Rob Fahrni

Seems like a good fit, right?

At least Priss thinks so. 😃

Two doctors visits today, one for the PE last Friday, and one knee post-op.

The PE has been gone since Friday when it occurred. So I’m good on that front.

The knee is doing really well and I was able to get my staples out. That felt amazing!

All in all I feel really great and I’m excited about where I’ll be in four more weeks, but for now, I’m exhausted. I’ve walked more today than all PT days combined, which is really encouraging, but I am definitely pooped out.

I managed to work on Stream a bit over the weekend and once again I have that ”I wish I could do this full time” desire.

I have a list of things to do a mile long. I checked my checkins — say that five times fast — and I haven’t worked on the Mac version in well over a year. Pathetic.

I did manage to get very close to finishing off a new little feature over the weekend. This feature will allow you to set the number of days Stream will keep posts. It’s a sliding scale from one to 31 that defaults to 30, because 30 is the hard coded value in the version in the wild.

I like the way it’s come together and need to fix an annoying bug that cropped up on iOS 15.5 — possibly other versions — then I’ll get a beta out the door.

For the technically minded. This bug is clearly my fault. I have a layout issue my table view cells, there are two types. It would seem that iOS 15.5 has tightened up, or changed, the auto layout engine in UIKit that exposed my bug. I say it’s iOS 15.5 but it could be all 15.x. 🐞

I’m still digging. Hopefully I don’t wait another eight months to work on it again. 😳

Back to work today! It feels great to be engaged in more than staring at the walls, sleeping, or doing PT on my own.

Speaking of PT, my physical therapist came by and worked with me at 10AM. It felt great. I’m now walking without a walker using the countertop as a guide. Up and back we go. I was a bit apprehensive to try at first, but as I got moving I realized it was going to be ok. After that we did some squats, essentially box squats using a char as the base. Those felt amazingly good.

As for range of motion I can bend my knee to about 75 degrees, which I’m fairly certain is better than my pre-op range. That’ll be at 90 degrees soon enough.

All-in-all I feel good about where things are at the moment. I did overdo it a bit today which leaves me feeling sick to my stomach, but a little rest will take care of that.

More later.

Shhhh-thump, shhhh-thump, shhhh-thump, there’s that sound again. I hear it above me in the attic and always, I mean always, at 5:30AM on the dot.

We moved into our beautiful old home 23 days ago and I’m more than a little freaked out by it but too afraid to go look in the attic. I’ve dragged Mom and Dad in here a couple times and they don’t hear a darned thing. Old ears I guess.

More later.

Well, mystery solved. We have a ghost. No, I’m not kidding, we have a bonafide ghost living in our house. A ghost who likes to wake up at 5:30AM. This time doesn’t work for me, BTW.

When the sounds started this morning I was ready. I grabbed my flashlight, walked to the end of the hall to the door leading to the attic, took a deep breath, and opened the door. I was in the right place, the shhhh-thump sound was growing louder.

I walked up the stairs and peeked over the place where the hand rail meets the attic floor. There he was, sure as shit, an old man making his way to the corner of the room, his walker in front of him, shhhh-thump, shhhh-thump, shhhh-thump.

I took a deep breath and finished off the final few steps, and said “Hello.”

The old man stopped, turned around, smiled at me, and asked if I’d like to join him for his morning coffee. I accepted.

We sat around the old two top we found in the attic the day we arrived. He’s a happy old fart. He talked about his undying love for his wife, Lois, and how they enjoyed each other’s company, over coffee, at 5:30AM every morning, rain or shine.

Eventually I had to politely dismiss myself, school and all that. It’s nice to have a new friend and, at the same time, understand why every morning at 5:30AM I hear shhhh-thump, shhhh-thump, shhhh-thump.

Maybe I can get some earplugs?

Oh, the old man’s name is Julius. I hope to have coffee with him again soon.

It’s early in the Fahrni household as I’m composing this post. I’ve been waking up fairly early since the knee surgery and this morning is no exception.

