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Crossposted from https://lemmy.ca/post/71139887

The Orange Boy is at least 18 years old (as near as we can figure). And the little kitten isn't quite a year old yet (she's got a couple months to go yet)

My wife has 2 other cats also and these two have been inseparable since Silly Cilla arrived at our front door on a freezing morning late last October. Kitty Kitty, the old one, has put up with her pushing her way next to him since nearly day one.

I'll flip a coin and it's heads or tales

Last week, President Donald Trump announced that if Republicans prevail in this year’s midterm elections, he would provide everybody with a $5,000 dividend check. People reacted as if he’d said something crazy, like “Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is ineligible to be president of the United States”—by which I mean they dismissed his ravings as one more Trumpian oddity and not what it really was: the disqualifying lunacy of a corrupt jackass. A few brave souls gently raised concerns that this was tantamount to a bribe. Those who wanted to add something substantive to the conversation pointed out just how much this idea would cause inflation to spike. I don’t recall anyone saying the obvious thing: A $5,000 payoff would be an implicit admission that he and his party’s reckless policies wrecked the economy and spawned a nationwide affordability crisis.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose flock of lawmakers would ostensibly be the people who would find this money—more than $1 trillion—and appropriate it, told Kristen Welker in an interview that the so-called “Trump dividend” would be something lawmakers would “process through Congress and talk through and debate and discuss.” That said, nothing is happening anytime soon, because Johnson is sending lawmakers home until the midterm elections so as to avoid having to vote on GOP Representative Thomas Massie’s proposed impeachment of Secretary of “War” Pete Hegseth, who, between psychosexual panic attacks about the masculinity of the soldiers in his presence, is currently getting the belt-to-ass treatment from Iran.

So you might have to wait a while for your $5,000 check. But that doesn’t mean that the Trump dividend hasn’t already been paid out. To the contrary, the president and his congressional enablers have been handing out money left and right. They’ve made people very rich, in fact. It’s something that they’re quite good at doing—at least for a few.

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Yesterday, someone topped up my number with a small amount of credit (pay-as-you-go), and activated unlimited monthly mobile data package.

I still have a data plan (prepaid data, postpaid calls and texts) on my main SIM expiring in a week.

I haven't used any of it (on secondary, of course), and contacted my carrier's tech support stating these appeared unexpectedly. Their response was "We would like to inform you that the credit on your phone number was topped up at a point of sale. The unlimited package was later activated at the same point of sale."
And? Was the tech support person just trying to imply it was likely paid for in cash and I just shouldn't care because they couldn't refund it anyway?

Anyway, one annoying thing about this is that it also activated automatic renewal, so if I wasn't using the number for a few months, I wouldn't notice my remaining credit automatically draining.
Hell, if I had registered for their online account, it would even possibly pay that directly from my debit card on renewal.

Sometimes, a small act of kindness reminds us that we are not forgotten. Yesterday, a beautiful anonymous donation reached my family. I may not know who sent it, but I know what it means to us: some relief, a little hope, and the strength to keep going. Our needs are still here, but so is our hope. If you would like to stand beside my family, here is our campaign: https://gofund.me/1d3ea05b6 #Gaza #Palestine #SupportGaza #HelpMyFamily

It's that time of year to clear out all the beds and get them ready to overwinter garlic and onions.

My pumpkins that i spent days prepping a plot for, tilled, fertilized, automatic irrigation system, didn't do well at all. The potatoes that i yanked from the pantry, let my son cut into pieces and basically tossed too close together in soil that i barely loosened up still full of grass, did amazing.

A 6x18 bed behind a barn that i forgot to water half the time filled this box about 3 times, which weighed around 30lbs each + we've just been pulling them to throw in with dinner for the past few nights.

A couple pest, a couple bad ones, but overall I'm super happy.

I gave a box to each of the neighbors on either side and kept one for myself