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Ironically those go for more now on eBay than they originally cost.

Same here. Greenfield has a great “alternative” public elementary school that we’ve been at for the past five years. We have truly loved it but losing a year of quality time there really sucked. Now he is moving on to a new school. I had to keep the sunglasses on at pick up today because I was a little bit weepy.

@RUNNAWAYICEBERG Your time has come. https://www.theday.com/statenortheast-news/20210617/connecticut-lawmakers-legalize-recreational-marijuana

Even most of the above wage slave tiers, are still, basically, domesticated critters on the tax farm.

It's been making the rounds around here for weeks. I had it combined with allergies and was wrecked for a few days.

Viruses mutate constantly, there must be dozens and dozens of variants at this point.

I really started to notice the difference in W MA this week. People are finally relaxing a bit. Mask use went way down this week over last.

One of the worst tick years I have ever seen. Out of control all over SNE. The weird thing is I'm seeing them up in the hilltowns in places I've never gotten them before.

You might have to wait until December for that.

You haven’t had enough?

Or swine flu was going to destroy humanity a few years ago.

They will ruin their economies and compromise the mental health of the population.

Gorgeous day! We may not have the ocean near us but we find our spots to cool off in WNE.

GFS looks pretty seasonable the next 10 days. Maybe a few days in the low 80's later in the period.

It’ll be tough to get the snow to stick to pavement.

Overcast now but was mostly sunny until about an hour ago. High of 74° before the clouds moved in.

Sounds like Newark.

Read minds think alike!

Yeah, that’s a good one. Noam Chomsky’s “Turning the Tide” is a good look at US Central American policies. Brutal. I am old enough to remember Iran-Contra scandal. they were plenty of people in the United States defending Reagan, Ollie North and Casper “the friendly defender” Weinberger. It was bad enough that the US was illegally selling arms to Iran and then using the money to illegally sell arms to the Nicaraguan contras. However, the planes flying the illegal weapons out of Arkansas into Central America were also returning loaded with cocaine to sell on the streets of the US and creating the crack epidemic. Bush family was widely implicated as having ties to the illegal cocaine imports and Clinton was Governor of Arkansas at the time. Fun stuff.

In the 60’s and 70’s the CIA classified cooperative farms, unions and public libraries warning signs of socialism spreading in Central America. The specter of the “communist threat” has been used as fear porn for decades in the US and most of the sheep bought into it hook line and sinker. It paved the way for the US installing brutal dictatorships in much of Central America. I’m sure that shit is all sanitized in the “approved” high school history books.

yikes, consumer prices jumped 5% in May alone. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/10/cpi-may-2021.html

Buying a little bitcoin on the dip this morning worked out for me.

Clouds on Saturday and today kept us from getting to 90 but I guess there’s still time this afternoon.

86/68. We sweat.