Overall things have been moving in the right direction. My movement is definitely improving and my pain levels are way, way, down.

Since I’ve become more mobile I was able to make coffee on my own this morning with the aid of my walker. There has to be a good old man with walker joke in there somewhere. 👨🏼‍🦳

CNN: ”The Justice Department removed 11 sets of classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence while executing a search warrant this week for possible violations of the Espionage Act and other crimes, according to court documents unsealed and released on Friday.”

Of course TFG will get off without so much as a scratch. My faith in our democratic institutions is waning. I fear future historians — if they’re allowed to exist — will struggle to understand how we could piss it all away.

MotorTrend: ”Out of the 8.9 million barrels of gasoline consumed daily in the U.S. on average, only 1.8 million gallons, or approximately 20 percent, actually propel an internal combustion vehicle forward. The other 80 percent is wasted on heat and parasitic auxiliary components that draw away energy. As the world begins its shift to EV proliferation, the good news is electric vehicles are far more energy efficient on the road.”

On a positive note, EV’s are good! YAY! 🥳

Would I like to have one? Yep, I certainly would. I’m very cheap when it comes to cars so I’ll be waiting for the prices to drop dramatically before considering purchase of one.

Eventually we’ll have one.

The Verge: ”Last week, California’s DMV accused Tesla of falsely advertising its Autopilot and FSD features, alleging that the company made ‘untrue or misleading’ claims about its vehicles’ autonomous driving capabilities. The DMV’s action could result in the suspension of Tesla’s licenses to produce and sell cars in California, but the agency may not go that far.”

Speaking of electric vehicles. It seems Tesla is finally receiving the scrutiny they need to make their cars safer.

This curmudgeon believes Full Self Driving care are a pipe dream without full infrastructure support. That means roads should know to support cars with self driving capacity. Two way, active, communication.

Felix Krause: ”The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third party links and ads within their app using a custom in-app browser. This causes various risks for the user, with the host app being able to track every single interaction with external websites, from all form inputs like passwords and addresses, to every single tap.”

Meta(Facebook), what a scumbag company.

They need that user data so badly they implemented their own browser code. Of course if you open pages using the external browser, Safari, this scummy practice doesn’t work.

More like this. https://t.co/twq2zcTgL8

— Derek Powazek (@fraying) August 11, 2022

I really hope Beto O’Rourke can pull a rabbit out of a hat and win the Texas Gubernatorial election this year.

I know some folks needed their fainting couches when they heard someone say “motherf*cker”, but don’t say a word when there is a mass murder in their state.

To me this says we have a man, a very serious man, trying to solve serious problems against the backdrop of extremism.

Dropping a curse word in the proper context can drive home a point.

It was perfect.

Variety: ”Disney has set pricing and date for the U.S. launch of the version of Disney+ with ads, while also hiking the monthly price of the Disney+ tier with no ads. It’s also going to raise rates for Hulu — both ad-supported and ad-free versions — and introduce new Disney Bundle options.”

Well it continues to look like all that cheap, awesome, streaming is finally coming to an end. I can’t blame these companies for ratcheting up prices and offering an ad supported tier.

I know we’ve had many discussions about which service(s) to drop and Disney+ seems to be a lock because of the grandkids. 😄

This is a landmark event in 1Password history: The first time we’ve ever shipped both our iOS and Android apps on the same date with complete feature parity between them. It’s been a massive lift by our teams, and I couldn’t be prouder.

— Michael Fey (@MrRooni) August 9, 2022

Congratulations to the entire 1Password team. What a huge milestone!

It’s so satisfying to ship a new product. I haven’t installed it yet, but most certainly will at some point. It is a really spectacular service and worth checking out if you need password management for your family and/or multi platform password management.

Ars Technica: ”With Tesla stock on a rebound, Musk has just sold $6.9 billion worth of shares in his electric car company, a move disclosed in regulatory filings on Tuesday. Musk got an average of $869 for the shares, which is significantly more than the $628 that TSLA shares were trading at in late May.”

