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I turned off AI overviews in Google search a few days ago. It's often wrong and always distracting.
I changed my default search engine to: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
Author should mention that you can change your browser's default search engine.
Thanks. The front door is a wood grain textured fiberglass double door, so I want to avoid drilling into the door face. It's an interesting challenge.
Trying two of these between the levers for now: https://www.amazon.com/U-Shaped-Proofing-Cabinets-Adjustable...
Plus, I found this, hoping it will work for me without too much damage to the door: https://www.snappower.com/pages/huglock
You're fortunate! Deadbolts are no match for our 22 month old... He already figured out how to disarm three types of safety latches, and he's halfway to opening the safety gates.
I don't want to show him too much television, but it's the only thing that keeps him in one place
Thanks for the tip. I just ordered some. I'm worried this style won't work for my front door, unless I can mount it above the door. I have a fiberglass double door...
Using two of these between the levers for now: https://www.amazon.com/U-Shaped-Proofing-Cabinets-Adjustable...
Other options involve drilling into the door face which I'm not keen on...
Also, I ordered some of these too https://www.snappower.com/pages/huglock
I need a lock like this to prevent my hyper active toddler from leaving the house through the front door.
It'll be strange to replace my front door with a guillotine slider, but I'm willing to try about anything since I found him half a block away playing in a puddle last week.
I literally just tried to send one text message. Poof he was gone.
Doheny was approved shortly after the Huntington Beach desal plant was killed. Update from last month: https://www.ocregister.com/2025/11/26/landfill-trash-could-h...
Poseidon currently runs a desal plant in Carlsbad. My understanding is that the water the plant releases into the ocean requires exemptions for how concentrated it is. Additionally, the plant draws plankton filled water. Not really what we want in California.
There are better desal solutions out there like OceanWell. They have a deep water desalination solution that solves many of the problems of conventional desal. They just signed a project in Nice, France in the past few days. Also, they are working with the city of Las Virgines over the past few years.
If I remember correctly, the new desal plant in Doheny has a slightly different approach to draw water in from beneath the sand, using the sand as a prefilter. But I'm not sure how that works better than drawing water in from near the surface. I can't imagine how the plankton can possibly escape the suction forces drawing them into the sand.
Anyone use SmartTube? Or is it something I should remove?
Check out the discussion[0], looks like there are submissions in several languages. Go, Rust, Python, and C++, to name a few
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The irony is Wozniak and Jobs manufactured and sold devices, called Blue Boxes, that hacked the phone system to provide free phone calls.
"If it hadn't been for the Blue Boxes, there would have been no Apple. I'm 100% sure of that." -Steve Jobs
For your Apple collection:
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Aluminum was once rare too. It was considered a precious metal. The obelisk at the Washington Memorial is capped with Aluminum... I've heard stories that it was used for engagement rings in that era as well!
Yes! The movie is a good one. My wife enjoyed it and she doesn't know anything about pinball. There's a little love story woven in. Highly recommend it.
Get new machines if you can afford them. Stern or Jersey Jack.
90s machines are great, I love them, but they are 30 years old and are not where I recommend anyone to start... My first pin was a fixer upper Twilight Zone. Learn from my mistake! Haha
The most challenging part is the maintenance, especially the classics. Owning several machines taught me to fix them. My newer machines broke less often...
Every time I threw a decent party I'd end up buying minimum $200 in parts and spending half a day fixing them.
Lord of the Rings is one of my all time favorites. I highly recommend it. It's not ancient, and the game is really deep. It's pretty easy to work on and fix. Make sure you protect the plastics, I couldn't find after market ones. The Wizard mode is extremely satisfying because it is super difficult to achieve... There are a couple fun special modes you can unlock.
On modern solid state pins, you can adjust the difficulty settings to make the game more fun for friends.
he said he’d been walking around the world all this time and as soon as he clicked with people, he’d always be saying goodbye.
I feel the same way when I take my little vacations... I meet amazing people, connect, and then move on. There is a beauty to it though. I really try to enjoy those moments. They are so brief.
This was a touching story, especially the fact that the dog he rescued might be the first dog to have walked around the world!
In elementary school, around 2nd grade, I attended a talk by Dave Kunst, the first man to walk around the globe. I'm surprised the Guardian didn't mention him. His story has often surfaced in my memory. I never had the guts to do anything remotely so adventurous... and he did it in the very wild 1970s. Around the same time my mother hitchhiked from South America to the US.
Dave told us he searched for sponsors before embarking on his trip, but no one would take him seriously. Not even shoe companies!
He walked to the edge of each continent, to dip his toes in the ocean at the start and end of each continent to make sure he was going as far as possible. I think there were a handful of countries he wasn't able to pass through for some reason or another.
Dave's brother was killed on the journey by thugs who thought Dave and his brother were personally taking donations and carrying the money. He said he came to peace with his brother's murder because he died doing what he loved. If I remember correctly, another brother joined Dave to complete the trip. In all his journey took around four years. About half the time it took Tom.
He closed the talk by showing us all photos of his last pair of shoes after he had completed his trip, and then a photo of his bare feet -- and we all screamed in disgust!
I love Carlin. Thanks
Perhaps you're changing the subject? My original post was in response to an invocation of Karl Marx, the father of Communism... as I understand it, Communism is about as authoritarian as it gets.
I mean an intermediate stage from Capitalism to Communism is called "Dictatorship of the proletariat"...
