Cool but not cold. Damp but not wet. At least to start out. Later we might get some rain. At least the national forecast says it’s possible. Yesterday was low clouds and cool most of the day, but no rain. It did get nice and warm in the sun later in the day.
I did some stuff, but not enough. That means today is a makeup day. I have to be in Conroe to pick up my new equatorial mount this afternoon, and if I don’t want that to be the only thing I get done, I better get out of the house early.
Who knows what I’ll actually get done, but it needs to be more than cleaning up, sorting stuff, and spending time on the internet with my friends.
Hmm. There I go, at least it’s not an actual plan, just a goal… can’t mess with my plans if I don’t make any, right?
Stack something. (while I mess about)
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Hogwarts Legacy is getting solid reviews despite attempts to cancel it
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/02/06/hogwarts-legacy-is-getting-solid-reviews-despite-attempts-to-cancel-it-n528840
Soul Surfer icon: I will refuse to compete against biological males
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/02/06/soul-surfer-icon-i-will-refuse-to-compete-against-biological-males-n528819
Fighting back against woke.
We’ll see if the tide turns before a couple Division II buds get tanked some night and decide that they could play for the UConn women’s basketball team, then make history playing for the WNBA.
66F and 98%RH this fine day. Can’t believe how addictive the youtube shorts are. Their algorithm is dangerous.
I’m up for now, breakfast and schoolbusses in my immediate future. Surly kids. Sleepy wife…
Mmmmm sleep…..
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When we hit Universal Orlando two years ago to see the new Harry Potter roller coaster, there was no lack of representation from the LGBTQXYZ community waiting in line.
Two large lesbian (assuming) women were making a scene with the attraction attendants at the beginning of the queue area, but that was because of the projected three hour wait from that point. “What? Do we have to arrive here when the park opens?”
“Yes!”, came the response of everyone nearby.
“Hogwarts Legacy” will be the biggest game of the year thanks to all of the controversy. The Switch version isn’t even due until June, and that will be the big seller thanks to portability.
The Switch “Grand Theft Auto III” is gloriously intact.
The switch v ersion of Oddworld, Stranger’s Wrath is intact and awesome too.
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Yes they are. I often chamge playback speed to 1.25 or 1.5 Sometime that’s okay, other times not.
What does the hive think.
I have a Motorola G7 Power Android smartphone which continues to serve me well. I do very little finance on it (no banking apps), but payment links from apps such as Uber. I mostly use Brave for web access. It is Android 10 with the last security patch 1 Feb 2021. Should I be bothered about lack of operating system currency?
Above my pay grade, I just let my android samsung phone update and reboot, just this minute. 1st update in a long time.
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Android 10 is still in “supported” status which means that it will receive security fixes. The question is what level of support you receive in terms of update from Motorola. Check the web site for the phone and contact them if in doubt.
Cheap Moto phones will usually get one level update and that’s it in my experience. I have a Moto E6 with Android 9 which I use as my “Android” phone, but I don’t depend on the built-in browser or mail client for my IMAP accounts. The last security patch was August 2021.
If you are really paranoid but want to keep the phone, Lineage OS supports the Power G7. I have a G4 Play which I use with bare Lineage OS as an ongoing experiment. It is possible to get the Googe Play store on Lineage, but I keep my experiment corporate-free, downloading essential apps from F-Droid.
In my opinion, no. You have nothing on the phone that is critical. What is the worse that would happen if your device were compromised? Someone order an Uber? I doubt that is a high value target.
Do you work for the CIA or any of a dozen 3-letter agencies? I doubt your phone is worthwhile target.
If the phone works, fits your needs, battery still has life left, then what are you going to gain? Certainly, a new phone would be faster. Yep, that APP loading in 1.8 seconds instead of 1.9 seconds is really going to change your life.
In my opinion the level of security should match the level of risk. I see no need for complicated passwords for a site that sells denoising software. What is the real risk? Someone gets a download from my account. BFD.
Bank and credit card accounts I have strong passwords. I am not so certain that is that valuable with the number of hacks, and compromised sites that occur. Why do I have to have a strong password if the cretins running the credit card IT system allow those passwords to be compromised?
