Walked around before sunrise this morning. I chose to walk a road that extends off of a major artery through the city. I've driven past this road hundreds of times, but never traveled on it. It's an old road without curb or shoulder. It's also a cheap blacktop road that has many scars from buckling and pothole repairs.
The road was bordered on both sides by large properties (2+acres minimum) and few properties were actually fenced. It felt like I was in the country walking this road. The homes, from what I could see were mostly older ranch houses.
I was pretty far along this road when some dogs started yapping at me from a house up on the right. It occurred to me that it might be possible that folks let their dogs run free out there, but thankfully the dogs must have been constrained as they never came within my sight.
I made it to the dead end of the road and heard some roosters crowing in the yard of house at the end of the street. That tracks, I thought.
As I am heading back (on the other side of the street to get them hexagons of course), I see something crossing the road ahead of me. Bigger than a cat. Smaller than a dog. ... Seemed tall - is it a loose chicken/rooster?
I get a bit closer and dread floods my body. It's a skunk with it's tail raised. I was pretty sure I was about to get sprayed, but the skunk shuttled off into some brush and left me alone. Whew! I did not want to smell that skunk shit for the hour plus walk home...
https://www.voanews.com/a/china-backs-russia-proposed-brics-payment-system-/7836865.html
BRICS+ stopped short of announcing or committing to developing a new currency. The alternative payment rail is the BIS sponsored mBridge system mentioned previously.
They make Pennies in the UK. In America, we make Cents. The premise of this topic is an indictment of inflation and the Federal Reserve. Pity more people don't ponder why we the people put up with wealth stealing vacuum machine that is fiat money.
Tulsi is not and never was "my girl". Maybe one day you can see a therapist and show him/her where on the doll big, bad bernorange touched you. Your kneejerk reactions to everything I post are kind of sad really.
Skimmed through the older posts in this thread since it was bumped. Saw these comments:
Back when these comments were made, the neoconservatives were advocating (or trying to influence) foreign policy in the GOP. Now they are besties with the Dems. They really don't care what umbrella they use as long as it rains blood.
Some random thoughts from my walk this morning:
- I don't like curved driveways. Why do some developers insist on curving a driveway when it is possible to pave a straight line?
- People who park vehicles on their driveways where the driveway overlaps the sidewalk path - especially when they have unused alternative space on the driveway to park - deserve a special place in hell. Living at the end of a cul-de-sac does not exempt peeps either.
- When I was a kid, I could easily spend a day walking around residential home construction sites looking for treasures (soda bottles that could be returned to the store for a few cents, aluminum cans for recycling, etc.). I walked by a lot of residential new home construction this morning and had zero desire to explore any of the floorplans for the homes that were framed and open, but that was mostly because it was dark and I didn't want to risk stepping on a nail or something.
- I saw a neighborhood where many of the homes had the same cookie cutter detached garage that looked like a big barn - a two car garage door with a large carport in front of the door. The carport ceiling was the floor for a second story attic/loft that extended back down the length of the garage. It looked like a barn that had half of the first floor side walls cut out to make a carport. The roof was gambrel shaped just like you'd expect on a barn. The ridiculous thing was, the homes that were related to these garages were often single story ranch houses so the garage was taller than the home or they were two story but with typical gable roofs so the garage roof and house roof looked odd right next to each other.
- As I entered one of these new subdivisions where most of the homes were still under construction, I saw a realtor's "for sale" sign in a yard for a home that was owned/occupied. That poor bastard must have lived in that house for just a few months. I wonder if there is a problem with the house, or if s/he's got to move because of work/job. Either way, good luck to them selling their slightly used home when prospective homebuyers likely have several homes to choose from with the exact same floorplan that are still under construction and can be finished with their choice of flooring, etc.
Silver is likely going to test $35 (again) today. If it breaks through, it's likely going to run up to at least $40, possibly $50. It seems like the squeeze is finally happening.
Some years ago, Texas fans sat quietly while zebras repeatedly raped student athletes at the behest of conference big wigs so they could send their buddy Grant Teaff off in to the sunset with a win. Sitting quietly and ""enjoying rape" is a losing Clayton Williams strategy.
Instead of trying to penalize the fans that were protesting an egregious error, the SEC should be reimbursing them for their lost beverages.
That's probably because I have not posited any opinion. This is a DT thread and I'm sharing an evolving story about alleged media bias in the NYT's reporting. YMMV.
That's odd. I logged in with my email address instead of username. Maybe try contacting them for tech support? They have a contact form on this page:
https://www.silencio.network/contact
Was walking before sunrise this morning in a new neighborhood when I spotted some sidewalk chalk writing on a driveway. It was dark so I couldn't initially make out what it said. It caught my eye though, so I stopped to take it in. Written in very fluid cursive (looked like a female's handwriting), the words announced: "OU still sucks!" I laughed.
Lol. If the NSA wants to listen, they dont need me to install an app. Also, Silencio isn't actually saving audio recordings. It's just saving the decibel level data.