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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • So let me see if I have this right:

    • Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and ordered to pay restitution (he’s appealing this)
    • Trump frequently and publicly called her a liar and ended up in court again, and was found guilty of defamation. Ordered to pay restitution again (say’s he’s going to appeal that, too)
    • So now they’re trying to charge her with perjury because she said, in a deposition, that nobody was paying her legal bills, and it later became known that Reid Hoffman paid some of her expenses.

    I can’t see how this can go well for the justice department. There’s no evidence that she was lying. It’s very possible she either didn’t know about the money from Hoffman at the time, or that the funding was secured after her deposition. Either way, a judge already ruled that it wasn’t relevant to the case. IMO, this will almost certainly get thrown out for being vindictive prosecution. IANAL, though.











  • Man… my last year of college I got an internship in the IT department at the local pulp and paper mill in town. We had a big tank of chlorine on site for bleaching the pulp. As a result we were not allowed to be anywhere on the grounds without an escape respirator on our belt. We also had to have steel toe shoes, a hardhat, eye and ear protection, but those were only required to be on if you were in certain parts of the plant. We didn’t have to wear them in the offices. But that respirator always had to be handy. Basically just a filter with a mouthpiece that you suck air through. But some of the old-timers warned me that if one of those tanks ever really blew, those respirators wouldn’t do much good.

    As far as I know, though, the mill I worked at never had an emergency like this on site. They have since shut down operation.



  • Most EVs being sold now will go at least a couple hundred miles on a full charge if you don’t drive like a maniac. And if you find yourself stuck with a low charge, level 3 chargers are pretty widely available and can get you to 80% in a half hour or less. Kia and Hyundai are good options on a budget, just don’t look at the high-end models like the Ioniqs. We bought a used Kia Niro EV last year. It’s a great little commuter car for my wife since her employer is making her drive into the office every day now. Nissan Leafs are often pretty affordable used, too. I’m with you on Tesla. The dealerships were flooded with them when we went looking last summer, and they were desperate to sell us one. “Are you sure? I can make you a great deal on a Tesla!” Not interested.

    Sadly, you might be about a year late for the really good deals, and the Republicans allowed the EV tax credits to expire in September. If you can’t find a good deal on an EV, you might consider a hybrid, or pluggable hybrid (a hybrid with a larger battery that can be charged when it isn’t running). A former co-worker of mine used to drive a Chevy Volt pluggable hybrid to work and bragged that he only filled the tank once a year.