@odd I have been thinking of upgrading and having real pizzeria pizza delivered, but that gets expensive.
@odd I have been thinking of upgrading and having real pizzeria pizza delivered, but that gets expensive.
@vincent Your Man Card is renewed. :)
@odd I think you are right. If one has a TV in the room it becomes the focal point and furniture tends to get arranged so you can watch TV. Without a TV in the room you can arrange furniture as you like.
@odd I think you end up adding a lot less oil. That seems to be the sales pitch.
@odd Will do. I'm unclear about air fryers as well, but it sounds like it might be healthier than frying in a skillet.
@odd I think everyone wants to scam us out of our money before Christmas!
@manton Get well soon.
@manton Thank you for paying to keep the Twitter API going until July 15th. That was very thoughtful of you. I'm really not sure what to do in the future as even while Twitter is dying it still generates more traffic from cross posting than any other network.
@johnjohnston @jean Sorry for the tardy reply. I've been off do ing walkabout in my head remembering times and people past and long gone for the last few weeks and have not been checking in as a should.
I think folks are on to something here. I think getting people, especially children, out into the green of nature has a lot of health and immune system benefits. Somehow getting immersed in germs and microbes and natural smells makes us stronger. Just as I've heard that eating local honey is beneficial. Somehow this is all realted.
Aside: @Jean when I first read "forest bathing" from you I had a Twin Peaks flashback "the forest has eyes" or some such. :)
@johnjohnston Chandler sure had a way with words.
@fgtech Maybe choosing the Twitter Trending stuff is less automated than I thought and all the people approving topics have headed for the lifeboats?
For both good and ill, one of the things I liked about Twitter was for monitoring live updates of news events like the Ukraine War and that seems to be gone. That was one reason to stay on Twitter.
Also Twitter the Twitter timeline seems hollowed out. Maybe it will recover.
@odd Sorry for being so late in replying. Yeah I got tired of seeing tweets rationalizing why people should vote. Like what's in it for them? So I just threw that out there: we vote because it's our duty. We should not have to be bribed to vote.
I'm so glad you vote. Norway needs you.
@canion I don't know. I expect both of them to try and out extreme each other and that bodes ill.
@LJPUK I'm making contingency plans to leave Twitter as I predict it will go downhill.
@odd I'm enjoying your drawings.
@johnjohnston It's great that there is a book just for Scotland. We now expect more butterfly photos. No pressure. :)
@timapple You're thinking straight.
This summer I was reading about the outmigration from California (fires) and they said most people were heading to AZ, NM, NV and FL!!! That strikes me as crazy, due to lack of water for the SW states and hurricanes in FL, plus rising temps in all of them.
The midwest and NE (avoid the coasts) seem best. You want a place with good access to drinkable water, check the Federal flood maps and avoid flood plains, every 400 years or so we have a big earthquake near St Louis. That's it. It's boring here but stable.
The people living in California, the SW and FL are in denial right now so this is a good time to move, before everybody catches on and property values in those places tank.
Like @mcg says the housing market around the Great Lakes will eventually heat up.
@timapple I think you are right.
@jasonekratz I use the exact same equipment: Melitta 1-cupper/filters and a gooseneck kettle. Although I just use preground Dark French roast from Aldi when it's available. All very low cost and low tech.
I settled on these after my 5th Keurig maker either quit working or bricked itself after a power surge and frankly I'm glad I switched.
cc. @pimoore
@Pilchuck @JohnPhilpin @joelhamill I like "Space Navy".
The good thing about using "Force" in the name is it does not sugar coat it: it's a force and it's about force. Truth in labeling.
@joelhamill @JohnPhilpin In the early rocket days the USN and USAF were both trying to build rockets for space. NASA was created to take civil and scientific exploration of space out of military hands.
In this case both USAF and USN have their own narrow needs and agendas (ie. navigation, finding enemy submarines or planes) Neither is able to step back and look at the Big Picture of defending against militarized Space. Hence Space Force.
I can see the logic, however because of who established it I'm having a hard time taking it seriously.
@adders Good article. Hydrogen makes more sense right now for train lines that cannot be electrified, ships and maybe aircraft.
@SimonWoods I agree with you. With these various profile page services and status posting services, it seems like I could do a lot of that on Micro.blog, although I might have to set up a seperate MB blog. @manton came up with a theme that makes the index page a profile page. And as for statuses, Micro.blog seems like the perfect tool already for short status posts. I guess I don't get it.
@odd I meant to include you here micro.blog/bradensle...
@pratik I'm stirring the Russian pot.
Actually, China is laughing right now. All of Russia's wealth in resources is in Asia yet Russia has squandered this and reinvested nothing there. Nothing shiney for the Far Eastern provinces or for the protectorate *stans. Whereas, China has been investing, schmoozing. So all China has to do is wait for 1. the *stans to switch allegience because Russia is too weak, (coming soon), 2. the internal breakup of the Russian empire (we're heading there) and just step in to restore order and essential services. It all could drop into China's lap.