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odyssia76 wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 4:22 pm
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Mon May 03, 2021 8:10 pm Somebody told me Joe Biden was signing a lot of executive orders so I looked it up.
Christ, FDR with over three thousand executive orders! Did he ever get up from his signing desk?
You are joking right ICJ? You cannot possibly take as true some random factoid from twitter. Is this a big joke I don't get or do you all actually believe that there have been 24,000 executive orders? Just minimum searching for reliable sources puts the number at 42 as of today.
Good point! It's probably not true. Unlike some U. S. Presidents, I don't take such venomous conjecture sitting down!!!
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odyssia76 wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 4:13 pm Aww poor Tdarcos now I feel sorry for him. Don't be mean.
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I think the beef industry should just tell everyone that from now all cows will be killed humanely and raise the price of beef a buck a pound. Then we could all die happy. And full.
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odyssia76 wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 4:22 pm
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Mon May 03, 2021 8:10 pm Somebody told me Joe Biden was signing a lot of executive orders so I looked it up.
Christ, FDR with over three thousand executive orders! Did he ever get up from his signing desk?
You are joking right ICJ? You cannot possibly take as true some random factoid from twitter. Is this a big joke I don't get or do you all actually believe that there have been 24,000 executive orders? Just minimum searching for reliable sources puts the number at 42 as of today.
The actual total number issued during the last 240+ years is only slightly over 14,000. One of the latest ones Biden has signed is E.O. 14,026 "Increasing the Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors" Signed April 27, 2021.
Source: Office of the Federal Register, https://www.federalregister.gov/preside ... biden/2021

FDR was in office for over 12 years. Divide up the 3,743 he issued by 12 and you get an average around 250 a year, call it one per business day.
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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:45 am It drives me crazy that the page served up by lastpass.com doesn't have the fucking login box on it, and you have to click on something to bring it up.
Lastpass does a lot of stuff the really annoys me. The only reason i keep using it is because i absolutely require a password manager and all the other suck even more. I should make a list called Oh Lastpass How Thou Doth Annoy me and send it to them.
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pinback wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 5:44 pm
odyssia76 wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 4:13 pm Aww poor Tdarcos now I feel sorry for him. Don't be mean.
Alright, who is this, really?
Well why should i be mean to someone i don't even know? He has been nice as far as i can tell.
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odyssia76 wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 1:48 pm should make a list called Oh Lastpass How Thou Doth Annoy me and send it to them.
Or you could just post it here. I'm pretty sure we've got at least one LastPass decision maker on the board given our massive user base.

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bryanb wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 3:38 pm
odyssia76 wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 1:48 pm should make a list called Oh Lastpass How Thou Doth Annoy me and send it to them.
Or you could just post it here. I'm pretty sure we've got at least one LastPass decision maker on the board given our massive user base.
Well maybe. It would take a bit to write up and I don't know if I feel like spending the time. If I were sure there were someone here who could somehow get the list to the developers somehow then it might be worth it though I guess. As I said right now even though it is often annoying the alternatives are worse and man it is a major PITA to switch. RoboForm definitely sucks even more though it does a few minor things better. When its something someone uses many times a day you tend to become an expert.
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This thread reminds me of the graffiti walls old BBS used to have.

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odyssia76 wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 1:48 pm
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:45 amThe only reason i keep using it is because i absolutely require a password manager and all the other suck even more.
Didn't realize that was an issue anymore. Why doesn't your chrome browser autofill?

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odyssia76 wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 3:41 pm Many people are conflicted about eating cows and other meat. They see and hear the horror stories about factory farms and slaughterhouses and are rightly horrified. But it does not have to be that way. It's not either/or. You do not have to stop eating meat in order to stop contributing to the torture meat industry. There are plenty of places these days that raise and sell meat this is ethically raised with happy critters in open fields eating real food with no antibiotics and then they are humanely slaughtered without the terror and blood of a slaughterhouse. Yes they cost a bit more and you will probably end up eating somewhat less meat overall but you won't feel horrible and instead feel good that you are no longer supporting the slaughter machine.

I think that Tdarcos is wrong when he says that it would be impossible to farm deer. It would require some changes in regulations of course and I agree the volume of meat would be less but deer breed pretty quickly on their own with no help needed from humans. They can also easily live on cheap land that is not really good for building or anything else. Buy a couple hundred acres and fence it in and they will feed and reproduce by themselves. They are not like cows which require humans to survive. I bet that if someone put their mind to that it would be possible to farm venison with some kind of reasonable return though I agree not in the sheer volume beef is.
I know, right? How can you influence an industry that you don't interact with. Sure, activism, but people are gonna keep eating meat. Less of better meat is totally the way to go, I'll take omaha steakes over costco any day now though local butchers are best.

I'm going to have to go back and read where the guy living near Virginia say you can't farm deer. Thats exactly what we're doing except the farms are the greenbelts by the suburbs and only redneck hunters get the meat.

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Oh, it was billy mays who said you can't farm deer but tDarcos who said why you can't sell them, that makes sense. Billy is probably right about farming deer, don't argue huntin with a Trumpster with buckshot.

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Casual Observer wrote: Wed May 19, 2021 10:47 pmI'll take omaha steakes over costco any day now though local butchers are best.
BLARGH!! NO!!! NOT OMAHA STEAKS!! A HUGE SCAM AND MAJOR RIPOFF!!!
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You have the floor.
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Casual Observer wrote: Wed May 19, 2021 10:28 pm Didn't realize that was an issue anymore. Why doesn't your chrome browser autofill?
I switch between chrome and firefox and duckduckgo (on my phone). Sometimes one is better for some things sometimes another is better. And the reason for password manager is that even if chrome password were perfect, they 1) are not available on any platform I use, 2) do not work for applications which are NOT chrome, and 3) lastpass has a dew other features i use like storing other kinds of data too. And oh yeah 4) I'm used to it and it's fine and there is no reason to change. Change = hassle, hassle = frowny face. Nothing chrome can do that lastpass can't but that is not true the other way around.
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pinback wrote: Sat May 22, 2021 1:47 pm You have the floor.
Me? The floor is MINE? Whee.

Hmm, what should I do with it? When I was a teenager we used to get drunk and hoke that "you can't fall off the floor". Or as a very wise woman said "Oh, Floor, You're Always There For Me. So Supportive. Not Like Walls And Staircases, Always Getting In My Way."
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pinback wrote: Sat May 22, 2021 1:47 pm You have the floor.
Oh and if you mean my comment about Omaha Steaks I was referring to the recent discussion here in another thread about that company, maybe you missed it.
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odyssia76 wrote: Sat May 22, 2021 1:50 pm
Casual Observer wrote: Wed May 19, 2021 10:28 pm Didn't realize that was an issue anymore. Why doesn't your chrome browser autofill?
I switch between chrome and firefox and duckduckgo (on my phone). Sometimes one is better for some things sometimes another is better.
What are your thoughts on Tor an Tor Browser? I never used to actual browser much, instead using it tunnel for eh.. research.
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Jizaboz wrote: Tue May 25, 2021 11:48 pm What are your thoughts on Tor an Tor Browser? I never used to actual browser much, instead using it tunnel for eh.. research.
I've heard of it. Don't really know anything about it. Supposedly super secure? I don't do anything online that I need super security for.
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