Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>Not too mention his stated policies would like supercharge inflation, and might
>lead to a recession.

Oh, really?

>Mass deportation,

Good. But I suppose you want here what the UK has.

>tariffs,

Against China? Absolutely needed. We have *got* to stop giving all
our money to our enemy.

>and still more tax breaks for his billionaires.

That, we could live without.

--
"your hostility and active resistance creates/increases doubt" -
lying asshole "-hh", lying shamelessly

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:36:44 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> Not too mention his stated policies would like supercharge inflation,
> and might lead to a recession. Mass deportation, tariffs, and still
> more tax breaks for his billionaires. Yeah, that'll work.

Can't be worse than Bidenomics or whatever Harris dreams up as she tries
to distance herself from the past 3 years.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-confronts-million-us-
jobs-100000224.html

Isn't it strange how when initial reports are revised, be it jobs,
unemployment, inflation, and so forth it's always in the 'bad' direction.

No fear -- the fundamentals are sound.

On 8/18/24 23:12, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:15:22 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> We have one B&N in Boise. There used to be two of them. The surviving
>> location seems to be doing pretty well. But they'll still "order" books
>> for you. I always tell them I can order my own, if it comes to that.
>
> I haven't been in the B&N for a long time. Part of that is I prefer
> electronic media for most books. I'm building a pile of dead tree books
> that I'll stuff in the Little Free Libraries around town. There is a handy
> app to find them :) I have a Nook but the battery is shot and replacing it
> is more trouble than it's worth.
>
> Back when Amazon was first starting with mostly books and music they often
> promised items they couldn't deliver particularly for foreign CDs and I
> preferred B&N. Then Amazon got it's act together. Bezos might be a multi-
> billion dollar prick but I can't fault what he grew. from an online
> bookstore with a shaky inventory.
>
> Then there was Borders. They outsourced online sales to Amazon, which was
> suicidal, got into CDs as the world was moving on, and were late to the
> party when they started selling Kobos.
>
> At one time WaldenBooks and B. Dalton were both in the mall but they are
> gone. I forget whether B Dalton and the new B&N store overlapped or if B&N
> closed the Dalton when the new store was ready. WaldenBooks was in the
> Borders/KMart fiasco.
>
> Winners and losers. As I said it's fascinating trying to figure out the
> deciding factors.

Last time I walked inside Walden Books in the Mall here in Dallas half
of its books were Christian books. So no wonder...

A bit of cognition that's remote from Penis X might've saved them.

On 8/19/24 16:36, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:07:34 -0500, chrisv wrote:
>
>> Ha. Fair enough. Regarding the rotisserie chicken I spread them,
>> mixing-up all the parts, the day that I buy them. Leftovers go in a
>> ziplock in the freezer, ready for the occasion when I need to add
>> protein to something.
>
> That has to be the best bargain on the planet. $4.99 and it's good for at
> least 4 meals for me. The week before I'd gotten a package of filet mignon
> --4 meals but it was over $40.
>
> I usually don't splurge that much but a co-worker had just returned from a
> Las Vegas vacation and was talking about $40 hamburgers. Ye Gods and
> little fishes!
>
> There's no inflation, nothing to see here folks...

$4.99 ? It is $12.99 here in the occupied state of Tekhkhkhas. I think
it is still $8.99 in Walmart.

Chicanos pay any price you ask. Cause they have the money!

Are you close to where Kaczynski lived?

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:59:03 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

> Are you close to where Kaczynski lived?

About 80 miles. Lincoln had its 15 minutes of fame when he was arrested. I
believe the cabin is in DC now and his land is just a patch of woods. The
area is popular with the snow machine crowd, hunters, or hikers. There is
one interesting site:

http://www.sculptureinthewild.com/

Give the slideshow time to cycle. It's not exactly a tourist attraction,
isn't publicized that much, and is an easy to miss turn as you leave town
going east.

If you're not familiar with the teepee burner that is one of the artworks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_burner

Different one in a better context:

https://b2b.glaciermt.com/guest-post-5-hidden-gems-at-the-historical-
museum-at-fort-missoula/

The shed in the foreground is a steam powered sawmill that they fire up on
Forestry Day in April and the 4th of July.

The mills are gone. The last one shut down this spring.

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:40:59 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

> Last time I walked inside Walden Books in the Mall here in Dallas half
> of its books were Christian books. So no wonder...

I don't remember an over abundance of Christian books but the computer
section was limited. There were a lot of cookbooks, best sellers, and the
like. Even the B&N computer section has shrunk to about a quarter of its
original size. otoh the last hardcopy book I remember buying was a WCF
manual over ten years ago. Now most are obsolete before the ink dries.

On 8/19/2024 7:38 AM, shitv wrote:

> Most difference are not as dramatic as the produce, but they are
> still that and that add up to a significant difference.

DING! DING! DING!

RonB: Even Harris admitted that the price of groceries have gone up 50%.

