IIRC Northwest.com was a Seattle regional ISP, which explains the weird address: http://(customer).northwest.com/~(user home directory) Getting a Domain Name was a PITA, so it was super common for ISPs to just upsell you a subdomain, and then you could have multiple users (employees, etc.) with their own /~home_directory they could publish to, have an email address (laluna@monqui.northwest.com), etc., as well.
They have a contact form on their website, y'know... Definitely be a civil progressive owner, though.
OK, THAT gets a well earned updoot. <3 <3 <3
/2 APATHY is why 6.25 million of the 2.28 million Harris needed stayed home.
‘It was Israel’ is a very tidy oversimplification from here, deep in the middle of Israel/Iran wartime.
But what Pew’s nonvoter data actually said:
Among 2024 nonvoters, the top reasons were ‘my vote wouldn’t make a difference’ (35%), ‘I don’t like politics’ (31%), ‘I didn’t care about the outcome’ (17%), and inconvenience (15%).
That's apathy, futility, and weak candidate attachment - not a single-issue mass protest vote. Harris on Israel doesn't even make the cut.
In US English: Moped - not that anyone has ever wanted to intentionally pedal a moped - the pedals basically manually turn the engine, so you're pedaling against the compression of the engine, not the rolling resistance of a normal bicycle. :D :D :D
There's a banner flying over the street in the background that very clearly says:
DAYTONA BEACH BIKE WEEK
But good on ya for making it about you and your opinion about something completely unrelated, I guess?
I have taken my advil, yes.
Me: Approximately 2.2 kilos of Cocaine, officer. And I consent to a search. *pops trunk* ... *SUV hatch goes up automatically*
Officer: ... *walks around back to find 6 bright 12 FL OZ (355 ml) red cans in a plastic 6-pack holder*
why I hear this in Jimmy Rees' voice, I'm not sure.
(reference) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zyc3mesAVt8
I'm glad that we agree that those words (direct threat, and stochastic terrorism) have the same meaning and common understanding. Have an upvote, frendo.
It's bold of you to put any one issue forward as being the KEY deciding for them all.
There are as many reasons as there were voters who sat out, and the only thing that could be said to be remotely unifying across the whole cohort is that they collectively decided that they felt a strong need to be able to cast their vote FOR something they definitely liked, and in the absence of that, felt no converse need to vote AGAINST something they liked even less to prevent that thing from happening.
Also, the difference between the raw number of people who voted for Biden The First and who voted for Harris The First is greater than the number of people that Harris The First needed to defeat Trump The Second.
...if *everyone* who voted for Biden The First *also* voted for Harris The First, we'd be on a different timeline...
It's the other ending where the drop of water went the other way on Jeff Goldblum's hand.
News Flash: restaurants don't want to pay minimum wage of $7.50/hr because they can still pay tipped workers $2.13/hr ($4,430/yr + tips) with "tip credit" to $7.25/hr.
In the real world, $2.13 is a wage because employers CAN pay less than $7.25 through plain old wage theft.
Pay the legal minimum first, no exceptions, no wage theft loopholes, *then* start clutching pearls about $30/hr.
As much as I agree with the point you're making, that's a cognitive distortion, in that it's ultimately an *indirect* threat to her life.
In the current environment, strict adherence to the very strictest, most accurate definition of truth matters (a lot), because 'the other side' plays so fast and loose with 'truth' that not doing so kinda plays into "rules for thee" (tell the truth, conservatives!) "but not for me" (I can call it a direct threat because 'you know what I mean')
:(
...and have a level of GDAF sufficient to blame "people who don't tip" over "my employer who doesn't pay a sufficient wage to have staff that *doesn't* call out on the first nice day of the year forcing others to work a double because everyone knows they're gonna make fucking BANK at $15-20/hr PLUS tips - such that the people who don't tip, don't matter"?
Doubtful.
They're the same thing. The biggest connotation difference is that MRI for "Imaging" is more broadly North American/English and MRT for "Tomography" is more broadly European, from the German original "Magnetresonanztomographie". Functionally they're identical, but Tomography implies the 'slicing' imaging more clearly and directly. That's it.
Are you really gonna jump on this? Don't do it. Don't. Do. It. No. No! Don't you daaare. No! I'm tryna work here... There's no way. *THUMP* Oh my... GAWSSSH!
#44 I want a reality show where this person realizes that their employer is the villain here.
There's a HOTAS there, too...is he driving Optimus Prime?!?!?
Keep in mind, this was when cable was tuned in with the regular know on the TV, and you got 26 whole channels with a big A/B switch. No content ratings, such less controls. :D
Had a co-worker decades ago who's tank philosophy was "get a bunch of cichlids and LET THE GAMES BEGIN"
That's not new though. I was 7 or 8 when my parents let me watch an R-rated movie with them on (very early) cable. I remember my dad covered my eyes for the 7 seconds of boobies in...
...The Eiger Sanction...
"An art history professor, mountain climber, and former assassin is blackmailed into returning to his deadly profession for one last mission..."
Assassination? Fine. Blackmail? Fine. a few seconds of Boobies? No Fly List.
Doing more digging, it looks like Northwest Nexus started web services around the same time as my old ISP in Portland - Teleport.com - 1992.
IIRC Northwest.com was a Seattle regional ISP, which explains the weird address: http://(customer).northwest.com/~(user home directory)
Getting a Domain Name was a PITA, so it was super common for ISPs to just upsell you a subdomain, and then you could have multiple users (employees, etc.) with their own /~home_directory they could publish to, have an email address (laluna@monqui.northwest.com), etc., as well.
That's $22.91 2025 USD
We saw Charlatans UK in Portland a couple years ago for about the same - I think it was $24 per ticket (but then because enshittification, a bunch of fees on top of it, but if you roll that back to what we would have paid without the Late Stage Capitalism Tax, it's still pretty comparable!)
/2 The core issue is that there are more people looking for housing than there is housing available, at any price.
Housing is housing. It's been shown that ANY additional housing drives down market rates because *everyone* in a region lives somewhere. People who can afford to move up, do - which means their former (cheaper) place becomes available and someone who can move up, does, which means THEIR (cheaper) former place becomes available...and so on, and so on....
How large a crowd? Your friends will rat you out if it means they don't ride in the back of a police car. A truly large group?
"We're looking for the guy who was lasering the police helicopter thats been orbiting for 10 minutes..." "oh yeah, it's that idiot right over there...."
Fair. And TBF, I've always loved the Fit. It's adorbs. Sadly, it won't pull a horse trailer, not even with one of those cool VW Beetle Camper connector things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BNMvBnm14o
:D