Republicans love to point to those days to claim they’re not racist today

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And yet, they can sell their debt

According to the government, “Corporations are people too.”

Congress loves to hold themselves hostage at the sake of federal workers and the American people. They get paid either way, go on vacation. May even give themselves a raise.

My dad needed a very clear, more scratch resistant glass for a product he was working on. Up until then, the best you could get was by going to glass companies and getting sapphire coated glass. He searched a chemistry book of compounds and found what he was looking for. Based on the structure, the qualities were known, but it hadn’t ever been created. So he then to a chemical company and worked with them to make it. It’s essentially aluminum oxide (corundum/ruby or sapphire depending on the color. His was colorless.)

When he unveiled it to the company he worked for, he called it “transparent aluminum”. He said one guy at the back of the room caught the Star Trek reference.

I use both in my wood shop. Sometimes it’s easier to lay things out in metric or divide numbers, but other times it’s easier to remember an imperial number to go make a cut.

Why wouldn’t it be an equal decision that the two of them come to together?

Why was the original post to the article removed?

Was it not the end consumer who paid those tariffs?? Frankly, I’d rather it be given back to the business at least, but let’s not pretend that they didn’t extract it from their customers. End it so that other companies can’t as easily gouge based on the idea of tariffs.

I don’t know all the details, just that the tire exploded and killed him.

We had a local shop owner killed when airing up a tire with fix-a-flat. His wife ran the shop after his death and she did not mince words when someone asked why the shop wouldn’t patch their tire that had fix-a-flat.

I live near two other states and can tell a distinct difference by the shape of the mountains (one has rolling hills, the other has very steep-sided hills, my home region has deeper valleys) and the building style since one state has lax building codes and the other has older and larger structures. The barns are typically discernable too.

Talk to real people in your community. I have friends all across the political spectrum and class spectrum. We can disagree on many things, but we agree on most things. That’s important. Quit guzzling “news”.

After Helene, I saw how people respond to real problems. Showed me that what I was already doing really is the way. Love people. Show them love. Fuck the news, fuck the headlines, focus on your community. Stop seeding fear. That’s all it is. Be love.

I know it’s fucked, but just focus on the people around you and foster good relationships. Don’t try to understand everything they do or think that’s different from you. Just accept them where they’re at and where you’re at. Start there. It makes a huge difference. If it all goes to shit, you will have built relationships that matter.

Give it time. I started wearing glasses at 6. Contacts at 9 until I was ~22-23. Glasses again for the last twenty years. My prescription is heavy (-7.75 and -8.25.) It’s weird switching from contacts to glasses and vice versa. Looks like a fishbowl at first. Depth perception is off. Your eyes will adjust. That said, make sure you have a good eye doctor. Don’t start with internet companies. Go to a legit doc and then take your prescription and get backup glasses but be skeptical of the alignment and fit. If you don’t trust the prescription, get a second opinion. Take care of your eyes.

Scales are important. You can make anything look extreme by manipulating the x or y axis.

No, that’s rot. I’m a woodworker who has reclaimed thousands of board feet of barnwood and also has lived in a house that had termites. That is rot.

Will you explain what you mean?

When did they do that? Maybe it’s confabulation, but I could swear I’ve seen commercials on streaming in the last year.

I’ve had a bidet since right before COVID (coincidentally and conveniently,) so maybe I’m just confused. It was surprising when I found out there was a toilet paper shortage in the US, then finally seeing the empty shelves, but checked the cabinet and after seeing a few rolls realized we were fine for a while. At least a dozen friends installed them soon after based on our feedback, and I know of at least three dozen through them. All bidet, e’ry bidet!

At least we can agree on that, haha!