Sometimes sound, sometimes an impact. Either way it’s pretty disruptive. I thought this was very common.

This is so perfectly appropriate.

What in the hell is happening? It’s like the more we progress socially the more the religious zealots get to go fucking crazy.

One of nicest places on earth. Beautiful scenery and the most wonderful people.

This makes much more sense.

The company Silk makes an excellent none dairy milk called “next milk”. It’s only 80cal per 250ml. It might be an option to explore. I’ve tried just about every non dairy milk and this one is by far the best.

I hope for the day.

Sweet. Fine them for 70 years of knowingly contributing to air pollution and climate damage.

Arrrr ye mateys.

From bad to worse?

That is spectacular. Well done!

One can dream.

Good time to step up and be a good NATO member. Or generally just a good nation in general. Imagine Putin landing in Turkey and when he steps off the plane. “Welcome to Turkey, you’re under arrest.”

Good time to arrest him and turn him over for a trial.

We did too. Bought for less than $100k. We have fixed rate ATM on our mortgage. But as soon as it is ready to renew we hope things have settled down. We never want to live above our means. We got lucky.

We had to sell a piece of dream property this year because rates made payments go up so much that we could barely do minimum payments. We had planned to build on it eventually. Inflation and interest rates made it impossible. Now the dream is a memory. We just hope we can hold on to our current house.

We’re having the same issue in Canada. Conservatives are wanting to go back and not look forward. It wasn’t always that way.

What’s happening in the US isn’s even considered conservatism anymore. It’s the MAGA cult. I am definitely left, but conservatives don’t always need to be bad. It just so happens that the Republican Party has filled itself with people serving themselves and not the people who voted for them. Fingers crossed things go well this November.

Tax the wealthy. If we want to fix this problem money has to come from somewhere. The middle class any poor have nothing left to give. I don’t know why it’s so difficult for our government to have the spine to do it.

I guess the only hope now is to try and bankrupt him…again

It would be amazing if the jury said jail time would be more effective than another monetary settlement. Fingers crossed.

You get to offset gas for your car with less expensive electricity. We save about $100 or more a month in gas. Electric baseboard heating would definitely be expensive. Our oil bill was getting crazy bad, and with the recent inflation it would have been that much worse. Our heat pump keeps things comfortable at home in the winter and summer. If it gets too chilly we can use a space heater as we need. Overall per year we are still saving hundreds going electric.

Electric

We love getting the refund. After making a concerted effort to install a heat pump myself and purchase an affordable EV it helps pay for about a month’s worth of electricity each time we get it. We don’t consume any carbon based fuels at our home any longer. So it’s a big bonus for us. Next up is solar panels I think.

Get me another bucket!

This is for wealthy families.

It’s better than bad.

Seems fair.

I’ve been vegan for a decade. You just changed my mind.

So how will NATO respond to Putin? Bad boy, don’t do it again!

Those kids should pull themselves up by the bootstraps. /s

I have no sympathy. Their complaints are all about lack of training and not about the fact they are going to fight in a country that is not their own for absolutely no reason. Fuck Putin and fuck the men and women of Russia who don’t stand up for what’s good and right.

I got some cheap solder with my solder station and it was the bane of my existence. Found some leaded solder I think I got from radio shack years ago and it works so well. I hate to say it but I haven’t yet had good success with unleaded solder. Someone please save me from the brain damage.

This shouldn’t have made me laugh. But alas…

Oooo, look at us shaking in our boots. Putin can go to his bunker and shoot himself in the face.

It makes absolutely no sense that the richest country can’t have the best universal health care in the world. Build something that the rest of the world looks up to and not down on.

I guess Mr. Vermont man made his point.

After the IDF killed three hostages who were waving white flags and speaking Hebrew, we know their intentions are to not play by the rules of war.

I find that hard to believe.