Lifecoach5000

Good grief that was a grind for the last joker Flowerpot. I’ve been playing this game for a year and a half on mobile. Who knows how many hours I’ve put in…

Kinda sad I won’t have this game as a distraction anymore lol although I should be more productive… although I’ll probably just go back to chess!

I was reading about candidates in the League of Women Voters pamphlet, and this candidate stood out to me as a little odd. These are some of his answers to questions in the guide:

_Qualifications: The true statement begins with either verb Qualifications: The true statement begins with either verb intransitive or verb transitive in the present tense. Am Father Arturo Espinosa Professional Chemical Engineer (CH 5954). Am a truthful man: Am homosexual

Healthcare: Equate English adjective true to Greek adjective αληθής. Change, and define the Greek word αληθής: Utter the truth to each woman and to each man at every site. Ask the doctor to be one hundred percent truthful in every part of the pregnancy to ensure every woman has safe medical care._

He also has some weird video rants on Facebook I found.

Just an observation but I feel within the past year, that sub is dominated by links from the daily beast.

I know Reddit is kinda trash at this point but I still occasionally browse but I absolutely cannot stand that rag of a media website. Their headlines are attention grabbing clickbait IMO.

Just curious if anyone else has noticed. I haven’t crunched any numbers or anything because I don’t really even give that much of a crap.

Looking majestic in the dead ass heat ☠️ watching me chainsaw and sweat my butt off. Too bad he chewed up his kiddie pool I got for him the other day.

Weird place. I think I have shopped there maybe once or twice but don’t even remember this being a thing.

KNON is a non-profit radio station and an important institution for the community. They are strictly publicly funded and they need your help now more than ever. From one of my friends who is a DJ there:

“It’s way way way worse than it sounds.

Take it from someone who has been in public broadcasting for 27 years now…. I don’t think non-profit broadcasting is going to survive.

Somewhere around 4 months ago, we non-profits all got letters from the FCC basically saying that non-profit is being watched very very very closely for violations of non-profit licensing involving money. This is everything from on air mentions, to the way we discuss premiums for donations. When I have guest DJs or musicians, I’ve moved to simply not talking about their gigs out of fear that we’ll lose our license for advertising a for-profit business. I can’t even comfortably mention that an artist is on Bandcamp because you can buy things from them on Bandcamp.

Now…. The station I’m on was originally founded 42 years ago by ACORN people. Yes, that ACORN. (Ask me for a side rant about the real story and impact of ACORN because it’s not even close to the story that people think it is).

When the drama of ACORN happened after Obama’s election, my station was cut out of any federal funding whatsoever. We were booted from CPB entirely. No more grants from anyone that receives federal funding. We’ve been operating since then “entirely on user donations” like you mention. (AFAIK, we are the ONLY non-profit station in the country operating outside of CPB grants).

It’s been HARD. There have been more than a few times we thought we would have to shutter our doors, but somehow we’ve persisted.

So fast forward to this CPB news. You’d think that wouldn’t touch us because we were politically ousted from CPB due to our ACORN associations. Wrong. I’m not sure we’re gunna make it. I’m not sure any of us are.

You see…. Somewhere just before the CARP agreement for licensing dissolved in 2004 to form the CRB…. our lawyers through ACORN together with CPB lawyers, among probably other organizations’ lawyers… we all went to court on behalf of non-profit broadcasting licensing. The end agreement was that those on non-profit licensing would have a pooled, flat rate licensing fee that was a deep discount from commercial rates for licensing. This was not done through CPB, but it allowed CPB stations and us to afford broadcast licensing.

That is going away along with CPB. Instead of paying one licensing fee, we are going to have to secure individual licensing with multiple entities. And each entity will be charging us commercial licensing rates, each of them many several times more costly than the flat rate licensing we’ve been using for 20+ years.

And we are being more closely watched on how we fundraise for it to the point that we can barely even thank a commercial donor. It’s crazy strict. We were once fined for calling a restaurant “all you can eat” because that was considered price qualitative and thus outside of non-profit regulations.

So on that note…. I have pledge drive tonight, and frankly I have a feeling I’m going to walk out of the studio crying because people just don’t give a flying fuck. I’m one of the top revenue driving shows in my segment of the funding, and I’m downright embarrassed to admit how little in donations I’m able to raise in a year. I’ll say this: There are only 3 people who consistently pledge enough that I reach my goals… and one of those 3 died last month, and I am another one of them… which leaves me, technically, with only 1 consistent pledger.”

I have a newly adopted 7 mos old pup and I was trying to find a place for us to get our late afternoon walk in without melting.

Vista Ridge Mall in Lewisville is dog friendly. It’s prob somewhat considered a dead mall, but it was really interesting seeing all the very niche stores/businesses still having a presence. They also have a food court and a movie theater!

We will be going back - just to have a spot to go to beat the heat and get our walk on!