Even with the strong passwords my credit card got used in Florida due to a breach in security. The password was not required, nor was access to my computer or phone. I think a lot of the security stuff regarding updates on phones is deflection from the real problem, compromised websites.
Damn pharmaceutical companies and Medicare online pharmacies. Wife’s heart medicine is $8.00 a pill, with insurance. If I was a broke leech on society, I could get the stuff for $0.05 a pill. Start of a new year, deductibles need to be met for prescriptions, which in my situation comes to over $7K based on the 2022 numbers. Just for medicine. Even when the top level is reached, I must pay 5% of the retail cost of the medicine. Not what it actually costs the online pharmacy. I suspect they are still making money off me at 5%.
Don’t worry Mr. Ray. plugs is gonna fix prescription drug prices in his SOTU address by declaring anything he says is a law. Who needs that birdcage liner Constitution.
All I heard he was going to attempt to fix is the cost of Insulin. Which can only be done by congress, not the president. Executive orders only apply to government workers and contractors, not to private companies or individuals. There is no reason for Insulin to be as expensive as it is currently. It is nothing more than drug manufacturers being greedy and gouging people for a necessary product.
The entire drug cartel in the U.S. is out of control. The U.S. is subsidizing the development costs of drugs used worldwide. I can get the same drug my wife uses for her heart at 25% of the cost in the U.S. because the Canadian government controls the cost.
I suspect too many members of congress have their investments in the drug companies and do not want to stop their cash cows. Congress, senate and president have never been about the people they were elected to represent. Those worthless piles of campaign scum are only in the position for themselves.
Talk to the doctor. Some have very good relationships with drug reps, and a lot of the pharmaceutical companies have programs to help with the costs.
Back in the day, a lot of samples of high end meds got handed out and costs written off as marketing, but Doh-bamacare changed all the rules and broke the system in favor of retail pharmacies … like Illinois-based Walgreens.
Cough.
I’ve been using V@scepa for about four years. Fancy fish oil to reduce dyslipidemia and hypertriglyceridemia Way overpriced at over $400 for 1 month (120 count) bottle. First year I got a manufacture’s discoutn coupon and paid only $9 a month. Second and third year I was paying $90 a month. This year they switched it to generic ethyl eicosapentaenoic acid as I had been trying to do and now at $15.
Keep fight then Ray. It’s a tackey for sure.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11722597/Play-Bidens-State-Union-BINGO-starts-9pm-tonight.html
Print your card now!
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This article implies plugs is a senile, lying old puppet. True, true.
LOL. “My son Beau…” I’ll bingo on that one.
Interesting. My Samsung seems to update every couple of weeks, although it’s probably longer. My wife’s identical phone seems to be less often and she often doesn’t give the go ahead. Ours are now served by Xfinity, I wonder if the update frequency also varies with the provider.
>> Play Biden State of the Union BINGO
I won’t be tuning in to hear all the lies, even if I was interested, the near constant
bowing to the puppetinterruptions for applause is too much to deal with.I use a Moto E4, which was getting to be outdated when I bought it five years ago.
Running Android 7.1; I don’t know the last time the OS was updated but I’m pretty sure it was a couple years ago.
I’m not worried about security because I use it for calls and texts, and not much of those. It has a handful of game apps which my daughter installed ages ago and still sometimes plays. The phone is turned off 90% of the time and used to live, on or off, in an anti-radiation bag, but I seem to have misplaced that.
Damn pharmaceutical companies and Medicare online pharmacies. Wife’s heart medicine is $8.00 a pill, with insurance. If I was a broke leech on society, I could get the stuff for $0.05 a pill. Start of a new year, deductibles need to be met for prescriptions, which in my situation comes to over $7K based on the 2022 numbers. Just for medicine. Even when the top level is reached, I must pay 5% of the retail cost of the medicine. Not what it actually costs the online pharmacy. I suspect they are still making money off me at 5%.
