By time an hour would be needed we'll have to factor in the relatively different passage of time on various colonies and have a standard that accounts for timekeeping in different reference frames at least throughout the Solar System.

Hopefully ... if we don't allow politicians to kill our civilization first.

Somebody who works that out now and proposes a correct mechanism will have their name remembered.

Grocery clerks are some of the few people I get to have conversations with these days. You're welcome!

Walmart closed all their Portland stores, apparently because the amount of shoplifting made them unprofitable. Store are getting hard to find in most downtowns. Rural stores have a different problem: they charge twice as much for groceries!

We are down to basically two grocery store companies: Kroger and Safeway-Albertsons. On the bright side, my Fred Meyer loyalty card now works in every Kroger grocery store in the country! And my Safeway loyalty works at Chevron -- I haven't figured that one out yet.

I've heard from a guy involved in the bond market thst the economy is in major recession outside of the Mag7 and AI stocks.

Apparently secondary markets, insurance reinvestments, private credit, pension funds - they're so heavy in AI stocks to just beat inflation that when Sam said tokens aren't selling fast enough with the decreasing cost of generating them to turn a profit they started bracing for an Everything Crash.

Like insurance companies failing, CRE going into foreclosure, pension funds defaulting, bond-issuing companies liquidating equity to meet obligations, etc.

Treasury would have to hyperinflate to bail them all out, transferring massive wealth from the People to the Corporations, yet again.

That's gonna get spicy and probably stabby.

Yes, places like Walmart and Target apparently use 3rd parties to stock their shelves... which results in items being placed on shelves that the store computer cannot lookup the bar code for! If you can't find a similar item at the same price to scan ahead, your own choice is to hand that to the clerk watching you and tell them to take it because it wan't f-ing scan!

Yeah, somebody used my snail-mail address for his SiriusXM. I don't own a BMW, but now I get a lot of mail addressed to the BWM owner at that address. So... I canceled his SiriusXM for him. I wonder if he noticed...

Shout out to the few folks here who remind us that they block just about everything on the web that could cause problems - the only ones of us who are probably safe.

I bet a few don't even allow stylesheets.

That's exactly the problem: many websites apparently just let you enter an email address and DO NOT confirm it!

Yes, check out the Business Reform Youtube channel - he reviewed a couple of sonic jammers recently.

Also "Bee Gone" from our friend group if somebody tries this. Might be more effective.

Congress has exercised Inherent Contempt powers as recently as a hundred years ago but they turned the Congressional Jail into a speakeasy/conference room which roughly reflects their sense of duty.

Which, to your point, they now refer the DoJ to the DoJ for prosecution.

But also that illustrates why prior Congresses held the power to be essential.

It would have been grand if "The Dow, the Dow is over fifty thousand!" landed Bill Barbie in jail until she had time to think abour her duty to respond truthfully.

I've reminded Paul about his duty but they're all weak on such matters.

If only Alan Watts had known about the biological processes tied to the Schumann Resonance, 1G of gravity, and the Circadian Rhythm ... he would have come to the same conclusions.

Deep Space explorers are going to have to create mini Earths if they want to stay healthy.

This is very disappointing to the Platonists and Transhumanists.

This just in, a report published by a group of people who would be materially harmed by losing business to the EU building its own technical capacity declared it would be costly and unfeasible to ever abandon them.

Up next after the commercial break, we report on how water is wet and grass grows.

I see no evidence that BeauHD isn't an AI in the first place. If he is, he's a particularly stupid bot...

I use my gmail address to log into many apps, so they know my phone number. The problem is that some stranger with a similar name keeps using my gmail address to create accounts. So when I creating an account for a DoorDash pickup today, the app decided I was Elizabeth H, and my food was labeled Elizabeth H, and the guy at the counter argued that the old cis male in front of him didn't really look like an Elizabeth... I had the same problem with my Best Buy account, I can't use my gmail address to login to that because Elizabeth already has her account linked to my email address. Unfortunately, she hasn't left a credit card active for that account. One time someone no Etsy used my email address and was foolish enough to leave her credit card attached. So she received a surprise: poop soap delivered to her door! The data collectors can figure out a lot about you by aggregating data from multiple sources, so they do know your phone number, and can link it indirectly to you email.