P J Evans

retired map reader; amateur genealogist since 1974; knitter since 1969; SF fan since 1961.
Cactuses (but not opuntias) are fun!
(Probably autistic)

Location: Los Angeles

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2024-12-30 00:06:45 UTC

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Snowys: black beak, yellow feet, and they shuffle their feet when they're wading.

2024-12-29 23:19:19 UTC

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Did you really want to say that on a post about Finland, Estonia and a Russian ship?

2024-12-29 20:52:56 UTC

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Too many witnesses.
(I got a job through another agency; the one I visited was bought out a year or so later.)

2024-12-29 18:01:30 UTC

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I scheduled an interview with an employment agency whose owner I'd worked for in the past. Got there, having traveled for a couple of hours just to get there, and the young woman sitting at the desk wouldn't let me past, even with an appointment, because I wasn't dressed to *her* standards (she was in a dress with shoulder pads, a hemline above the knee, and 3-inch heels).

2024-12-28 20:57:54 UTC

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I didn't know they did surgery for benign prostate conditions.

2024-12-28 01:06:13 UTC

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Do they even know about the USMCA?

2024-12-27 21:02:41 UTC

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He forgets he's a product of the American educational system.

2024-12-24 01:53:46 UTC

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It's out in public NOW. You're taking a cheap shot at the OP.

2024-12-20 19:00:50 UTC

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Oh, it's a boat?

2024-12-20 19:00:27 UTC

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Not that much - the big drag is underneath the body.

2024-12-18 02:55:45 UTC

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They claim it's so the parents can talk about it with the kids first.
If it's never on the screen, there's nothing to talk about...and the kids will get that information elsewhere, and probably wrong.

2024-12-17 18:13:41 UTC

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They also highlight how little legislators actually know and understand about the stuff they're voting on.

2024-12-17 17:00:59 UTC

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We have a constitution with a few paragraphs that start with "you can only be elected twice".

2024-12-17 04:45:42 UTC

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They forget that bullets come down as fast as they go up.

2024-12-16 19:58:22 UTC

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Does Donnie understand he can't pardon state crimes?

2024-12-15 02:56:20 UTC

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Mine is not only normally sleeping, but also not with me.

2024-12-15 00:05:04 UTC

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Good luck with that: you can't shoot down stuff that doesn't exist.

2024-12-14 18:06:45 UTC

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Sometimes they have an internal candidate and need to do a posting for legal reasons.

2024-12-14 17:48:13 UTC

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Also: No food. No money. No housing.

2024-12-14 04:54:49 UTC

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That depends on the generals.

2024-12-14 04:21:23 UTC

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He has the right-wing militias, who will be eager to do whatever he wants that day.

2024-12-11 04:23:32 UTC

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That was about the time that privatizing took off, and really enshittified most things.

2024-12-09 19:50:04 UTC

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Education should include high-school level chemistry, physics, and biology, because they can't avoid dealing with reality and should know what it includes.
(It's usually called oxides of nitrogen, N2O4.)

2024-12-06 20:27:29 UTC

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Current machine is a refurbished HP, by a reliable local place - I've gone there before.

2024-12-06 18:02:47 UTC

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The overpriced book that most people aren't going to buy?

2024-12-04 17:48:50 UTC

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Apparently he didn't die immediately.
"Thompson was taken to a hospital but could not be saved."
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/man-killed-in-a-shooting-outside-a-new-york-city-19959063.php

2024-11-28 20:34:01 UTC

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Did they look into how many seniors can actually afford to travel?

2024-11-28 16:59:03 UTC

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Their entire world is based on anger at everyone else.

2024-11-28 16:56:23 UTC

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Fck those "ideas". They're to his personal benefit, not that of everyone else.

2024-11-24 00:03:18 UTC

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Does she have any qualifications that most of us would recognize as such?

2024-11-23 17:31:46 UTC

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Children, in their minds, are possessions, property. not people. (Then they wonder why their kids don't write or call or visit.)

2024-11-23 17:02:01 UTC

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I feel like wishing cancer on everyone who thinks "YOYO" is a good thing.

2024-11-22 19:02:51 UTC

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I always wondered if they reused the concrete that they crushed to sand/gravel. (Seen that a couple of times, when they demolished a building. It would make sense to reuse that stuff.)

2024-11-22 16:30:24 UTC

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"inxodus"? Someone doesn't know their words. It's ex-odus, so in-odus would be better (if still invented), but "influx" works just fine.

