When I was a kid in the Bay Area in California in the 70’s there were dairires that made ice milk and it was like vanilla and chocolate sherbet. I know the texture you are talking about, and yeah, it’s delightful and smooth.

Right now, everyone is terrified of the actual President, Stephen Miller.

Mr. Trump is just a loudmouthed figurehead with dementia that runs interference.

…Were they sold into the idea that when the company is making lots more money it can do lots more good with it?

This. I remember the PR that came out at the time.

More to the point, in America, the USDA regulations allow for hard pack ice cream to have up to 40% of its volume expanded with air.

WAAaaaay back in the early 2000’s after Unilever bought them, I bought a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Vanilla ice cream and got home and it sat on the counter and melted - much to my dismay - (It ended up under a towel and did not get put away.)

When I opened it, the level of ice cream in the container had dropped down by almost a quarter. What the hell? So I got another pint and at that time noticed that it was easier to scoop - a sign that there’s air being incorporated.

Yeah… nope. Done.

Haven’t bought Ben & Jerry’s in over 20 years. (besides, there’s a real homemade ice cream shop around the corner from my home - it’s what I get now and I support the woman that runs it.)

Oh, he’s definitely been having mini strokes, for years. That or the adderal induced lack of sleep is creating psychosis in him.

Or, and this is most likely, he’s just following his own father into the maw of dementia - and that is his personal terror, if the history about his family that I’ve read, is correct.

I wonder if the DOD brass thought that “…Taking America back to when it was great…” meant we’d be using 1950’s technology as well.

Hmmm.

Naah, the dementia that Fred Trump had is already hitting Don.

Hence the MRI - they’re likely looking for the plaques or lesions that form in Alzheimer’s patents.

Some forms of dementia can also change the actual structure of the brain, so they could have been looking at that.

Dementia is inheritable so Don’s likely worried, and to the fact he desn’t sleep, only adds to the risk.

Delightful, no?

Yeah. My husband went out to the pub 6 nights a week. He’s no longer drinking - quit last year - finally! (I quit in 2009)

Seriously, alcohol is overrated.

Some do. Thing is, it’s a BIG world and someone somewhere is being abused and oppressed at all times.

People and countries are also experiencing freedom, growth and democratic expansion.

I don’t think he will be cogent enough to not be shitting himself by 2028. Bannon et. al, keep acting like Trump is a fit, lean, 57 years old and not the fat, addled 79 year old following his own father into the sunset of dementia.

Thing is, it’s gonna hit the rural MAGA folks the hardest.

There’s a part of me that wants to go “I told you so…” which is expected…

But the more cunning part of me wants to leverage their hunger, dismay and rage and work to aim it squarely against Trump and the entire MAGA movement.

Heheheh… I too have apple hardware… running unsupported installs (am currently on Mojave as I require 32-bit support for old peripherals and software), so when Apple tells me to upgrade, it lasts until the System Update checks the hardware then promptly fucks off never to bother me again.

I think am going to ignore Microsoft just like I do Apple and leave the gaming PC with Win10 Pro until I get a second drive for it to run Bazzite on.

Hm.

Well, Microsoft can tell me to upgrade my PC and like with Apple saying the same thing about my Macintoshes - ad nauseam - I can ignore it all. And will.

My PC is for gaming and nothing else anyhow…

Lol! Jesus fuck, you just made me choke in laughter on my breakfast!!

Nicely done and thanks for the morning laugh.

… they dont want thier back/body to be broken by the time they are 30s or 40s…

Tell me you don’t understand the Trades, w/o telling me you don’t understand the trades.

I’m 60 this year, went through menopause over 15 years ago and have no arthritis or back issues whatsoever. This isn’t 1850.

In 45 years of being in the Trades, the heaviest thing I’ve had to lift has been 5 gallon buckets of paint.

In the Trades, one doesn’t have to worry about lifing a person out of a bed either. I’ve known nurses that have fucked their backs doing just that.

Anyone can be in the Trades, and the risk of AI building a house is far less than it is for AI to design some new molecule… and given that President Stephen Miller is chasing the undocumented construction labor out of the country, it’s a field ripe for women to enter into and make great coin, and have almost limitless work.

Ask me how I know.

I think as his dementia takes hold more and more, he’s going to become more erratic and it will be cunts like Steven Miller who step up to push for things. My suspicion is that the GOP is staying silent because there are many senior legislators and connected friends that ran with Epstein and why Trump isn’t releasing those files is because it’s “compromat” that he can leverage tons of people with. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing Roy Cohn would have taught him to do.

I think most are designed to create a more compliant employee.

Thus is exactly it. The diploma is proof that you’re willing to play the game and become a debtor and can be squeezed - HARD - because of it.

Or, as a friend found out the reality of the situation… often employers don’t give a shit about the degree if you can do what you say you can.

Have an acquaintance that started clerking in the northeast for a small company that maintained it’s own mail server. One Windows update later, the mail server collapsed and no one could sort it. Acquaintance managed to fix it in a handful of hours and became the company IT guy.

A decade later he moves to California and finds a job running a mail server for a company doing battlefield simulations for the DOD during Desert Storm.

No degree needed, just can you keep the mail servers up and secure? Sure. No problem. Used that experience to eventually land even better jobs in IT.

Its the skill sets that matter most often. The people that focus on degrees are focusing on the leveraged nature of the fresh faced kids coming out of schools - they can be run like tops while they’re still paying off the loans. And they are.

You’re not paying for the education, you are paying teachers and university buildings/materials.

Bingo. When my mom went to the University of New Hampshire in 1962, they had one cafeteria in the Student Untion Building and the athletics was run out of a “field house” built in the 40’s and the students in dorms slept on WWII surplus cots in a room with 4 others. The amenities were sparse, to say the least.

60+ years later, it’s all spiffy amenities, a huge arena with the bells and whistles for the athletics department and shared rooms with washer/dryer hookups and a Memorial Union building that contains the restaurant/cafeterias “dining halls” now… and the cost soared once the flashy stuff was added in.

Thing is, it’s been a self-feeding spiral as schools raised prices, parents demanded more luxuries for their little darlings, so the schools went into a upgrade game with each other that took on the tint of a competition and it just furthered the pressure on the price to rise.

The education - the actual purpose of the schools - seems to have gotten lost in the game of chasing after the money.

This is part of why I’ve been telling my friends kids to aim for a trade school with an apprenticeship or journeymen’s program tied to it. Done right, the kids can come out of the school go right into paid training and be debt-free and working by the time they’re 20.

And honestly, given how shit the quality of housing built in the last few decades has been, it’s gong to be a guarantee that repair and maintenance is the wave of the future.

Sause: Have been in the Trades since 1980…

OMG, yes… Poor Roman Brady on Days of Our Lives… He was made and remade - though granted, Drake Hogestyn did a bang-up job as Roman/John Black.