NBC News: House passes bill to codify Trump order to rinse away showerhead regulations
The US is not even one of the top 20 happiest countries in the world. Trump, Biden, ICE and Woke Hollywood pisses off some people, but they like being vexed. It’s the little things that people use every day, but that just don’t work very well. Dishwashers and washing machines that do a poor job, toilets that don’t ‘move the mail’, and low-flow showers irritate people every day, and wear them down.
You won’t believe what Sparky did when he found this Cheeto!
Everybody knows that Cheetos burn. I had a cold firebox and cold wood, and 2 gallons of Costco Cheetos that my sausage beagle wouldn’t even eat.
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.
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.
While we were on our walk, we practiced commands. The last video is my favorite, because Sparky follows orders until he doesn’t.
I put out a Costco Cheeto to see how he liked it. I did not expect him to react like this.
Where the hell did this come from?
Yesterday evening, Sparky and I sat out in the cool damp for a while. It was so pleasant, I thought about getting out my pipe.
Yeah, a cookie, a little trophy, or something for being so meticulous.
Well, not me, because I blew the smoke detector deadline by 7 months, but the prospect of some recognition would have been motivational.
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.
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