A few days ago, I’d sent you a note to volunteer to assist with any non-development “stuff” that I could take off your plate. That stands.

Home Depot, many many years ago (20+), used to hire people who were experts to work departments. Best Buy used to have concierge experts to help you with phone, camera, electronics purchases. I really wish that stores would do that again. The only differences between stores that sell the same items now are price and availability. Actually focusing on service would easily set a store apart.

That’s just God telling you to go to the bad gateway.

THERE’S A DONUT SHORTAGE IN INDIANA??!

I’ll airlift some in, you can price gouge them, we’ll split the profits.

I’m sure that by “outsiders” you mean “people who go outside,” and I agree.

This

We are immigrants who didn’t grow up here, so we have no idea what’s normal and what’s not.

I’m not sure where you’re from or where you are, but considering how this is escalating, I don’t think it matters.

I would actually take this to the school administration - principal and counselor(s) - and not to the specific teacher. A second grade teacher may not have the experience necessary to handle it properly, but the administration would. And you don’t have to bring it as “I want you to do something about this.” Present it as “This is definitely something you should be aware of,” at least in your first conversation with them.

Wrong guy.

Those revelations came to light last night when former Missouri Representative Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin) tweeted out a screenshot showing the unofficial candidate filing list for governor posted to the Secretary of State’s website. On it, Darrell Leon McClanahan III’s name sits atop more well-known GOP contenders like Mike Kehoe and Jay Ashcroft.

This is apparently a thing he does, and this will be a “walk in the park,” so to speak:

In 2019, he became the first and only person to make the 80-mile round-trip hike to Mount Everest Base Camp without shoes. Two years later, he set the 2021 Guinness World Record for the longest barefoot journey after hiking 1,875 miles on the Australian coast. Now he plans to break that record by walking 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to New York City, entirely barefoot.

Gaia is such a slut.

Trump was never going to win Illinois anyway.

… willful idiots we had this time …

Oh, there were plenty of those in 1918, too.

Carroll’s case is federal, this one is New York State.

I am right now sitting on a Steelcase Series 1, and while it doesn’t have great lumbar support, it is far better than any shitty $150 “gaming” chair, and is right in your price range brand new.

This is for the tax case; Carroll’s judgment for the most recent one was $83.3M. They’re both civil cases, though this one is NY State, and Carroll’s is federal.

In either case, if the bond amount is not posted, there is no appeal, and assets can be seized to fulfill the legal consequences.

“I don’t want extra attention from the IRS, let me send them a letter that will surely cause them to pay less attention to me!”

Tangent story, I was in Manitowoc, WI, on a motorcycle trip. In WWII, they built submarines there, and they have a US submarine at a museum on the lake.

You might remember Manitowoc as being the area where Making A Murderer happened. Turns out that series only gives a light impression of the local accent there. The tour guide for that submarine sounded like he was speaking a completely different language from English.

I read The Fountainhead instead, and it was interesting enough to keep me reading. “Okay, there’s a lot of setup of characters and circumstances going on, I am curious to know how this plays out,” and then it just … doesn’t. It was all a lead-up to a long, weakly written, and plainly stupid monologue about how completely ruthless all people should be at all times, only ever thinking in the shortest term about themselves.

I closed that book wondering why Ayn Rand was famous for anything beyond being a shitbag, when I was young enough to be kind of a shitbag myself.

This has been going on forever.

Even then, the signal strength is not high enough. It gets overshadowed by the CMBR before it gets anywhere significant.