What are the Mets? Apparently they don’t exist!

I keep mine at 145, because I fear legionella.

That’s how it is for me in the summer, and Jersey ain’t exactly tropical. But it’s kinda nice being able to just turn on the shower and get in. The cold water is likecold in the summers, and it’s usually humid, so a shower with no hot water ends up very refreshing.

Yes, eat some billionaires, and then give everyone left a choice: Glorious Revolution or French Revolution.

Yes, he knows when I’m in that deep sleep like 30-60m before my alarm goes off, so that when I give him the boot I don’t have enough time to go back to bed for any meaningful sleep.

The Busy World of Richard Scarry. To me two looks at Dick Scarry, not sure anyone’s ever referred to him that way until this meme.

I love two towns over from Manville, which was the asbestos capital of America, and I can unequivocally say those morons would vote to bring asbestos back if they could.

I think that definitely sounds reasonable, and I think, if there’s any hope for these tariffs to actually meet their stated purpose, the government of the US would need to just say, if working conditions don’t meet the same standards, there will be additional tariffs. I think that’s exactly where tariffs ought to be applied, when some country takes advantage of, essentially, human rights. We don’t have the right to stop them, but we do have the right to tax their products for it, to the point it’s not worth it.

Obviously, that’s not how things will go.

That last part for sure resonates. I can’t remember if I said it here or elsewhere, but our prices have been subsidized by substandard working conditions in China, there is no way around it. And all because large corporations wanted to make more money. And we, as consumers, shouted a resounded “hell yeah” to those Chinese suicides at Foxcon, because we wanted cheaper components and cheaper phones.

And so I basically don’t know how I feel about anything. I try to be more cognizant about what I buy, where it’s from, how it’s made, but the speed and ease, and basically not having to think, sometimes trumps those thoughts.

The only silver lining I see to the tariffs is that it could end up sticking it to all these large corporations who fought hard to move operations out of the US, to places they knew couldn’t meet US worker standards, in order to save money. Obviously, US consumers will feel the pain, but we’ve been buying products subsidized by Chinese suicides in Foxcon factories, and so perhaps it’s a comeuppance.

Disclaimer: I don’t know what’s going on.

Decade old specs for decade in the future price.

I have not looked beyond the front page of the link you shared here, and I don’t mean my criticism to be more than tongue in cheek, but oh boy, $2k for that is… Something.

Those center lefts maintained a status quo that did not serve it’s constituents, plain and simple. Say what you will about Trump, hate the dude and his policies, but he has a base who has some very regressive desires, and he’s hitting them. Democrats have a pretty large progressive base, and they have essentially failed to meet those desires for as long as I’ve been alive. But maybe they needed a dog in the white house to bite them in the ass. We will see. Or we won’t and the world ends, whatever!

Yes, I remind myself that each gray is at least there. I have a wonderful, full head of hair, and I never take it for granted by shaving it off. It’s an insult to all of my bald and balding friends.

It’s what, 1996 for Millennials? So we still got some youngins. God, to be in my 20s again… although there’s definitely parts of it I don’t miss.

Early 2000s internet was so good. I don’t know that it’s possible to go back there. You needed it to be a little bit wild west, you needed to say “Hey, if I click this website, am I going to regret it?” But folks were generally real (except apparently the girls I talked to in AIM chat rooms, but hey, I survived).

Yeah, I remember pretty much 1992 on really well, and they were prosperous, carefree years. Everything was good (save some snags, nothing is 100%). We even turned the corner into the millennium and things were just great. I go into high school and we’re just chugging along, the biggest problems we have are which cable internet provider to choose to download viruses on limewire.

Then, boom, 9/11. And the world just hasn’t seemed to have gotten its footing since then. And perhaps that was naivety and my 14-year-old perspective, but that seemed to be the turning point for me, where the unprecedented became precedented.

It’s so much more than this, and it just seems like you don’t have any experience that you’re drawing from. My main experience is the subway in Manhattan (and trains from NJ to get there). You go from the chronically late trains in NJ, to the poor infrastructure in NY, and whether or not the train smells like piss, or there’s someone who I am desperately trying to to avoid making eye contact with, just ends up being the cherry on top of what was an unenjoyable and often unnecessarily long trip.

Tabernac!

So just dough nuts.

Starring Cuba Gooding Junior Jr.