I have many people in my life that just don't get the difference between equal and equitable even after I've tried to explain it to them. I just heard of a new way to explain it. Equal is everybody gets 2 minutes in the bathroom. Equitable is everybody gets as much time as they need in the bathroom. We all have different needs. We all get our needs met.
I may be late to the party but I'm here now.
I just moved and and put my plants along the edge of the carport, temporarily, where they would get morning-noon sun. Well, the high temps were 104° to 106° so I stood up a heavy 2½' wide 3/4" plywood to shade my Ch. cactus. When I went out a few hours later I saw the board had fallen onto the plant. I looked it over carefully and to my surprise I didn't see any broken or squished. Don't know why but yay. But most of it got flattened. It was all upright and proud. I don't like the flattened/droopy look that is common and was going to prune it to keep it mostly upright.
What I'd like to know is, can I fix it? If I prop it up for a bit will it get stronger and stand on it own? Should I just take those branches off? There are 2 separate plants there.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I have 10 bags bags of cranberries left over from when they were on 'super sale' 2½ to 3½ years ago.
.1. Would they still be good for cooking?
.2. If not, do you have any suggestions that could make them good?
I love cranberry sauce. I mix it with yogurt and put it on waffles and pancakes and top it of with orange whipped cream. I also love to make cranberry sweet breads.
I just moved and waited until doing so before I updated my Roku devices. Now I hear about Fox buying Roku and I'm not sure what to think about it. My feeling is that's horrible. I can't stand Fox or what they stand for.
What do you think? Will Fox change things much and limit our choices on Roku?
I really don't want to make this a political group but this effects everyone, regardless of political affiliation. The police apparently already have an arsenal of power. Much more than one would expect here. (cross posted)
Here are a few details from The Dirt: https://thedirt.online/op-ed-davis-city-council-unanimously-votes-to-approve-police-surveillance/
"OP-ED: Davis City Council unanimously votes to approve police surveillance By: Micah Lee, Information Security Professional and Community Member
The use of police surveillance technology in the City of Davis, including automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), Cellebrite smartphone surveillance tools, and military equipment (like chemical weapons, armored vehicles, and AR-15 style rifles), were unanimously approved by City Council on June 2, despite dozens of community members—including experts in privacy and security—speaking against the renewal of mass surveillance technology and its use in the City.
Their approval will allow Motorola, a third party company with direct contracts with ICE, to track every resident of Davis and record their driving patterns.
... Davis Police also has a contract with Cellebrite. Cellebrite is an Israeli surveillance company that makes tools to break into locked phones and extract all of the data, including texts, photos, data within apps, one of the most invasive searches that can be done..."
Several in my neighborhood are planning on going to the next council meeting which should be Aug 18, 6:30pm. There is supposed to be overflow viewing.
Cross posted.
I clicked on an invitation link that said I have to sign into my Google account to see it. So I tried but it never showed the invitation. This type of sign-in email is not so unusual with this group.
It only asked for my email and password. I used the account that would not be a problem to loose and has no important information in it. So, I'm not really worried about the emails but of course I need to take action.
I am using the Gmail app on my Android phone. It has all of my accounts (a few) on it. When I click on my name icon in the top right corner it brings up a list of all my accounts. At the bottom there is no option to sign out of anything. The only options are to add another account or to "manage accounts on this device" which does not have an option to sign out.
So, I used my Firefox web browser and signed in. Still nothing. But I did fumble all around for a while and eventually found a 'sign out of all accounts' button but there were only 2 accounts listed. It said I was logged out of them. But when I went back to the app I was not logged out of anything.
What is going on? I want to sign out of everything and then go back in individually and change all of the passwords.
Just want to let ya'll know that there is hope out there. I never even considered owning a home because the only real job I could ever do is childcare. It is my passion.
Yes, I got an inheritance that **only** paid for the house. With that, I had very narrow parameters of cost and age of the home. I held out for 2y because I didn't want to leave the magical place where I was renting.
The **only** reason I am able to make the purchase is because I have been frugal all of my life and someone long ago talked me into setting up an IRA - Vanguard total DOW and S-P 500. I put in every penny I could and almost never looked at it. Still, I will have to keep working until I'm 70. Without that, I would have nothing to live on and, therefore, would not have been accepted by management to rent the space.
All throughout my 65yo life my friends have been frustrated with me because I won't go out with them - to eat, to movies, away for the weekend, for manni/peddies or spa weekends, the multitude of work conferences (I used to do a select few but can't afford to now), etc. With the exception of a couple of them marrying well, they cannot afford to buy anything. Now I **really** can't go out with them, lol. I will be depending on you guys more than ever now!
I have a decent sized collection of children's books and no one to pass them down to. So I would like them donated to a charity. Do you know of a good charity to give them to?
So, my estate will be 2 IRAs, some investments and the mobile home. I will have been on Mdi-Cal for several years, which has claw-back estate recovery not to include anything in a trust.
Any thoughts about what to do for an estate plan?