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U.S. President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly that he faces a choice between making a peace deal with Iran or quickly "annihilating the Islamic Republic".

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Play a record long enough and you'll wear it out.

One more. I promise.

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This generation gap (specifically) is a cultural phenomenon at this.

What made some of the younger ones so clueless, ignorant, self-righteous, arrogant and entitled?

I don't know.

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Is there an instruction page showing how to do it?

Please point me in the right direction.

I was thinking a this yesterday and suddenly, today...

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This is a great example of the destruction of US education.

New College was a public school by the time I went there.

It's defacto privatized by now.

The money generating potential of New College made it stand out like a lighthouse.

The US public education system is generally wing starved of resources.

There are charter schools (de facto private) being aggressively supported by policy makers.

Then there is home schooling. I only know about home schooling in Florida.

The toddler stage of home schooled kids in Florida seems to end between 5 and 6.

"Is our children learning?"- George W Bush

This is what is great! Here's perspective about how time flies. Wow.

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@jon-nyc So we that in common too. But in reverse order. Lol.

Didn't know you went to school in Florida.

As well you should.

I'm curious.

Please see my "Saving Seals" (sic) post about my Alma Mater.

I also went to UF for a year and HCC for two years.

I graduated from MS in NY and HS in FL.

If you went to HS, dropped out at 16, went to school learn a trade like my father, anything... I'd like to hear about it.

I would link my other thread to this one but I have to run.

Well, I'm on 5G with a major carrier in my bedroom in the urban core of the 23rd largest US Metro and I have 1 bar now, and my phone at this time not connected to WiFi (or should we be expected to pay for WiFi to have reliable phone service?) is working and not. I could turn the WiFi on but then what's the point of mobile service?

I'm on the flattest land mass on earth. There is no inclement weather.

Good luck to everyone in the US about to be screwed by the FCC for the nth time.

How did we lose Air Force One?!

I would pack up and leave.

I'd stand up. I'd smile.

I'd say I'm leaving. Excuse me. Goodbye.

Oops. Lost the link when switching between pages. I'll find it.

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This channel-

You can call it labeling it you want but I'm loving it.

The Gen X owner is so deadpan.

The "millennials" - self-identified- ranting about Gen X, whose short video clip he chooses, are so ignorant, entitled, arrogant, stupid, and clueless.

I'm reading this thread carefully when I have time to concentrate.

I will say that oral communication among humans, later recorded by symbols, is at the root of all of human society and culture.

The fact that the educational system is being destroyed- by design- should make any rational person pause, IMO.

I've decided to use the British- "... ... ... ."

in place of the American convention-

"... ... .... ."

I don't see how the Americans decided on this one. It seems impractical and arbitrary.

I'm 1/2 way to changing my mind about using the UK and European (and others?)-

[Date of the month] [Abbreviation of the month]

I can't use it on formal papers.

I might start using it for everything else.

I think it's far better.

The date should come first because it's the first thing to change.

You shouldn't need to remind yourself 30 times in a row before you need to scan for the date and double check it.

It's distracting.

I'm considering using the writers' convention of the writer interviewing herself, hisself, one's self...

The only reason I haven't done it other than rarely is it seems to make people upset.

This isn't a valid reason not to do it. It isn't even a reason.

Is it a 'safe space'? (Sort of kidding)

I don't think so myself unless you're traveling in a pack.

@jodi I remember your posts about Costco. Yikes.

Btw, speaking of warehouse stores, I have an acquaintance who got crushed and mangled by a loading door at Publix. He couldn't work after this.

I just want a 'human scale'.

My house is a huge, heavy, structure with a cathedral ceiling.

This means my bedroom ceiling is 12'.

This is 4' higher than my bedroom in my old place.

I feel very comfortable with it, but it's talking to get used to...

My favorite Martha Stewart quote (during one of her K Mart adds)-

"Think of your back your backyard as a living room with a very high ceiling".

That's ok. The Florida choices have been non-existent since before DeSantis.

This was a Democrat state when I was born in '67 until the election in 2000.

A little birdie told me.