Antiquities FTW.
Daniel
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Board of PeaceIt's times like this that I fantasize about being a Catholic.
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Ice cream without the junkI had my favorite Publix GreenLee organic Vanilla ice cream yesterday.
The problem was I hadn't bought it for at least a month and it was sweet, as if 1/3 of it was sugar.
I like this product, but other than having a little too much air in it, it has way too much sugar.
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The people of Albania respond to Ivanka and JaredThey see it (randomly we're told), it's not their land, and it's a nature reserve, so they decide to claim it like Old World conquerers, and do God knows what with it.
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Apollo and Daphnehttps://x.com/wantedinrome/status/2069462215099310468
Strangely nobody's coming up with a duplicate Apollo and Daphne and claiming it's real.

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Tulsi resignsShe should sell perfume. Name it Tulsi.
The bottle could have her head twist off with her signature gray streaks.I'm not serious. I'm just joking.

She's something of a mystery. She's always been somewhat of one.
My time isn't that valuable except to me but even I don't have the energy to fall down this rabbit hole now.
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The so-called deal with IranOh my fucking god. What is it with magats and history? First Trump signs the surrender and reparations document at fucking Versailles, now this maga influencer literally said โDonald Trump just delivered peace in our timeโ.
Well, latest I saw was he finally signed it.
You know, after that little-- ."kill the negotiators". ... part where it went south.
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The so-called deal with Iran -
It's been a long day!Summer Solstice!
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Continuing to redecorate Washington DCDid they drain the swamp?
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Happy birthday, dolmansaxlil !!@dolmansaxlil Happy Belated Birthday!

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Ukranian Nazis have a momentZelensky returns highest Polish honour after award stripped https://share.google/ERiCEG41DFZZOPLbL
100,000 were massacred. Apparently, this type of behavior is neither unique nor rare.
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How to get rid of mosquitosThey come in here because I leave the doors open to get air flow; without doing this I would be roasted alive. It's the start of the rainy season but there's been no rain to speak of yet. And, so, there's been few mosquitoes yet. I had mosquito bites all over me last summer to the point my skin itched and burned all day and night. I'll be moving in maybe less than a week, so, I don't have to experience that again. I tried mosquito spray but had an allergic reaction. I tried a mosquito net over my bed but it wouldn't stay in place. I tried fly paper but it didn't get many of them. I have a chemical free spray (eucalyptus based) but I don't like it. I'm to the point where I want the mosquitos to just get it over with, draw blood, and leave.
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Heโs at least prescientHe's all over the map (pun intended).
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Feeling old yet?Sorry youโre going through that Daniel.
Thanks, jon. She actually did get the the service for the new place today. It starts on Wednesday. I have to insure the breakers are turned off by Wednesday morning to prevent a power surge. The cashier's check was sent USPS tracking on Saturday to the buyer's agent. I have papers to sign. My car should arrive any day now from NY (the Bronx, lol). I bought it after seeing an ad at Cars.com. It was last driven in Montana but it's got only 24k miles, 1 owner, and clearly it was garaged. I don't have the car yet but it's insured. So it won't be long now.
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In which Tolstoy runs away from homeLink to videoGot to love his eccentricity.
I wanted to run away from home. Typical childhood stuff. I knew it was a daydream and was never so dumb as to do it.
I got good news today! I will have power on at my new place starting Wednesday. This will be my first home.
It's interesting how your perspective of life can change over a long, long time.
I'm moving to my new home. Running away from it would be so absurd!

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Is poetry pretentious?"Tweaking" isn't a behavior exhibited after someone has done "drugs." It is specifically a reference to meth. This guy sounds stupid to me. It seems he was on a fool's errand of some kind. I wouldn't vote for him or for anyone else who had written anything similar to his 3rd rate "comic poetry."
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World Cup soccer/football threadThe idea of them giving a peace prize is ridiculous.
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Feeling old yet?Yes, it reminds me I feel old.
I've had many such reminders lately.
I had a trip and fall in the dark on concrete. I landed on my lower left rib cage with my hand protecting my head. I tore and pulverized muscle tissue from my left shoulder to where my ribcage ends. The palms of my hands are bruise. My left hand bend backward to a severe angle.
I've been in pain for a week and counting. It's so wrong to realize that my almost uncanny ability to catch myself when I fall can only last for a finite number of times moving into the future.
My trustee and I had what I'll call a difficult conversation on Saturday, all the result of the fact she created a needless drama that was mind boggling in the pointlessness of it.
I did what I was asked to do when I was asked to do it. She refused to follow one note of explicit instructions (again, she asked for a list of explicit instructions containing agreed on information sought) the reason being she wanted to do it a different way.
She didn't think to get a bank check and take care of it when she was at the bank on Saturday, and was remiss in not buying physical checks for the trust account, as it turned out.
She then insisted on me giving her information I didn't have so she could use the bank's auto generating check feature.
She told me she was not going out of her way for me again (it never happened in the first place), berated me about my situation (completely inappropriate), and accused me of metaphorically beating her ("I'm not your punching bag") in a way that was bizarre, not at all apt, and offensive.
I had to run down some facts with her and tell her to keep her judgmentalism and accusations to herself in the future.
I used nicer language but with the same meaning.
She's 15 years younger than me; she has the time (apparently) and the energy to act this way.
We agreed on "next steps" (if barely) but she can't be talking to me this way. It can't be "a thing."
She'll know what it feels like to be 60 when she gets here. She's in for a rude awakening.
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An economist on the impact of AIHahaha!
