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You would think that bars would hate Dry January.
Ontario, California’s Strum Brewing Company embraces it.
In a Facebook post it welcomes Dry Januarians with its non-alcoholic offerings.
• **Alcohol-free Slushies** (yes, still fun 👀)
• **Sodas** & NA beers**
• **Flavored Waters & Hop Water**
• **Scrumptious Cookies, Beef Jerky, Pretzels, Pork Rinds , Garlic Peanuts, and soon Hummus & Toum**
• Cozy vibes & good company all month long 🎶🐾
Strum Brewing is on Euclid Avenue in downtown Ontario.
Unchecked disinformation runs wild in this Slashdot story, contributed anonymously.
“Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn’t even work as a national ID. But that’s what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now considers unreliable, even though getting one requires providing proof of citizenship or lawful status in the country.”
The anonymous Slashdot contributor is either a liar or a fool. As I noted back in May after Leonardo Garcia Venegas’ first detainment (I didn’t know he was detained a second time), a REAL ID was NEVER intended to prove citizenship.
Here are California’s non-citizen REAL ID requirements, which are federally acceptable:
“This includes all U.S. citizens, permanent residents who are not U.S. citizens (Green Card holders), and those with temporary legal status, such as recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and holders of a valid student or employment visa.”
But since the REAL ID expiration date matches the date at which temporary legal status expires, it DOES prove legal presence.
Slashdot, get your facts straight.
Postscript: Slashdot lifted its claims from Reason.
If our AI twins are allowed to violate space and time, then mine will parachute into Times Square.
The real me, safely on the ground, wishes Bredemarket prospects, clients, and supporters a Happy New Year.
The end of the old year means the beginning of a new one.
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2025 has been a year of declutterring and focusing.
The declutterring is the hardest. I may still love that long sleeve shirt with holes in the right elbow. (Why always the right elbow? I’m left handed.) But it’s no longer good for me, and I should have gotten rid of it years ago.
Whether it’s a former friend—a great person who went silent and indifferent—or a newsletter from a company that rejected my 2023 job application and only contacted me afterwards because GDPR required it—the time has come to simplify and focus.
Now just a few hundred LinkedIn newsletters and email subscriptions to go.
And to see where I can focus now.
I’ve repeatedly said that your product marketing, or anything you do, benefits when you take the time to explain WHY you’re doing it in the first place.
But sometimes an explanation is unnecessary.
You’ve heard me use the phrase “eat your own wildebeest food.” (Like eating your own dog food, but I differentiate myself from the rest of the world.) When can you eat your own wildebeest food? Let’s take a product marketing example.
I recently encountered a company that does NOT use the product it sells for its own in-house purposes.
The company has a good reason for this. The product is meant for a particular market category, and the company itself doesn’t fall into that category.
Without revealing anything confidential, it’s akin to a bus agency executive using a limo to get to a board of directors meeting. Yes, the executive could take the 61 to the 83 to the 66, but that takes time.
It would be a stretch for the firm to use its product internally. So it uses a semi-competing product for internal use.
Sounds reasonable, right?
I don’t care about reasonable.
The company is sharing a subliminal message, or perhaps a super liminal one: yeah, our product is great, but this semi-competitor is good enough for us so we don’t bother to try to use our own.
By not jerry-rigging its product for its internal needs, the company’s missing an opportunity.
So try to use your own product, even when you shouldn’t. You, your prospects, and your customers will learn a, um, bunch.
Modern videoconferencing technology has its benefits. Today you can stay at home to join a 3 am meeting. 10 years ago you had to drive to work to use the professional videoconferencing equipment.
If you want to move your audience, stick to benefits.
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