You can say the exact same thing about spending... Subsidies and stimuli shape behavior.
I earned a degree in economics, business & management.. But it doesn't matter much.
Re-reading my post, it looks like I could have written it better.
I was referring to the stimulus spending, in particular the last one or two huge packages. It might have been more efficient to not do them in the first place. At the time many economists were very concerned about the overall effects on the economy. We were already running at 5+% annualized inflation, right?
I understand the general ideas behind Modern Monetary Theory, that it looks like you and the original post are referring to. Wild spending corrected by surgical taxation...
MMT sounds great in academic papers, but it runs into problems in practice. We can't just raise taxes wherever and whenever we want. There are too many problems to list with attempting to do that, from the lobbyists, to officials wanting to get reelected, to the errors of misidentifying where the taxes are to be applied. Not to mention all the existing laws around taxing.
It's expensive to send out a bunch of money, and then tax it back... I suggest that it's more efficient to spend less. But I realize there is a fat chance of that ever happening!
Please! :) The Castro regime made the decision to seize any land from anyone with 50 acres or more. What sort of outcome did Fidel, Che, and Cienfuegos expect? Well, they expected to build thriving trade economy with the Soviets... whoops!
My point is Marxism/Socialism trades one form of oppression for another. Marxism fails to identify poor leadership as oppressive. Socialist systems are run by error prone leaders that crave power and fortune... They are the same people that run corporations under a different flag. Che was killed trying to overthrow another nation to put in Cuban friendly socialist leadership... How is that different from your banana example?
At least in capitalism we can vote with our dollars. We can spend our money on things we believe in. Not with socialism. Good luck finding choice or innovation that the state doesn't support. It literally crushes innovation.
Besides these arguments, what great things came from Marxism that we enjoy today?
You're right, it's way easier for the government to spend money it doesn't have. The end game on that path isn't pretty.
But that's not my question or point, and maybe I didn't write my other post very well.
The post I'm replying to suggests more taxes should have been used to suck up the excess liquidity. I'm suggesting that liquidity was caused by too many large spending packages and Fed rates that were too low in the first place... Hence, it might be inefficient.
Of course I'm biased, as my spending power has gone down tremendously in the past 1.5 years. I blame the large increases in money supply and low Fed rate for causing a wild near-free money environment.
Capitalist societies did more to improve the lives of everyone on Earth than Marxism ever did or ever could.
Have you walked the streets of Havana? I have. Talk about oppressive... And depressing.
Why is the answer often to raise taxes? Wouldn't less government spending and a higher fed rate have been even better and more efficient?
Inflation was already high when the last large spending package passed and succeeded in over stimulating the economy.
The article specifically discussed the income EARNED by the evil landlord. Which is taxable income. The income generated by property value is taxed when sold.
In most states there are annual property taxes based on it's value. Those go to schools, roads, and whatnot.
Here in California we have statewide rent control, in LA there is a seemingly never ending eviction moratorium...
Hell, I sold my house a couple of years ago to RENT in a better area because it's cheaper and easier! Let the evil landlord deal with all of the headaches. It's a pain in the neck I don't need.
Rentiers are taking on great risk and responsibility, especially in socialist states like California. They deserve the reward. Often, rentiers that own large complexes like those discussed in the article are groups. Not single individuals. It's a stressful business. Have you personally dealt with code enforcement actions?
What good is wealth if it's just on paper?
Where is the evidence that the government is effective at managing money, as you imply?
I would agree with that last comment. Currently, social spending on homelessness IS wasteful. LA's Prop HHH is a joke, it's only led to the rise of the homelessness industrial complex. It's not the equity built but the red tape...
Many people here support a strong central government. However, I do not.
If taxing the rich and wealth transfers worked California would have some of the lowest poverty, illiteracy, and the most affordable housing! Socialism and Communism would be the gold standard.
But the opposite seems true.
I can't remember the exact number, but here in California, the top 1% pays around 40% of the taxes.
When will we have a discussion on government waste?
Look again! Recently, I was happily surprised to find a way to share albums with friends.
Just a simple guest link.
I lost faith in the media when I read about William Randolph Hearst and Yellow Journalism. That's what they called "fake news" back then.
Looks like a systemic problem.
This and several horrendous check-ins we experienced on our most recent trip to Europe made us go back to booking exclusively with hotels.
A Verizon rep told me it's because the taxes are per day, and the total is impacted by different number of days one month to the next. I haven't compared to verify.
That sounds like property taxes, which already exist.
On the flip side, I wonder how much can be taxed? Is there a maximum? Currently, I work for the government through June.
Maybe I'm conflating UBI with increased taxes. The money has to come from somewhere, right? I'm in Southern California, where we enjoy some of the highest taxes and most expensive property in the world, so I'm a bit sensitive.
Also, he seems to correlate breathing air to being fed, which is wrong. There are plenty of places to get food for free, stuff that is about to expire gets donated. Just reach out to your local government or community college. It's a lot easier than hunting for it.
Last thing, here in California, about half the state is federal or state parkland and wilderness... The state itself blocks development and adds so much red tape to make housing much more expensive.
Many states in the US already pay residents more than they can earn at a job.
https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/wp-content/uploads/...
"In 14 states, a family of four with two unemployed workers can receive unemployment insurance benefits and ACA subsidies equivalent to a job that pays $80,000 a year in wages and health benefits – or more. In another 10 states, a family can receive the equivalent of a $70,000-a-year job. For these families, work may literally not pay."