....can't have eaten too much watermelon because there still _is_ watermelon. And I hear it laughing at me. Roll me over there someone I'll show it

The rain was nice. I believe I'm going to eat a lot of watermelon.
lottttta watermelon.

"What the autocrats — whether they're in American politics or in Russian politics or in Chinese politics — what they want is for you to be disengaged. They want you to drop out," she says. "I want people to be convinced that ideas matter, that we're going to have to defend and protect our political system if we want to keep it."
#politics
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/nx-s1-5049021/expert-on-dictators-warns-dont-lose-hope-thats-what-they-want

"I was on the phone last week with the President...at no point did he seem like he was considering stepping aside"
--Jeff Jackson
Suddenly, it’s a whole new race. Here’s what comes next. - Rep. Jeff Jackson
#politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5qhEqpCyvA

Kamala Harris' stance on Ukraine war in key quotes
"International rules and norms are on the line"
#politics #ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsxhbDljnvE

My vision as the next Miss Kansas is to eliminate unhealthy and abusive relationships,” Smith said during the interview portion of the pageant last month. “Matter of fact, some of you in this audience saw me very emotional because my abuser is here today".

Can't believe the strength on display there.

JD Vance: "Women should stay in abusive relationships"

I want 10 seconds near his knee caps.

https://apnews.com/article/miss-kansas-alexis-smith-domestic-violence-4ea520487500bc82c415fb4b6a317513

15. “I can die a happy man not being president.”

-- Joe Biden, 2014; "Bidenisms"
#politics #biden

Came across a large crate (full of mushrooms) marked, "property of Polymer Logistics".
Didn't realize polymers required a whole company to look out for their needs, or that those needs involved mass quantities of mushrooms.
#lifeLongLearning

@Alfred as my personal physician would you confirm that I can safely eat any mold growing on food in the refrigerator? Please note I only want an affirmative answer.

For release on Judgement Day (Aug. 29th), animated by Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell 1995):
Terminator Zero
https://youtu.be/HvXbAQOpocQ

"Talking heads have a field day" kind of day

https://youtu.be/_3eC35LoF4U

800 AM EDT Sun Jul 21 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.
#weather #calm

Headline: Southwest, UPS, Fed Ex are using Windows 3.1, haven’t had any issues with the CrowdStrike outage.

That should read Windows NT 3.1, right? Different beast altogether.
#crowdstrike
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/

Anyone use Bitwarden? Seeing a sync problem. Sync completes with no error but also no...sync.
Made a new entry on laptop, sync.
Checked mobile: not there. Sync. Not there.

Fake News and Information Literacy
https://guides.pnw.edu/c.php?g=635062&p=4447350

/nosanitize

Can't imagine how a driver file that faulty gets through QA/QC. Have to think it was corrupted in transfer somehow. But that really shouldn't be possible either. Crowdstrike surely checksums, right?
#crowdstrike

Yeah! Flash flood warning that's what I'm talkin 'bout!
#rain #noSun

I know three (or more) people down with Covid. Sick with it beyond just testing positive. #anecdata

fingers crossed we're going to get some sunny-sky-pouring-rain in a minute