A step in the right direction. We’ll see how many cases and changes in lending practices come from this:
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Sauna boats for everyone!
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And then there is this Swiss guy with a wood stove in his street legal Volvo.
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Oh that cheered me up… In case your Schwietzertüütch is a little rough…
He says, he doesn’t like mucking around with car electronics and getting things like the heating fixed on an old car wasn’t worth it. After putting in the stove, however, it got a bit of attention. “I didn’t know we had that many police in Switzerland…” 
Seems it took a little persistence to get a permit for it, but he likes to be independent and it makes it easier to camp out in his car if he’s had a bit much to drink. 
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Before you click this thing, please be advised it’s some intense photography of humans having undergone horrors… which nevertheless shows real human resilience and raw beauty in the face of unutterable hardship that grabs me by my eyeballs, and then my heart.
Moments of joy amid hardship: Siena award winners 2021 – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
There is a phrase in Buddhism (“precious human birth”) about what one makes out of one’s life, with soul intact and consciousness fully claimed.
I salute these people in the pictures.
I have so very much to learn from them all.
ETA: the nature photographs are very nice as well
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I’m not crying, you’re crying.
Oh, so Brady made a video and other stuff.
At first I thought, “I beat cancer, and all I got was this hat.”
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Hope to see this legislation pass and lead to similar measures in other states:
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Sorry, but Brady will need to give away millions of hats before he’s close to breaking even with me.
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Pricey- and who knows how well it meets people’s needs yet. But good to be working on more protection.
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Geordi LaForge VISOR Mark I. Neat!
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Hope this will lead to better background check procedures:
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I haven’t been here for a while, so apologies if this is a repeat, but I just heard about ”The Walk” on the TED Radio hour and it brought hopeful tears to my eyes:
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The holdup to ERA ratification stems from the Trump presidency: In January 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr wrote a memo dictating that the time line for ratification expired in 1979, so the three latest ratifications—Nevada, Illinois and Virginia—were invalid.
But during Thursday’s House hearing, Victoria Nourse—a law professor and the director of the Center for Congressional Studies at Georgetown University Law Center—said the Trump-era memo “is not binding legal precedent.” Article V, the article in the Constitution that sets forward the procedure for amending the Constitution, vests this power solely to Congress.
“We have met the standard of the Constitution,” Nourse later reiterated.
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It reminded me this:
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