84th on the list of reasons for that.
I agree with ESF . We were so far off in 2016. If Trump is in play it will always be a wildcard. The poll is just the opinion of a very few number of people, so I don't think it is indicative of anything anymore broad than that.
CEP is never representative of the whole country even if the election were tomorrow
I'm curious to see how the board's opinion progresses over time. I'll ask again as legal cases work their way through the system and candidates come and go.
There are two issues here: 1) The ambiguous, unenforced "1-2 days a week" policy your boss and his superior are ignoring. 2) Communication about when people will be in the office
I would definitely address the second. It's reasonable to ask your team to let you know each week which days they plan to be in, and update you if something comes up to change those plans to work at home. (Or to ask that the default day return to Tuesday and people let you know if that won't work for a given week).
On the first, I'd want to send out an email reminding people of the official policy. I wouldn't put anything in that email about you not personally caring if they come in. That sends a mixed message. You can say that in person if it feels appropriate but don't put it in writing. (If and when the hammer comes down on your superior, they might scrutinize your team to see if you are following his questionable lead.). If you want to soften it, you can thank them for their hard work and timeliness or otherwise compliment their productivity in the same email. That takes the edge off without undermining the message.
And I'd still vote for her over Biden if I had the option and primarying a sitting president was a feasible thing. But it isn't. So I'm busy dancing with the one y'all brought. So stand behind him.
ETA: I'd also still choose Harris. I feared being VP would sideline her and it really has. CA Senator is a much more active and visible role.
From what I've been reading, I'm starting to wonder if he knew he was committing crimes, because he surely wouldn't be this confident admitting what he did if he knew. And then I wonder what his lawyers are thinking letting him talk like this.
I keeping thinking of all of those regular Rs who came into the Trump administration in the first year or two who wrote “tell all” books saying that Trump was frustrated that they didn’t do what he said to do .. because it was illegal. Like, Trump was MAD that they didn’t do it - and they quit or got fired. For example, one of the chief of staff didn’t put things on Trump’s desk or distracted him, or put stuff under other papers. It made it look like Trump was a buffoon, but it was also a little like preventing T from doing illegal stuff. Book after book said this stuff.
The whole RICO indictment basically boils down to a LOT of people willing to do a lot of illegal shit - on TV, in front of cameras, with contemporaneous notes of meetings and actual memos of plans. I remember watching Giuliano and Powell and thinking “this can’t be legal”. And it wasn’t. How can Mark Meadows possibly defend himself with “I didn’t know I was committing crimes?” Is that even a legitimate defense?
It's a defense if "willful" or something similar is one of the elements of the crime. Usually it isn't. (Murder is murder even if you think it's fine. Things like the most severe charges for tax fraud need an element of understanding. See Wesley Snipes.)
Ideally, he realizes/admits that he is potentially not up for the demands of the job.
This is on every 2020 primary voter who thought then that he was the best bet. Of course he aged and of course he ran again.
We've known since Dec. of 2020 we'd be here.
Every sitting president who is primaried, goes on to lose the election, so a primary challenger isn't the answer. And even if he stepped down, he'd basically be handing the incumbent advantage over to Trump, since Trump's a beloved by many* former president. (yes, those many are awful, but they still exist and vote).
You can rail against reality or hope he makes it to December 2024 and work to get him elected in the interim. Honestly, this whole argument is a Republican talking point that has been trotted out again and again (starting with rumors years back that he'd step aside).
Frankly, I think Trump has a damned good chance of winning.
I think Dems will win based on demographics and the most recent voting history. GenZ and Millennials combined are finally a larger group than boomers and we overwhelmingly support so many major issues opposite to the R platform. Every day there are more Gen Z of voting age and less boomers due to death, with 2 years until the election. I think Jan 6 and R extremism has pushed away even people who voted R in the 2020 election.
Not who do you want to win. Not what does analysis or logic or polling or common sense say. When you are honest with your gut feelings, what do you think?
I can have strong nostalgia or an emotional response, but not goosebumps/tingling/chills (I do get those, but not for anything auditory. Meditation is actually the most likely trigger).