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paysrenttobirds @sh.itjust.works
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Letter from the Editor
  • Florida was a super close call. Most states won't miss a few votes, or even a lot of votes in some cases. I'm not advising anyone anything, but I know some people will be making this calculation, and I think it may be the only way to get some new cards on the table.

  • ‘We are scared’: Gen Z may hold the keys to the White House, and the parties know it
  • The two parties are not going to figure this out. I think we are in the middle of one of those major shifts in the landscape. Probably still end up with only two, and one of them might keep its name, but it seems to me this country's leadership has simply outlived its ability to sense the world around it. They've patched over all sensory organs with some kind of insider-curated feed.

  • Meteorology Gatekeeping
  • Oh, funny, I was thinking maybe it was written for two audience with different terminology where one names wind by where it's going and the other by where it came from. Somehow the truth is more aggravating.

  • Demanding satisfaction
  • It's an interesting comparison because it seems to me dueling comes from times and places where personal reputation was much more important to life destiny than now due to a lack of protective legal and other institutional infrastructure that dampens the risks in living and working with strangers.

    So maybe any rising sensitivity in the present is due to the feeling that this infrastructure is weakened.

  • Had to dig under my foundation. What should I put in the whole when they fill it in?
  • I like your idea, but it just brings to mind how fragile all of our digital media is, not to mention the surrounding tech necessary to read and understand it. What we know works is to press your message to the future, grocery bill, whatever, into clay and then accidentally burn the city down around it -- good for millennia.

  • Store making me feel like an outcast because of privacy concerns
  • Maybe just an awkward sales agent, or they thought you were mad at them for in their mind trying to help. I decline phone number and zip code all the time. Also been using someone else's phone number at grocery stores for years -- started by mistake. I don't care about accumulated points or whatever but discounts at grocery store are pretty significant for me.

    But I understand your frustration in general. Keep up the good fight :)

  • Does anyone else find binaural beats actually freaking psychoactive?
  • I've used this giorgio regni app on Android for years with various random earbuds.

    The only option on its menu that reliably does anything for me is called "morphine pain killer", but it was a game changer for me for incapacitating sea sickness (believe me I had tried so many things I don't think I had any placebo potential left). On land, I've found it effective for post surgery pain, nerve pain, and even the odd depressive crying jag. I guess at this point I'm a believer so I'd be curious to know what effect it has on a "fresh" patient. I don't think I've tried it just for kicks, though, so not sure what you'll notice if you're already feeling ok.

  • Answer

    Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, Bob Dylan

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    Across the Universe

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    Can I use a 1T thumb drive for Time Machine backups?

    My recent experience is no -- the first backup went just fine, but all subsequent attempts to add to it have failed, giving various errors in the logs, including mounting problems, timeout during the initial write test, bad database, etc. I did rename the drive between backups, maybe that was bad? The log shows Time Machine using the new name and finding the drive just fine.

    Googling this I see that people have these same problems with external hard drives, though, so I'm wondering if anyone has been successful using a thumb drive and if there's any trick to it.

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    Is there a reason sometimes I can't block a community from the three dots menu on a post?

    Usually the option is there, but sometimes only block user is available.

    Thanks.

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