Thank you... and thanks for the Pizza!

I have a 10-year old Fuji finepix that's sadly on its last legs... after probably close to 100K images.

That makes a lot of sense! Our neighborhas all manners of birdfeeders, some of them close to the fence. That was a very brave ant you saw there! Life will find a way!

Ah yes, I vaguely remember something similar from growing up in Denmark. I don't think we have them here in western Washington... or at least I havent seen any.

This is awesome, @crimsonclad! I did retail trade shows and conventions for 13 years so yes, it is a huge and ambitious amount of work, but it can also serve as a huge "tipping point" for a

I'm up the road in Washington, and the UBI discussion has gone around here, as well. I'm skeptical, but mostly in the context of the US collective value system, with respect to how we view money; our

That is definitely a plus, yes. I have lots of friends in California, still, and they have pretty much declared the long drought at an end, with many of the reservoirs getting close to "full pool,"

It does seem to be "strange" everywhere. We usually start seedlings in the garage; I worry they are going to get very "long and leggy" if we don't get some outdoor warmth sooner rather

Your summers are probably much like the summers back when I lived in Texas... too hot to grow anything, so the "seasons" were fall to early winter, and late winter till the end of spring.

Does feel like the weather is "weird" these days! You must be pretty high in the mountains to have frost nearby, at this time of the year?

I would definitely welcome some warmer days! Currently our 10-day forecast doesn't include a single day with 50 (10C) or above... in most years, we've had our first 60-degree (15C) day by now. Can't say

Hi Tengo, appreciate the thoughtful comment... I really need to get more onboard with Threads; I've typically gone pretty "light" on anything related to LeoFinance because so little of my content

I can't help but think that a substantial part of the issue can be traced back to a post-WWII notion that "automation" would be humanity's golden ticket to more leisure time. Now, we haven't

First, thanks for the thoughtful comment. As I briefly mentioned elsewhere, I was originally drawn to this whole circus because I was interested in the Internet of PEOPLE, 25 years back; fascinated by

Which sort of points back to the whole honesty vs. deception issue... and with that, the sad reality that a significant percentage of humanity is given to "behaving badly" in the presence of

Lying is bad. Lying about it (by omission) was a substantial part of what made bid bots a problem. If the presence of a "PROMOTED CONTENT" label had immediately appeared on any post with a bid

Yes, a very valid point. I remember back on "Hive 1.0" there was a significant movement trying to emphasize the community as being part of "The Internet of PEOPLE" rather than "The

"Community cats" seem to be becoming a more commonplace thing to see around the world. I love cats (even helped care for a feral cat colony near my work, many years ago) but feral cats only

Seems like it doesn't really matter what we do, something is always going to go in an unexpected direction!

I have no idea where it's all going to end. The more elaborate the security gets, the more elaborate the hacking tools will get. As for that saying, I learned it from a Lebanese college buddy who grew