I have cancer. It’s SUPER fun having to deal with drug shortages every fucking month, let me tell you. Nothing makes a cancer patient feel better than having to call around to local pharmacies to see who can fill a painkiller prescription. And you can’t call for a refill even a single day before your current scrip is out. So they can’t have it ready for you or set it aside. You run out and then you have to fucking FIGHT to not have to deal with withdrawal on top of the pain. EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH.

But you know, profits are more important than health care. So I get it. Can’t have CEO’s going hungry just because I’m in a little pain.

To paraphrase Office Space:

“Well, I wouldn’t say I’m “dealing with it”, Bob…”

I’d say people in that position need that sort of confidence to do their job well. But that’s why there’s a board of directors: to reign in that ridiculous CEO overconfidence. Musk is the headline because he makes headlines but the real fuckers here are the board who though “sure, $56 billion dollars seems reasonable”.

Note: my Tesla was in the shop for ELEVEN months waiting for spare fucking parts from Tesla. I wonder how many they could have made with $56 billion…

Pretty sure I’ve heard this every election since Trump got elected. Though, admittedly, not from a noted gorilla scientist.

It is beyond bizarre to me that we are discussing another election with Trump in it.

The irony of arguing for the death penalty while taking the moral high road on “adding negative things the the world”… wow.

The timing coincides with COVID so I wonder if it really is the whole anti-masker “government can’t tell me what do and besides I’m immortal!” mentality.

WTF? Seatbelt use is down?? I’d be really curious to see a Venn diagram plotting anti-maskers with the mind-numbingly stupid people who would voluntarily choose not to wear a seatbelt in the face of decades of science and societal pressure.

Seriously, hearing that seatbelt use it down to me is as shocking as when I was watching “Anchorman” and they were walking in the park and just dropped all their trash on the ground. Except that movie was parodying the way people used to think in the 70’s. This is real life.

I mean it works here in Nevada. Of course we have exorbitant “Resort Fees” at all the hotels to make up for it, but as long as people keep flying in to pay it, it works for us locals. Not sure skiing and churches are as big of a tourist draw as casinos though.

Or just wait for the next hurricane. Not like conservative policy is doing much to help the climate change that’s making them worse every year.

The problem here is that it will be quite some time before the Supreme Court is non-shitass.

This was my first thought as well. ~100 weekend days per year, ~40 years, that’s ~4,000 days just on the weekends. From memory, our tiny plane took up 8 jumpers (4 tandem pairs) and it looked like it was prepared to make plenty of trips per day. But even at a VERY conservative one trip per weekend day, that’s 32,000 jumps.

And FWIW, pretty sure this is the place I actually went skydiving (tandem jump) many years ago. Can’t recall the name, but I doubt Lodi is overloaded with skydiving centers. They seemed to be relatively busy with people there who were not randos like me but regulars with their own gear who looked like they did this often. I would not be surprised if the number of total jumps over 4 decades was well into the hundreds of thousands if not millions.

Thanks!

I’m sure THIS year will be the year, right guys? Right???

Whenever I hear “states rights” my mind immediately translates it to “I’m a racist”. I’m not saying you’re a racist, just that it makes you sound like one when you invoke “states rights”.

Correct.

No, Tesla pushed a software update.

Admittedly I haven’t been following US politics much since Biden took office and things calmed down a bit… so I was more than a little surprised to read that they’re trying to impeach him. I couldn’t possibly imagine what for since he’s the most milquetoast president we’ve had in ages. Turns out it’s not even him, it’s “his family’s shady business dealings” whatever the fuck that means.

Honestly, it’s like the GOP has no concept of morality or laws and just heard someone say that Trump did that and it was bad so we should accuse Biden of it!

Because people stopped buying them. They decided they’d rather be safer at the expense of everyone else on the road. 'Merka! Fuck yeah!

Le gasp! A billionaire doing something that’s ethically dubious?!? What is the world coming to when we can’t trust billionaires to do the right thing?