Gotta get those billions somewhere to pay that big Twitter $54.20 per share price tag later in the year.

Also, Mr. Musk, I still have the perfect domain for you.

I hope your enjoyed your coffee and the links. ☕️

Got my VAC bandage off today, managed to get a before and after shot. There are 28 staples in the incision.

I’m very emotional this morning thinking about my loved ones who’ve been caring for me. They’ve definitely taken a load off my back so I can focus on healing.

I am forever grateful. 🧡

I must admit I’ve not been good about doing my physical therapy homework. For past surgeries I was very diligent about doing what I was asked because I knew it was my quickest way to healing and feeling normal.

This time around is a different story. I lack the mental strength to cope with the pain involved. Prior to surgery I had times where I could not escape the pain in my knee. It’s wearing both physically and mentally. After surgery even though I feel pain in my comfortable position it’s nowhere near some of my more severe pre-op pain and I just don’t want to be in pain any longer.

The reality is, of course, that I have a long way to go and I am going to have pain. Just finding a way to cope, that mental toughness, has been extremely difficult this time around.

Have I regretted the surgery? Nope. It was absolutely the right thing to do. I know this is part of the healing process and one day I will be better than I was before surgery and that’s very encouraging.

I started watching The Sandman last night and it was amazing. I only watched two episodes because I’ve been watching on my iPhone. After episode two I decided I wouldn’t be watching any more episodes there and I’d be starting over on our TV.

The worlds and characters Neil Gaiman creates are absolutely beautiful. I’m obviously not a writer or critic but I know what I like and The Sandman has it all.

My lovely wife made me a mocha to go with composing this weeks post. That combined with oxycodone, ice, and elevation are doing their job. I can focus well enough to get this done. 🤞🏼

Shelly Rosen: ”The way Google’s two-factor authentication system is designed, sets up poor and elderly people to be locked out of their accounts again and again, and without access to their email, they lose their welfare benefits, their housing, and struggle to find work.”

I’m not sure what Google can do to fix this extremely important problem. Take some time to read Ms. Rosen’s letter it lays everything out for Google. As a developer this is the kind of feedback you hope to get from folks using your software.

TechCrunch: ”Amazon this morning announced plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot for an all-cash deal valued at $1.7 billion.”

Alexa, don’t vacuum the cat. This seems like a really sweet deal for Amazon. I can’t believe iRobot couldn’t fetch a higher price.

Los Angeles Times: “The California Department of Motor Vehicles has accused Tesla of false advertising in its promotion of the company’s signature Autopilot and Full Self-Driving technologies.”

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Tesla has been touring Full Self Drive for years and they’re no where near the desired functionality. Is it novel? Yes. Do I trust it? No way.

I can’t wrap my brain around the challenges the developers must be facing. And the icing on the cake would be Musk breathing down your neck to get it done. No thanks.

My idea of a better challenge would be tackling mass transit with electric motors and making it easier to travel long distances on electric trains and busses.

Heck, the eBikes business is really taking off.

Cartoon Brew: ”Dreamworks Animation has unveiled plans to release its proprietary production renderer Moonray as open-source software later this year.”

I’ve had a fascination with rendering pipelines for years and years. As far as I know Pixar’s RenderMan is still the Cadillac of rendering software but having an open source choice from a heavy hitter like Dreamworks is worthy of consideration, and it’ll be open so folks can contribute to it. Amazing!

When the git repo is made public you know I’ll be there poking around. 😃

Makes you wonder if Pixar will follow with RenderMan?

TechCrunch: ”Infowars founder Alex Jones took the stand today in a trial that will determine what he owes to the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting. Last year, Jones was found liable in a series of defamation cases brought by the parents of Sandy Hook victims.”

Alex Jones is a grifter. He has an unwitting audience of people willing to believe anything because they hate everything and everyone. Jones feeds their animosity with wild stories of the deep state and blood drinking Democrats to drain them of their hard earned cash. Who’s the vampire?

