Just making a test post to see if everything is still normal...

 An “agreement in principle” between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would raise the nation’s legal debt ceiling, but now Congress has only days to approve a package that includes spending cuts and would avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default.The compromise announced late Saturday risks angering both Democratic and Republican lawmakers as they begin to unpack the concessions. Negotiators agreed to some Republican demands for increased work requirements for recipients of food stamps that House Democrats had called a nonstarter. But bargainers stopped short o... Read More

A former employee told the family the freezer door’s latch had been broken for months. Arby's refusal to repair the latch is directly being blamed on a woman's death. She got locked in after hours and froze to death. This is why we need to get rid of all these large chain stores, they simply do not care until they get hit in the wallet.

Sunday, May 28, is National Hamburger Day – and, apparently International Hamburger Day, too!So eat up!!

https://evertix.io/event/lita-ford-dokken-at-labadie-rib-fest/?fbclid=IwAR1w_gli4rg9_cb2--3Dwl2IpUz7ieta54tvvz_liH4mPUJB60Broh0pOpELITA FORD & DOKKEN at Labadie Rib FestSat, July 29, 2023 (5:00 pm - 11:30 pm)America/Detroit    Veterans Memorial Park, Labadie Rib Fest215 Jf Kennedy Dr, Bay City, MI 48706, USASATURDAY JULY 29thLita Ford is an English-born American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the lead guitarist for the all-female rock band the Runaways in the late 1970s, and then embarked on a successful glam metal solo career that hit its peak in the late 1980... Read More

DETROIT — Ford Motor will partner with Tesla on charging initiatives for its current and future electric vehicles in an unusual tie-up between the two rivals, CEOs of the automakers announced Thursday.Under the agreement current Ford owners will be granted access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada, starting early next year, via the use of an adapter. And, Ford’s next-generation of EVs — expected by mid-decade — will include Tesla’s charging plug, allowing owners of Ford vehicles to charge at Tesla Superchargers without an adapter, making Ford among the... Read More

The Nasdaq Composite closed out its fifth-straight weekly gain on Friday, jumping 2.5% in the past five days, and is now up 24% this year, far outpacing the other major U.S. indexes. The S&P 500 is up 9.5% for the year and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down slightly.Nvidia drove this week’s rally, surging 25% to a record on better-than-expected earnings. It's looking a lot like AI is the new dot com surge. Nvidia'a rise is mostly due to AI companies like microsoft and OpenAI purchasing huge amounts of the copanies processing power geared towards AI from Nvidia. It's interesting to ... Read More

ChatGPT is only one of the many increasingly popular chatbots. Other AI chatbots can lighten your workload by writing emails and essays. Bing ChatGPT features:     OpenAI's most advanced LLM, GPT-4Has access to the internetWorks like a search engine with information on current events    Price: FreeIn early February, Microsoft unveiled a new AI-improved Bing, which runs on GPT-4, the newest version of OpenAI's language model systems which is more capable and reliable. On May 4, Bing's chatbot moved from limited preview to open preview, meaning that everyone ca... Read More

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O), owner of Facebook, slashed jobs across its business and operations units on Wednesday as it carried out its last batch of a three-part round of layoffs, part of a plan announced in March to eliminate 10,000 roles.Dozens of employees working in teams such as marketing, site security, enterprise engineering, program management, content strategy and corporate communications took to LinkedIn to announce that they were laid off.

The Impending Depletion: Running Out of Oil in 33 YearsThe world's finite supply of oil, our primary source of energy for decades, is gradually depleting. With the current rate of consumption and the potential for increased demand, it is becoming increasingly plausible that global oil reserves could run out within the next 33 years.  1.   Escalating Consumption:    The first factor leading to the potential depletion of global oil reserves is the ever-increasing global oil consumption. Over the past few decades, oil consumption has risen steadily, driven by population g... Read More