2024-11-20 01:29:15 UTC

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The COVID vaccines are effective, but, like flu, it mutates frequently. It's good for keeping the cases mild.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness.html

2024-11-14 19:35:45 UTC

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I've never been asked for ID when voting in California. Signing the voter roll, back when we still had precincts, yes. And we're vote-by-mail, now, with the option to vote at a "voting center" (usually inconvenient), which requires signing and dating the envelope. They do check sigs on those.

2024-11-12 22:05:32 UTC

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They want private schools, because they think public schools are worse...but they don't want to pay for those schools, any of them.
When white people were settling areas, the first things they organized after government were schools.

2024-11-12 21:57:48 UTC

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mean income in the US is less than that, so 50K is okay.

2024-11-12 20:25:09 UTC

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The one I saw had three tiers based on income, which is really misleading.

2024-11-10 23:41:02 UTC

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That's one reason I was liberally using the block button when I was there. There are very loud people who hate the very existence of those who disagree.

2024-11-09 03:15:10 UTC

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I deactivated mine this morning. I'll miss Bad Medical Takes and NYT Pitchbot..

2024-11-09 01:32:38 UTC

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ROFLMAO!
(I cope with that by believing that each series is in its own universe.)

2024-11-08 03:59:12 UTC

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He could have done it years ago, but he was too busy sucking up to Big Ag and Big Oil and VETOED the bill that would have written environmental protections into law.
Fck him.

2024-11-05 19:03:03 UTC

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Imma gonna not here that "dice" is plural. The singular is "die", as in "the die is cast" (meaning thrown).

2024-11-04 16:36:51 UTC

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Vaccination passports. A lot of us ARE vaccinated.

2024-11-02 03:22:04 UTC

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I don't remember what its design lifetime was, but I think it's way past that.

2024-10-30 02:45:06 UTC

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I once saw a maple on a hillside covered with pines and cedars. In fall.
It was glorious!

2024-10-30 01:20:15 UTC

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He was very good at making people feel good...if you didn't really listen to what he was saying.

2024-10-29 01:24:08 UTC

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We'd trust the media a lot more if the billionaires didn't own most of it and lie to us all the time.

2024-10-25 18:53:04 UTC

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I'd go for the tax brackets from the Johnson administration, adjusted for inflation.

2024-10-19 18:51:31 UTC

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It's how we dial a lot of numbers, any more. Area-code overlays.

2024-10-19 18:40:30 UTC

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That's a good question. They might get it if they can associate buttons with fingerholes.

2024-10-19 18:35:24 UTC

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How many would know to dial 1 first?

2024-10-18 16:56:14 UTC

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Isn't it illegal to pay people to get them to vote?

2024-10-18 01:55:32 UTC

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basically, don't wear anything promoting a candidate or a party.

2024-10-16 00:32:01 UTC

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I used the nearest drop box, and got confirmation the county had it two days later.

2024-10-11 00:09:09 UTC

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https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/10/trump-demands-emergency-appendix-surgery/
His motion to keep the appendix to Smith's filing under wraps was rejected.
Judge Chutkan: "The court will grant Defendant’s request for a stay so that he can “evaluate litigation options,” ECF No. 259 at 2, and hereby STAYS this decision for seven days."

2024-10-03 01:22:07 UTC

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Those cases were already in progress. He isn't going to be *tried* before the election. And he's spent all his time for the last couple of years trying to delay everything until next year, when he thinks he can pardon his way out.

2024-10-02 16:08:12 UTC

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Tier 1 is $0.2117 per KWh - that's the first 1000 KWh. (Paid mine last week, so the bill is still handy.) I used 501 KWh over 58 days, but that missed some of the hot days at the beginning of the month.

2024-10-02 16:05:19 UTC

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Try looking at US cities.

2024-10-02 16:04:23 UTC

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yeah, NOT GONNA HAPPEN. You'd have to rebuild every parking area - not all of them have "structures".

2024-09-30 03:16:26 UTC

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Makes me wonder what he was promised by Google and OpenAI.

2024-09-29 02:13:49 UTC

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Maybe they should just do a show about GOOD news. Like the good stuff that happens: the cat that found its way home from 800 miles away, that kind of thing.

2024-09-28 15:08:01 UTC

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It certainly implies that she's done this before, and probably frequently.

2024-09-24 03:26:09 UTC

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Women can get pregnant after 50. It's not usual, but it happens.

2024-09-18 23:58:20 UTC

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He's complaining about having to deal with the consequences of his own speech.

