I did the same thing. Cold turkey quit after 15+ years of drinking. Going on 4 years sober now.

Just had to do this a few weeks ago. They have you taken a pic of your driver's license, provide your SSN & run a credit check on the spot. Then they charge you to tour the place.

A very "fuck you, I'm getting paid regardless" mentality from rental companies.

Glass houses much? Fucking ridiculous that I have zero sense of surprise here.

I feel like this is what the comment section is used for.

What took so long?

So now something will happen to the Diapered Don, right? RIGHT?!?

$59,900 is still vastly outside of the pricing most people can afford.

They're also hiding them (my opinion) off of their main lot so people don't see how many are sitting around. The dealership near me has a couple on the lot but down the road, across the street on a hidden side road I saw over a dozen of them sitting in a fenced in lot gathering pollen last week.

Morons. Just a bunch of morons. It was never about AMERICAN jobs, it is about CHEAP EXPLOITATIVE jobs.

Still a Republican win, just not by as much of a win as in the past.

Saved you a read.

I just got rid of my Pixel 6a because it had one of the bad batteries. Tip to anyone taking advantage of the trade in rebate, DO NOT get the $150 Google Store credit and be like me thinking you can use it on the Google Fi Store to purchase a new Pixel. The $150 store credit is only towards the purchase of a Pixel phone via the Google Store. Take the $100 cash rebate option instead because it tells you once you choose either option, you cannot change it.

My hope was to get the Pixel 9a on my account for $249 (activation discount) on my account and then use the $150 store credit... nope.

California surgeon Matthew Nykiel estimated the 2025 cost in U.S. dollars to be approximately $90,000 along with upkeep costs of $2,500 per year.

Wait. This shit has an upkeep cost too??

Yea. Yes, it did.

I guarantee this was their goal all along. Build up something to have a larger entity come through and buy the company. Wish I had thought of it but I'm not a fan of screwing over the user base.

It will always be Twitter to me. X is a variable in a math problem... not a company name. Oh, I'm also lazy and have never used Twitter.

Until the AI companies find a way around it. Love the idea so hopefully it causes at least 3 days of struggle for the AI crawlers.

Having said that... Can someone else put this in place so we do not have Cloudflare hosting everything where we would just be one intern away from a global outage. Please? Pretty please?

Here you go!

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3liwlwvvq6k2s

Hey cool, Obama can run against Trump to really rile up all the bases.

/s

Achalasia. My esophagus does not squeeze food/liquid and it gets stuck in my esophagus. Since the nerves in the esophagus are dead (paraphrasing of course) this then causes the top stomach sphincter to not know food/liquid is coming and to open up. Instead, (pre-surgery) food/liquid piles up on top of the stomach and I would have to hope the sphincter would open up and let food in. I had times where I could not swallow water as it would just sit at the entrance waiting to be let in & would have to force myself to vomit as it started to hurt.

Post-surgery (heller myotomy with fundoplication) my esophagus is effectively a slip & slide and I rely on gravity to be able to get food down my esophagus and into my stomach. The top stomach sphincter has now been cut open and never closes anymore. They then stitch part of the top stomach lobe to the sphincter/ esophagus junction area to prevent stomach acid from backwashing.

Even if space travel for the masses occurred during my lifetime, I will never be able to go to space because I rely on gravity to get food to pass through my esophagus.

The random aches and pains you start waking up with are here to stay. Learn to embrace them.

And drink more water.