Vulture: ”It’s pretty well known and even darkly joked about across all the visual-effects houses that working on Marvel shows is really hard. When I worked on one movie, it was almost six months of overtime every day. I was working seven days a week, averaging 64 hours a week on a good week. Marvel genuinely works you really hard. I’ve had co-workers sit next to me, break down, and start crying. I’ve had people having anxiety attacks on the phone.”

I don’t think this is a new reality of the VFX business. Rather, a horrible expectation set by major studios.

Deadline: ”Even though Batgirl is in the final stages of post-production, Deadline has confirmed that Warner Bros. and DC Films will not be releasing the movie on any platform, including theatrically.”

This is a real bummer. I was totally ready for it.

As far as release platforms go, I was fully expecting it to appear on HBO Max. It’s the streaming platform I use more than any other. More than Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV. Each of those services has a place in my streaming lineup, but HBO’s ability to release new movies to streaming early is it’s real superpower.

The Washington Post: ”SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s countersuit to Twitter contains aggressive new claims about the social media site’s methods for tallying bot and spam accounts — as well as which accounts generate ad revenue — cementing the strategy the billionaire is using to attempt to back out of the deal.”

I suspect Musk will be forced to show up and pay $54.20 per share.

The big question is, once he owns it can he make it something better or will he lose an uphill battle?

How do you deal with bot problems and nihilistic American politicians hell bent on turning our democracy into a self serving dictatorship.

I’m sure Mr. Musk has some really great ideas. It’s the bad ideas I’m worried about.

That’s all for today. I hope you enjoyed your coffee or tea with your read. ☕️

“That knee was bad. I’m surprised you could walk.” - Dr. Edwards

The knee has finally been replaced. Tuesday was the big day and I’d hoped to come home that afternoon. Unfortunately my body had a different idea. When I’d stand my blood pressure would drop and I’d feel nauseated. 🤢

So I got to spend the night in the hospital. It was a good experience as far as hospitals go. All of the nursing staff were absolutely wonderful.

I was up early Wednesday morning, didn’t sleep much at all. Dr. Edwards dropped by as well as David, my Physical Therapist. Since I’d been able to use the toilet through the night safely and was able to walk to the end of the hall the Doctor and Physical Therapist signed off on me I was discharged around 10:30AM, Wednesday.

Thank you Sentra Martha Jefferson Hospital , Dr. John Z Edwards , and everyone I interacted with. Y’all are amazing.

Hello new knee!

So happy right now! 🙏🏼

Ms. Prissy Punkie Poopie Pants, AKA Priss, being her cute self.

I’m terrible. When my knees ache or hurt and I have household chores to do I tell myself “If you sit a while longer, they’ll feel better and you can go do your chores.”

I’m simultaneously negotiating with myself and willing my knees to feel better.

They’re not going to feel better. I just don’t want to fight through the pain to do what needs doing. 😂

Two more days to knee replacement surgery and it’s all I can think about.

I should’ve taken Monday off because I’m going to be distracted all day. 🤔

I bet getting an M1 MacBook Air would feel blazing fast given I’m still using a 2019 15in MacBook Pro.

Yes, it has the butterfly keyboard and my fingers don’t work on it. 😆

And, honestly, the old MacBook Pro is plenty fast for me.

Found this brand new little feller this morning slowly moving its little wings.

Today’s podcast queue should get me through the jungle I’m gonna tackle outside our backyard fence today, and then some.

The Takeout: ”Social media rumors don’t always prove to be true, but in the case of the Choco Taco, this one is sadly based in fact. RIP, Choco Taco, 1984-2022.”

This clearly the biggest, most important, news of the week. The Choco Taco wasn’t exactly a great treat but it wasn’t the worst.

I’m fine losing it as long at the It’s-it is never discontinued.

The Verge: ”Sounding like an exhausted parent, Mosseri agreed that Instagram’s new feed sucked and its recommendations might be bad and then told us it wasn’t going to get better. Instagram no longer cares about photos.”

