LASTPASS has dropped support for Mac OSX application.
No appologies; just dropped.
Sigh!
I’m testing BITWARDEN and Apple’s PASSWORD app.
Not that I’m an “influencer”, but I have RECOMMENDED LASTPASS for a long time. Removing it’s availability from a key computer platform is short sighted at best and dumb at worst.
IMHO
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Makes a lot of sense to me.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein
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“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.
Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!
Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!
Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”
GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26
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Still as true to me as it was then.
FAFO
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https://jeffjacoby.com/28453/84-years-of-not-suffering-fools
84 years of not suffering fools
by Jeff Jacoby — December 7, 2020
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Walter E. Williams taught economics to university students for 47 years, the last 40 of them at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He taught his class as usual last Tuesday, then died suddenly some hours later. His death did not go unnoticed — lengthy obituaries appeared in both the New York Times and the Washington Post — but the news ricocheted with particular velocity through the world of conservatives, libertarians, and free-market economists: To us, Walter Williams was a rock star.
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From How to Live in Peace (2017):
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The liberty-oriented solution to the school prayer issue is simple. We should acknowledge the fact that though there is public financing of primary and secondary education, it doesn’t follow that there should be public production of education. . . .
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I read Walter Williams as soon as I found out about him. He led me to Thomas Soul. Together they formed my opinions on Gooferment, Gooferment Skrules, politicians, and bureaucrats.
Clearly and concisely, they demolished the welfare / warfare state with its one-size fit all solutions. Good thing the Gooferment doesn’t produce shoes.
Argh!
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I was devastated when my father abandoned me — yet liberals make excuses for broken homes
By Adam B. Coleman
Published March 30, 2025, 3:54 p.m. ET
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A child growing up in a broken home automatically puts them at a disadvantage. Studies across the board show that children of two-parent families have a better chance of success in education, in business . . . in life. Yet too often, society doesn’t do enough to encourage these unions, even saying it doesn’t matter. In his new book, “The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation & Ignores The Pain Of Child Neglect,” Adam B. Coleman explains how this is a terrible mistake of selfishness. An excerpt:
Why didn’t my father love me? Why did my father abandon me?
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This really hit home.
I can still feel the “sting” of rejection. And, these and other questions just get suppressed. Maybe I should have been in “therapy”? Even though that was unheard of.
At some point in time, one has to “grow up”, “grow a pair”, or “just accept the cards that life deals you”.
Shut up and move on.
But especially as the “game clock” winds down, the “Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! “ thinking emerges. How would I have been different and how would my life have evolved differently.
Unfortunately, there’s no “time” VCR to remind and rerun / retry life.
“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45
I guess every child feels this and maybe that’s why things are this way now.
One of the many many things we’ll never know.
Sigh!
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Here’s an original thought:
If there is a minium age for political office, why can’t we have a maximum age for it. I suggest your full benefit retirement age for Social Security.
#agelimitforpoliticians
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FROM PRIME VIDEO
The Resistance Fighter
The Resistance Fighter tells the incredible true story of the Polish “James Bond” war hero Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, a man of extraordinary courage, who served as an emissary between the commanders of Poland’s resistance movement and the Polish government in exile in London at the height of WWII.
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I doubt I’d ever have, or would have had, the courage to act in this fashion.
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What They Don’t Tell You About C-Sections
Analysis by A Midwestern Doctor — March 28, 2025
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Many traditions throughout history have come to view one’s birth as one of the most important moments in a human’s life as it sets the stage for all that follows. Unfortunately, much in the same way we desecrate the death process by over-medicalizing it (to the point research has found that doctors are less likely to seek end of life care at a medical facility1), the same issue also exists with childbirth.
Many physicians I know who are familiar with the hospital birthing process chose to skip it and give birth at home (along with many more doctors featured in a 2016 documentary2).
Conversely, a minority of childbirths do need advanced medical care. For those mothers, access to a hospital greatly benefits them, particularly if actions are taken to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of hospital birth.
As such, childbirth occupies a similar place as many other medical controversies; neither side of the issue is entirely correct. However, the data clearly shows the risk of routine C-sections outweighs their benefits so this article will attempt to expose what they aren’t tell you about them.
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I was particularly interested in all the stats that were provided. As well as the anecdotal evidence from the New Zealand Maoris, “getting a spark”, and the old practice of doctors would wack a baby’s soles to trigger a vigorous cry. I thought it was a smack on the butt.
