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This was in the Texas Panhandle, temps this low are abnormal. Cows can survive this temps as long as they have adequate feed and water. They can endure high temps pretty well, again as long as they have water.

And addresses, I even knew when he was sending his mistress nicer flowers than his wife.

I get other people’s email too, just this guy has been more prolific than others.

0°F was the outside temperature with 40 mph winds (60mph gusts) the time I had to venture to the middle of an empty field to break the ice on water tank with a hatchet so cows could get water.

Accidentally signing up once is a mistake. One person signing up for products, credit cards, unemployment, medical bills, television services, payday loans, mortgages, jobs with my email address over a 6 year period isn’t a mistake. This is some middle age dude in middle America.

A few years ago 18 eggs was just under $2.50. Today that same 18 eggs is $9.36. If your family goes through a lot of eggs, it can have a significant impact on your budget.

For example, a family of 4 might use a dozen eggs a day for breakfast. End of the week that could be 6 dozen eggs. When prices were cheap that’s $15, but now that would be just under $60. Quiet a tough pill to swallow for those on a budget.

There was a time in my life where our household of 2 was regularly going through 3 dozen eggs a week just for breakfast. Back then that would total $5 a week. Today that same amount of eggs are just under $20.

It’s not just the eggs, all grocery prices have gone up massively post covid. But eggs prices are easier to spot because they are super inflated thanks to bird flu, and are easy to understand as a necessity.

It's not named for the Mexicans, it's named for the Aztec people, the Mexica as they called themselves.

There it is, just like clockwork, the whataboutism appears.

Seriously though, let the locals be in charge of naming things. As a Texan, I've always just called it the Gulf. But if asked, it's full name is Gulf of Mexico, named after the Mexica (the Aztecs to you and me).

> Trump is beholden to public support.

After the election he’s not. Only has to appease a handful of congress critters and a few wealthy people.

If they can’t innovate the technology they should innovate the design. I’m ready for a new style from Apple, something that looks different.

When I briefly lived in Oklahoma I found it frustrating that they use stick frame construction for homes and apartment buildings. Even when we know how to build much safer wind resistant houses.

What I thought was worse was once a tornado rips up a neighborhood builders are allowed to build replacement stick framed homes.

For under 10 people, it’s really not worth all the pain.

Biggest issue is trust, everybody will assume you’re a spam domain. Never mind the numerous number of forms that won’t allow it.

> why not put the camera in the middle of the phone?

Because when you pick it up, your hand is covering up the middle of the phone. However the top quarter is unobstructed.

> And why do the cameras keep moving around?

Easy way to tell models apart.

That’s just The Google Rot™ leaking out. It’s the one product I wish they would kill off already.

Here in Texas you will nearly always be paying the maximum 8.25%, its been that way for 30+ years.

Around me most stores change their price tags weekly, if not more often. They either have a sheet with new tags or a small printer and scanner and they swap out the tags on the shelf.

And they excluded vaping.

A good place to start would be addressing overeating as a symptom not the cause.

You’ve gotta get ahead of the problem when they’re little, get rid of toys early and often. Kid doesn’t play with it, away it goes. If the grandparents don’t like it they can keep them at their house.

Exceptions made for the kids or parents favorites that aren’t broken: Barbie, Hot Wheels, Lego, etc.

It's too bad that the only people benefiting from all green power subsidies are the people that least need them.

We should be investing solar in lower income communities, as those people could really use cheaper utilities, and any saving they get would immediately go back into their communities.

> by simply stopping the behavior causing the issue.

Must be nice to have a metabolic system that works correctly. A lot of us don't.

For too long obesity as a mental fitness issue without considering underlying causes. Too often overeating is considered the cause not the symptom.

For many, our bodies lie, telling us we need to eat because our blood sugar is low, when in fact it's already normal-high but other process is getting in the way of energy production.

Go look into the N100 mini pcs like: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYJ9BC15

It's a nice little low wattage machine for running some docker containers.

In my experience it’s not talent but opportunity that is in short supply. One of the smartest people I know is an electrician, simply because he grew up in a rural area and couldn’t afford to leave for college.

Sounds like a lovely way to get pink eye.

For the past 3 years I’ve done the following remap Caps -> lctrl/esc, enter -> rctrl/enter, tab -> lalt/tab, backslash -> ralt/ backslash. Also have the physical right alt mapped to multi key/dead greek.

It works really well, and makes emacs much more comfortable to type in.

Downside is this keeps me locked to X11 and fighting the occasional app that reads the key codes directly.

Coke and Pepsi started using HFCS in 1980.

I’d be curious about side effects of the Depression and WW2 that took an extra generation to show up.

This sounds like a CS 102 homework assignment. Break out a book on bash scripting an get to hacking.

> Is it possible that these RTO policies are actually meant to select for younger people and force others to resign?

Yes, these policies are quiet layoffs.

They got offices with doors that shut and had access to secretaries for office tasks. Also, homes were much more affordable in desirable locations.

Here in San Antonio (CPS is our sole provider) we get emails asking us to reduce our use during peak hours on high demand days like today.

Not sure how well it works, but they send out another email letting us know how we did compared to similarly sized houses in my area.

If demand goes over the edge, they will start doing rolling black outs.