I don’t have a lot of pity for Instagram. Unfortunately Facebook took a beloved application and platform and turned it into an ad platform. It’s not that businesses are bad for using it, why not use it? It’s bad because all I cared about was posting pictures and looking at my friends pictures.

There are much better alternatives today.

If you spent enough years using A/B tests to chase every little bump in engagement without any basis or logic behind what you’re changing or why, eventually people will find something else they like better for reasons you can’t understand.

That’s the lesson of Instagram.

— Ken Kocienda (@kocienda) July 26, 2022

Do you want a chronological feed?
No ads?
No algorithms?
Never having anything in your feed you didn’t put there?
No celebrities selling you crypto nonsense?
High quality photos with P3 color support?
No public counts anywhere?
Just photos?
Only photos?

You’ll love Glass.

— Glass (@tryglass) July 26, 2022

Glass is a wonderful alternative to Instagram and they don’t make you the product. The app just gets out of the way so you can see your feed of beautiful pictures. No ads, none of that Instagram garbage.

How do they manage to do it? By using an idea from long ago. They charge you $29.99US a year to use the platform and support running their business. Novel, right?

Oh, almost forgot, they have an iPad App and you can view pictures on the web without annoying prompts asking you to log in to view more photos. Imagine that, they embrace the open web.

Like most social networks I’m Fahrni on Glass.

Charles Chen: ”Whereas in the .NET ecosystem, Microsoft provides a rich set of professionally developed and curated first party libraries for many, many scenarios, JavaScript has no such governance.”

Look, I’m an old Microsoft Employee, via the Visio acquisition, and spent 20-years of my career building C++/Win32 applications. I still love using Windows and love Microsoft’s commitment to supporting old API’s, but .Net is amazing, especially when combined with C#.

I haven’t written any modern backend C# but I did enjoy the bit of time I spent developing backend code with it. It’s a really great platform if you’d like to be extremely productive.

I’d imagine that extends to the client side as well. My desire to write a cross platform Stream is dwindling. I believe I’ll do the Windows version in C#/.Net.

Robert Reich: ”Progressive states are becoming more progressive; regressive states, more regressive. As the states move to the left or right, state legislatures are becoming more active and important, while what happens in Washington is growing less so.”

This is a good read and worth a few minutes of your time.

The closing question is something I think about quite often.

The Verge: ”For Zuckerberg, the company he founded 18 years ago was facing existential threats on multiple fronts. Both Facebook and Instagram were being rearchitected to compete with TikTok. Apple’s iOS privacy settings had disrupted the company’s once-stable ad business, costing it billions in revenue. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg’s bet on the metaverse was a money pit that he didn’t see turning a profit until at least the end of the decade.”

I think we all knew Apple’s new privacy settings would put a dent in their earnings. Couple that with their constant morphing of their platforms; Facebook and Instagram, and their moonshot to be the leader in the Metaverse and it’s a perfect storm of misery. 🍿

### Black Lives Matter

It’s terrible that I have to write that little title for this section of my post. Of course black live matter. Until we can get over our long history of racism as a nation we will never be the truly great nation we strive to be.

If you say All Lives Matter and stop there you might be a racist. People saying Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean a black life is more important than yours. What is meant is ”My Black life is equally important as your life.”

Being able to say Black Lives Matter shouldn’t be hard to say because Black Lives are a subset of all lives.

It’s all about equity. Black lives are equal to white lives.

LGBTQ+

If you have a problem with LGBTQ+ folks you need to look deep inside and ask yourself why?

Let people live as they are. You have zero reason to judge or hate people just because they don’t fit your idea of who they should be.

Women are our equals

Another strange equity problem in our nation. My wife is my equal.

So many folks say Christianity tells them a woman is subservient to her man.

Hey, if you and your family believe that and you agree that’s how your family will operate, more power to you, but the entire nation shouldn’t be run this way.

Women need great access to reproductive healthcare and equity in every other aspect of their life.

