There are FOUR cities in North Dakota??!

An unregulated “nutritional” supplement. If it puts you on dialysis for the rest of your life - arbitration only and the best they can offer is a 25% discount on your next purchase. Limit 2.

I’ve been noticing it since January, though I can’t say I was paying very close attention to out of state plates last year.

As a totally non correlated observation, I feel like there are a lot more Texas plates on the road lately vs previous years. And I’m in a way-up-north state.

Fun fact - Nilla Wafers stopped using real vanilla decades ago to cut costs, and the replacement vanilla-like flavoring is a wood derivative.

Between this and blaming wind turbines for their massive power outage a few years ago (instead of, you know, actually exploring the real cause), it seems Texas has a hate-hate relationship with weather and general preparedness.

holds mouse to face

“Hello, computer”

If the lobbyists have money to pay bribes, then they have money to pay taxes. It doesn’t seem like a stretch for the government to get that money without all of the coercion.

The crazy thing (to me) is that governments can still get all of those billions without the undue influence. Instead of bribes, they can charge fines, taxes, fees for regulatory inspections, etc. When you write the law, you don’t have to just shrug when things are obviously broken.

I wonder if they allowed those bodyguards access to the executive health plan for cheap, or if they hired them as contract employees so as to stiff them on any employee benefits.

A Tesla went through a car wash and caught fire, didn’t it?

Yeah I bet Ukraine would do it free of charge.

Right? I use Goo B Gone

He doesn’t care about Melania. She aged out at least 2 decades ago.

Not an exact match, but Level 5 by Macleod Andrews is in this vein.

I would like to see a lot less of it

I don’t even know what Klarna does and don’t care to look it up. They bought an app that I used to use for managing loyalty cards. Before Klarna bought them, the app would pop the loyalty card into my notifications as soon as I entered the store. When is time to check out the card was right there waiting for me.

After Klarna bought them, the convenient auto-notification went away. Then you’d load up the app and it takes you to a default home page with “Try X”, “Special discount on Y, this week only” posted everywhere and none of it related to the store I’m in. The loyalty cards were buried somewhere I had to go find.

So I deleted the app and just use Google Wallet for my loyalty cards. Still no convenient auto notification with the card for the store I’m in, but Wallet is ready enough to get to and isn’t plastered with ads.

That’s 2.54 cm for the non-Americans

It’s a Texas thing, you wouldn’t understand.