She died 2 years later. Assuming she was old and/or in poor health, I can absolutely understand not wanting to move. It’s especially stressful for the elderly who may have lived there for decades. And it’s not like she could take the money into the afterlife anyway.

Palin’s kids were in the public crosshairs. But I think that had more to do with Palin’s awful hypocrisy on family values than anything else.

I have 3.5 cats on the same medication (0.5 cat is shared custody we watch sometimes). Juggling 4 prescriptions is a pain in the ass. Life would be much simpler if we could just get a Costco sized bottle of it and be good for half a year or more. For a medication that is very commonly prescribed for elderly cats.

And also because of the ridiculousness of controlled substances, you can’t just order ahead for, say, 2 months of buffer that could negate the risk of delays.

Because people can’t be trusted with too much medicine. Like everyone’s going to OD on cancer drugs or something if they don’t ration it out to the day.

I did as well, and am very happy to be wrong.

And it seems like Harris’ campaign saw those kinds of comments and chose to address them with energy and humor.

They’ve done a great job so far. Hoping they can keep this amazing momentum and prove me thoroughly wrong on election day.

Yes, interpreting the world in color instead of black and white certainly makes things more complicated.

And I guess complexity and nuance are bad, from your point of view.

What he means is he’s trying to funnel his wealth into assets that aren’t regulated and may be difficult to seize.

You know, to hide his money from the victims that he owes hundreds of millions to for his criminal behavior.

He realized he was spoiling the wrong side

I have black electrical tape over most led indicators. It’s stupid because now I can’t tell the battery charge on a lot of devices, but I hate the involuntary nightlights everywhere.

Rofl, like Unix OSes never have problems. Even developers, who are among the most tech savvy users, tend to drag their feet on installing updates unless forced.

That’s only on mobile browser mode. Open your browser settings and select Desktop site and you won’t see that modal anymore.

Still an asshole design, though.

It means a lot less when it’s coming from retired, or retiring, Republicans. It’s practically meaningless.

Especially when it’s a judge, who isn’t supposed to be politically aligned in the first place.

Yep, I agree. But Putin has held on this long while he has royally screwed the Russian economy, and exposed their bumbling military for what it is. The oligarchs would have ousted him already if it was easy.

If NATO invades, Russia is doomed. Putin doesn’t care that Russia would still exist after a NATO victory, all he cares about is himself and his legacy. Both of which would be destroyed in a NATO victory.

So he would launch the nukes and watch Russia get wiped off the map, because if he can’t have it, no one can. And at least he would go out with a bang, rather than suiciding in a bunker.

The oligarchs would not be able to prevent it. They might hold the political power, but the military order to launch the nukes comes directly from Putin. The best we could hope for is conscientious officers refusing the order.

That’s not handing anything over. They’re going for one last big payout after a lifetime of exploitation.

They have their real estate portfolio that they rent at exorbitant prices, or sell at massive mark ups because they got into the market at sane levels and contributed to the feeding frenzy that has led to today’s unaffordable housing.

They strung their employees on, taking the increased profits from inflation without paying their employees enough to keep up.

And now they’re selling their small businesses to those same employees at prices that practically guarantee they will be unable to keep up. Because even though they have all the wealth that they’ve accumulated from a life of exploitation, they deserve to ride off into the sunset with a saddlebag stuffed with gold.

We had two kids my age that wanted to be called by Final Fantasy character names. AFAIK, no one had any problem with it.

I mean, he is. Non-ironically.

The closest (real) thing to this “deep-state” boogeyman of theirs is the Federalist Society, and the people who drew up Project 2025.

These are real organizations that conspire to circumvent the checks and balances that are supposed to protect the rights of the people in this nation, and the rule of law.

And while I don’t believe that Trump is at all involved in organizing these conspiracies, he has been more than happy to execute their wishes in exchange for power. And knowingly so.

So yes, Trump is part of the deep state. Factually.

I have a different brand, but I can see the value. The interface on the small screen on the device I have is very clumsy. Took me a while to figure it out, and I’m very tech savvy. I can see a mobile app being useful, also for notifications so I don’t independently have to set timers.

Also as a former mobile dev, mobile apps take maintenance to keep up with OS changes over time. And developers are expensive.

What I imagine happened is that they probably outsourced their app development to a 3rd party, because they make hardware, not software. That contract probably expired, including their ongoing support agreement, and they’ve probably negotiated an hourly rate for support on-demand going forward, maybe with a different 3rd party dev.

So in all likelihood, they’re just passing the cost for ongoing maintenance on an EOL model to the customer.

However, that looks absolutely insane from a consumer standpoint.

I don’t know their Financials, but they may not be big enough to just swallow the cost for brand PR if they’re not selling at a volume and profit margin to be able lose money on old products.

This is why, even as a dev that used to work in the mobile and IOT space, I tend to purchase dumb devices if there are good options. Smart devices get dumb as soon as the shine has dulled.

I don’t know how, but my mom could open jars better than me when I was a foot taller and much stronger than her. She’d make me move furniture around, and I’d hand her pickle jars.

Many of us thought he was trying to lose in 2016, too. Garrison’s character beautifully depicted the phenomenon.