WTF-Beta

$1,999.

Now that's a peridot (and VCA). But this is a good example (of how beautiful one can be but also...) the story we were told about some gems being valuable and some "semi" is BS.

Prince Anne on jewelry. Is she a diplomat or what.

@wtg Is that a rhetorical question?

@jon-nyc I don't disagree. I just think the military budget is absurd. Not that voters have any control over it.

Nice. What else would you expect.

My issue would be I'm using my phone in public constantly and with a folding phone, I have the added step of unfolding and folding, or I have train myself how to use the phone with apps when it's folded, while not trying to break the phone or loose it.

I couldn't do it.

And there's a rule about not using proper nouns? That's not fun. A word is a word.

@shirokuro The word I was looking for was "Nelson"!

Foiled again!

Well, @bernard the great discomfort is here and it will get worse, imo.

Have you heard the saying that most Americans couldn't come up with $400 cash in an emergency?

This must be an approximation but I don't think anything other than that the middle class has been being destroyed for four decades and parts of two others in addition.

Well, is there a part of your take on this where you take into account the trillions and trillions of dollars of debt being created to fight wars of choice (and it should be spending for the national defense according to the Constitution but moving on...)?

@bernard I found an interview about AI.. The person being interviewed said AI is a scam.

I t was in my youTube feed.

I spent about five minutes on it before something distracted me and I had to leave it.

He started by proving the financials re: profit (and loss) don't add up with what the public is being told.

He said it is basically cloud storage.

I wish I had copied the link.

Intelligence can't be "artificial". That's the philosophical and real world problem I have with it.

Glorious

@wtg said:

I was just reading about this. When the people on the inside are expressing these kinds of concerns it definitely gets my attention....

But how is he an insider? He worked for a corporation. Now he doesn't. I'm not seeing any actual explanation of his claim.

People can say anything. It doesn't make it true. Who is this guy? Who pays him? Where is his research? Where is his data? It doesn't add up.

The middle class are causing the problem with programs they paid for with dedicated taxes along with the poor and what they cost others? It isn't the trillion $ defense budget (war budget now I guess) increased by 1/2 trillion overnight? It isn't the endless wars? It isn't the endless corruption? It isn't the fact oligarchs and corporations pay no taxes?

I bet they were just glad not to be trekking.

@mik

Bowie was a genius.

Thanks.

Fascinating lyrics.

Thank you, Bernard! : )

Quarter-final·Arthur Ashe StadiumCompleted
United States
8
B. Shelton
65
6
6
1
710
Spain
2
C. Alcaraz
77
1
3
6

67

Congratulations to Ben Sheldon.