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Maybe the demand can’t be made public but it should be interesting to see what Tim Cook’s next move will be. Will he conference call the Prime Minister and the head of the Home Orafice and telling them to back off? It’s not quite the same thing to have a company like Signal leave the UK market vs. Cook telling the PM to suck his balls, then geofencing the Mac Store and iCloud from UK IP addresses. Given what Apple does in China to keep selling there, I wonder what they’ll end up doing. Did they do that in Russia?

Never talk to management over the phone. Get it in writing either as a text or email.

I read a post on Mastodon from someone in Ontario Canada that was proposing shutting off all export of oil and electricity to the US. The thing that made me doubt this was they were also calling for impeaching 45 (again!). That would leave Vance which scares me even more.

My father’s career advise to my brother and me was “Make lots of money so I can come live with you when I get old.”

My brother didn’t like that advise so he did a bunch of research and asked a bunch of people about their careers. He got a masters in an Engineering field but hated working in that field. So he got another masters. He doesn’t use it for his career.

I studied Chemistry and left grad school to do software development with no degree in it (it was the 80s). I never used my degree either.

Confronting my dad about his bad career advise would have just gotten his Standard Response to Criticism™–But I’m lovable.

And no he never lived with either of us. But then he never go old.

Also, when some #MAGAidiot complains that Trump’s new policies are impacting them, don’t blame Trump. Ask the idiot “Isn’t this is what you voted for?”

An ADA lawyer would be filing an accommodation lawsuit for each unit. It’d cost the landlord $40K/unit on average.

“Straight boys are so clueless when someone is flirting with them.”

7 second pause.

Blink Blink. Stammer. “Ummm.”

Before Medicare, I paid $1500 for a mid-tier Kaiser plan. It had a $6000 annual deductible which I kept in a tax deductible Health Savings Account. For the most part, I paid for routine stuff like vaccinations, yearly checkup and bloodwork, meds like statins, and a bid discount on stuff from their pharmacy. With Medicare, I pay $185 to the US Government and $199 to Kaiser for their Advantage plan.

I always thought it was named after Maynard G. Krebs. [you rang]

I wonder to this day what happened to mom’s Lladro figurines and the Royal Dalton tea cups. I’m sure my sister got Nana’s sterling and Mom’s plate. It’s really sad that the Danish modern furniture had to go before she moved up here but she was happy with IKEA and CostPlus replacements.

I got her pots, which was all that mattered to me. There’s something symmetrical in making Boeff Bourguignon in the same pot you learned to make beef stew at age 14.

Someone here said this cartoon is typical of pre-adolescent brains. A friend who’s the local “Jewish mother” of her block had the kids next door visiting her kids for a play date. She asked them if they wanted some cheese for a snack.

“I want goat cheese” said the 6yo boy.

The older 8yo was a little more polite “Do you have any brie?”

True story and so perfect I had to add it to a fanfic I was writing.

Back in the mid-80s, when I got an email from HR about the Christmas Party at the local office, I sent a reply to the district HR manager complaining that not everyone in the company celebrated Christmas. Later that day, another email came out announcing the Holiday Party. So glad I had a hand in educating HR.

That’s a Haggen Daas bar of unknown provenance. NOT a popsicle.

Why did the dinosaur cross the road? Because they didn’t have chickens back then.

I’d love for some enterprising IRS auditor to find out what churches she appeared in, then send each of them an audit notice letter. They’ve lost their IRS tax exemption.

Old Chemists never die. We just fail to react.

Tried to unsubscribe at start of the year when they added commercials to Prime Videos. Wouldn’t let me cancel. I could set my subscription to NOT RENEW but I could not cancel it and get a pro-rated refund. So I’ll keep it until December with it constantly reminding me how much I save on postage with Prime. Won’t really change my usage patterns. I’ll just group my purchases until shipping is free. No more 50lbs of cat litter drop shipped overnight for $2.50.

Is it my imagination or are these dim-witted assassins getting easier to catch. Trump didn’t even get to bandage his ear this time.

I wonder if the owner is booking a flight to a non-extraditable country or if he’s going to go private.

I predict the deceased’s executor will have to sue Wells Fargo for their last paycheck. They’ll claim they were working the full 4 days since they were found. And entitled to overtime since they’re hourly rather than salaried.