Everything's coming soon, apparently. Website is in process, album is coming on the 27th, etc.
Somebody asked me the title of the album and I couldn't say it, I made it too much of a tongue twister. Too late to change it now.
@bostonwriter You could do a compare and contrast: DiCaprio and a boatful of his latest crop of Logan's-Run-approved ladies, or Ben Affleck snoozing with his mouth wide open, and my jealousy is going to be 100% geared towards Ben.
Wherever government wants to lower prices, the first consideration should *always* be: how is government currently interfering with or impeding the market?
The issue, of course, is that the government employs or subsidizes people to interfere with the market, and suddenly get very sympathetic when those people complain about losing their gatekeeping position.
A more obvious path would be to permit on-site beef processing, bypassing the cartel enforced by USDA. This ought to be a major Republican issue! https://t.co/FcxzjD8jII
@Hero_OfThe_Day Caitlin is basically Harrison Bergeron at this point. She's too good for the league, so the WNBA's solution is to saddle her with a different set of rules to make the rest of the Subaru Outback Pottery Barn enjoyers feel like they're competing.
Works well for CPAs too for tax research, strategies and accounting treatment. Though it's annoying when it tries to head off a line of questioning because it thinks it knows what you're getting at.
I don't need you to anticipate my line of thought here, Chat/Claude, I've got my own strategy and don't need your caution before I ask a question.
Depends on why I was craving. If it's the physical act of drinking, I drink sugar free soda, tea, or coffee. If it's the need for relief from stress, I take Ashwagandha, NAC, drink chamomile tea, and then try to do something physically active.
Also, I pray for relief. You should always try to maintain contact with your higher power. Prayer needs to be said out loud, both for spiritual reasons and psychological reasons.
I don't recall the book, but one of the characters was supposed to be a country singer and got famous for writing a song about her lover abusing her. The author wrote the lyrics out and they were so bad that they stuck in my head.
The main chorus kept repeating "Battery" in the context of domestic abuse. It stuck with me because it was so on-the-nose.
Even the movie "Music and Lyrics" bothers me. The lyrics to the original songs aren't the worst. But they sound like they were written by an author or screenwriter, not by a lyricist.
@KaceeRAllen I'm glad they didn't indict him, because he's innocent. I distinctly remember he was at my house opening presents and getting pats on the back whenever it was that the supposed crime occurred.
@exQUIZitely Heretic was sweet, and Hexen rocked for multiplayer. When someone was hiding off a corridor, I would get a power up that would bounce my shots off walls 90 degrees sideways and they'd have no idea how I hit them.
@BowTiedTrance Double peak GenX: All of these were loaded with mp3 files downloaded from alt.binaries.mp3, including deep rips of entire discographies from bands you never had any intention of listening to.
@TheStingisBack The villainy premise doesn't exactly work today: the principal was expelling students with poor academic performance to improve the overall school statistics.
Nowadays they just outright lie and create false statistics. Everyone gets an A if they show up.
If this law stands, you'll see some amazing blowouts and accidents coming out of California from the unintended consequences of running on whatever "efficient" tire they've legislated that isn't ideal for a particular vehicle.
Tire manufacturers better seek a liability exemption now.
Dunlop Tires sends lengthy press release tonight re: new rules around replacement tires in California.
The company urged policy makers to carefully assess the long-term effects on consumer safety, choice, affordability and competition:
That's good advice, I play three holes on my simulator before a round, though I'm still not translating that to the course.
I have many more thoughts in my head on that first hole revolving around external factors: e.g. the sun's really bright, I hope someone can watch my tee shot for me; I'm paired with so-and-so, I'll have to help him find his ball a lot today; my warm-up kind of sucked today, I better focus on my irons, etc.
It's like I'm desperately searching for a pattern in my early shots to decide how I'm going to adjust through the round.
We relapse because alcohol has been a tool in our lives to deal with life. We stop drinking because alcohol has become a problem and doesn't give us the relief it used to.
Then sometimes we will pick up again, and suddenly there's that relief because our tolerance is back to normal.
That relief doesn't last, but we forget that it doesn't last. That's part of how alcohol works.
So you need to learn new tools to deal with life on life's terms, since alcohol can't be one of them.
THC isn't a long-term solution either.
I'll give you the big secret to AA if you don't want to go: it's about making a spiritual connection. Trust God, clean house, help others. That's the big message.
If you can make a spiritual connection without AA, you're good. If you find that hard to do, like I did, give a couple meetings a try. You'll get some garbage coffee and it may cost you $2 if you decide to through some money in the basket.