@riverlover I started having pain in my right lower back before Christmas. I just attributed it to muscle flu. In the ensuing weeks and months the pain spread to the front right, down the abdomen, up the chest, into the arm and neck. I had been running on the premise that which doesn't kill you makes you stranger, and seeing I'm already as strange as can be, I'd be fine.
Turned out I had plenty of gall and it's bladder was rocky as hell. Had it yanked Thursday.
In post-op they ask my pain level, and after six months of unrelenting pain I said I'd have to rate in negative numbers. I felt so good I played with grandkids and dogs like I haven't in months. Now I'm paying the price. I'm sore as hell. I should've taken it easier for a few days.

catastrophic setbacks in my health. But yesterday, I bought replacement tomatoes and peppers because I am still fighting back. I have been introduced to vegetarianism, found some good products, it's a reasonable way to go but for BACON, which I have not had in at least 6 months.

My balance is still iffy, but I am walking a bit more every day. Broken foot (2/early) is healing but still swollen. At least I can get shoes on, occasionally! Now it's just keeping it together, faking when possible, BTDT. Beautiful blue sky here.

@Azazello Thanks for the Kaiser Report, I'll watch later tonight.

Saint John the Baptist is the patron saint of water and his day was traditionally celebrated in the Old Pueblo as the beginning of the summer rainy season. A 30% chance of rain is predicted for tomorrow. It's almost enough to make you a believer.
Did you say bankers ? Here's Max and Stacy on financialization:
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@dkmich
the plot. I started watching it on your recommendation.
Could you explain what it is that you like about it?

I recently finished watching 12 Reasons Why and found it so intense. When she lost the bank money, it reminded me of the things I had done like that and how I felt after doing it.
I am open to recommendations of a great series to watch if anyone has some.

Inoticed it around 8:30, but I decided to wait and ended up side tracked.

I am still pouting over Sense8 being disrespectfully dumped by Netflix. I have never watched a show that made me feel so emotionally attached to the characters and wishful for the plot. Imagine would it would be like if you had seven friends around the world who all showed up every time you needed help.

@eyo Sorry to hear about the celery, that ticks me off, I like celery.

From the "Why I don't trust the Food Supply in GroovyTown" Dept.: 18 Salinas farm workers hospitalized after pesticide exposure

...Investigators from the commissioner’s office interviewed the workers at the hospital and took their clothing in for testing after learning of the exposure at 8:30 a.m.

Two fields nearby were treated with pesticides Lannate, Coragen, Movento, Pounce, Actara and Fulfull and fungicides Revus and Previcur around 10 p.m. on Wednesday.

Hospital officials said a supervisor from Tanimura and Antle said Lannate, the trade name for methomyl, may have been the culprit, but the county investigation is ongoing.

The county agricultural commissioner and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation are investigating the exposure and report the incident to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state agencies because of the number of victims, officials said.

What if it were only 15 workers? Or 10? What's "the system" cutoff for investigating poisoning? Never mind. I don't eat much celery it is hard to digest. But it makes a great chilled snack during summer months I think, carrots too. Organic does cost twice as much here, can't afford to make a healthy choice so "out of sight, out of mind" but then I am part of the problem again. I am really really appreciating my fresh egg spinach and mushroom scrambles, feeling better than usual simply eating fresh food from the farm market. thanks

Trade names

Common names for methomyl include metomil and mesomile. Trade names include Acinate, Agrinate, DuPont 1179, Flytek, Kipsin, Lannate, Lanox, Memilene, Methavin, Methomex, Nudrin, NuBait, Pillarmate and SD 14999 [7]
Toxicity

In acute toxicity testing, methomyl is placed in EPA Toxicity Category I (the highest toxicity category out of four) via the oral route and in eye irritation studies.[6] It is in lower Toxicity Categories for inhalation (Category II), acute dermal effects (Category III), and acute skin irritation (Category IV). Methomyl is not likely to be a carcinogen (EPA carcinogen Category E).[6]
Ecotoxicity

Methomyl has low persistence in the soil environment, with a reported half-life of approximately 14 days.[8] Because of its high solubility in water, and low affinity for soil binding methomyl may have potential for groundwater contamination.[6][7] The estimated aqueous half-life for the insecticide is 6 days in surface water and over 25 weeks in groundwater.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methomyl
At least it is "not likely" to be a carcinogen, although that could mean "not likely ever studied" or "study likely never released" or similar. May those workers be cared for until fully healed, forever.

peace
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Speaking of No Bankers: Cannabis labor organizer enters plea in Oakland to fraud, money laundering

According to Rush’s plea agreement, in January 2010 a marijuana entrepreneur loaned Rush $500,000 in cash, ostensibly to be used to develop pieces of real estate property under Rush’s control.

Rush promised to pay the entrepreneur $3,000 in interest per month for 5 years and then pay the balance in a lump sum in January 2015.

But Rush knew that the money he borrowed had been earned in connection with illegal marijuana cultivation activities and that therefore the money was the proceeds of unlawful activity, prosecutors said.
...
Rush used his position in the UFCW to make official recommendations to government entities for the individual’s marijuana business and accepted at least $250,000 of debt forgiveness from the individual, according to prosecutors.

Selective quoting but "That's the system". Just avoid the bankers and the politicians, that's all.

@riverlover @riverlover

Apparently that's an scam that's been around since at least 2014. One of my roommates got one of those the other day, said that he was told that his computer was shut down because of porn? on my computer? (didn't occur to him that even if I'd actually had porn on mine, [which I wouldn't, unless some virus installed something] - who'd shut anyone's computer down over that? The NSA and other guys'd probably just watch it, lol. Or that even if it was some shut-down internet issue that it would have been my computer shut down, not his, or the internet access to the whole house) - so he clicked on the number on his screen and did whatever they told him to do... I know nothing about debugging myself, but he couldn't get what they told him to do to save (looked like a phony CCleaner 'link' on his NOTEPAD???) and wanted to get back to a Facebook game so, not knowing what to do, I unplugged his computer and when it came back on was warned about data loss, so hope whatever virus/whatever may have been implanted doesn't take, since they (Edit: it's my other roommate's computer he was using, and none of us can afford replacements...) didn't want to bother with it - but personally, I'd assume that there's a key-logger or something nasty on there, in both his case and yours.

There seem to be a number of different versions of this scam, but there also seem to be instructions on the internet for identifying and removing specific bugs, if you can find a scam listed that's identical to your own. And good luck!

been detected, it was a talking (irritating) warning I could not silence except for speaker control. I was supposed to call MS tech dept (riiiight). On Sat Morning, ET? I knew I would be talking to India.
I restarted my machine, and all is good.If anyone gets an alarm, contact me. My anti-malware scan was clean. Grrrr.