I understand your frustration with drug prices. Myself, if it wasn’t for the Covid medicaid expansion, I would be paying about a thousand a month for the insulin I need to stay alive. You are like my “boomer” brother. If it affects me it is wrong but otherwise capitalism. You can’t complain about all the other welfare suckers if you are one yourself.
I might watch the SOTU via a video channel with people mocking the speech, using it as a drinking game, or similar. Probably not, though. I’ll almost certainly have something more important to do, like trim nose hairs.
You are not a sucker if you paid into the system your whole working life. Not taking from it until it is due. The suckers are the ones that paid/pay nothing, game the system, lie, cheat, have multiple births with no way to support the kids, no father present…and on and on.
Even if I was, I’d say I have more than the right for all the years I paid, and paid plenty and still am. SS and Medicare are programs I’ve paid for unlike many, Ray too and most others here.
added… I see MrAtoz and I were thinking alike
At this late hour, I’ll reiterate, DON”T sit down and watch youtube shorts if you can’t afford to lose a few hours.
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Or start s1e2 of “Lie To Me” on Hulu and suddenly realize that s1e4 is starting and it is 330am.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235099/
The wife turned me on to Lie To Me. I love it and watched five episodes with her on Sunday. I wonder why it only went three seasons ?
Dilbert: Cubicle Rats
https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-02-07
Heh ! So glad that I have a 20 foot by 19 foot office with a door.
Trim? I thought you just yanked them out?
No Beau talk tonight. DeSantis has real medals from service in Fallujah with JAG, and this is the week the Governor is teaching Disney how things work now in Florida.
It does. The provider has to approve the update with their system and most importantly, add in their own apps.
Except I am not a welfare sucker. If I was, I would be paying a lot less, or nothing for the same drugs. I paid into Medicare, still do. I paid into SS, a lot over the years, sometimes the maximum allowed per year. I paid for my VA benefits with a contract with the government that placed my entire life, literally, into their control.
Medicaid is welfare. That puts you squarely into the category where you falsely chastise others.
Would you be saying the same if your insulin cost you $1K a month? After all, capitalism charges what the market will bear. Supply and demand sort of thing. How much are you willing to pay to stay alive?
Just thinking that ‘SOTU Day’ would be an appropriate time to serve up our “lunch salad” from you-know-who who is “just a heartbeat away.”
>> No Beau talk tonight. DeSantis has real medals from service in Fallujah with JAG, and this is the week the Governor is teaching Disney how things work now in Florida.
The party has started…
DeSantis and Florida Legislature Clip Disney’s Wings, Move to Seize Control of Reedy Creek Improvement District
>> Soul Surfer icon: I will refuse to compete against biological males
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/02/06/soul-surfer-icon-i-will-refuse-to-compete-against-biological-males-n528819
Fighting back against woke.
We’ll see if the tide turns before a couple Division II buds get tanked some night and decide that they could play for the UConn women’s basketball team, then make history playing for the WNBA.
Don’t forget “Lia.” Painful as it may be, all the ‘real’ females need to boycott any events where “it” shows up.
Only if your Bic is empty.
You’d think these people had suffered enough…but…gotta rack up the bonus points…
Some of Dr. Jill’s SOTU guests:
>> I won’t be tuning in to hear all the lies, even if I was interested, the near constant
bowing to the puppetinterruptions for applause is too much to deal with.Just checked the alternate programming and I see it’s definitely a better choice…
Tonight on MeTV:
9:00pm
The Beverly Hillbillies
JED BUYS THE FREEWAY (S1, EP23)
A confidence man tries to sell Jed the Hollywood Bowl, Griffith Park and the Hollywood Freeway.
9:30pm
Green Acres
EB USES HIS INGENUITY (S4, EP23)
All of Hooterville is excited about the upcoming big dance. Eb, however, is obsessed with raising $20 to buy his girlfriend a birthday present. Oliver tells him to be ingenious, so he begins leasing out the Douglases’ wardrobe, telling people they’re strapped for cash. Eb’s big brainstorm: sit for ten babies while their parents go to the dance.
10:00pm
Hogan’s Heroes
HOLD THAT TIGER (S1, EP2)
The POWs smuggle a tiger tank, about which Klink has been boasting, into camp in order to photograph and study it.
