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So are y'all having the same problem getting info on neighborhood criming? Poor dude visiting my city from Quincy got killed and tossed from his stolen car and the best info I can find is he had lip balm in his pocket. I mean, it's Winter. That's some crackerjack reporting right there. Another poor dude got shot last night a block away and absolutely no info on that. Normally I hear the shots, go talk to the officers. I hate the idea that the only source of info is still the birdsite. WaPo is useless bandwith now. Do we even have news anymore? Got to be a way to fix this news problem. It's gotten to the point where I'm killing the lights on my bike so the murderteens can't get a bead on me when I'm crossing the city at night. We need to federate local news. Coders? Coders, do you copy?

Man, this Cop28 saladbar has just oil and vinegar. Why do we keep going to this UN restaurant for our annual planet-saving celebration?

https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20231203-smog-obscures-dubai-skyline-on-health-day-at-cop28-climate-summit

Dear Tooter, Not so many clickity clacks ago, I found myself surrounded by beige. This plain conveyance can't be the touted Acela train to Boston, I thought. It's the wrong train--nipped at my confidence. Beige ran up to me pawed at my flowery shirt, pulled on my bright white N95 mask. I yanked myself free, plucked a sleek red and yellow Fuji apple from my bag. But corporate 1980s wasn't done yet. A new seatmate was sent to the window seat. "Excuse me", the seatmate announced from behind. I rose to make way and as I turned, the blazing white N95 mask from 43years in the future sucked every last photon off the beige and sprayed them upon his eyes. He threw up his hands, exclaiming, "You're not sick are you?!" He was a tall lad, and a tad loud. "No, are you?!" I replied, even louder from a few inches below. And having fulfilled the 21st century's version of 'I'm OK, You're OK.' we settled back silently into the beige business of northeast train travel.

@AmandaWeaver U gonna kick that spikey ball's butt with your eyes closed.

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/#16L If you're looking for clickbait weather stories with ads then don't go to www.tropicaltidbits.com. www.tropicaltidbits.com only has hard to find in one spot forecasts of serious storms and tells you nothing about better car insurance rates.

Tooters. It is time to create a new delivery business in NE USA. Here are the industry standards you will need to match in order to succeed. 1.workplace should look and operate like a maximum security jail. 2. create a tracking system that obfuscates delivery of product. 3.block customers from talking to employees about your service. 4.damage your service or product, and then deflect about the damage. And the most important, 5. Brand! Brand must trump mission! Such as, all employees must buy and wear brightly branded uniforms. Ok, start thinking, and roll the dice, Youngblood. Try to not lose your soul along the way to a bright new future.

Tooters, may we speak about the heating?

I want this marvelous tank, but in the USA if it's not dutifully expensed in a system then there's no discussing it. This is shameful and we can do better.

This tank used to be called a Rotex, is now called a Smartcube, because in 2023, round is square.

Sold Down Under, yet manufactured in Germany, this Swiss army knife of thermal storage is high tech from the 1970's. So we could make it on any continent, at an affordable price, and have our governing bodies rebate us. We just couldn't call it a smartcube. Let's call it a piggy tank.

You would put all your loose heat in there for a rainy day. I don't know if you've heard but rainy days are coming.

Let's get everyone a piggy tank, ok?

Tooters, and Tootees: May I tell you of https://tropicaltidbits.com for hurricane prognostications? NOAA's staid five-day outlook, and major media's regurgitated clickbait won't assist your plans of world domination, but the above PhD crafted site will.

@skyblond You may need bp and blood sugar measures to sort out suggestions. Panasonic makes a quality battery powered bp cuff. To avoid cost, you might bike to a pharmacy with a bp booth, use same booth for comparisons bc booth readings will likely be off. Urine test is an old, finicky blood sugar method. But I think a food journal, tweaking your diet, will get closer to answers and corrective measure at no cost. Would you toot your progress?

Tooters, I lost my dice roll on keeping my compact ICE car. The computer failed after 217k miles and 15 years. When the computer fails then you are at the mercy of dealership labor cost. And there is no luck or mercy at the dealer. So I got 200bucks and a tow for it on the day registration expired.

