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dixiegrrrrl

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August 2, 2017

There is now a company that will fill your car gas tank at your house or job

so you do not have to pump your own at stations.

As seen on Gizmodo:

Yet another success for our burgeoning class of Silicon Valley overlords and their relentless quest to delegate all menial tasks in life to some sort of app: Booster, a company which dispatches gas trucks to the parking lots of “private communities” so their inhabitants never need to refill their own gas tanks, is now a thing.

Booster recently raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, per TechCrunch, which has brought the company’s total funding to some $32 million. CEO Frank Mycroft told TechCrunch the service is “reinventing the concept and habit of getting gas for the 21st century,” describing going to the gas station as the “least fun thing in the week.” In practice, that means the company has partnered with tech giants including “Cisco, Oracle and Facebook” to have the trucks stop by on a regular basis and refill employees’ tanks while they are busy ensuring our dystopian future.
http://tinyurl.com/ybqcb6gd





August 2, 2017

General Mattis and General Kelly made a pact with each other.

Mattis and Kelly also agreed in the earliest weeks of Trump's presidency that one of them should remain in the United States at all times to keep tabs on the orders rapidly emerging from the White House, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The official insisted on anonymity in order to discuss the administration's internal dynamics.
http://tinyurl.com/y8vceqnd

AP News, way down at the bottom of a long story about Trump.

They did not...do not...trust Trump.

August 2, 2017

Trumps trust has slashed the price of his St. Martin property from $28 million to $16.9 million.

Sounds like he needs money. Let's see if his Russian friends buy it from him.


pic is here, too

https://twitter.com/PostRoz/status/892456913920831489

August 1, 2017

Poor "Bob" from Microsoft scam has been replaced by Siri voice.

JUST got a recorded call from a robot woman's voice. incorrect grammar and all, about Microsoft Windows problem, they want me to call THEM to speak to a member of their "security team".

I will miss screwing with "Bob"'s calls.

and IRS is suing me, says another robot voice. Have to call them back, too.

It is only Tuesday.

August 1, 2017

New word in the lexicon of Trumpiness

"Mooched"..as in being mooched.


definition I read online:
"getting fired from a job you didn't have yet and saying you resigned before you started"

any others????

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About dixiegrrrrl

Long time political activist, working to tint my lil "Mayberry" more blue. Collector of strays of various species and minds.
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