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Here’s a fun retro movie review site run by a friend: Will Turntale

He reviews in print and audio flix like the 1990 Robot Jox and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Fun stuff!

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Our family is planning on going to Burning Man this year. Join us?

In response to Trump ordering the release of water, ostensibly to help stop the southern California wildfires (see his tweet on X), the water officials in the strongly Republican Kern County, California said, “What the fuck, stop messing with our water, Trump! That is not helpful AT ALL!”

The article reports:

Tulare County water managers were perplexed and frustrated, noting both physical and legal barriers that make it virtually impossible for Tulare County river water to be used for southern California fires.

And Dan Vink, longtime Tulare County water manager said:

This decision was clearly made by someone with no understanding of the system or the impacts that come from knee-jerk political actions.”

See the message from the Water Association of Kern County

archive image of the page, just in case:

No, you ass. Those are not disabilities that qualify you to be an air traffic controller. Those are disabilities that don’t exclude you from working at the FAA, an agency that employs 40,000 people.

Watch Trump lie here:

From Trump’s Jan 30th, 2025 briefing, “President Trump Holds Press Briefing on Aviation Disaster”

8 minutes and 40 seconds into the video, he’s talking about what it takes to be an air traffic controller…

…Where you have many, many planes coming into one target and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it. Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the federal government as a matter of policy, as identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring, the FAA’s website states. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism all qualify for the position of a controller of airplanes…

Notably, he was the person that put this policy into place in 2019.
No, this policy didn’t factor into this airline disaster.

What’s his goal here? It seems like it’s to create discrimination and make people with disabilities that otherwise can do their jobs a pariah, but that can’t be right, can it?

Why the hell does every email marketer insist on sending daily or even more frequent emails to me!

Here’s what I sent to Panda Express today

I signed up for Panda express emails recently, when our family went to dinner. The food was good, not too expensive, and fun!

I started getting 1 email or so per week. It was fine. Actually, it was fun! The scratcher game was fun! Then I got 2 per week. Now twice a day.

I’m out. And there’s no way to reduce the frequency to a reasonable amount. You have lost me as an email contact!

That “boil the frog slowly” mentality about email marketing totally sucks!

How do I get NORMAL bathroom sink aerators? The seal on the old one failed after like 20 years. Now I’m trying to get another “normal” 2.2 GPM aerator. But those are illegal contraband in California! I could only get this crappy 1.5 GPM aerator that’s noisy and takes forever to do anything. Ace Hardware won’t sell me one. Amazon won’t knowingly sell me one. So I bought an unlisted, unmonitored, gray-market aerator on Amazon. It scares my wife Megan, the water flow is so strong!

I’m looking for recommendations for good American mid-size, mid-priced sedans. (or maybe a not-sporty SUV or similar) My 88 year-old mother may be shopping for a new car lease. Recommendations?

Facebook is rapidly becoming crappier. Zillions of ads and promotions of groups and crap you don’t want. I use Fluff Busting Purity and it makes it much more tolerable. Install the extension here and set the options. It only works on a real computer, not a phone, so I uninstalled FB from my phone. Going to the toilet is now fun again! The photo is the home page of my FB Purity settings.

It also helps to Snooze or Unsubscribe from groups that don’t help. I unsubbed from them all.

If this keeps up, I’m going to have to connect with my friends the old fashioned way again… email, text, and (dare I say) phone calls!)

I just have to vent. I’m dealing with scammer problems in family accounts on a weekly basis now. It’s cray-cray. In the last 8 months I’ve handled:
– 5+ credit cards with typical “what’s this weird charge?” fraud
– 4+ “my relative got scammed into signing up for this fraudulent thing”
– many crises averted with relatives asking “should I sign up for this fraudulent thing?” (I’m so glad they called!!)
– 2 “why is this otherwise legitimate insurance so much more expensive than it should be????” One insurance was double the cost, one was 8 times more expensive than it should have been!!!
– 1 “my relative is courting a pig butchering scammer because she’s lonely.”

All of the red flags are there but it takes a steady hand and many careful words to resolve every instance! I’ve only actually cried about it once but am getting ready to do more of that.

Props to American Airlines on our recent trip to Florida!

The day before the flight, they sent me a message asking if we wanted to change to a better flight:

There was a flight that was actually a bit faster than our original plans and got in earlier! I picked the flight and then realized to my horror that the seats were all split up! I panicked; I had fucked up; we were going to have 3 middle seats all over the plane… with a 9 year-old! Ugh! But then an hour after I booked the crappy seats, I got an email and they had put us all in a row! Phew!

Arriving in West Palm Beach, I got a message saying that our luggage had gotten on the wrong flight! Happily, they delivered the bag to us at our house the next day by courier!