10:30pm
Hogan’s Heroes
KOMMANDANT OF THE YEAR (S1, EP3)
Stalag 13 is named one of the top 10 prison camps in Germany, but it’s just a distraction for Hogan and his men to destroy a secret rocket bomb.
Unfortunately, Tyre is worth more dead than he was alive. His mother will win the lawsuit lottery, as will Ben Crump. His mother will be on a speaking tour, carefully coached to maximize the effect. Truth be know she probably hardly saw her son.
No mother should lose her son. From what I have seen of the video, the cretins (I no longer want to call them police officers) deserve significant prison time. It was brutal and uncalled for beating.
For anyone to use the death of Tyre, as a pawn in a political stunt, is almost as wrong. The death of anyone should not be a political volleyball to patted around by politicians using the tragic event for personal gain. It is disgusting.
>> I wonder if the update frequency also varies with the provider.
It does. The provider has to approve the update with their system and most importantly, add in their own apps.
This is one of the reasons I prefer Google’s Pixel phones…no waiting for the third-party updates.
Sounds like a good plan. I may even watch an old Star Trek episode rather than ramblings of a demented old fool.
Tonight’s DS9 rerun on H&I is “By Inferno’s Light” – pretty good Stage 8/9 era Trek.
“Houston-area Rep. Troy Nehls’ campaign bilked of $150k in wire fraud theft”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/troy-nehls-campaign-wire-theft-17767384.php
“Fraudsters reportedly dealt the congressman’s campaign a serious blow.”
Wow. That is unnerving. And I have been seeing several phishing attempts make it past the Gmail filters lately.
“A Balanced Budget is Now “Irresponsible”” by Simon Black
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/a-balanced-budget-is-now-irresponsible-145741/
“Consider that, in fiscal year 2022, the federal government brought in $4.9 trillion dollars of tax revenue. That is an insane, record amount of money. With nearly $5 trillion in tax revenue, you should be able to do anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. In fact even as recently as 2019, $5 trillion in tax revenue would have easily covered the entire federal budget, with about half a trillion dollars left over to start paying down the debt.”
“So if the government had just kept the budget steady, last year it could have paid off $500 billion of its $31.5 trillion national debt. Instead, last year the government opted to ADD $1.375 trillion to the debt by spending $6.27 trillion in FY2022. Now politicians insist on raising the debt ceiling, so that the government can once again borrow to overspend its revenue by more than a trillion dollars.”
The financial apocalypse or Civil War II of the USA is nigh.
“House Republicans target SEC climate risk rule”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/house-republicans-target-sec-climate-risk-rule-sustainability-esg/642188/
“Republicans in the Senate have also put the administration’s ESG proposals in their cross hairs. All 49 Republicans in the Senate have backed legislation aimed at nullifying a Labor Department rule allowing retirement plan managers to include ESG factors when making investment decisions. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, also supports the bill.”
““At a time when our country is already facing economic uncertainty, record inflation and increasing energy costs, it is irresponsible of the Biden administration to jeopardize retirement savings for more than 150 million Americans for purely political purposes,” Manchin said in a statement.”
Anyone putting that kind of speculation into their statements will be sued into oblivion.
It’s ok to be cranky, right?
I bought a couple of batteries for LG V20 phones. From Brooklyn. Seller has lots of sales, like 17,000, and way positive on the eBay feedback thing. That was Dec 31. Sure, I didn’t expect anything to ship until Jan 3rd because of silly things like the post office isn’t open.
In (on?) the same order, I bought a battery charger. From China. It arrived on the 12th. Pretty amazing to get something in the mail from the other side of the planet in 12 days. I kind of wished folks still used postage stamps. . . . really.
So on Jan 2nd I get a form letter kind of e-mail from the battery seller that said “Please note that our free shipping does NOT have any tracking as clearly described in our listing.” That seems a weird thing to say. Yeah, I missed that, my bad, I didn’t scroll all the way through your i-frame on the site to know getting a tracking number was an extra $3. Never mind the option /wasn’t/ on the check out page.
