“Sprays on vehicles” is not the same thing as “shits in cars.”
If someone is dumb enough to leave their car open to where animals can get inside, they deserve what they get.
Unaltered animals are going to mark territory whether you feed them or not.
They likely keep track of who has been delivered which devotional to avoid duplicates.
Not even 30 seconds, it’s as much time as it takes to type the new address and click “save”.
Our CEO made a big announcement about how we were going to move from a B2B (Business to Business) environment to a B2C (Business to Consumer) environment. B2C is the future, Internet of Things, yadda yadda.
So, since we have an open door policy, I popped him an email and asked him what the plan was to invest in our infrastructure because, as it stood then, B2C was out of reach and the clients we had attempting it were finding it wasn’t robust enough, citing my example client list and recent failures.
I got immediate heat. Nobody had told him our infrastructure couldn’t do it. “What are your sources? How do you know?” - Sources cited. CEO went to his yes men: “This guy knows what he’s talking about and seems really sure of what he’s saying…”
Oh.
10 years later, we’re on our 3rd CEO, our infrastructure still isn’t updated, and B2C still hasn’t happened.
I think the trick is the daily devotional, they’ll want to know who you are to deliver that.
Bible Gateway is great if you just want the text, multiple translations even.
An Italian singer did a song that’s what American rock sounds like to people who don’t speak English:
Going the other way, I imagine this is what it was like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time:
The Country
Billy Collins
I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice
might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.
Who could sleep that night?
Who could whisk away the thought
of the one unlikely mouse
padding along a cold water pipe
behind the floral wallpaper
gripping a single wooden match
between the needles of his teeth?
Who could not see him rounding a corner,
the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam,
the sudden flare, and the creature
for one bright, shining moment
suddenly thrust ahead of his time—
now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer
in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid
illuminating some ancient night.
Who could fail to notice,
lit up in the blazing insulation,
the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces
of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants
of what once was your house in the country?
Hard to describe the impact he had, even if you didn’t care for his music. On fashion, choreography, design, the 80s were really driven by Jackson.
In terms of scale, from the person at the top making xxx times the person at the bottom, they’ve likely always been around.
“Robber Baron” is the ye olde term.
Google tells me John D. Rockefeller peaked at around $1.4 billion in 1937. 1.5% of US GDP.
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47167
The average wage in 1937 was $890 a year.
https://time.com/archive/6760420/personnel-above-average/
So Rockefeller, at his death, had amassed as much wealth as 1,573,034 average people would earn in a year.
In order to hit 1.5% of current US GDP (27.36 trillion), Bezos or Musk would have to hit 410.4 billion. That’s how wealthy Rockefeller was.
1.2 Musks. 2 Bezoses.
I see I’m not the only one. LOL.
Only 3 games this year and Microsoft Solitaire is #1 with a bullet.
Then Starfield, then Little Kitty Big City.
Will be interesting to see my Playstation and Steam stats.
Probably a tie between Tremors 1/2, Big Trouble in Little China and Buckaroo Banzai.
Borderline unwatchable with it on.
Depending on the streaming service, a $99 Roku box might be worth the investment.
I needed one for testing. :)
In order:
Android (home)
Windows 11 (work)
Playstation
Xbox
Windows 11 (home)
Steamdeck
iOS (work)
Switch
It’s particularly bad on my Samsung sets, their HDR implementation is a known bug and there’s no way to disable it on the television itself, all you can do is disable it on connected devices.
Then I find, everytime my Roku, Xbox, or Playstation gets an update, I have to disable it again. :(
Still, better than watching a black scene in a coalmine. LOL.
HDR on:
HDR off:
I have that problem on my televisions, it turns out, it’s bad implementation of HDR.
Turn HDR off on your devices and the picture is instantly bright and clear.
TikTok without the government spyware.
There’s a lemmy community posting weblinks as well so you don’t need the app.
It’s fine, I wish there was more original content, but it’s fine.