roscoe

Jaguar E-Type series 1 roadster?

Fleetwood Mac came on the other day and I was thinking "Rumours is a pretty good album." Teenage me thinks I'm a dweeb.

Have you heard about this dude named Brian?

From our perspective, sure. But we wouldn't know if it was stopped and started running again, or if it was reverted to a previous state.

WTF? Do I have to allow shit in my car and phone to start tracking me to provide evidence in my favor when some ai decides it has "tracked" me? The only reason this lady got out of it without getting a lawyer and going to court is she allowed all the bullshit in her phone and car that I block. And if she didn't have it, what would have happened in court?

My mom, who is usually pretty level headed about this kind of thing, has completely memory holed this.

She very good at sewing and crafty stuff and used to make me the most badass Halloween costumes. For example: a full body Gizmo fur suit with a big head, ears, and huge eyes where I looked out the mouth. The kind of thing you'd see theme park employees wearing at a Disney park.

Every year, if there was snow on the ground I'd have to cover up these awesome costumes with a jacket, my dad's jacket with the bulkier ones like Gizmo or E.T. (another full body one with a head). I'd worry about it the entire week before and if there was snow we'd have a huge fight about whether it was enough, "I can see the grass through it, it's so light", "it didn't even stick to the pavement or sidewalks".

But she swears she doesn't remember any of this and it almost never snowed in October. Meanwhile now they wonder if they're going to get their first snow that sticks before Christmas.

Maintenance costs suck, but even that has a silver lining when you own. It's yours. When your fridge breaks in a rental you're not out any money, but they just bring by another jank landlord special. I redid my kitchen with Thermador, not the top of the top brand, but pretty far up there. That cost quite a bit but it's mine and my kitchen is far better than anything I had renting.

That too, last year before I finished my mortgage my neighbor was paying well over double my mortgage, property taxes, and maintenance costs combined.

The value of a paid off home is not the equity, that's just numbers on a paper until you die and your heirs sell. The value is in living for peanuts for the rest of your life.

My house is paid off. My monthly housing costs are $735 for property tax that can't increase more than 2% year due to California law. My neighbor three doors down with the same floor plan rents for $8500/month. That difference will only increase for the next 40 (I hope) years until I die.

Those whipped cream cheeses are easy as fuck to spread on a bagel with the shitty plastic knives they give you. Same stuff, just made spreadable. You can just tear off a chunk and dip it if you want. No change to the taste and the difference in texture is negligible because the bagel is 99% of that.

This is one of the rare processed food "innovations" that's actually good. Regular cream cheese is only for cooking now.

Thanks, it was more about not letting his doomer shit sit there unchallenged. If 1 or 2 people saw the exchange and said "roscoe is right, I'm going to go volunteer and try to get a little Mamdani elected to my city council," I've done my good deed for the day.

Are you dense? The Republicans have not been stable, they've been taken over by the far-right. The R's that R's vote for for because they're not D's have become increasingly far-right due to decades of grass roots efforts. Meanwhile the left and progressives have allowed D's to drift until they resemble Eisenhower Republicans, or even Nixonians.

Help move the Democrats left or stop whining about the very predictable results of your passivity.

I'm probably waiting my breath. You seem like the type that just likes impotently screaming into the void.