Back in the saddle

 I had a lunch date today (the first date this calendar year, unbelievable!) It went exactly like all the rest of them: he talked the whole time. At the end, he said he's not very available and might be moving abroad. 

I'm not totally sure how to take this. He has an unusual schedule because he works long and inconsistent shifts. Either he's trying to get out of staying in touch, or he just wants to make sure my expectations are appropriately low.

He's a nice guy, I wouldn't kick him out of bed, so I wouldn't mind trying a second date (I'm really trying to have appropriate expectations...I want an immediate spark, but maybe the absence of egregious red flags and The Ick is enough). 

Anyway, I gave him my number, it's up to him now if he wants to reach out.

More online dating scams

 For the second time in a month, an eHarmony match contacted me on my WORK email (with the same subject line). I Googled it and got the advice that scammers use reverse image search to find you on LinkedIn or your company website.

The first guy told me he had met someone, and wished me good luck. 

The second person seemed legit - his email sig showed him as a real estate agent, with a local phone number (and, I checked, a LinkedIn profile), but I still don't want to engage with him this way (he says he's not a paid member and can't see my eHarmony messages). I'm debating about reporting the profile, since it seems likely it's not real.

Why am I paying all this money to eHarmony? They have terrible security for the price.

Unserious as usual

 I wasn't really feeling this guy anyway, but then he got on this thing where he wants all the tea from my divorce, weird, and then he suggests I'm deperate and hopeless? wtf? 

Whatever dude

 You've got to have balls the size of Texas to call me patronizing after posting this comment. 

(He only post comments to my FB page a couple times year and it's always to denigrate me in some way...)

Anti-Israel sentiment is tearing the Dems apart and ruining friendships

I posted this after a kind of upsetting conversation with some friends at a happy hour event, where they insisted both that this was true and that it would lead to Israeli soldiers on the streets on American cities (which is just a WILD level of unserious conjecture).  Dems are gonna lose if this is what Democratic voters are focusing on.

But this person is a problem. Still struggling with what to respond to the comments he posted - I ended up saying the ethics lecture thing, hoping he can take the hint - if not I'm probably gonna have to tell him to stay off my wall with this stuff. He's someone I consider a friend, but I have family in Israel, this is not cool with me.

I know this person's views, he has been posting aggressively on his own FB page. It makes me uncomfortable, but I haven't said anything yet (and he's entitled to his opinions, if they're on his wall).

eHarmony is whack

 

eHarmony continues to be a complete waste of money

Bezos strikes back lol

The RCP boys have thoughts (on May 21) about poor, beleaguered Jeff Bezos and his much discussed interview on CNBC's Squawk Box, wherein he says that "doubling" his taxes (notice he did not say "raising") won't help the "teacher in Queens" (which is not wrong, since 2 times ZERO is still zero):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsypO3iFiqA

(The Bezos segment starts around the 10 minute mark.) 

You can watch the full interview (if you have a strong stomach):

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/05/20/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos.html

I was so outraged, I dropped this comment:

Here's the part the RCP guys were agreeing with and I was furious over. First, what AOC said that Bezos was responding to:

AOC laid out her position earlier this month on the podcast, It’s Open with Ilana Glazer: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.”

Bezos responds when speaking to Andrew Ross Sorkin in the CNBC interview:

“Well, it’s not correct on its face. Let me give you a simple example. Let’s say you start a burger joint, and you have ten employees, and you make a little bit of money, right? This is one outlet. And by the way, these are the most delicious burgers in the world. People love your burgers, Andrew. And so then you open a second outlet, right? And now you’re making a little bit more money, and you have 20 employees. And you open a third outlet. By the time you’ve opened 1,000 outlets, you are a billionaire, right? And by the way, this is a real-life story. It happens all the time. It’s In-N-Out Burger. It’s, you know, Raising Cane’s Chicken. At what point did that money all of a sudden become unethical? It didn’t. There was one outlet, and then there were two, and then there were three. The way you make $1 billion or $100 million or $10 million or anything is you create a service that people love. And if millions of people choose your service, you’re going to end up with $1 billion, right?”

 Um, no, not unless you engage in predatory practices with your vendors and steal money from your workers, right?