Well, the wretched cat is back. It was gone for a week, and now it's back. Its absence corresponded with the next door neighbors being gone, so maybe it's theirs. Every neighborhood has a "difficult" household so we can't talk to them. They won't answer the door, don't respond to emails, they're incommunicado. They also drive too fast. Anyway, it's stalking the quail and the turkeys. Not happy about this.
Last Sunday (!) we went to Costco. We were out of many things. We drove through the new development that's going in, Mead Works. It's going to be an enormous thing, 1,400 homes. There is a range in size of house, but all lots are small. They're not making dirt anymore. They're also not putting in any more roads.
The turkeys have decided to poop on the driveway. Jim bought a pressure washer for the back deck. The Bradford Pear leaves stain the deck. It's too hard on Jim's hands to use the scrub brush anymore. It's electric, it's not very noisy. But it gets the poop up.
We're back to riding at the lake. We'd been riding another trail to regain the fitness lost in the car while driving up here. It was not so bad, the really steep section was ridden without issue. The lake is still lovely.
This is crazy talking. From Variety we learn, "Amazon is considering a potential reboot of the Donald Trump-hosted reality competition show “The Apprentice” for its Prime Video streamer, according to a report late Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal. But the newspaper added that instead of the President at the helm, it would be his son, Donald Trump Jr." It's amazing how much Bezos will humble himself to the Orange Cheeto and how much money he is willing to lose in the process.
Here is a First World problem. Google is installing a 4gb AI agent on machines running Chrome. I don't have it on my machine, so I'm not that excited about it. What pisses me off, is that they didn't ask for permission, no one knows what it's doing there (I would guess spying) and if you delete it, they put it back. You can get it off if it offends you, and you can prevent them from putting it back. I really and truly resent this belief that even though we bought the hardware, they decide what runs on it. Anyway, this is an understandable description of how to repel boarders.
The surveillance state is expanding. Are you aware of the Flock cameras? They are license plate readers, and they are everywhere. Allegedly they are to keep us safe. I think it's plain old spying and over time, they will keep the data forever, and it allows them to track people's movements. Currently ICE uses the data to track down dangerous undocumented gardeners to deport them. This article is good.
Josh Hawley is pushing a bill that would require websites to verify the age of a user. Additionally, he wants to ban VPNs, because surely hiding your location must be nefarious. The push back to this, is that now they have private information on everybody. I personally believe it is the job of the parents to supervise their kids' online life, and not the government. You can read more about this here.
Why does Utah need a 62 square mile data center that will require more than twice Utah's current total electrical consumption? Why does the country, for that matter? The Box Elder city council approved this over the objections of the citizens. They told the people to sit down, shut up and quit being whiners. I hope they get recalled. Anyway, examine this graphic.
This seems sinister to me. Between the Flock cameras, facial recognition photos, digital IDs, and all of the other data collection, they have to have somewhere to store the data. Sort of feels like 1984.
I don't know if the Strait is open or closed. We may or may not be at war. Main stream media is doing their usual job of poor coverage. They are hampered by an opaque administration, but perhaps they could get out in the field.
Putin asked Zelenskyy for a cease fire for the April 9 parade in Moscow. Z. said yes, that night Putin bombed the crap out of Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles. There were a lot of deaths caused. I hope they bomb the parade. Ukraine can reach Moscow now, they've done it before.
So, on this happy note, I think I will quit typing.
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