It doesn’t matter whether the conference is innocuous or useless. Here’s what’s important: people who should know better are perfectly happy to share space and time with fascists. That alone is the damning indictment of these people, and the hard truth about them: left or right, they’re all the same clique - the Epstein class.
I always tell people who ask me what I did with my PhD: I managed to get a good education and become a trusted professional despite the schooling system.
The only thing my degree did for me was prove to my first employer that I was willing to sit tight for years and go through the pointless motion of getting a degree. I managed to grind through to the end to get an idiotic piece of paper, and that told him I was unlikely to flake out on him after 3 months on the job. That’s all my degree was ever useful for.
it’s a really healthy tree
When I was a kid, I remember we had a raspberry bush in the garden that suddenly started giving spectacular amounts of incredibly juicy raspberries. It did that for a couple of years, and then we started having problems with the septic tank. When my Dad dug it up to find out what was wrong, he discovered the raspberry bush’s root had reached into the tank and the bush was having a field day with the nutrients in there.
I suspect your tree is doing well for the same reason. If it got used to the land of plenty, it might suffer from being cut off of it.
Sorry I don’t have any particular advice to give you with respect to your problem though - apart from digging up the pipe with a shovel and trying to work around the tree’s roots, which is not something your contractor will be willing to do that is.
The list of attendees to this secret society was leaked last month, and a few names raise eyebrows.
Cory Booker in particular. The Democratic Senator from New Jersey who goes around pretending to champion the American people and the Constitution, fight Trump and his cronies, and pulls stunts on the Senate floor to convince you he’s one of the good guy, seems pretty happy to rub shoulders with fascists, Nazis, MAGAt and disgusting billionaires.
Remember that next time you see Cory Booker run his mouth on TV.
Fucker…
And Southeast Asia. And East Asia…
The messenger is awful, but the message his correct: the US war criminals must be brought to justice.
Trump and his peculiar idiocies will be gone soon enough. Even if his fascist posse stays in power, I don’t think they have any particular beef against renewable energy. The industry will be fine.
Change contractor. You pay him: it’s really easy to stop paying him and pay someone else instead.
Donald is the new Adolf.
I’m old enough to have known a guy called Benito back when that otherwise perfectly normal name brought up a lot of bad memories for many people. His idiotic parents saddled him with that name because they figured one bad dude bearing it shouldn’t decide whether a name was beautiful or not. Needless to say, he hated his parents and went by the name Benny. But sadly for him, when you knew you knew…
I pity the little Donalds of today. They’ll have a really hard time in school in a few years.
I was hoping they threatened a president’s life other than theirs…
They are off the streets. The Trump family, cabinet members and the billionaires rarely mix with the plebs.
Killing in war, when necessary is almost “free”.
It’s thinking like that that’s the reason war still exists. Everybody thinks killing is awful, apart in certain circumstances when it’s okay, when it’s in fact never okay.
Military training exists to brainwash decent human beings with a sense of morality and critical thinking abilities, who know they mustn’t kill and would refuse requests to kill, into killing machines who are proud to follow orders (and then experience PTSD when they’re returned to civilian life and realize what they’ve done).
Therefore, I contend that fully autonomous drones have killed human beings since wars have been a thing, and those drones are called “soldiers”.
Oh noes! Don’t piss off Jared Kushner! He’s our only hope for peace with Iran or something…
Payment tokens are very common. Usually they’re sold as keychains, wristbands or rings, and they’re provisioned to work with the myriad of payment processors out there - which aren’t banks.
in my case, it’s a token from iCard. The way it works is, it’s connected to a regular bank account number with an IBAN number (supplied by iCard when you activate the token), and you transfer money to it that you can then spend with the contactless token. The nice thing is, if you lose it, you can’t lose anymore money than you put on it.
What I modified was in fact a contactless payment token. It had the form factor of a payment card, but it only does NFC.
I have another card for chip+pin.But I almost never use it where I live, because all limits were lifted on contactless payments a few years ago. If I try to pay something really expensive contactless, it will ask me for the pin - which is specific to the payment token.
I’ll do one better:
My payment card was just a bit too wide to fit in my cellphone’s cover. The phone’s own NFC antenna is at the top - and I use it all the time - so the card had to be at the bottom of the cover to avoid triggering the phone all the time, in portrait orientation so-to-speak.
So I dissolved the card in acetone to extract the NFC chip and its antenna, then carefully reshaped one end of the antenna so it’s a bit less wide (and since I couldn’t modify the length of the wire or the number of turns in any way to avoid de-tuning the antenna too much, I sort of accordioned one side of the rectangle to accommodate the extra length of wire).
Then I set the new shape of the antenna permanently by carefully applying a piece of packing tape over it, flipped it over, taped over the other side to seal everything, then carefully cut around the new, ultra-thin, stubbier contactless payment “card”.
Now it fits really smartly in my cellphone cover!
You know what’s ironic? American products are harder to sell abroad because of the dumb tariffs, people boycotting fascism, and now the screwworms. And all three are directly caused by Trump.
Trump had said he doesn’t care about the mid terms
Of course he does. He doesn’t want to be impeached.
You don’t refuse a request from a distinguished FIFA Peace Prize recipient!