We have a long way to go, and we’re currently going the wrong direction — backwards.

Universal, Single-payer, Healthcare

I’d like a system of healthcare similar to Canada’s. I want to be able to walk into any healthcare facility in the United States and get the same care no matter what, and I’d like to walk out knowing I’ve just received the best care in the world and on top of all that, I never receive a bill.

I’m sure that will trigger a whole lotta folks over Big Government or the Government being all up in our business. I know this troubles so many people and they’ll most likely never come around to having excellent healthcare for every American. But it’s what I want.

A healthy America is good for our country and our competitiveness on the world stage.

Free State College Education

I was born and raised in California so I’m going to use it as an example of what I’d like to have.

In California we had the California State University System and The University of California System.

The University of California System is seen as a more prestigious system than the California State System.

My thought on the matter is that the California State System would be free for anyone to attend as well as all Junior Colleges in the the state. The Junior College System could be part of the Cal State system. One big happy family with your first two years spent at a JC and your final two spent at one of the fine Cal State Universities.

The system could also include trade schools because, let’s face it, not everyone is cut out to go to a university. I wasn’t, so I didn’t go to a university. I went to a trade schools that taught me nothing and was expensive. I don’t recommend doing that.

Perhaps you go right to grade school, perhaps you do two years at a JC then choose to go to trade school or on to university. Doesn’t matter. The point is we’d have a better educated population with choice. There are plenty of kids with the means, like me, that fail at the Junior College level, but would do perfectly fine in a trade school. It also means that those bright, talented, folks without the means can get a proper education and go on to do the things they always dreamed of.

Again, a better educated America is great America.

Money out of Politics

In particular there are a couple things I’d like to see.

1 All candidates are funded by the State or Federal Government 2 No more Lobbyists. Zero, zilch, nada

My hope with point number one is to remove the rich and powerful from the picture. Every candidate is given a pool of resources to run their campaign and equal television and other media resource time. No extra resources allowed.

Level playing field.

As for point number two. I’d love to see Senators and Representatives actually represent their constituency, not be influenced by rich and powerful corporations.

Strict Gun Ownership Regulations

I’ve written about this before, but I’d love to see tighter restrictions and regulation around gun ownership, like; a national registration database, training, and licensing.

That’s it

If those little beliefs make me a “Radical Lefty”, then I’m a Radical Lefty.

I’m sure I’ll think of other things I should’ve written about here and missed. I’ll save them for another post.

I’ll finish by saying I believe in people, I don’t want to control them.

Marge Greene: “We need to be the party of nationalism. I’m a christian, and I say it proudly - we should be christian nationalists.” pic.twitter.com/j3Iql05pE3

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 24, 2022

”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Yes, that is the full text of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Marge Green is out of her mind, out of touch, doesn’t understand the basics of The Constitution, and is a danger to our Democracy.

She needs to go back home and stay. Vote her out.

Om: ”Okay, I didn’t mean to be so dramatic. Or use a clickbait headline, but in reality, what used to be Instagram is now dead.”

It sounds like a lot of folks are really disappointed with Instagram today. But what should you expect from Facebook? All of their products are built to leverage you, the user, as a revenue generation machine. They inject ads into your stream hoping for that click, they bombard you with people they think you should follow, and they chase every new trendy application related to images or video.

Instagram has turned into the worlds biggest A/B test. A playground for trends.

I still have my account but I stopped posting to it. I started posting my pictures to my blog. I mean, why not? It’s public, I don’t need to worry about Instagram bugging me to follow others, and there are no ads.

Bottom line, own your content.

Alberto Betella: ”One of the reasons why Anchor, and later Spotify, flourished in the podcasting industry is the open nature of podcasts. RSS was key to the success of podcasting because it addressed a potentially complex challenge with a very simple solution. RSS empowered the podcasting industry so everyone could focus on what really mattered: creating great content and building the best user experience.”

All the more reason places like Spotify shouldn’t call their short form audio stuff podcasting. As far as I know you can only get their premium audio through their app. Part of the joy of open formats is being able to use any application you’d like to discover and play your favorite podcasts.

