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: Laura Looney never hesitates to stop all over her own d*ck in order to make sure she comes across as vapid and vacuous as possible. It;s weird to watch someone so gleefully self-immolate, especially over someone even more vacuously self-absorbed. She is the Nadine Dorries to Trump's Boorish Johnson.
: "Welcome to Hell"
R. Atkinson
: Ouch.
I just remembered the last time I really ran, like as in *ran* ran. It was in 1991. I raced my friend Adam the two blocks from his house down to the college gate and back. I was on foot, and he rode his 10-speed. He was on one sidewalk, and I was on the other. I beat him back to his walkway at the sidewalk by just over 3sec., as per Scott, Matt, Chris, Mike, and Skip.
I really do miss speed.
: ...hurdles was how I got my first first real leg injuries. In 1985, my knee clipped the last hurdle at practice, and I landed funky, rolled my ankle, and broken my pinky toe on my right foot. (That counts as leg injury.) In 1986, at a different high school in another state because we'd moved, my knee smacked hard, not clipped, the first hurdle, and I cracked my patella.
Ah, nostalgia.
Also, track-and-field is also in fair part why I have crummo ankles and replaced knees.
: As a former track-and-fielder way back when and one who had three school district records and one state record, most of which held until both the district and the state hit the reset button in 2004, I was a huge-giant fan of Flo Jo, and I am huge-giant fan of currently The Fastest Woman Alive, Sha'Carri Richardson. I miss like hell being able to be fleet of foot, too.
My records were:
100m / 10.57sec. (1985)
High Jump / 6' 6" (1984)
110m Hurdles: / 13.45sec. (1985)
Trivia: The 100m...
: I stupid slept for only an hour and woke up feeling like I'd slept for eight. Then I saw it was 1.04 AM EST. Then I couldn't get sleepy, not even lying in bed in the cool dark until 1.45 AM. So I did what any normal humanlike person would do: I chatted with a friend of mine in a timezone where most people are awake.
As one does.
3/2: ...weirdly jerky. I mean it was bizarre, like I was the last caller on their shift or something. They said they had no access to the TU information, that it's done automatically by software, and I was assured it does not make mistakes.
So I paid them off and am done forever with PayPal. In the meantime, the Chase VISA I use for outpatient surgery and PT copays upped my limit, as did my AAA card I used for auto emergencies. And Wells Fargo upped my limit on my household uh-ohs.
2/2: ...overlimit penalties. While on the horn with them, I logged into TransUnion, and then I asked the PayPal CSR what change there was that warranted a nearly $4000 credit limit reduction.
He did not know. That's when I read to him TU had me at 756, up from 680 two months ago, since I paid off all of my cards, two hospitals, and my Lowe's account.
PayPal CSR was cool and gave me a number to call the appropriate department to try to sort it out.
I called them, and the folks there were...
1/2: I got an email from PayPal/Synchrony telling me I needed to login and check a status change made to my account.
So I hopped onto my Mac and logged in and saw they'd jacked my credit limit for PayPal Credit up to just over $625.
Last money they lowered it to $200 outta nowhere. I called in, and they said there was a change to my TransUnion and that they monitor that agency regularly and adjust accordingly.
Then I still had nearly $800 outstanding. They said I'd not incur any...
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: That said, I do know, first-hand, that one SC county GOP board has a majority that have openly stated "The Fat Guy is radioactive". These were nearly all Boomers, too.
(That's where I got the slogan for the memes.)
They were at the table beside me at the Metro Grille on Whiskey Road last year. I heard what they were saying. It was their weekly meeting.
: Just found out on FB that a small handful number of county chairhumans are discussing with the state GOP office the possibility of withdrawing support for Trump/Vance and not participating in the remainder of the campaign for him.
It is hearsay at this point, though it does come from a longtime friend in the party and who's always given the the straight dope on goings-on, since around 1990. His family's old and well-placed in state politics. i.e., old money (pre-Civil War money).
54 year-old autistic human. Father of three. Grandfather of one. Movie production Yoda. Screenwriter. Nerdfaceperson.