At first I was thinking no jobs there at all (so no commuters)
Googling Garfield and petroleum counties says both are predominantly ranching, with super low populations (1000, abd 500npeople respectively) So maybe everyone just lives on the ranch they work at? No commute if you never leave the property.
Im kind of wondering if that isnt the real end game- there was a Bezos quote i saw the other day, where he said he wants to see personal computing die out in favor of essentially cloud based, where users own minimal hardware and just rent compute time for everything.
It kind of feels like they dont actually need ai to succeed- its already achieving the goal of denying components to end users. If they maintain that scarcity long enough, they can kill the pc/ laptop status quo. (Especially if chip makers abandon those fabs for data center tailored units for a whole generation, until theres nothing viable left on the market)
I got a syringe of same looking red grease for installing a bicycle bottom bracket, (might have been for a fancy front fork?)
and it smelled vaguely sweet… like almost fructosey enough to make you imagine it was raspberry flavored.
Jabba, your mamma, and your sister
For some reason, as a kid, I just assumed he was part of the grunge scene. The name just kind of fits. Like Eddie Veder, Kurt Cobain, Chuck Taylor… you know, the grunge allstars
My cousin got her colege interviewer pretty good.
My grandma was a college professor. My cousin’s father was Persian, so she has very different facial features and skin tone.
She applied to grandma’s school, and got an interview. She showed the letter to our grandma who recognized the interviewer as one of her grad students, who had a part time job in admissions. The interviewer’s first question was do you have any family in the states?
my cousin said she did, and that the grad student should come to dinner at professor <last name’s> house and meet the the family. After that sunk in, she asked if grandma had ever invited her for dinner. When she said she hadn’t had the pleasure, my cousin made a sour face and said 'oh no, she must not like you very much- she invites all her grad students over for dinner, at least the one she likes!
My friend had a couch in decent condition he was trying to give away. Left it at the end of his driveway with a big free sign on it. (on a busy enough street inappropriate reputable enough town where peope trust things like that)
Left it out for a couple weeks, tossing it back in the garage when it was going to rain.
Eventually he changed the sign to read: $100 OBO with a phone number (that was a fake phone number lol)
Couch was ‘stolen’ in under an hour.
I used to use best buy as a sales floor to view things then buy the same model on Amazon. If the sales people pestered me, id ask them questions, then just openly say, its $30 less on Amazon, i just wanted to see one in person before I bought. My laptop in like 2007 was $150 more, almost half the Amazon price in markup.
Is dotting your i’s tittilating?
If you watch your video, it shows this being the back / side door to the building, which is on the outskirts of a college campus. (He walks up to it through a more pedestrian oriented concourse.
There was a kind of similar bus stop where I went to colege I used to use all the time; my cousins lived an hour north, and could pick up/ drop me off there without having detour through the colege town traffic (ten min bus ride saved them 25 mins in no traffic, 45+ on a weekend)
The road also doesnt really look like a highway, just a regular 2 lane (each way) road… you appear to be able to stop on the side to pick people up, and trafic looks like its under 50kph
The pedestrian sign makes sense to me for an exit, marking it as there being no other dedicated transit that way. (Not that they actually expect you to walk the ‘highway’ Prety common in airports train stations etc, (as opposed to a car symbol would imply that it was a cab stand/ rideshare area, or bus if there was a bus station, etc )
Without israel, pedonald has no excuse to bomb Iran. He wants tl bomb Iran, not stop his buddy putin from bombing Ukraine.
A couple years ago, a landscaping company decided to park their truck fully blocking my front stairs (like 2" from the railings, on a yellow line and fully on the sidewalk because the road is a narrow one way road.
I called the police when they refused to move it, and they said theyd have someone out in 45 mins, which wasnt going to work because my mom had a post- op followup for her leg surgery.
So I called the Fire department. Told them a truck was blocking one of the 2 egresses to my house, and the only one accessible to my mom because of a surgery. They had a crew out in ~5 mins.
3 guys climbed over the truck, they broke the windows on both sides, and passed a hauling strap through the cab. Then they used steel bars to roll the truck over onto its back, and used the strap to pull it fully out around the car parked in front, for the waiting tow truck.
