Expiration dates however, are another matter. If/when you can find them on packaging, they’re often unreadable/worn off/too tiny to see without magnification.

I wish the Feds would force manufacturers to print the expiration date either on the white nutrition label, or directly above the UPC code — 8 pt or larger black type on white background.

They make SD card adapters for the C64 — much easier if you cant get the floppy drive to work. You might search for topics like “1541 drive alignment” and “1541 head clean” on YouTube (or 1581 if it’s that drive model).

The original 1970s “Survivors”. Avoid the awful remake.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072572/

This kind of stuff should require a warrant.

A protest vote is never meaningless. Sure, they probably don’t own enough stock to kick these people out — but that rising number on the vote tally sends an interesting message.

There was a time when smart people at Apple went off to form new ventures and bring talent with them — companies like Nest and General Magic for example. You don’t see much of that anymore. I do wonder if missteps like this will inspire employees to do this sort of thing again.

Lily Tomlin didn’t go to great lengths to hand Trump a participation trophy. As a queer, I think it’s fascinating to see gay people who do stuff like this.

This often repeated correlation doesn’t make sense to me. Alcohol consumption has actually been in decline for years — but cancer in young people is on the rise.

https://finance.yahoo.com/healthcare/articles/us-alcohol-consumption-remains-time-111500986.html

SCOTUS will probably rule something like “Money is speech. Not allowing people to gamble away their life savings is a violation of the 1st amendment!”

Pretty sure a lot of of these Apple employees own stock in the company. Perhaps they should remember to cast their vote when it comes time for board elections.

I think at one point he wrote his own books. But I’d be surprised if he even writes the outlines for his novels anymore. His publisher is using his name as a brand now, and slapping it on books “co-written” by celebrities. Who knows how involved the celebs are past book promotion.

So did she actually say this? Or is this just a made up quote attributed to her?

It’s just Tim’s Newton. We’ll get something better in ten years, like we got the iPhone. But I don’t know that it will come from Apple unless we get someone more creative in the leadership role.

Cook is chairman of the board now. He hasn’t really gone anywhere.

Corpus is screwed because they sold all their drinking water to industry on the cheap. Without desalination they will have to import drinking water from somewhere else at great expense, if anyone is going to remain living there. Even then, the industries will probably demand the desalination plant one way or the other. They’re just kicking the can down the road. It’s not like these people actually care about pollution. If they did, they wouldn’t have invited in all these companies to take their water. And they wouldn’t be floating the idea of buying desalinated water from someone else instead of just building their own plant.

https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2026-07-13/corpus-christi-tx-water-valero-subsidy-rates-industry-energy-utilities

https://apnews.com/article/corpus-christie-water-emergency-190d7c58c9d9dbf728a41881b9370939

I don’t think this new CEO is going to last more than a year. He has all the charisma of Gil Amelio.

At least he shelved the Apple Vision headset. Hopefully he also canned the Apple Glasses and AirPods with camera that were rumored.

I just wanted to thank you for posting all these Texas-related articles. You’re keeping this sub alive.

Ford sold many of the bestselling global sedans. They stopped making them because the profit margins are higher on SUVs.

https://www.theautopian.com/the-ford-focus-was-once-the-best-selling-car-on-the-planet-now-its-dead/

Sometimes it is. Sometimes the original article is paywalled, and linking to yahoo or msn gets around that.

I’m more concerned with IKEA’s quality decline than I am its prices. Lots of tacky crap made of virgin plastic these days. Even many of the sheet sets are 100% polyester and the towels they’re selling now are threadbare. Silicone spatula sets that aren’t designed to be used at cooking temperatures. Melamine plates that expose you to microplastics and can’t be used in the microwave. It also doesn’t help that their current seating designs are so low to the ground.

There are still some decent finds there, but it’s getting harder to see them through all the dollar store crap. I guess lowering the prices might help move this inventory, but I’m still not planning on buying any of it.

Cuellar almost lost his primary to an actual progressive — in Texas! This is why it’s important to vote in your local primaries.