On Jan 2nd I bought another phone. I wanted a spare and had not yet narrowed the problem with one phone down to a failing battery. From China. It arrived on the 18th.
The batteries? Nada. Other than being told to watch for a white padded envelope.
I’ve had a few other things delivered. Books, mostly. I doubt someone is swiping shirt(-r) from my mailbox because, really, how many folks do you know using LG V20 phones or other LG critters that use the same battery? Right about zero is my guess.
I bought a battery today from someone in Dallas. It’s suppose to arrive this Thursday or maybe Saturday.
The guy in Brooklyn? Yeah man, I’m all in on trying to rip someone off for $20.51 whatever with tax.
UPS is supposed to deliver something today. By 7PM. It’s raining. For some reason UPS has decided to leave packages on the far side of the cattle guard. Yep, just drop stuff off outside my fence because of reasons.
Grump grump grump. Grin.
And books…
I bought The Mandibles. Because Lynn keeps talking about it. So it must be good. It looks to have been read a couple of times.
Also, Black Edelweiss. Pretty much brand new other than a bit of shop worn.
Both Used from Big River. Hey, when you go to the local library you read used books. I buy used books and have had no duds. Sometimes the folks at Goodwill go sideways with shipping but it’s cool.
To adapt the saying about the third world, have to deal with the low-trust world, become the low-trust world.
If it is any consolation, Lawsuit Lottery is all Benny Crump has left after eliminating the Dem party in Florida as a factor in state-level politics for the next decade in his failed quest to add the Governor’s Mansion to his list of rackets.
Crump is done as far as being a major political player unless he establishes a new base of operations.
Yeah, sure. If the court decides you have standing.
Raining pretty good right now. Too much to go outside because I’m so sweet I would melt, not enough to have any run-off.
@paul
Open an eBay case for item not received. Go to your purchase history and look for the option in the drop down menu.
Yeah, I’ve done that. I have until Feb 21 or so. I’m just waiting for the post office to sort their stuff out.
And books…
I bought The Mandibles. Because Lynn keeps talking about it. So it must be good. It looks to have been read a couple of times.
I hope you like it. It is fairly crazy, kinda like the USA is nowadays.
https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/006232828X
Does Crump have legal licenses to go to court in all these states where these murders occur?
Light mist with occasional drizzle here, since sundown.
Got my equatorial mount. It’s smaller than described, but looks the business. Has a motor drive too. No maker anywhere on it. The set screws and some of the fittings are a bit cheap but the metal is all wrinkle painted, and looks good.
I hope I can id it and see what the pinout is on the DIN connector.
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Ah the hypocrisy. Women have every right to do every thing a man can do, right? They can pursue a relationship that benefits them in terms of fame and money, right? Especially in the sexual arena, women should act just like men and grab all the –ahem, gusto– they can right?
But at the end of the day, this young woman can’t. She has no agency of her own. She can’t make her own choices. Because reasons…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11723873/Leonardo-DiCaprio-rumored-partner-Eden-Polani-ages-Joel-Ellie.html
Twitter EXPLODES with memes about Leo DiCaprio’s 29-YEAR age gap ‘romance’ with Eden Polani – as users point out they have the almost the same age difference as Joel and Ellis in The Last of Us or Stranger Things’ Hopper and Eleven
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I’m wondering how long Slo Joe can hold it together. Last time, he started visibly deteriorating at 20 minutes and was done at 30.
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No idea. Crump is currently based in Tallahassee, where his sock puppet candidate for Governor, Andrew Gillum, was Mayor.
Memphis is a 8 hour drive so it was a no-brainer that he would find a way to be involved.
Back in the long-ago days when I drove to work and usually listened to the local morning show, I listened in I-wish-it-was-disbelief to a host and a guest – each a middle-aged woman and at least the host was, shall we say, not slim – discuss college girls being sugar babies to pay tuition or to get an apartment. “Science shows that the brain doesn’t finish developing until age 25 or 26. These girls aren’t able to make rational decisions. How are the men who get with them not sexual predators?” “I agree totally. They’re child predators and the laws need to be adjusted to reflect this.”