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Yeah, CarShield falls into that category of (really all insurance) that if you can self-insure, you should, unless the worst case would wipe you out. I know for some people that can be the case, but I imagine CarShield costs a big premium for that "service." I love when I buy some small electronics like a clock radio that costs $20, and I get offered an extended warranty. Yeah, right.

How's that? (Honestly curious, as I have a front load)

I'm notorious for "cleaning up." (Though it's only glasses that have been left around on tables or counters)

I'm a few seasons back, where in the last episode of a season they killed off yet another head of the Lyell center. Dangerous job!

Plus, asking how to get to New York (state) doesn't make a whole lot of sense to begin with. From Hartford, it might be southwest, west, or very far north. It depends where you're going!

(watching the olympics) I keep seeing this very annoying kid at Target (??) saying how he used to be really into dinosaurs (for his backpack and lunchbox presumably), and he knew all their names and what they ate, blah, blah, blah. But NOW "he's evolved" and it's all about sharks. So if it's not sharks, he's NOT INTERESTED. I feel like when I was a kid told to eat my dinner because of starving children in Africa. (Well I actually wasn't told that, but it was a thing). DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE KIDS WHO DON'T EVEN HAVE SCHOOLS????

me neither. If it's porn stuff, we long time viewers know all about that. It was a fairly prominent story line awhile back.

I just saw that one for the first time. How horrible! First of all, to use AI to write a heart-felt letter. But almost as bad is that the FATHER is feeding the reasons to the AI!

the easy way is that you're is short for "you are" (just remove the a and replace it with an apostrophe) and "your" is not short for "you are"; it's just a word for possession.

did no one ever teach people the (easy) way to know which one is which? !!!!!

whoa (gift article) These Brothers Were Real Estate Hotshots. And Predators, Some Women Say Over the past two months, The New York Times interviewed 10 women who said they were sexually assaulted by the brothers, or believe they may have been. Some of them were speaking for the first time, including Tracy Tutor, a top broker at Douglas Elliman Beverly Hills and one of the stars of the reality TV show “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles.” Seven of the women said they believe they had been drugged, describing a fog that erased or clouded their memory (I haven't watched for a few years, and I didn't even recognize Tracy from her picture in the article)

around me (NYC suburbs) about $2 to $2.50 a can. Yeah, expensive.

my husband loves that Poppi stuff. I should never have bought it for him because it's expensive LOL.

offer to spread some Lume on his butt cheeks?

from an article in 2023, the NAR was still defending the term: I think the change started around 2020 at a small scale, and has only become very widespread recently.

just to note that the Appalachian mountains go all the way up to Maine, so lots of different people live "there." Sure "Appalachia" is a specific region.

not a chef, but I believe a judge? or perhaps on Masters? very tragic https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/dining/naomi-pomeroy-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.700.zrFd.vSsdG0T-6p9o&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Do you have a link to that limit @Starlight925? I can't find anything in the news, other than an ordinance some years ago for a subset of neighborhoods.

i found this. So "both" in some sense, as the market tends to do. Who does the California mansion tax affect? Primarily, if you're selling a home exceeding the thresholds mentioned above, you, as the seller, will be responsible for paying the mansion tax. However, it's crucial to remember that buyers often factor in these additional costs when making offers.

Not really an "annoying" just an observation. We've discussed the horrible jingle for Jardiance many, many times. So this ad really surprised me (for a similar drug). I live near NYC so am used to getting ads for Broadway musicals, and to my ear, this jingle sounds like a song from a not-terrible Broadway show LOL.

I think it's a bit of vocal laziness turning the ch into a sh. I do it both ways. Kind of like when I had a British-educated Chinese office-mate in grad school who asked "why do Americans pronounce 'bottom' like 'boddum'?" 'cause we're lazy.

yeah I live 5 miles from the trail (near the Bear Mountain Bridge in NY) and it sounds a lot like "appellation" around here.

No, it's some guy on a conference call, and his background is a bookshelf. Then he finishes the call and he immediately starts off on a bike ride with his buddies. So it's his zoom call background they are talking about. Apparently he was doing the call outside on a park bench or something. What it has to do with plaque psoriasis? I have no idea.

you haven't seen my house. Unopenable windows 2 and a half stories up.

no one (I think) washes their windows as often as things need to vacuumed etc.