WTF-Beta

I'm going to have to face this set of decisions when I move. For one thing, I'm replacing my 2024 Motorola Edge with a Pixel 10 Pro XL. Life is too short. Then I have to figure out how to get internet and whether I want to have television again. I can't know now what the options will be or how much they will cost so I'm not worrying about it.

It used to be a standard bearer. Now it's only a puppet of its owner and his agenda.

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The 18th century Grand Tour's final stop was Florence. I would love to go there. I love Venice but Florence is my favorite Italian city. One of the things I love about it (other than the architecture and art of course) is their ancient tradition of making leather goods. Lucky you!

Yes, Bernard, I agree. He lacks a viable plan to exit, can't control the fact the war is escalating, and has no viable plan to win, winning being something for which he lacks a definition. Yes, Ron, I agree. The machinations that led to him to start this illegal war cannot be undone. We have heard about the desire to wage an illegal war on Iran from both Netanyahu and American Neocons for the last forty years. It was always going to be a disaster.

I guess that means that they made the flamingo tongues?

OK, I took a dry leaf out of the jar and just bit a piece off directly, and chewed it a little. Definitely a camphor flavor. And bitter. FWIW, it is from Penzey’s, and they claim it is of high quality.

So, I guessed 3/3 for acrylic vs. watercolor (wasn't hard) and guessed 1/3 prices. Thanks for the guessing game, Andy.

Social services suck. This reminds me of social workers. Social workers suck. This reminds me of non-profits. Non-profits suck. They are private businesses in all but name. They give themselves very large salaries and help people in need in a nominal way. Charities suck. Same set up. They give themselves very large salaries, etc There was a St. Pete con artist who started a non-profit LLC to manage $100,000,000.00 in pooled trust assets for the disabled and their families. He walked off with $100,000,000.00. He was sued but the money was gone. The disabled individuals and their families recovered nothing. I can easily see social services abandoning a child. I'm not buying the stupid non-explanation. Fwiw, I think about how much money non-profits take in and consider the fact that society's problems they are meant to mitigate if not solve not only continue unabated but continue to worsen. I'm reminded of when hospitals dump patients in the street under cover of darkness. We seem to live in a vicious society that feels the need to hide its true nature with a false veneer of caring for its own sake. Social insurance programs are what work and those are being attacked here and in Europe in various ways. Why? Greed, once again. I'm not trying to be cynical. This is only what I have observed over several decades.

Bless him. May he rest in peace. And all day I thought it was this damn time change. Huh.

I'll read this! I couldn't sleep, at all, last night. It was insomnia, not a disturbance in the neighborhood. (My neighbors on their best behavior). So, I took two naps today. I had to do it. But how will I get to sleep tonight? And then tomorrow we have that stupid time change, meaning it will be in effect tomorrow morning.

Great stories! Thanks!

It's hard to tell. One with leverage is one too many.

@axtremus Thoroughly sick of MAGA world.

Well, it's pretty clear where his loyalty can be found.

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.

Robert Mueller.

So, wait. He's on a global speaking tour talking about himself? That's kind of narcissistic.

Its difficult to escalate further except perhaps targetting large gatherings of regime fanatics or nuking them. I mean, we started by killing their Supreme Leader, much of his family and other security/military chiefs. What's destroying a few missiles and missile silos after that? Destroy them all, their weapons factories, drones, all armaments, bomb them back to a peaceful mainly rural economy. Israel are also destroying the financial support of Iran and its proxies in Beirut, their banking buildings presumably. All good targets in my opinion. This evil Iranian regime ought to be wiped out. They employ snipers to shoot women who are peacefully protesting on the street. They publicly hang homosexuals. You can't negotiate with these Islamic anti-west fanatics any more than we could with Hitler.

It's not even the quiet part out loud anymore. It's just out in the open now. What a collosal moving feast of war crimes and violations of the Constitution from this administration the worst in American history unless my memory is drawing a complete blank.