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susagjohn.bsky.social
Father, widower, believer in facts and science, voracious reader, feeder of cats, struggling cook, and native Minnesotan. He/Him/His.
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AARP (!!) posted an article on phone security when going thru US Customs. www.aarp.org/travel/trave...
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For my money, Jimi Hendrix “All Along the Watchtower” vs the Dylan original.
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Hmm, I think of Auric Goldfinger's Rule: “Once, Mr. Bond, may be happenstance. Twice could be coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
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My greatly missed cats Max and Ruby ate from an open food bowl. Never woke me up, just had to make sure to keep the feeder supplied. My current cats are next to the bed talking to me anytime I wake before the alarm.
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Article in today's online Strib about the impact of tariffs on Minnesota-based board game companies. www.startribune.com/board-game-c...
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This round of storms mostly went north of my location. More storms, possibly severe, expected later today.
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The size of these tariffs ought to be pointed out. The famous “Chicken tax” tariff which protected US auto manufacturers from light truck competition is only 25%.
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Wait until they learn about Welteislehre (World Ice Theory), a Nazi-approved cosmology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welteis...
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Sniper with 309 confirmed kills enters the chat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmil...
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Someone on Twitter tried to tell Margaret Atwood that she didn't understand "The Handmaid's Tale". Yep.
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100% agree. Paid for in blood.
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He was in Wisconsin where wearing a cheesehead hat is a gesture of solidarity. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeseh...
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As I said elsewhere, these people have never heard of Chesterton's Fence: Never take a fence down until you know why it was put up in the first place.
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Passport, yes. But the passport card says on the back “Valid only for International Land and Sea travel…” and TSA seems to think that means it isn’t valid ID for domestic travel. Or at least that agent thought so.
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I once tried to use my passport card as ID with TSA on a domestic flight. The agent said it could only be used for international travel and wouldn't accept it as ID. However, I was able to use it as Real ID compliant ID when entering a US military base.
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These people have never heard of Chesterton's Fence.
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Try Harry Connolly's Twenty Palaces series.
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It was a pilot program and I’d bet the current admin is not going to improve it.
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They did. "...the IRS announced a pilot of Direct File, where people can calculate and submit their federal taxes and some state taxes in partnership with select state tax agencies for free. This initiative came as a result of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_e-f...
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One of my favorite Will Rogers quotes: "There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
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Will Rodgers www.brainyquote.com/quotes/will_...
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Northwest Angle in Lake of the Woods too.
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My local airport has a small conference center past TSA. www.mspairport.com/conference-c...
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MaMa's Pizza on Rice St. in St. Paul has also had vehicles hit the building. There is a jog in the road at the intersection. There now is a large, heavy planter on the sidewalk protecting the building as a bollard.
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The whole "Full self driving in X months" cycle was my clue he was a giant exaggerator, at best. As for The Boring Company, I never heard what innovation he brought, just that he bought an existing TBM. Hyperloop was a completely unproven idea.
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I just care about people washing their hands after they are done. I'm a stickler for that, the rest I don't care.
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He said pre-2000. But I agree, Jurassic Park and T2 are both outliers in use of CGI for the time period.
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My son, about the same age as Athena, says he has a hard time watching older movies because the special effects are not believable. And horror movies tend to rely on special effects.