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Are you dead?

January 13, 2026 / / 0 Comments

BBC:  Are You Dead?: The viral Chinese app for young people living alone

A new bleak-sounding app has taken China by storm.

Named Are You Dead? the concept is simple. You need to check in with it every two days – clicking a large button – to confirm that you are alive. If not, it will get in touch with your appointed emergency contact and inform them that you may be in trouble.

That doesn’t sound bleak to me.  Every two days, you affirm that you live.   At least Sparky and other pets would have a decent chance of being rescued, and that’s a comfort to anxious people.

Don’t require clicking on a large button.  If the phone hasn’t moved in two days, it’s either lost or there’s a man down. 

What do blue states want?

January 13, 2026 / / 0 Comments

ICE arrests in Minnesota surge include numerous convicted child rapists, killers

Governor Walz needs to explain why he is fighting so hard to keep violent foreign criminals walking free in Minnesota.  ICE released a list of some of the worst criminals that have been picked up in Minnesota. 

Of these 18 people, a dozen are killers, while 5 have raped, sodomized or sexually assaulted children.  They have all been tried, convicted and have deportation orders.

If Governor Walz worked with ICE, foreign criminals could be picked up in a safer and more orderly manner.  Instead, blue states and cities actively oppose federal immigration enforcement, resulting in these chaotic confrontations in order to keep citizens in danger. 

It makes no sense.

I’m more responsible than I thought.

January 10, 2026 / / 0 Comments

I had a brain wave and checked Amazon to see when I bought the last set of smoke detectors.  That’s not bad, I’m only 7 months late.  The old smoke detectors are testing okay so I wasn’t in peril.  That’s better than I’d expected.

I also scheduled an email to be sent to myself in 2036 to change the smoke detectors.

I am on fire today.

Sparky doesn’t understand why I keep tethering him outside for a few minutes as I test each new install.

This is what you do when you don’t care about kids.

January 10, 2026 / / 0 Comments

Minneapolis Public Schools offering E-learning through Feb. 12 due to ICE shooting

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – School district officials announced Wednesday night they were canceling classes for the rest of the week out of an abundance of caution due to safety concerns around the city in the aftermath of Good’s death.

Why would school district officials openly admit that students are less safe in school, then they are anywhere else?

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