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Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

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DavidS - Apr 19, 2025 5:02:35 pm PDT #6872 of 6878
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

My house had been invaded by shit-flies, so I had to go to the hardware store for insecticide

"Where do you keep insecticide?"
"What for?
"Shit-flies.
"The ones that go zig zag zig? I hate those."
"Me too."
"Well, this is the strong stuff but you've got to be careful where you use it. This stuff is safer."
"Is the safe stuff effective?"
"Well...they don't like it."
"Gimme the toxic shit. I gotta kill 'em."

So now I've killed a bunch of them plus a cache of spiders that would have sent Matilda into a screaming frenzy, but my house is a little toxic and I've got dead flies everywhere.


erikaj - Apr 19, 2025 5:19:29 pm PDT #6873 of 6878
Always Anti-fascist!

Hec, always with the sweet talk and real-estate porn. This is what makes me happy, as a small donor today. [link]


DavidS - Apr 19, 2025 5:41:23 pm PDT #6874 of 6878
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This is what makes me happy, as a small donor today.

I hope she can help Oakland. Even Jerry Brown couldn't really pull the city together.


-t - Apr 19, 2025 5:43:12 pm PDT #6875 of 6878
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Happy about Barbara Lee!

One of the things my company says is going to get us profitable again is leveraging AI. Hasn’t affected my job yet, although our new planning tool is telling us that AI is integrated throughout in an upcoming release, so I’m sure finding out what that means will be something. I do hear that people are using something (I don’t know what) for copywriting, especially for e-merchandising, and for packaging. Some of my coworkers use gmail’s “polishing” on emails, I guess, but we haven’t been told we ought to or anything.


erikaj - Apr 19, 2025 5:52:38 pm PDT #6876 of 6878
Always Anti-fascist!

Lee has her work cut out for her, but if anyone can, it'd be someone like her. I hate that yahoo has some kind of AI summarizing my e-mails.


DavidS - Apr 19, 2025 9:23:37 pm PDT #6877 of 6878
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Okay, Matilda's at the airport, she's checked her luggage. She's got her boarding pass. She just has to hang out for a few hours at her gate for her flight home.

for dpc: JL58 on JAL.


Consuela - Apr 19, 2025 9:43:41 pm PDT #6878 of 6878
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

As the resident Oaklander, I'm pleased that it's Lee instead of the DINO Taylor, but I'm not super optimistic. It's a shit job in a shitty situation and I just hope she can stem some of the bleeding.

I want to spend less $ on cops and more on social services that prevent the need for cops, but that's an almost impossible political task. At best she will keep the MECRO team going so they can respond to non-violent social services needs.


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