2024-09-15 00:01:33 UTC

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I suspect they'd be healthier and happier people if they'd gotten some Ds and Fs in grade school.

2024-09-13 16:10:08 UTC

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I startled testers more than once, doing that. I learned a long time ago that there's usually two clearly wrong answers out of four, and after that it's easier to find the right one. (The most fun I every had was a multiiple-guess test of mechanical reasoning. I missed one, but it was near the end.)

2024-09-13 15:57:13 UTC

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China is as dependent on the US as the US is on China.

2024-09-13 15:44:26 UTC

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Mid-80s, taking the "graduation writing test" in college. Multiple-guess section, where some questions had no right answers (and they thought there was one), and finished with 90 minutes to write an essay on a topic they handed you.
I passed.

2024-09-12 15:52:22 UTC

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It shouldn't be a problem, as it has NOTHING to do with his candidacy. It's about his PAST criming.

2024-09-11 16:34:10 UTC

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It's supposed to be nice for the next week!

2024-09-09 01:43:06 UTC

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Bernie doesn't see racism as the cause of economic inequality.

2024-09-08 15:55:21 UTC

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He's using the legal system to delay, not threats.

2024-09-08 15:33:43 UTC

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They wouldn't be needing intercoms all the time, either.

2024-09-08 03:37:54 UTC

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It's been going on for years, probably many decades, and the cops shouldn't be given a pass on any of their own crimes (and civil forfeiture is theft: no charges, no recourse).

2024-09-07 22:29:54 UTC

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That sounds nice - we have 110F and 14%. Yesterday it hit 113F (45C) and stepping off the air-conditioned bus was like walking into an oven. It was a cool 86F in my apt...

2024-09-07 00:20:05 UTC

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I go with "The enemy of my enemy is a temporary ally."

2024-08-31 03:46:57 UTC

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He's clueless.

2024-08-29 19:46:46 UTC

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Aurora has problems, but I think they're mostly GOP-related.

2024-08-29 03:41:40 UTC

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They used to commit women to asylums with descriptions like that, usually because it was the only way to get their property and then lose them.

2024-08-26 23:24:53 UTC

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So the local herders lose their herds to starvation and don't get anything in return?

2024-08-21 15:39:44 UTC

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And for those who didn't already know, so does the NY Times.

2024-08-21 05:43:42 UTC

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Necessary. I've heard of cases of people being attacked while in an ER.

2024-08-20 16:30:38 UTC

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They've been drawing bad publicity from some of their park decisions. Taking out the riverboat at Disneyland to put in another movie-related area that's going to be out of date in a few years (in this case, "Cars").

2024-08-19 16:56:44 UTC

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I reset my default search page to DuckDuckGo. I've also turned off AI on Google searches.

2024-08-17 23:03:16 UTC

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Someone doesn't know their axes. XY is the base plane, Z is vertical.

2024-08-17 22:52:34 UTC

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He has a magic mirror. Formerly belonged to Dorian Gray, I suspect.

2024-08-16 17:31:37 UTC

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There were other problems - bird flu hit chickens really hard.

2024-08-16 17:15:46 UTC

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Not that so much as the price hikes on *everything*.

2024-08-15 19:38:38 UTC

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It wasn't seriously injured. Bleeding, yeah, but if it did more than that he'd have needed hospital treatment.

2024-08-15 01:13:21 UTC

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The story's still available at SFGate. He's not very smart, is he, since he can't see that AI is a bubble like crypto.

2024-08-14 15:29:57 UTC

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When all you have is your memories of memories, you should retire to a care center.

2024-08-14 05:23:46 UTC

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It's nothing like what most Congresscritters make.

2024-08-08 02:36:51 UTC

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He reads SFF, per File770!

2024-08-06 18:48:55 UTC

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There was a guy I commuted with who worked for DWP, and swore it was a company, not part of the city. (I think he was early MAGA.)

2024-08-06 00:08:57 UTC

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I think the president can also ask justices for their resignations.

2024-08-05 17:31:57 UTC

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Isn't that what I was saying?

2024-08-05 17:17:34 UTC

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State-sponsored religion where you have to attend ITS church at least once a month.
I read that Washington got in trouble several times for missing church, before 1776, because he was out late Saturday night and couldn't wake up in time.

2024-08-03 20:18:41 UTC

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I don't have a problem with taking her out on point-1 impulse...but I'm not writing their scripts. They never really did details, anyway. It's handwaving and unobtanium. (I don't buy the way their artificial gravity works. That's me.)