At the moment I am eating Walmart's "Baked Beans with Brisket",
32 oz tub (Refrigerated), 8 $.

Three months ago it contained brisket chunks;
today, it's just a flavoring.
It's still good but quite sweet.

"Relf" <Usenet@Jeff-Relf.Me> wrote:

>RonB: Even Harris admitted that the price of groceries have gone up 50%.
>
>At the moment I am eating Walmart's "Baked Beans with Brisket",
>32 oz tub (Refrigerated), 8 $.
>
>Three months ago it contained brisket chunks;
>today, it's just a flavoring.
>It's still good but quite sweet.

Sounds disgusting, to me. I'm willing to pay for real food at McD's.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 8/21/2024 4:33 PM, Relf wrote:

> RonB: Even Harris admitted that the price of groceries have gone up 50%.
>
> At the moment I am eating Walmart's "Baked Beans with Brisket",
> 32 oz tub (Refrigerated), 8 $.
>
> Three months ago it contained brisket chunks;
> today, it's just a flavoring.
> It's still good but quite sweet.

I was literally today gonna start a new thread asking if you were taking
care of yourself, eating better and exercising.

Today I did 10 laps of my street, 4 with weights (20,30,40,50). 80
degrees, light clouds, August in Georgia humidity. Laps 9 and 10 are
killers.

What exercise did you do recently?

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>On 8/21/2024 4:33 PM, Relf wrote:
>
>> RonB: Even Harris admitted that the price of groceries have gone up 50%.
>>
>> At the moment I am eating Walmart's "Baked Beans with Brisket",
>> 32 oz tub (Refrigerated), 8 $.
>>
>> Three months ago it contained brisket chunks;
>> today, it's just a flavoring.
>> It's still good but quite sweet.
>
>I was literally today gonna start a new thread asking if you were taking
>care of yourself, eating better and exercising.
>
>Today I did 10 laps of my street, 4 with weights (20,30,40,50). 80
>degrees, light clouds, August in Georgia humidity. Laps 9 and 10 are
>killers.
>
>What exercise did you do recently?

I can't speak for Jeff, but I walk to get around, and the MDMA in Diet
Pepsi keeps my body healthy. So I am in good shape.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:12:18 -0400, DFS wrote:

> Today I did 10 laps of my street, 4 with weights (20,30,40,50). 80
> degrees, light clouds, August in Georgia humidity. Laps 9 and 10 are
> killers.
>
> What exercise did you do recently?

According to Fitbit I put on 5.64 miles, most of which was on trails with
elevation gain. The amusing part is they have a Zone Min calculation based
on time at various heart rates. "Aiming for 150 Zone Minutes each week can
help maintain a healthy heart." I got exactly 150 Zone Minutes today so I
guess I'm done for the week. Oops, Sunday was 221. I'm toast.

80, mostly sunny, and 35% humidity. This ain't Georgia and I don't need to
grow gills.

Sort of Linuxy:

I wrote a little Python script to access the NOAA API at
https://api.weather.gov/

$python weather.py
temperature 75.02 dewpoint 42.98 humidity 31.78 pressure 29.95

Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 49. North wind 0 to 8 mph.
temperature: 49
wind 0 to 8 mph N

Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 89. East southeast wind 1 to 6 mph.
temperature: 89
wind 1 to 6 mph ESE

Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 53. East wind 7 to 12 mph.
temperature: 53
wind 7 to 12 mph E

It goes out to next Monday but you get the idea. The response is JSON
which is easily handled as a dictionary.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:15:10 -0400, Joel wrote:

> I can't speak for Jeff, but I walk to get around, and the MDMA in Diet
> Pepsi keeps my body healthy. So I am in good shape.

The FDA would love to know about the molly in Diet Pepsi. You should try
Coke and aspirin sometime. It might work with Diet Pepsi but that's not
the classic recipe.

Diet Coke with Mini-Thins used to be okay before they got all huffy about
ephedrine. Amazon has Mini-Thins with "Ephedrizine" for the illiterate
suckers in the crowd.

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

>> I can't speak for Jeff, but I walk to get around, and the MDMA in Diet
>> Pepsi keeps my body healthy. So I am in good shape.
>
>The FDA would love to know about the molly in Diet Pepsi.

You don't think the government would be in on it?

> You should try
>Coke and aspirin sometime. It might work with Diet Pepsi but that's not
>the classic recipe.

Why aspirin, exactly?

>Diet Coke with Mini-Thins used to be okay before they got all huffy about
>ephedrine. Amazon has Mini-Thins with "Ephedrizine" for the illiterate
>suckers in the crowd.

Christ, that is some snake oil, I just looked it up, a large dose of
caffeine with some other crud, that they're just fictitiously
comparing to ephedrine. People will buy anything, I guess (e.g.
NyQuil).

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 8/20/24 19:26, rbowman wrote:
>
>
> http://www.sculptureinthewild.com/
>
>

ٰٰI bet Kaczynski wouldn't like that. They may have done it to piss him off.

