Bluntness

I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Short Circuit

Well, it's Tuesday.  I slept late again this morning, possibly because I'd slept so poorly the night before.  Ingesting so much pasta after 8 PM is definitely not conducive to my getting a good night's sleep.  Note to myself:  don't do it again.

Because attendance had been so low at the party (which wasn't really a party), there was lots of food left over, mainly pasta.  I worked for 4 hours yesterday, which means I had a bowl.  Not a big one.  It had red sauce.  meh.  Since I make my own at home, I'm a bit of a stickler about sauces, and I can tell you this one tasted like it had been poured right from the can.

The indoor dryer exhaust I bought requires a filter pad which needs to be changed.  Individually, they last about 1.5 months.  Sadly, they also cost $16 for two.  Being the creative person I am, I'm going to improvise, using chair batting (very inexpensive) rather than the filters, which I think are pricey.  I should be able to get 24 filters pads for $12.

And I started replacing the circuit boards on my treadmill yesterday.  I was a bit leery at first since I've never done anything like this before.  It turns out to be rather easy peasy.  Taking a picture insure you plug everything back correctly, pictures like this.  Oh, and wear gloves since the oils on your fingertips are not kind to circuit boards.  Oh, and if you have a color printer, it doesn't hurt to print the pic off.


George Takei runs a small media outlet called SecondNexus. They posted a survey from Civiqs showing Republicans are growing very unpopular.  That should surprise no one.  Remember, Republicans are only concerned about their own self-interests.  While they like to call themselves conservative, the America they work for has roots in authoritarianism.  Civiqs leans left, it's surveys are open to just about anyone, which means it can be stacked by either liberals or conservatives, so, let's say it's fairly accurate.  Even if it's only fairly accurate, and not quite 64% of Americans don't like the Republican party, there's still a good chunk of Americans who believe they're leading us down the wrong path.  This is not good.  The longer they are in charge, the more they hurt themselves.  Telling Americans it makes sense to raise the age for Social Security because people want to work longer does not put them in a win / win situation.  But then most of us know their brains started to short circuit a long time ago.






8 comments:

  1. HuntleyBiGuy:
    It’s not that most people WANT to work longer, it’s that the HAVE to work longer because of retirement fund shortages.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks for commenting. Republicans realized you're right, they're just trying to throw as much shit at the wall, hoping some will stick with their feeble minded base.

      Delete
  2. O.K. so the life expectancy in the US as of 2929 numbers (it has gotten shorter since these numbers) was 77.28 years. If you are no longer able to retire and collect SSA at 65 (or 66 or 67) where you could be expected to receive a benefit for 12.28 years and instead had to wait until you are 75 to be eligible for SSA payments where you expected payments would only be for 2.28 years that would be 10 years of benefit payments that would remain in the SSA fund. The repugs could then say, look, we saved Social Security, look at all the money left in the fund. I know the above is about as simplistic an example as you can imagine. But it paints a pretty good picture, I think, of what their plan is.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Except Republicans don't want to say they saved Social Security. Big business doesn't like it and so they don't like it. They're already floating something similar to a 401k tied directly to Wall Street. That's the same idea the pushed when W was president

      Delete
  3. It's probably going to take years and years, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Republican Party is extinct eventually, which of course they will bring on themselves.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I don't think it's going to take as long as you might expect.

      Delete
  4. I want to live long enough to see the GOP implode, though it kind of scares me what might emerge from that pile of rubbish!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I think it's going to be shattered into too many different piles of ashes to make any difference.

      Delete