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Happy Birthday Day, Steve!

What a high price for a small diamond the cut of which is not particularly noteworthy. I think that this might say more about the market than about the diamond however rare the color.

I need an application to professional school about as much as I need a hole in my head. Respect for anyone who can get out of bed at that age. But for most of us who are old and getting older, windows of opportunities have closed or are closing because of exigent and heath factors. Maybe we should celebrate the normal as well as the extraordinary. Too many random factors enter into such outcomes as this to look at them as an ideal, in my opinion.

It it the second gutting. Who needs diplomacy when none of your former allies nor your enemies takes you seriously anymore? Who needs diplomacy when you have ineffective foreign policy that makes no sense anyway?

They look very nice! RM took a hacksaw to both our hoses and put them in the dumpster. It wasn't his finest hour. I can't replace them. Now I use buckets and scrub brushes or mops. I aways enjoyed spraying down the carport. It's something I watched my grandfather do in Tampa until he died. We also used to wash the cars. I won't be needing a hose in an apartment building but I like them a lot. Good for you!

@Axtremus said:

@Daniel
Oh, good, tell me where (you think or believe) your intelligence and consciousness lie.

In my humanity. Is this rocket science?

I do but you didn't call on me.

@Mik said:

It is true that most of us here are entering a phase where life will take more away from us than it gives us. I find that I need to try a bit harder to maintain social connections and work a lot more on health, but I think it is worth it. I hope I can continue. Most of all I hope to die before I have to be placed in a home, unable to do anything that resembles life to me.

I already have only a handful of living family members left and I'm close to none of them.

Correction: I'm close to one of them, my late aunt's cousin who's in her '80's and lives in Seattle.

I share Mik's desire to die before having to live a life without a certain quality of life.

Also, I don't want to suffer any protracted, painful treatments regimes for diseases when doing that could only lead to death.

I need to regroup by myself in a healthier environment and with more resources before I will be able to make significantly better health decisions and take significantly better actions accordingly.

Bernard, I've just been through the wringer you're describing: trust, trustee, secondary trustee, power of attorney, and medical power of attorney. It's a long, intensive, and expensive process. My advice is to take it step by step, be patient with yourself, take the time you need, and be encouraged that you will accomplish your goals. It can be confusing at times. It can be frustrating. It can seem endless. You'll get there, just don't rush anything. I'll be holding a good thought for you.

People suck.

Lol!

+1 re: the DNC

My intelligence or lack thereof is not artificial. Lol.

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Therefore, it not stands to reason that any argument made about, or debate about, knowledge is a philosophical argument, or debate. I maintain that "AI" is not human, that intelligence is a construct of consciousness, and that every time two words are deliberately, and at a specific moment in time, combined, artificially, in English, there is a game afoot, i.e. there is an agenda.

In other words, I agree with Bernard.

@bernard Did you see that Fetterman was the single vote to decide not to end the Iran debacle? He and his comfy clothes should be in an insane asylum, or he should be in prison for complicity in war crimes, or he should be in a military prison for treason, in my opinion.

Well, jon, I kind of beg to differ that it isn't broken, because, I can't convince myself that it's not broken when x many seats have been stolen. To calculate x, I'd have to go back to the stolen election in 2000, and work forward chronologically, remembering to include the seat illegitatamately denied Obama. Even aside from the corruption Bernard notes, its constitution is de facto illegitimate, in my opinion.

I've heard many times the freeholders are often what we would call private equity firms and are practicing financial predation.

I'm living where I was born. It's disheartening to see houses of the exact type my family lived in since I was born rise from well under 20k in 1963 to over 400k today.

Wages and productivity were decoupled in the '70's with wages flat lining and productivity rising dramatically.

People in this country today in general literally are not being paid wages that that equal what it costs to live.

This country is and is about to be more so in a foreclosure crisis, also.

Our neverending inflation crisis just got dramatically worse, also.

This isn't the country where I was raised. It's not prosperous and in fact is holding on by a thread.

Here's some great history that added to my knowledge and entertained me.

And on a related but different topic, Fetterman was the single no vote that had the effect of not calling a halt to Trump's war on Iran. It's delightful when Democrats support Trump. /s It's even better that Fetterman is a bought and paid for tool of the Israeli lobby. Now the war crimes can continue and the US and world economies can continue to be screwed. Yay!

I'm sorry for your loss.