I say this as someone who longs for the day when Trump is a thing of the past like when someone brings up Covid these days. Also I have nearly 30 years in the water treatment business and algae is a nemesis during the summer months. To have such a problem with algae so soon after refilling it is odd. I don’t buy the idea that it was living in pipes that weren’t cleaned. If true high phosphate levels are suspicious. The water evaporation claim is BS too.

The time gap between the news stories about Trump Media’s terms and the release of the Trump Phone was only a month or less. Not enough time to put together something like that. My personal conspiracy theory has been that it was an attempt to embarrass the press. The phones were ready to be shipped and TM changed the terms to say there was no guarantee any “Device will be commercially released”. They let that play out on the blogs for a while then released the phones. Now the narrative can be “look how wrong The Media was” instead of, “Look at how cheap these phones made in China are”.

Maybe English speaking people with tattoos of Chinese letters is the equivalent?

Things are steered by the people that show up

The “baby boom” happened between 1946 and 1964, an 18 year period. Not everyone will die within an 18 year period. Some have already passed, some will live into their 90’s and could be around until the 2060’s

Nobody gonna turn down a day off

My first experiences with computers started when I was in Junior High around '79. It was a total nerd hobby, almost "underground ". Now I see it for what it is. Gadgets become necessities and we become enslaved to them. We have to stop chasing our tails

The Democratic Party needs to learn from the GOP and build a"farm team"

Making everyone unhappy is the point

They work while going to school and have a partner or spouse with a decent job. I know at least a couple people who did this in their 40’s

From France even

Get ready to buy the dip

The US borrows money by issuing US Treasury Bonds. The number one buyer of those bonds is the US government, mostly the Social Security Administration. We borrow from ourselves and pay ourselves back yet we’re told Social Security is insolvent. Yeah I don’t get it either

I bought a house in the inner city like that. Some things off the top of my head: wiring from a wall switch to the ceiling light was wired with an extension cord. Not a heavy duty orange one, the brown twisty kind you would use for Christmas lights. Knob and tube wiring that was capped at a dead end (no junction box) protruding from a hole in a closet. At the panel everything was updated romex so it was tied in somewhere. Never figured out where. Wires were sliced together in the kitchen ceiling without being in a junction box, squirrels got in and would cause it to short out.

An outlet tester costs $10 and will tell you if outlets are wired properly.

So odd. The trim on the left has a notch cut in it to accommodate the light switch cover? Seems like it would have been easier to move the box on inch to the right or cut the plastic cover rather than the trim? Why not make better use of the space by accessing it from another wall? This looks like a novice handyman’s work. It would make me worry about what you can’t see.

Rats abandoning a sinking ship

This is what you call “hedging your bets”

This is preparing for the inevitable release of the Epstein files. Softening the blow by insisting it wasn’t pedophilia. They could have made this argument a long time ago but didn’t