Dear Google: "Pastiche" and "parody" are not synonymous.
So then I said, "Yes, Chicago is a great city for shopping, but, I'm sorry, I can't help you get a visa."
Jon Corbly. Eastern North Carolina, the flat part, pretty close to sea level.
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Pointless battleships pointlessly powered.
Having decided to spend billions on battleships solely for the purpose of ego boosting, #Trump now wants them nuclear-powered.
I quit #Amazon last year but deliveries to me, paying for Prime, were running at 4-5 days, and often misdelivered.
From what I saw, Prime's promised 2-day delivery vanished when Amazon launched its own delivery division.
Sympathies to the urban gig workers who indenture themselves to Amazon and its AI code.
Amazon plans to expand 30-minute delivery service to more US cities
Amazon is rapidly opening store-sized delivery hubs in dozens of U.S. and foreign cities to fulfill customers’ most urgent product needs in 30 minutes or less. The e-commerce titan's ultrafast Amazon Now service first launched in India last June. Amazon says it's now also available in five other countries and is expanding in the U.S. The mini-warehouses devoted to Amazon Now stock about 3,500 products. The items include fresh produce, beer, diapers, nonprescription medications, cleaning supplies, electronics and personal care products like shampoo . Offering uberfast deliveries is the latest chapter in the e-commerce titan's relentless pursuit of speed. The company revolutionized online shopping after it introduced two-day shipping in 2005.
RE: https://werd.social/@ben/116556425610872361
Don't count on the people who don't care to start caring.
UK: One lithium-ion battery fire every five hours.
Don't expect Big Tech or the market (us) to move fast to replace lithium-ion batteries.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/11/uk-firefighters-lithium-ion-battery-fires-ebikes
Warm sunny day for a long walk. Met a corgi. 🐶
Jeff JarvisWhole lot of fumfering here about the dinner that should just die. As for veil of scholarships: $166k raised this year would not pay for one student for two years at Georgetown. Just stop.
What to Do About the White House Correspondents Dinner? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/politics/white-house-trump-dinner.html?smid=tw-share
What to Do About the White House Correspondents Dinner? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/politics/white-house-trump-dinner.html?smid=tw-share
The latest on who #Republicans are helping get richer with your money.
Grumble.
I'd think if #FedEx drivers, unlike their UPS friends, don't want to deliver packages to me, they'd just ignore me entirely.
But, nope They send a delivery verification photo showing a package sitting someplace I don't recognize that is clearly not the address -- my place -- on the package label.
Almost every delivery. Getting really tiresome.
Andrew LokenauthJUST IN: US auto loans have exploded to $1.68 TRILLION. For the first time in history, car debt is bigger than credit card debt.
It now matches the total amount of U.S. student loans.
People are taking 7-10 year car loans just to afford a monthly payment.
The average American now pays $735/month just to own a car. That’s $88,200 over 10 years. On something that LOSES value every single day.
Meanwhile....