QuarterSwede

QuarterSwede, 3 days ago

You’re getting downvoted but you make a great point. That /is/ what it would take for Putin and his cronies to come to a reasonable negotiation.

QuarterSwede, 4 days ago

Depends on the plane and system it has. Last United flight I was on it stayed off the entire flight. I use my phone and generally don’t look at it anyway but it was nicer I suppose.

QuarterSwede, 4 days ago

No

QuarterSwede, 5 days ago

You don’t use it, you lose it!

QuarterSwede, 10 days ago

Salaam, who won a seat on the New York City Council last year, said he didn’t take pleasure in the former president’s guilty verdict “even though Donald Trump wanted me executed even when it was proven that I was innocent.”

Salaam and the other young men had their convictions vacated in 2002 after evidence linked another person to the crime. Trump in 2019 refused to apologize to the exonerated men.

“We should be proud that today the system worked,” Salaam wrote Thursday on the social media platform X. “But we should be somber that we Americans have an ex-President who has been found guilty on 34 separate felony charges.”

“We have to do better than this. Because we are better than this,” he wrote.

He’s a better man than I.

QuarterSwede, 10 days ago

You shouldn’t be downvoted. It is confusing.

QuarterSwede, 10 days ago

Well, when even your own citizens are crying out for the government to stop they may want to listen. Any use protection as a valid excuse when your citizens are wanting it to end.

QuarterSwede, 10 days ago

Great site and advice.

QuarterSwede, 10 days ago

That’s an interesting observation. Never thought about it that way but you’re right for some of us. My wife, on the other hand, knows about the deals and specifically will go when they come up. So for others it does work that way.

QuarterSwede, 9 days ago

You’re not wrong either. What really happened is that McD’s ended up being in the same total price range for our family as other sit down restaurants that are far better so we choose them instead, unless were traveling.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago

TIL

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago

Eucalyptus. Makes my asthmas flair up badly. Strong enough and it closes my airway. No Vicks vaporub for me. Obviously it’s not a smell I like.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago

I don’t see anywhere that the info he had on the slides was classified.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

He’s taking a page from the Torah. One of the ways to completely eliminate your enemy was to wipe their entire culture off the face of the earth so not even one child is left to grow up to be a potential threat.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

The idea is a show of force to stop anyone from actually using them on anyone else and to get the other side to back down. No one, not even N Korea or Russia, really wants to use them. They aren’t that dumb yet fortunately.

Also, there are different tonnages of nukes. While every nuke creates an environmental disaster. Some are small enough to be localized with minimal fallout. Still not great, but not world ending either.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

This is a good one. I’ve also used ballotpedia. Typically I use multiple sources just by google/bing/ddg/etc searching to confirm information on the candidate. Worked extremely well last mayoral election where we kicked an incumbent out who didn’t do a terrible job but we needed a change.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago

I really like #3. Yes, it’s going to take more work than just searching them online but, they’re right, you will learn a lot just by seeing how involved/passionate the candidate is to actually make change for the good of others even if you disagree with some of their policies. At least you can sleep at night knowing they actually give a crap.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago

I used this same tactic on other websites (mentioned in other comments) and it works extremely well. The incumbent failed to answer certain questions while a new candidate was eager to and had some really great game plans to tackle issues our city was facing. They ended up winning which was awesome and started putting policies in place that are doing good for people in the city.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Not quite sure I follow this one. Assuming that’s Trump but what’s a roll of “guilty” toilet paper supposed to represent other than multiple guilty verdicts? Wouldn’t a law book make more sense?

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago

Ahhhhh, somehow I missed that he did that. Thanks for the heads up.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

For me it’s do the 10% quick math then double. I never tip less than 20% even if someone is not great just because people have shit days in customer service (my field). If they’re great I go up from there and leave a nice message of appreciation. They never hear praise enough.

Plus if you end up going back they won’t forget stellar tips and you will get priority/better seating/treated more like a friend which is always nice. Ex. For work we frequent a great local BBQ place that also serves a rotating selection of local brews. One waitress is amazing and always treats us well. Can’t say the good tips we leave are the reason but I’m sure it doesn’t hurt.

QuarterSwede, 11 days ago

That’s beside the point.

QuarterSwede, 12 days ago

Oh absolutely. In the next week or so I’m sure that’ll be a headline.

QuarterSwede, 12 days ago

You truly don’t understand how large US cities are. Mine isn’t even in the top 10 in the country and it takes us 30 min driving at 65mph to drive from the north end to the south. That’s not a metro area, that’s within city limits. No one can bike around here and survive. For recreation, sure, we have bike lanes. It’s extremely difficult for anything else.