Leaping from what once was, to what will be slices away a sliver of hope. Best to have cake ready.

$1k a year, it cost me, to run the ICE machine including feeding the maw of ezpass and making major repairs.

Today's vehicle market is a honeytrap. It must be countered with DIY innovation. That's where you come in. Learn to 3d print, silkscreen and code.

We should be able to 3d print plates, and silkscreen electrolyte to build our in-house fuel cell stack by now. Charge controllers need a hackable realtime processing unit.

Until I get there I'll be rolling the dice while pushing pedals.

Roll well, Tooters.

CDC sez "...enabling wastewater surveillance to capture presence of SARS-CoV-2 shed by people with and without symptoms. This allows wastewater surveillance to serve as an early warning that COVID-19 is spreading in a community."

But my hood is having trouble getting samples because of reasons.

3/4 of a year ago we had no equipment, little staff, and those staffz arms were too short to reach down with the testing cup.

https://dcist.com/story/22/09/22/dc-health-struggles-to-overcome-pandemic-delays-in-wastewater-surveillance-project/

Tooters, roll up your sleeves and email your elected ones, at-large and not at-large. This is an easy fix if we just badger, er, I mean, email them to get on it.

I dont see the data @ CDC waste monitoring or DC Health.

I tried calling them (DC Health) about local data not getting to CDC from the DC mosquito monitoring last year. West Nile, malaria managed to achieve newsworthiness recently. And local infections last year pricked up ears, but, you know... reasons. I couldn't get a response from elected ones, or phone answering ones either. Was told everything was ok. So, need help. More voices may break through and allow non-invasive, public testing already in the pipeline.

Here's where the wastewater monitoring story started in May '22, over a year ago, and still no data gets to CDC or us. https://dcist.com/story/22/05/13/dc-councilmembers-investigation-covid-data/

Finally here is Boston's wicked easy site for comparison: https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm.

[whispering] ...Tooooters! Gather around quietly. DC flagship store REI Coop has affordable bike innertubes. Please quietly spread the word to wrench and screwdriver owners so as to avoid the price-fixing eye of Sauron.

Phew. Tooters. I was working with two local old businesses and one international one. Their pretend social media face [Fbook, 'X'] and the exhausting, useless comms [Web, Phone, Email, brickmortar] with these companies has caused me to walk away. Because their every means of communication is flawed, they don't even know I've stopped doing business with them. You know who hasn't let me down? Mom and Pops on Ebay.

Tooters! Gather around. Are any of you cutting up your SUVs into pickup trucks and putting electric motors on each wheel to be run by a biodiesel friendly fuel cell? Let me know. Ok thanks!

Snake parkour!

Dear Tooters, I think the #mintmobile CS rep might have been pranked by the #tmobile chatbot and is now trapped in the apologytron training booth. Can someone call #RyanReynolds to let them out?

Car relay which I couldn't find at an affordable price two months ago is now at several outlets and 50percent cheaper. This Honda car relay was originally made in Vietnam, the one I can buy today is made in Taiwan. We'll see if it beats the one I could get 60 days ago with no country origin printed on it, and sketchy performance.

#Costco DC cut me off at the pass yesterday. Should have seen them hiding up there in the rocks, waiting for me. 'Badges!? I don't need no stinkin' badges!' Oh, wait, I do have a badge, but my horse could draw a better likeness of me on the back with a black sharpie stuck between its teeth. I've seen those fancy new Daguerreotypes. It looks just like a person. Eh, what's that #Costco? Someone's trying to steal your gold?

@TheOldGuy Dude. We need you. I love this old sawdust suggestion. Do you have new mushrooms encouraged by the sawdust amongst rocks? I will use this dust of saws on the mini roof, and parapet. Thanks.

Tooters, gather around! I want to talk about dirt. We all need to make dirt. We need more dirt. So start loving your arthropods. Make compost and keep it close to your heart: don't send it off to boarding school. Clap and jump when cousin fungus stands and salutes you. Get on the dirt bandwagon, my friends, carbon needs a home, and it's right under your feet.