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  • Canadians still avoiding travel to the US

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    Good article. It's not just the border towns that are feeling the impact. In Las Vegas, where the latest statistics from Harry Reid International Airport show the number of passengers arriving on WestJet and Air Canada flights plunged 25.2 per cent in 2025 from the year before, some casinos have offered to accept the Canadian dollar at par. A non-paywall version of the Globe and Mail article: https://archive.is/XsAKF
  • Anybody go to a No Kings rally today?

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  • Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

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    I love her.
  • I'm a Piers Morgan fan (humor)

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  • Moving to Italy. Or not.

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    Well, that sucks. BTW, it was a court in the constitutional court (there are about 800 judges) who broke the law (they can judge based on law, they have no basis in law for upholding or overturning an appeal verdict based on the initial trial's findings of fact- as you can see, it's a three tier process) when they overturned the appeal verdict upholding the initial trial's verdict finding of Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend guilty of rape and murder. The boyfriend's family were mafia from Bari, Montreal, and occasionally the Dominican Republic. The court at the constitutional court in this case was controlled by the mafias from the South aligned with the late Prime Minister Berlusconi. In fact, Berlusconi arranged for his office space to be occupied by the defendants' defense attorney. The Knox family (the father) hired a now defunct PR company in Seattle (who also worked for Boeing). It might or might not sound hard to believe but the PR company handed talking points American media outlets. The American media outlets repeated them. This is how the myth of Amanda Knox as a victim of the Italian judicial system was born. A hard look at the evidence and readings of the professionally translated initial trial's transcripts and judges' written verdict (and the same for the appeal) reveal it was an open and shut case. Italy fascinates me (everything about it) but I'm too "Northern European" to have an ability to assimilate. This is academic because I have no way to become a citizen in the first place.
  • Ok, this is AI

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  • Iran (Disclaimer-- the war, not the country)

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    I will look up the assessments of the international monitoring agency. Iran allowed inspections of its nuclear program. Israel has never allowed them. Again, every US intelligence agency (and there are a lot of them) said Iran posed no imminent threat to the US. So, again, it was a war of aggression, an illegal war. Again, it was Israel that influenced Trump's decision. Anyone who bought the "weapons of mass destruction" lie given as a pretext for the US invasion of Iraq is equally incorrect about the war on Iran. This war is backfiring on the US and the global economy. The US should stop acting as a mercenary force for Israel. Israel is a genocidal, ethno-supremacist state, operating on a theocratic belief that God chose it to expand its territory through mass killing. Let them fight their own wars with their own blood and treasure. I am surprised anyone would follow Trump concerning this war. We've complained about him for ten years but now he's competent, rational, and has moral authority? If you want to be a Zionist, be one. If you want to be a Neocon, be one. But, don't expect everyone to agree with an illegal war and crimes against humanity, because you'll be waiting until hell freezes over.
  • The Womanosphere Movement

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    Link to video
  • Look at the shade of green leather in this Audi

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    2019 Hyundai Accent | Carvana https://share.google/t3bMNOiKr6cqln5Wm Practically the same car for sale after last one sold. I'm glad this decision will easy and quick. This is apparently a sub-segment of the market for this year, make, and model. I was talking to a neighbor I know at the pool. We decided to leave at the same time and he offered to give me a ride home in his BMW 3 Series convertible. He's a retired aircraft mechanic and it's his pride and joy. I've never driven or been a passenger in a BMW. I was very pleasantly surprised. I liked his car very much. It was all spontaneous and fun. Oh, and before we left, I complimented a man on his watch, necklaces, and cross pendant. He asked me if I had any watches. I told him about my Casios and told him they don't go under water. He said you like watches? Then he took his Amitron off his wrist and gave it to me. Extraordinary. I felt like I had been blessed.
  • The wtgs could use your long distance support

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    I'm so sorry, wtg. Do you have any updates?
  • Gardening 101 (now with photo)

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    Those blocks Steve showed are very popular around here. I see them often. I didn’t know they were a Home Depot (cough, Trump donor, cough) item. But likely available elsewhere.
  • New words in the OED, 1900 edition

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    @CHAS said: Would like to take a citizen of that time around today's world. let me know when is convenient for you.
  • Videos - AI or not AI ?

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo OpenAI has shut down Sora, its video generation service. Since the platform's launch, Sora made $1.4m in global net in-app revenues, compared to $1.9bn over the same period for ChatGPT, ... ... it was "a resource black hole" with "limited monetisation". "The platform struggled to prevent the creation of non-consensual imagery and realistic misinformation, not to mention major copyright infringement," ...
  • Afroman!!

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  • The New Rapper-Prime Minister of Nepal Balendra Shah

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    Well, it's pretty clear where his loyalty can be found.
  • Entertainment news (discretion advised, not pleasant)

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    Link to video I understand they have to cover this, and in fairness I saw what it said, and then skipped over it. But this is only the surface layer. Of course, this woman is deranged. The point is that it was almost certainly an attempted hit job. I have followed these crimes (i.e murders) in this industry starting with the killing of Tupac Shakur. It took me years to solve his murder to my satisfaction. In fact, I put the final puzzle pieces together very recently. The context of this deranged woman's crime is much more clear to me. I want to wait until more facts emerge before saying anything else. I'm relatively certain that I know who set this up but at this time I don't want to go out in a limb. I predict that the truth will come out and many people will be surprised. This was a terrible crime against a very significant artist, and it sucks.
  • Kismai the laundry guru

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    The Active brand. Pretty sure we had the Dirty labs one before but never paused the washer to give the enzymes longer to work. I do use the Dirty labs dishwasher powder and that's been working well.
  • Desperate Dutchess Ditches Decorum?

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  • Only 99F today

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    Florida draught explained at start of local weather broadcast-- Tampa weather | Tuesday morning forecast https://share.google/FcOBx5oGsS7cgzmKs I hope the water continues and along with it human habitation. 🤪