@Piano-Dad said in The Greatest Movie Villain of all Time: @Mik said in The Greatest Movie Villain of all Time: Mightg be fun to go together if that's possible. The Sphere is pretty cool. I will let you know what our plans are when I know them. My wife may be the only one who goes out for the birth because we don't want to impose on them while they are already very stressed. She plans to stay out there and help out for a few weeks afterward. I would not be staying in any event. Work calls back in Virginia. If we're all out there at the same time we should indeed get together for something. Sphere, dinner, something. We went to the Darren Aronovsky video that inaugurated the Sphere. Pretty impressive, even if I thought that narrative of the film was preachy preachy and shallow. Yeah, that film descended into preachiness when it could have been the coolest sci-fi ever. But the Sphere is cool. My daughter's company did a lot of the exhibits in the lobby. We have a domed theater like that here in the Museum Center, formerly Union Terminal, but about a tenth the size.

Happy Birthday, AdagioM! Many happy returns of the day! Hope you got some brioche in.

At that time defense was war and war was far more frequent.

Happy Birthday!

Starmer is himself a mess of the highest order.

It might struggle but it will never be dead.

A bit like a polenta cake

The jabs are supposed to be most effective if you get them late September/early October, and I hope all the systems have caught up with each other by then.

These cats are so cooperative. Mine don’t like hats!

This is totally dumb. These averages tell you nothing about the political (red/blue) drivers of financial stress. Poor states have more people in distress than rich states. Just so happens that there are more poor red states than blue states. Duh. The people who write this stuff are usually weak journalists who have a shiny degree in communications or literature. The kind of people who will nod when they hear "correlation isn't causality" without having a clue what that means.

Short video with narrative (in English) focusing on the military hardware: Link to video

Hawkeye

Who gets fired today? Employers in the US added just 22,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate crept up to 4.3% Economists hadn't had high hopes that hiring would get back on track - but that's even fewer than expected. [image: 4c56567c-58b4-4600-b5d2-d9265c064237.png.webp] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yk8n869g1t

Send your professionals over to the US to oversee brand new multi-billion dollar investments and watch them, and your company, get harassed by ICE to keep the headlines off of Epstein and off of another stinky jobs report. Maybe they'll pick up some "undocumented" Germans in Spartanburg next. I wonder if the acting head of the BLS, a career labor department employee, will now be summarily hanged for overseeing the bad jobs report.

@wtg Those are beautiful!

That was just for practice. Now she sends ICE to chase down murderers and rapists. You know, the ones picking strawberries in a field.

Excellent points. Luckily, we won't all need to do the same thing at the same time, so I imagine much splitting up and coming back together during the day(s) as interests - and energies diverge.

@Mik you'll have to do your own googling for that!