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"Then came the ads." One, from a group supporting Abdul, tied the cost of groceries to America’s support for Israel." Then came the ads? You mean Al-sayed and his supporters weren't saying the same things the entire time. Really? It's "anti-Semitic" to point out the Iran war is driving inflation? GMAFB.

The leadership is corrupt. They give FA about their constituents. They stand for nothing. It would take a lot of pressure from certain members of Congress AND the public to bring accountability. I don't see it happening.

No worries, Bernard. The people have spoken!

I want hydrogen. It emits water vapor. But let's hook up to the grid and burn coal as well as use nuclear power plants as well. Not that I'm in the market. The priced of new cars are obscene.

The market has seen fit to...? This market of which you speak seems imperious. It doesn't seem to rest on a solid foundation nor to factor in the matter of the relation between the individual and society in neither an economic nor a social sense. Why would one assume the military should be privatized? There have always been mercenaries, but leaving this aside, how could a privatized military have an allegiance to a constitution? This is a rhetorical question. It couldn't. Our Constitution contains the provision that the military is under civilian command. This person's adventures are inconsistent with it. Also, this person's father's fortune, and his own, were built on literal slavery. It's a mining fortune held by apartheid fascists and slave owners. And, this is to say nothing about this person spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy US elections. IMHO, "oligarch who wants to take over the world" is a good theme for comedy, but not so much of a good idea in real life.

Hope Johnson gets quite a spanking, not the kind he wants, but one that hurts nonetheless.

I'm so dumb! The dental office was having an all day Halloween costume party. I don't celebrate Halloween plus I can be somewhat too literal at times in social situations if that makes sense. I failed to notice. This was the day of my initial appointment. I thought the receptionist was a security guard. Hahaha! She was very beautiful and charming too which didn't help matters. Omg.

I remember it though I never watched it. I remember seeing ads for it

OMG! I think a lot of people (including my mother!) kind of try to do something in return to scammers, and I’ve done that thing where you just respond to every question with a different question back at them until they hang up. (It’s kind of funny tbh!) So this is a good reminder that just hanging up is probably best! Yikes!

So to make a note of it- My Casio digital is F-91W. It's a decades old classic. Actually it's one of the most famous digital watches. It's old school size designed before the world headed in the big watch direction. It has time (duh), military time, calendar, alarm, stopwatch, the ability to perform a "grandfather-like clock" function, and a backlight function. I have a hard time seeing any of it because I'm farsighted. I have bought this same watch over decades. I used to be able to read it as clear as day. Life. It has 3 physical buttons. There's a very completed set of instructions about which button to press, which to press simultaneously, and which to press and hold, in which sequence, to hack it, let alone other functions. It's easy to press and hold to turn on the back light. That's about it for my old self. My plan is to let the battery die and keep the watch, and continue to wear it occasionally. I wouldn't be without one. I can't set it. And inflation. I've told this story but my Casio analog, white dial, small Arabic numerals (the large numerals variant came later) went from $13 to $29 in the most recent price hike (for a watch that never had price hikes). So I'm not paying for another digital, and the analog will get a battery replacement. Interesting trivia- There's an urban legend that OBL used this watch to detonate the Twin Towers on 9/11. Yes, even though airplanes were involved. Yes, even though OBL wasn't in the US on 9/11. Yes, it makes no sense at all. But the urban legend continues.

@RealPlayer thank you!

I found out my dead Amana washer has about 15 electronic parts that can fail AND all of its electronic parts are proprietary. It's a $650 retail machine with a market price of $450. It would cost $200- $300 to fix it. I will have it removed from my house, from where it sits, taken to an appliance graveyard. Nevermind the exigencies nvolved. I don't care. And one with WiFi? When hell freezes over.

A great date in those teenage years for when headlights are approaching.

@RealPlayer said: too clean, sterile side. Yep, I think that's what I'm hearing and of course @adagiom 's comments. @AdagioM said: It would be interesting to ask your uni tuner if he tunes the Fazioli. I know that he doesn't any more, because he is fully retired, but I don't know if he used to. I also don't know how long they've had the Fazioli, but for some reason I think it's somewhat recent. Anyway, I'll ask the next time he's here. @rontuner are you semi-retired now or still keeping a full schedule? (my memory is semi-retired?) How many pianos do you think you see, or used to see, a month?