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svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]
Better than one my classmates full name.
Mia Ho[/quote]
I dunno…she could marry a man named Rich or King or… Farrow.
Reminds me of when I got engaged…I told my wife I wouldn’t object if she decided to continue going by her maiden name which I thought was quite nice…her respond: eff no! I’m ditching that thing! I was shocked. All in perspective I guess. It had insinuations as to her shape – and she was shapely – and she was sick of being teased about it.
I do think Elon’s son will eventually be writin’ a song…
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svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita][quote=The-Shoveler]
I’m liking Elon Musk more and more each day. Hard working , smart, a doer not a talker, unlike politicians.[/quote]yeah well try growing up with a name like X AE A-12
The dumbest damn thing I’ve heard of, and I’m in favor of unique names.
The problem is this kid will forever be re-explaining to every clerk every time he fills out a form that yes, that is actually his name and no he didn’t misread the form. It will get very, very old very quickly. Some databases may not even be able to take some of those characters in the name field. That will lead to mismatches in records being flagged as errors and he’ll have to explain to a thousand companies and agencies what happened. I would not be surprised to see him legally change his name when he’s able.
Hell, I have enough trouble with my name and it just contains letters in the alphabet. I grew so tired of issues and re-explaining that I’ve come up with a simpler name that my friends use.
So Elon’s kid can go by X, but that doesn’t help him much with documents asking for a legal name.
svelteParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]Svelte, if your dog barks, then you’re not training it well. You need to be strict, the dog needs to know who is boss. If not, the dog needs to go to school for training.[/quote]
She’s been in training with an instructor since we got her.
The instructor has not been able to break her of it either and he has her 8 hrs a day, 3 days a week as part of a lessons/day care program. But she stole his heart and the two of them are like glue when they are together. (on temporary hiatus given the current situation)
You can pontificate all you want, but if a professional instructor hasn’t stopped her, we sure aren’t going to be able to.
She’s quiet at home and for the most part when we take walks now (I am making progress with her), but when she sees a dog she really likes there is not much that stops her from barking. Just ask her instructor.
svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]Lol, so things get even weirder….Just in from todays SMT meeting….Since everyone has more or less been working from home/remotely since March, and generally things have worked out ok for us….SMT decided to further save money. We’re not renewing our commercial lease here in SD… We’re going to be 100% remote for the rest of this year. [/quote]
Wow.
But it does make sense.
However, probably the BIGGEST reason to do the above is not to save rent money – it is to minimize liability of COVID running rampant at the office. From what I’ve read companies aren’t too worried about being sued by their employees because there are limitations on that…what they are worried about is the employee getting it at the office and transmitting it to someone else who is not an employee who then in turn sues the company.
svelteParticipantHave a funny story about protection.
We got a new pup last summer and she loves walks each evening. This fall as the days became shorter, it was hard for me to get home from work in time to take her for a walk before dusk. So the walks became darker and darker.
Sometimes we would hear coyotes relatively close and it spooked both of us. So I bought bear spray in case I needed it. Never did get around to bringing it on the walk with us as I figured out a way to get home earlier.
I’ve also bought compressed air cans that I use to keep her from barking as she scares other dogs – she is so happy to see them she just goes crazy barking. A quick spritz of air pointed at the sky creates a sound she hates and she stops barking immediately…nothing else has worked to stop her.
She also barks very loudly when we have visitors. While we haven’t had many of those recently given the situation, we did have one come by last week. I stayed with the pup in the office behind a doggy gate while the visitor was there. When the pup started barking, I reached for the compressed air and shot it towards the ceiling. I looked up. Ceiling was red. I had accidently picked up the bear spray. I coughed in the room for the rest of the guest’s visit. I have now put the bear spray in a box with a big sign “BEAR SPRAY” on it.
svelteParticipantWe have layers of protection that I won’t go into here.
Starts with surveillance and progresses to lethal force.
The problem is that by the time you know you need lethal force, it’s too late to buy it. Better to get it in advance and be prepared.
svelteParticipant[quote=zk]
Made the mistake of debating friends who are trump fans on facebook. They’re so far gone it’s like talking to cult members. It’s just impossible to them that trump isn’t the greatest president ever and Obama isn’t the worst president ever. Yes, they keep bringing Obama up. One right-wing talking point after another ad nauseam. No independent thoughts, skepticism, logic, or reason whatsoever. [/quote]Yep, I’ve witnessed the same thing.
I must point out, though, the same thing happens to the left. I pointed out that they are constantly insinuating that “climate change” and “man-made global warming” are one and the same. They are not. They’ll point to a plethora of scientists who say man’s actions are warming the planet and again insinuate that 100% of the drought and temp change is caused by man.
When I point out reasons that’s not true, I get accused of being a climate change denier.
They won’t listen to reason. I found a study that proved my point and posted it – crickets. It did not match their agenda so they no longer wanted to participate. There was no “I guess you have a point” at all.
I am also completely baffled by their save-the-planet agenda that outlaws straws, plastic grocery bags, etc but not even a single mention of population control. In the long run, limiting the number of humans on the planet would have an effect so large that it would dwarf all of their other efforts put together. Yet not a word about it.
svelteParticipant[quote=UCGal]My brother lived for 20 years in that part of the world. In Denver, Boulder, Arvada, and Ft. Collins. I spent a good part of the fall/winter of 2007 shuttling back and forth to Denver and Ft. Collins when my brother was sick.
Good things:
– It’s gorgeous! Undeniably, take your breathe away gorgeous. The mountains are spectacular.– It’s less expensive. A lot less expensive. My brother owned 3 houses in 20 years – all were about 1/3 of what you’d pay in San Diego.
[/quote]Have you seen the prices in Boulder lately? Out of this world!
Take a look at Zillow and zoom in on any part of Boulder…prices put San Diego to shame – Boulder is super expensive…especially in the western part it appears.
svelteParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi] I’m sure people are feeling safer in Oklahoma, but they may actually not be safer.
[/quote]OK has 270 deaths for 3.9M population. That’s one death for every 14,444 citizens.
CA has 2,119 deaths for 39.5M population. That’s one death for every 18,640 citizens.
Not much of a difference.
svelteParticipant[quote=sdduuuude][quote=gogogosandiego]Tomorrow in KY when idiots go to Church and don’t maintain social distancing etc their license plate # will be written down and they will be required to self quarantine for 14 days. [/quote]
That actually makes perfect sense to me.
Arresting the minister does not…[/quote]
Ruled legal back in 1918 by an appellate court:
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svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]From 1918 to 2020 the trend seems urban[/quote]
There were a few trends in that 100 years.
In the early 1900s, people left rural for urban.
Post WW2, people left urban and went suburban.
In the last decade or two, there has been an urban revival while suburbs have done just fine also though rural is still decaying. Watch the Daily Woo on Youtube – he travels the back roads of the heartland and films rural communities that are almost nonexistent now in 10-15 min clips. It’s fun to imagine a time when they were bustling with activity. He even did a segment on the town where my father was born – I think the population there is under 50 now, the stores his family shopped in haven’t been open for decades and the buildings are about to fall over under their own weight.
Will CV set off a new movement? Possible but I’m not sure it will be one of significant size.
svelteParticipantSP500 is back to Oct 2019 level.
I think the next big chance for a big selloff is when second quarter results are announced at the end of June.
But that should be temporary too.
svelteParticipantor if you tend to the rock side…
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