No law is going to stop you from working for yourself your chosen number of hours. If you draw a salary from any of your companies, you can just pay yourself overtime for any hours beyond 32 a week.

He has worked for 59 years. He earned his $3 million. Most of which is in equity in his primary and secondary residence, as I understand. That doesn't exactly scream "rich" to me. It is technically between the 3rd and 4th percentile in the US by net worth.

Other than the 17 years of odd jobs, and the 42 years in various elected positions. Those certainly count as work.
He is also the #1 Senator in terms of time being spent out on the campaign trail.

Try again.

It's been quite a while, actually. Their so called Public Safety Power Shutoff was last in effect in 2018 I believe,for about a day.. We have had notices subsequently but no other PSPS. We have had plenty of unscheduled outages, though. One day a year typical cumulative overall. Typically has to do with drunk drivers knocking down poles. And it takes a random amount of time to fix. As you can imagine, can be a long time when it's on Xmas eve, the middle of the night on a weekend, etc. None of these outages would occur if lines were buried.

Yes. I live in a hilly area at risk for wildfires. PG&E is a convicted felon. They have buried about 10 miles of power lines out of hundreds of thousands and proudly advertise the good work they are doing on TV. SMH
We do have solar, but not batteries. The batteries also increase fire risk and I would rather have them at the utility than at home.

I'm in California and Amazon delivers every day. Sometimes in less than 24 hours. There are farms 2 houses down, with cows and goats, but still only 7 miles from downtown SJ. Amazon has lost a couple packages over the years, but it's less than 0.1% of all orders.

Walmart messes up about 20% of orders. Drivers not picking them up. Not delivering them. Marking them delivered. Etc. Nearly impossible to get a human being to correct it. Credit card despite is the main way. Its 30 min to checkout at the store. 1 hour for the the return line. Walmart is an absolute nightmare here.

No. I mean power lines on poles, not underground. The point was that some places have nothing buried.

Electricity is often delivered aerially here. Some rural areas don't have any of those other services. Wells and septic tanks. No gas lines. No telephone/cable/fiber, or delivered aerially too.

Indeed. But the Walmart customer service really sucks. Amazon is the complete opposite. It is worth paying a bit more, for many items, but not all.

Yes. Especially if you're hoping for it be to be current. Yesterday I got the most amazing hallucination. Even after asking twice. How I wish it had been the truth.

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They do use seeds and an RNG to prevent results from being deterministic.

I have 28 15 year old panels on my roof. Replacing them with more efficient ones is possible, but costly, not due to parts cost, but labor costs. I won't do it because it has negative ROI.

I did however add another 32 more efficient panels in recent years, filling every side of my roof. That had positive ROI.

Yes, lasers are largely useless for photos. Inkjets are still great for home photos. There are other techs like dye sublimation, but rarely used in homes, with higher upfront cost. I may buy one in order to produce longer lasting anti-Trump political t-shirts than the ones made on my inkjet. I sell these shirts every time I'm out in public when I get compliments. Always carry them in my car. Gotta get out of the hot tub and print more now as I ran out of 3 sizes today.

What a useless OP. How about mentioning what type of material needs to be printed, rather than "for kids" (and wife).

I have both a Brother MFC-L8850CDW laser, and Canon Pro-100 inkjet.

Color photos on the laser are simply crap, even on good paper and custom calibrated ICC profile. Even if color reproduction was OK, you can't use thick or glossy papers with laser. They just melt. Even those marketed as color laser papers. Don't even bother.

Photos are the main reason I have the inkjet. I use it sporadically. The ink dries over time. I have large ink bottles from Precision colors last bought in 2019 that are still good. Just refilled dry cartridges last week, and it is good to go.

I do need to reprint some photos that faded in my dining room due to the Caifornia sun, even under glass, though. Not sure if the Canon branded inks would have lasted much longer. The prints are about 8 years old.

I get to choose different photos for my frames when they fade, though.

Yes, I switched from Truvada to Descovy as soon as it became available. There were however other combo meds with TAF available before Descovy.

Gilead sat on TAF development for a while, fully knowing about safety problems with TDF. They essentially withheld TAF until their TDF patent was close to expiration. There has been legal action about that, which I have not followed. By the time I got fractures, I was already on TAF for several years. I had never gotten my bone density checked before, though, as it is not normally ordered under 50. I had to insist to get it done after the fractures. My T-score was -4.0 .

I think we need something safer than even TAF, though. I'm glad HIV drug development continues, including PrEP. I'll be looking at the injections options myself if the safety profiles are better. But I'm wary of newly launched drugs due to lack of long-term data on side effects.

I wish all these drugs weren't so overpriced. Much of the excessive drug prices in the US doesn't go toward drug development, but rather to marketing & sales expenses, which are not allowed in other countries where national healthcare systems are the primary payer.