I reminded myself of Bloom this morning. Such a great iOS app. It comes from a time when the platform was new and was full of promise and potential.

Sadly, looking back now, it’s clear that Apple has completely botched its longterm stewardship of iOS as a developer platform. https://t.co/wJV0NlXDLy

— Ken Kocienda (@kocienda) July 17, 2022

This is telling coming from one of the engineers on the original iOS development team. Heck, the man is responsible for the iOS keyboard I’m using to type this post.

Perhaps someday Apple will make sweeping changes to the App Store to cull out all the scammy apps and help real, bonafide, app developers flourish. You know, the indies, the folks that put so much care into the apps you love and use everyday.

htmx: ”REST must be the most broadly misused technical term in computer programming history.”

This was an eye opening read. I always understood websites and HTML as the prime example of REST. What I didn’t understand is to be truly REST means the format has to be self describing. Most developers receive data from an API in the form of JSON which are usually not self describing. Applications have built in knowledge of the thing they expect to receive and have code that understands how to use and display the data.

But it doesn’t matter to me if everything I’ve built isn’t REST. It’s completely reasonable and pragmatic to have services that return data specific to their intended use and have apps purpose built to display and interact with that data.

If we went around writing self describing JSON from every service we use we’re just building another form of web browser and we already have those.

Pragmatism wins.

MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem"

REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment!

Here's what you need to know:

— Madi Hilly (@MadiHilly) July 21, 2022

This is a really neat thread about how nuclear fuel is stored.

Hawaii Reporter: ”Spam is considered solely lower class food in almost every other state. Ask any Hawai‘i local if they like spam, and he will either 1) give you stink eye and assume you’re a tourist for asking the question, or 2) at some point in his answer mention how good the 7-11 spam musubis or Zip-pac are.”

One could say we didn’t exactly have a lot of money when I was kid. We had a lot of ground beef and Spam, and I honestly still love the stuff to this day. You can put it in or on anything and it works. I like it with eggs, in breakfast burritos, on a sandwich, and prepared as Spam musubi at my favorite Hawaiian food joint.

The stuff is delicious, I’m moving to Hawaii. 🤤

CNN: ”California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill into law that allows private citizens to bring civil action against anyone who manufactures, distributes, transports or imports assault weapons or ghost guns, which are banned in the state.”

I guess if Texas can make terribly cruel laws around Womens health care California can do something similar (although not cruel) to help quell the gun violence we have in our nation.

Not to mention being a safe heaven for womens reproductive rights.

Governor Newsom for President. 🇺🇸

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

🧵

— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) July 19, 2022

Super funny thread of the same people are lazy commentary through the years.

Each generation seems to think their generation was tougher, harder working, than the next.

Gen X is definitely the toughest, hardest working, of them all. That’s just fact. 🧌

The Verge: ”Welcome to this week’s edition of This Week in Chancery Court! Delaware’s moment in the sun continues as the fight between Elon Musk and Twitter shifts from fiery tweets… to fiery legal filings.”

It really does seem that Mr. Musk will have to either pay $54.20 per share or will face some monster penalty somewhere between $1B and $20B, depending on the difference in stock price from today to his $54.20 offer.

Talk about screw around and find out. Ouch. 🤕

P.S. musk.social is waiting for you.

Fistpump McRunpants. https://t.co/I6AaVtbBXX

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 22, 2022

Rachel Maddow is a hero of mine. She also drops some pretty good Dad jokes on occasion.

Oh, yeah, Josh Hawley is a coward and a caca-doo-doo-head.

Enjoy your coffee and have a wonderful weekend.

Pictures of the boys; Kolbe and King.

Kolbe is the yellow one. He’s five but acts like a puppy.

King is 10, I think, and is a distinguished gentleman.

They’re both Australia Shepard mix.

I’ll bet Ms Deer and her little spotted baby visit us tonight. 🦌