On 8/20/24 19:36, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:40:59 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
>
>> Last time I walked inside Walden Books in the Mall here in Dallas half
>> of its books were Christian books. So no wonder...
>
> I don't remember an over abundance of Christian books but the computer
> section was limited. There were a lot of cookbooks, best sellers, and the
> like. Even the B&N computer section has shrunk to about a quarter of its
> original size. otoh the last hardcopy book I remember buying was a WCF
> manual over ten years ago. Now most are obsolete before the ink dries.

They might have adjusted for the demand. This one was in a Mall in
Plano. I remember I didn't want to get in but for just that 1 in a
trillion chance bitterly stepped inside. It was a small place and even
then the first half of it in front of the cash register were just
various Jesus loves you greeting cards and crap. The second half which
was even a smaller area had the books. I painfully spent like half a
minute there and of course didn't find what I was after (repair manual
for a certain car).

Even that Mall is gone now. Forget Walden's Jesus-packed waste of sight.
That entire Mall didn't offer a single item for people who're living
there now.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:29:45 -0400, Joel wrote:

>> You should try
>>Coke and aspirin sometime. It might work with Diet Pepsi but that's not
>>the classic recipe.
>
>
> Why aspirin, exactly?

I don't have a clue.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/painkiller-combination/

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:46:41 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

> ٰٰI bet Kaczynski wouldn't like that. They may have done it to piss him
> off.

He was in ADX Florence by then with other problems to worry about. Moral
to Kaczynski's story -- even your brother will drop a dime on you.

On 8/21/24 22:24, rbowman wrote:
>
>
> Diet Coke with Mini-Thins used to be okay before they got all huffy about
> ephedrine. Amazon has Mini-Thins with "Ephedrizine" for the illiterate
> suckers in the crowd.

That's not ephedrine. It's some substitute snake oil.

Pseudophedrine is legal and is better than ephedrine. Ephedrine creates
notable pressure on kidneys and is just too much while pseudophedrine,
when needed, does a wonderful job with no after effects.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:24:37 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

> Even that Mall is gone now. Forget Walden's Jesus-packed waste of sight.
> That entire Mall didn't offer a single item for people who're living
> there now.

Our mall has survived although I'm not sure why. Stores come and go but at
least in has a Scheels now, I think HobbyLobby is open now too. That
disappointed me when I found it's a glorified Michaels with an agenda and
not something useful like HobbyTown.

rBowman: 80°F, mostly sunny, and 35% humidity.
This ain't Georgia and I don't need to grow gills.

Silly exercise doesn't interest me, Sorry DFS.
62°F, 10:30pm, calm, occasional light rain.
No one can tell you what "humidity" is, here in Seattle.

P.S. I found a token amount of brisket ( pectoral muscle, pecs )
at the bottom of my 2 lb tub of beans . . . Yum !

Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 8/21/24 22:24, rbowman wrote:
>>
>> Diet Coke with Mini-Thins used to be okay before they got all huffy about
>> ephedrine. Amazon has Mini-Thins with "Ephedrizine" for the illiterate
>> suckers in the crowd.
>
>That's not ephedrine. It's some substitute snake oil.
>
>Pseudophedrine is legal and is better than ephedrine. Ephedrine creates
>notable pressure on kidneys and is just too much while pseudophedrine,
>when needed, does a wonderful job with no after effects.

Both ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are the S isomer, so when reduced
by burning off the OH to methamphetamine, they're a potent precursor,
although the yield can never be pure. Allylbenzene is the key to
making legit synthetic meth (as isosafrole, MD-allylbenzene, is to
MDMA). P-2-P yields racemic.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

rBowman: The mills are gone. The last one shut down this spring.

Yes, because they couldn't pay their employees enough to rent a drafty shack.
Meanwhile, those who already own homes are swimming in it like Scrooge McDuck.

rbowman wrote:

>Our mall has survived although I'm not sure why. Stores come and go but at
>least in has a Scheels now, I think HobbyLobby is open now too. That
>disappointed me when I found it's a glorified Michaels with an agenda and
>not something useful like HobbyTown.

Heh. Years ago I went into a HobbyLobby hoping to find cool hobby
stuff like model trains. Never have I been so disappointed.

--
"Virtually every worthwhile software app ever released was created on
Windows or Mac ..." - some dumb fsck

Joel wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>On 8/22/2024 1:58 AM, Relf wrote:
>>
>>> Silly exercise doesn't interest me, Sorry DFS.
>>
>>Then you'll die a silly death.
>
> It is admirable that you live such a robust lifestyle, admittedly. I
> rely on MDMA, more so.

What do they say? Eat right, sleep well, exercise. Die anyway.

(That, of course, ignores the extra pleasure of health that
one has while alive.)

--
They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners
always spell better than they pronounce.
-- Mark Twain