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  • Happy birthday, rontuner!

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    RontunerR
    Thanks all - I had a nice day with family on a beautiful sunny Chicago day!
  • Ukraine, the next steps

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    I read there are a million dead in Ukraine. I'm definitely sure they are conscripting men by kidnapping them off the street. It's clearly a war meaning I guess it could go on like this indefinitely or there could be a peace deal. Ukraine's military is full of Nazis. I don't mean fascists. I mean Nazis. Why not bring this to an end instead of letting Ukraine suffer these terrible consequences and why keep throwing money into yet another foreign war while the US people continue to sustain vicious degradation in their ability to afford the necessities of life?
  • Gem of the day; jewelry as well

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    I want this platinum bracelet. https://7879.co/products/forte-chain-bracelet?variant=45074201182385&metal=platinum Notice the links are oval and the top and bottom of each link is flat. This is my favorite style of chain. Notice it has a lobster claw clasp and Is 4 mm. The 7.5" platinum bracelet is around $1,700 with the discount code. I don't know why I have experience taste. The 18 kt gold one is $3,000 before the discount. People seem to want gold badly these days give the economic system is thought to be under threat by many people for multiple reasons. I don't know how close to market price per weight these pieces might be. I haven't looked at it. I think it's something of a gimmick.
  • Lake O 6x too toxic for humans

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  • New Printer, Again (2025)

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    Copy Copy? We have nothing like that if it's what I think. You have to have your own office, know someone you trust, or go to the library. We had Kinkos back in the day in Tampa. Why did those businesses go away? I don't know.
  • New NYT game

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    MikM
    Yes, and sometimes it hits pop culture stuff I have little knowledge of. Got them all today though.
  • Patterns in art

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    Interesting, I think this would correspond in some way to the repetition and variation in Western classical music that keeps the mind interested.
  • Chairman Powell's Jackson Hole remarks

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    MikM
    Not so good for retirees it seems, although I am one. Still, we're not heavy on interest income. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/retirees-the-news-from-jackson-hole-is-ominous-for-you/ar-AA1L2ZD6
  • Lonely Men ...

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  • If the UK monarchy falls soon this will be why

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    Link to video
  • If I Won the Lottery--OR--presenting the WTF retirement home

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    Nice. The tradition continues.
  • What are you reading?

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    I have a couple books going at the moment. Breakfast reading: "A History of the Arab People" by Albert Hourani, (c) 1991 Other reading: "The Darkening Age, The Christian Destruction of the Classical World" by Catherine Nixey, (c) 2017
  • Is the time ripe for the progressive movement?

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    @Steve-Miller Ditto
  • Coming soon...

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    Enjoying Dark Library. Thank you
  • Meanwhile, in Cleveland

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    LA managed to build their fabulously expensive stadium with all private money when the city said no. If Cleveland can’t do that then the project is not viable. And then there is the question of paying off the old stadium…
  • Well, they will eat you

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  • No, I don't agree

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  • Another piano recording

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    @Bootsy Thank you!!
  • Almost hit head on

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    @Steve-Miller said in Almost hit head on: I like trucks more than most people, but what would you even do with such a thing? That vehicle has a modification package. The whole thing looks like *****. (Edit: Andy mentioned it.) I'm glad you weren't injured, Bernard and Andy! I haven't driven very often in 15 years. I'm going to have to approach it very carefully.
  • Stupid, elderly, white hippies should go home and take a nap

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    Well, consider the source. Also, protests and protesters are always misrepresented.