I changed my default search engine to: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

Author should mention that you can change your browser's default search engine.

Trying two of these between the levers for now: https://www.amazon.com/U-Shaped-Proofing-Cabinets-Adjustable...

Plus, I found this, hoping it will work for me without too much damage to the door: https://www.snappower.com/pages/huglock

I don't want to show him too much television, but it's the only thing that keeps him in one place

Using two of these between the levers for now: https://www.amazon.com/U-Shaped-Proofing-Cabinets-Adjustable...

Other options involve drilling into the door face which I'm not keen on...

Also, I ordered some of these too https://www.snappower.com/pages/huglock

It'll be strange to replace my front door with a guillotine slider, but I'm willing to try about anything since I found him half a block away playing in a puddle last week.

I literally just tried to send one text message. Poof he was gone.

Poseidon currently runs a desal plant in Carlsbad. My understanding is that the water the plant releases into the ocean requires exemptions for how concentrated it is. Additionally, the plant draws plankton filled water. Not really what we want in California.

There are better desal solutions out there like OceanWell. They have a deep water desalination solution that solves many of the problems of conventional desal. They just signed a project in Nice, France in the past few days. Also, they are working with the city of Las Virgines over the past few years.

If I remember correctly, the new desal plant in Doheny has a slightly different approach to draw water in from beneath the sand, using the sand as a prefilter. But I'm not sure how that works better than drawing water in from near the surface. I can't imagine how the plankton can possibly escape the suction forces drawing them into the sand.

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> "If it hadn't been for the Blue Boxes, there would have been no Apple. I'm 100% sure of that." -Steve Jobs

For your Apple collection:

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90s machines are great, I love them, but they are 30 years old and are not where I recommend anyone to start... My first pin was a fixer upper Twilight Zone. Learn from my mistake! Haha

The most challenging part is the maintenance, especially the classics. Owning several machines taught me to fix them. My newer machines broke less often...

Every time I threw a decent party I'd end up buying minimum $200 in parts and spending half a day fixing them.

Lord of the Rings is one of my all time favorites. I highly recommend it. It's not ancient, and the game is really deep. It's pretty easy to work on and fix. Make sure you protect the plastics, I couldn't find after market ones. The Wizard mode is extremely satisfying because it is super difficult to achieve... There are a couple fun special modes you can unlock.

On modern solid state pins, you can adjust the difficulty settings to make the game more fun for friends.

I feel the same way when I take my little vacations... I meet amazing people, connect, and then move on. There is a beauty to it though. I really try to enjoy those moments. They are so brief.

This was a touching story, especially the fact that the dog he rescued might be the first dog to have walked around the world!

In elementary school, around 2nd grade, I attended a talk by Dave Kunst, the first man to walk around the globe. I'm surprised the Guardian didn't mention him. His story has often surfaced in my memory. I never had the guts to do anything remotely so adventurous... and he did it in the very wild 1970s. Around the same time my mother hitchhiked from South America to the US.

Dave told us he searched for sponsors before embarking on his trip, but no one would take him seriously. Not even shoe companies!

He walked to the edge of each continent, to dip his toes in the ocean at the start and end of each continent to make sure he was going as far as possible. I think there were a handful of countries he wasn't able to pass through for some reason or another.

Dave's brother was killed on the journey by thugs who thought Dave and his brother were personally taking donations and carrying the money. He said he came to peace with his brother's murder because he died doing what he loved. If I remember correctly, another brother joined Dave to complete the trip. In all his journey took around four years. About half the time it took Tom.

He closed the talk by showing us all photos of his last pair of shoes after he had completed his trip, and then a photo of his bare feet -- and we all screamed in disgust!

Perhaps you're changing the subject? My original post was in response to an invocation of Karl Marx, the father of Communism... as I understand it, Communism is about as authoritarian as it gets.

I mean an intermediate stage from Capitalism to Communism is called "Dictatorship of the proletariat"...

Re-reading my post, it looks like I could have written it better.

I was referring to the stimulus spending, in particular the last one or two huge packages. It might have been more efficient to not do them in the first place. At the time many economists were very concerned about the overall effects on the economy. We were already running at 5+% annualized inflation, right?

I understand the general ideas behind Modern Monetary Theory, that it looks like you and the original post are referring to. Wild spending corrected by surgical taxation...

MMT sounds great in academic papers, but it runs into problems in practice. We can't just raise taxes wherever and whenever we want. There are too many problems to list with attempting to do that, from the lobbyists, to officials wanting to get reelected, to the errors of misidentifying where the taxes are to be applied. Not to mention all the existing laws around taxing.

It's expensive to send out a bunch of money, and then tax it back... I suggest that it's more efficient to spend less. But I realize there is a fat chance of that ever happening!

My point is Marxism/Socialism trades one form of oppression for another. Marxism fails to identify poor leadership as oppressive. Socialist systems are run by error prone leaders that crave power and fortune... They are the same people that run corporations under a different flag. Che was killed trying to overthrow another nation to put in Cuban friendly socialist leadership... How is that different from your banana example?

At least in capitalism we can vote with our dollars. We can spend our money on things we believe in. Not with socialism. Good luck finding choice or innovation that the state doesn't support. It literally crushes innovation.

Besides these arguments, what great things came from Marxism that we enjoy today?

But that's not my question or point, and maybe I didn't write my other post very well.

The post I'm replying to suggests more taxes should have been used to suck up the excess liquidity. I'm suggesting that liquidity was caused by too many large spending packages and Fed rates that were too low in the first place... Hence, it might be inefficient.

Of course I'm biased, as my spending power has gone down tremendously in the past 1.5 years. I blame the large increases in money supply and low Fed rate for causing a wild near-free money environment.

Have you walked the streets of Havana? I have. Talk about oppressive... And depressing.