In survival school, one of the mandatory lessons was about emergency child birth. The essence was to do as little as possible until real help arrived. Keep patient level, legs elevated, clean newspapers to keep the area as sterile as possible, get the baby crying (really), on mom’s chest, and don’t touch the cord. And to ignore everything we’d seen on TV. Laugh!
Came close twice, but no cigar. In the closest case, commuting into NYC on a train, after the paramedics took her away, the old gent came up and complimented me on doing everything right. Even mentioning the newspaper bedding and “sheets”. He said he a was the head of obstetrics at Saint Vincents and would have intervened if I was doing anything wrong. His reticence was due to the malpractice law that rendered me immune but made him libel. Dumb law. I was almost pooping MY pants that I might have to deliver. Labor pains were a minute intervals. But Saint Simeon the Holy Fool was with me that day.
Glad I never had to make any of these hard decisions as outlined in the article.
I would hope that the incentive structure for “health care” gets straightened out.
Argh!
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GameStop’s Bitcoin Move Looks Bold—But It Might Be Brilliant
By Nick Ward — March 26, 2025
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This week, GameStop quietly updated its investment policy to include Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. With approximately $4.78 billion in cash—nearly 37% of its $12.9 billion market cap—this move marks more than just a diversification of reserves.
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For companies with material cash holdings, the erosion of purchasing power is no longer theoretical—it’s measurable. Over the past decade, the U.S. dollar has declined in real terms by more than 25%, driven by inflation, expansionary monetary policy, and global fiscal uncertainty.
Bitcoin presents a compelling counterweight to this degradation, particularly for balance sheets with the flexibility to tolerate mark-to-market volatility in pursuit of long-term strategic payoff.
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Now a corporation doing this can spend resources ensuring the security of its assets.
However, the average consumer retail type needs to be extremely careful not to lose their “wallet”.
Considering the 25% loss of purchasing power over 5 years, that can put a hole in anyone savings.
It’s the same problem as Social Security “Insurance” (see my many rants about that — the prepaid Death Tax). You pay in with “good” dollars say in 1970 and get out “bad” dollars that have lost 90+% of their purchasing power.
Given the state of Gooferment finances (i.e., the current 140T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with) how does one preserve wealth in this disastrous era.
I, personally, have some savings, but not enough, in ₿itcoin, gold, silver, and Goldbacks. As always YMMV.
How does the consumer, to use a military term, “get small in your hole”? Where is your “underground bunker” for this “tornado”. Everyone should have one.
In the pre-1913 era, you could save your gold dollars in jar or bury some in your back yard. Then in your old age you’d find that the money had actually increased a little in purchasing power. What can you do today?
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https://nypost.com/2025/03/25/us-news/mystery-winner-of-83-5m-lottery-may-never-see-her-money/
Mystery winner of whopping $83.5M lottery may never see her money — due to a sudden technicality
By Isabel Keane — Published March 25, 2025, 9:53 a.m. ET
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A Texas woman with a winning $83.5 million lottery ticket may never get her mega payout because officials are investigating the app she used.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, bought $20 worth of Texas Lotto tickets for the Feb. 17 drawing on the app Jackpocket — a lottery courier service state lawmakers are now trying to ban.
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Why is the Gooferment involved in gambling in the first place?
And, if the “courier service” is a legal business now, what’s the problem?
Will the State refund all the tickets purchased thru the app?
I don’t think so.
And, economics experts have all pointed out that these State run games are a tax on the poor. As well as provide lucrative “jobs” for Gooferment bureaucrats.
Like so many other things run by the Gooferment, the private sector could do it better and give the players a better prompter payout.
Argh!
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Racing car with 4 brothers from NJ somersaulted before diving from overpass
Dan Alexander — Published: March 24, 2025
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PHILADELPHIA — A New Jersey man who was behind the wheel of a car that crashed off a Route 95 overpass on Friday night remains hospitalized with one of his siblings after their two brothers died in the wreck.
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What can one say when stupidity results in a disaster?
I guess that’s why the universe delivers 1.04 boys to 1.00 girls in population studies.
Only the puppy was “innocent”.
Sometimes the “Darwin Award” is funny like the man hitting the sleeping crocodile because he want to see some action. In this case, it’s just sadly needless.
I feel for their parents and friends.
Old enough to know better; now will never grow old.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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