If California didn’t send $80 billion more to the federal gov’t than it got back every year, I don’t think they’d need FEMA.

And vehemently against a bunch of you rights.

I am NOT a power user of my phone. That said, I’ve liked YAM Launcher for a while. It is minimalist and does everything I want in a launcher.

They don’t need to rally, just grow enough as people to hold their noses and vote.

And that toothpaste is not getting put back in the tube.

And I was suggesting that the middle class already pays a wealth tax as most of their wealth is in their home. I agree with OPs sentiment, but have it start above $5 million and have it pretty steeply progressive.

You’re probably right. I last read part of it for a class about 35 years ago, and I no longer trust my memory anyways.

I don’t remember it being that big of a book.

If you are in my state, it’s taxed via property tax.

Honestly, it’s been a long time, so I couldn’t tell you. I remember doing half-cabs down a five set (not impressive to anyone but me). I remember feeling disconnected, but landing crazy shit. Surfing though was a little too much. That bend and swirl, on a wave, didn’t work for me. A friend of mine really liked the experience though. I remember riding by him at Blacks in San Diego and when I paddled back out he was laughing and said,“you were going soooo fast!!” I guess it’s different for everyone.

In my experience, skateboarding (yes!). Surfing (not so much). Sitting in a park at 2am, watching the sprinklers turn on (yes!). Fucking (not so much). Giving a crazy long massage (yes!). Watch The Wall, Yellow Submarine, Wizard of OZ, et al (yes…depending on the mood at the moment).

I used to find myself kind of floating above the meeting or whatever I was in. Just observing, while also still participating. I wonder if that’s similar. I don’t think I’ve ever filmed myself talking to someone.

Palau’s like,“They aren’t criminals? They’re just hard-working immigrants, huh? And you want to give us 7.5 million? What’s the catch?”

I guess that they actually want the Confederates there, which they might get.

I can’t imagine this helping someone, but on the off chance, if you used org and are wondering what to use, s/org/li/ works for me and seems quicker than the gone one.

Sadly, most of the time I hear these stories, it’s after the authorities failed to act with tragic results. As someone said, do your best to create a safe place if you can. Have contacts ready to quickly contact. Sorry to hear of your situation. Just awful.

I haven’t read Strauss in so long. I need to go back and reread them. His books were always a lot of fun.

I have way too much muscle memory and vim macros for working with LaTeX to feel the urge to learn something else. I don’t have much friction these days with LaTeX. I have pointed a couple friends at Typst, and they have seemed to like that. That said, I’m not sure that I would suggest it to a friend’s parents, unless they were already in tech fields or general nerds. Also, I’m not sure I want to talk about output quality when you have “þe” and “worþ” in your response. Kidding. Mostly. Kind of.

LaTeX is so good for this…after learning it. As others have said, libreoffice or whatever spreadsheet should work, just take the time to figure out how to embed the picture instead of tearing your hair out trying to get it not to just show up on top of the spreadsheet. Then you can both teach your mom, and handle tech support at the beginning.

I have a pocketbook something or other. I’ve used it for a couple years now. I find the hardware way below kobo, one of the page turning buttons crapped out pretty soon, and the built in reader kind of sucked. I put koreader on it, and the button not working isn’t a huge deal, just kind of annoying. I read a lot. I’m retired and average at least 6 hours a day. I’m just saying that I’ve put a lot of wear on the thing, and definitely got my money out of it over the past few years. I’m not sure if I’ll by another one. The last couple Kobo’s I had were much higher quality and lasted longer without issues. They also were a lot more expensive, so ¯\_(ツ)_ /¯