You realize that this just opens up room for 400 more books, right?

Yeah, you’re going to want to go with irc for that. Everything of printed words is there.

I’m boring - every night is Crown and 7-up over chewy ice (I LOVE chewy ice). After my 12-oz 7-up is empty I transition to Coors Banquet bottles.

You have the safety in your life apparently to decide that your moral high ground is more important than your income. I can not speak for Snoop but for myself I need any work I can get if it pays.

As Trump had proved - there is no bad publicity, there is only publicity.

As my wife pointed out - has Snoop ever said “you want to pay me? No, I’m not interested”…I see nothing wrong with a performer pulling a paycheck. Could he say no and earn nothing, sure - why would he? I, personally, think that having Snoop in the suck-circle might get weed on the radar as something that needs to be normalized.

I found about 8K for my mom a few years ago doing that.

Mushrooms - I once puked them up on the table when my mom made me eat them…canned mushrooms FTW! I now, of course, can not get enough of them - sautéed, baked, sliced/raw on a salad…gimme some fungus already!!

Living in a not-legal place…how would one get started with this kind of a setup? I am not horticulturally inclined but like the concept of growing a bit of a buzz on the down-low but have no clue how to go about it. Any pointers or “start here” guides?

BTW, you really should fix that sagging soffit and close the gap where the fascia meets the fireplace - don’t want critters getting in.

For a number of years when I was younger I would go find a sub-$1000 vehicle that was current on registration and just drive it into the ground then go get another one. With nothing but oil, gas, tires and occasional DIY repairs I could generally get a couple years out of them. What I saved on car payments went into a fund for the next one. Then I grew up.

I had a Hue remote laying around from before I started using HA. When I moved everything Hue onto my zigbee dongle from the hub I did the same with the remote. There is a blueprint out there that makes configuring it a breeze.

They have an API available so I could siphon off my data if I wanted to but then I would need to build something like it to use said data in. I’m good.

It isn’t federated but I use Trakt to manage watch lists and scrobble my viewing history from Plex. There are some discovery features and a minor social aspect.

I join exactly at start time, down to the second. Once everyone has been counted or noticed and the droning idiot starts presenting I bug right TF out. Nothing will happen that matters because its a freakin’ meeting - if something important was going on it would be an email.

You are not required to provide lunch. You are not expected to tip. You hired a service and you’re paying for it (I know your new windows weren’t cheap).

You are required to be solicitous and helpful if they ask for help with something (move your car or kennel your dog). It would be nice of you to have a cooler full of water bottles and if it’s cold, hot coffee. You can also offer snacks or comfortable seating (lawn furniture set up, perhaps) if you want to impress them with how much you appreciate their work.

If the crew really knocks you out with how awesome they are you can follow your heart and open your wallet but don’t think there is an obligation beyond normal niceties.

I use Unifi Protect for local NVR using a mix of Unifi and Reolink cameras. I put everything through scrypted so I get HKSV cloud backup of events. I normally view footage through Apple Home because it is a smooth experience.

Have you tried making sun tea? It generally is not bitter or cloudy but it takes a bit of time. As for the sweet - get some bottles of Torani simple syrup and pump to flavor as you make a glass.

I would be happy to have groups of community maintained blocklist filters - one for memes, shitposts, politics, nsfw (or not nsfw), music/media, etc. Then we could subscribe to the blocklists and when a new community is created that offends just one person has to add it to the appropriate blocklist for everybody to benefit.

Private equity used to buy distressed firms then build value to sell. The new norm is buy anything and suck it dry then let it fold in on itself and take the money elsewhere.

For example, the firm that bought Red Lobster leveraged everything their brand had to sell (cheddar bay biscuits in the grocery store). The individual stores which sat on company-owned land had their budgets re-configured to “pay rent” to the overlord which now owns everything including the land.

The costs of advertising and company image maintenance were passed down to the stores as fixed costs that local managers had to account for in their budgets without impacting the owners of the name.

No surprise that very few locations can turn a profit in that environment but the leeches at the top aren’t hurt by store closings.

Private equity acquisition today is simply buying something of value to slurp it’s blood then discard the husk.