The landscapers had come back after the windows were smashed, but were told it was too late, and ‘not to worry, the boys could use the practice!’ by the supervisor, who was timing the whole thing. Took them less than 5 minutes from arrival to clearing the road. They even swept the glass from the road and helped me get my mom down the stairs and into the car for her appointment.
Tbh, I just made up the details of the gun for the sake of being able to put in the call, which i wasn’t there for (just to illustrate sort of how those reports went- it wasnt formal)
Rread that as one of the years from infinite jest
I thought they were floor tiles. And he was installing smart ones…
Maybe it was Jay Date. You know, the founder of the epnymous website for Jewish romance.
My friend got himself into a bit of trouble. He inherited our town’s only ‘pawn’ shop. (Technically a consignment shop, because we’re far too bougie) the town also bans stores from buying or selling guns.
Now, his dad had worked out a deal with the police chief- neither particulary liked the idea of leaving guns in the possession of anyone desperate enough to be trying to quickly offload them for cash like that, the obvious concernt being that someone in that situation might resort to using that gun for crime instead.
So, while the store was prohibited from buying or selling guns, the agreement was that he could privately purchase any guns brought into the store, for his personal collection. And while he couldnt sell them out of the store, he was free to sell them put of his home, to anyone he saw fit, just as any other private collector.
Now he wasn’t buying of selling many guns, maybe 20 a year, and mostly antiques (generally people inheriting a home with a grandpa’a hunting rifle or shotgun, and not wanting it around) but they did usually have a small selection around, if people were looking, and hed offload the rest upstate at a yearly gunshot.
The one caveat was that the chief of police asked that he let him know whenever he bought one, theoretically in case the were involved in a crime, but realistically the concern was that crime was someone breaking into a house to steal valuables and that gun being one of them (tbf, he also routinely reported high value items that came across his counter, for instance tools over $350, so as to avoid becoming a fence for stolen goods)
Well, my friend inherited the buisness from his dad, and with that the arrangement and reporting, and all was good. Until, a decade later, the police chief retired, and was replaced. So, months later, my friend buys an old rifle, calls the police station, and tells the chief,
"hey, this is Bob, down at the pawn shop, just wanted to let you know I picked up a 1950s era Winchester 12 gauge. "
Which led to them raiding the shop, finding the gun safe in the basement (where he was storing them to keep them out of the house per his current wife’s wishes)
Fortunately, the judge was still an old town guy, and tossed the case, after asking the chief and DA whether theyd rather the guns end up in a private collection they were informed about or being sold off to some thug of the street.
I used to work in a brew pub. I had a woman once criticize me for not going out of my way to get the door for her. I was behind the bar, so that would have required me walking like 20’ away and then 30’ back to front to get to her.
She let herself in then called me out for not opening the door for her. I responded with “I needed to make sure you werent a vampire, since they can’t enter uninvited!”
She grimaced and one of the regulars chimed in “youre wrong, shes definitely a harpy, not a vampire!”
And she stormed out.
If you just stand there, waiting for another man to cum come , that makes you gay.
Have you won a Nobel? Neither have I- we both started 0 wars, and ended 0. (Score (0/0)
Henry Kissenger got his for negotiating the end of the Vietnam war- a war he had a part in begining and maintaining. Likewise with Arafat and Rabin’s 94 award for the Oslo accords- despite being partisans. (1/1) each, arguably more for kissenger, like 20/1
Well, DJ’s record proves it- hes ended 8+ wars! but as of the most recent award, had started 0, for a score of (0/8) And that didn’t get him a peace prize. Clearly the ONLY way to get a peace prize is to not only end wars, but to start wars so they can be ended.
This is an oversite on his part which he is seeking to rectify in both Venezuela and Greenland, and hes notifying the government of Norway to ensure future recognition
After all, from the committee’s perspective it makes sense; if too many people end wars they didnt start, eventually, we’ll run out of wars and then there will be no more wars for people to end, and the Nobel peace prize committee will be out of a job!