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A win for billionaires. Ukraine left in the dust?

In a possible indication of how significant a factor those "opportunities" could be in the negotiations, senior Russian businessman Kirill Dmitriev, a Western-educated banker who now heads a government-created investment fund, was also expected to take part in the talks on Tuesday, according to Russian media.

"I will be responsible for the economic aspect of the discussions," Dmitriev was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency ahead of the talks in Riyadh. "The figure that we are voicing for the first time now is that American business has lost more than $300 billion by leaving the Russian market," he said, apparently referring to the impact of sanctions imposed on Russia under former President Biden.

"Finding joint economic paths, positive solutions to issues, is extremely important, mainly for the U.S. and for many other countries that are beginning to understand that the Russian market is extremely attractive and that it is necessary to be present in it," he said, adding that he hoped for "a positive dialogue."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-russia-meeting-improving-relations-ukraine-war/

You're making sounds of disgust. I'm just describing how they operate.

What do you do when a) immigration cases in the courts are backlogged and b) you're promising aggressive immingration sweeps?

You fire some immigration judges, just for kicks and grins!!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-fires-immigration-judges

Eff Cassidy. My vat of empathy for children in his state is quite empty.

@jon-nyc LOLLOL

Less than three weeks after its release, President Donald Trump’s memecoin has produced more losers than winners. For every dollar in trading fees the Trump crypto creators raked in, investors lost $20.

A total of 813,294 wallets holding cryptocurrency lost money through ownership of $TRUMP meme token shares in the 19 days since its launch, according to an analysis by cryptocurrency forensics company Chainalysis commissioned by the New York Times. The losses—accumulated as users either held onto shares of the coin as its value plummeted, or because they sold shares at a loss—totaled about $2 billion..

https://fortune.com/2025/02/11/trump-memecoin-traders-2-billion-dollar-loss-family-100-million-fees/

PD the law allows the president to grant a one-time 90 stay if he believes a prospective sale is in the works. It doesn’t go into detail about any conditions that need to be satisfied so I am quite sure he can just do it.

But only once, and only for 90 days.

We had a Panasonic that went 25+ years. The replacement Panasonic, with an "inverter technology" lasted maybe 3 years.

I bought a Farberware for cheap a couple of years ago because it was the right size and I liked that I could get a white and stainless microwave. Some of our appliances are white and some are stainless. The Farberware looks like it fits right in.

So far, so good.

JustMe is on facebook, but doesn’t post very often. Just went and looked at her profile. 17 years ago on this date was her daughter-in-laws murder. What an unimaginably horrible thing that was for them all.

@jon-nyc oooh I love it!! thanks!

Thanks, Jon. That is heartening in an otherwise bleak landscape. It does fit a pattern of Montanans voting both ways at the same time. The same Montana voters who adore Trump also love our Liberian refugee black mayor who is a total liberal. Politics is very personal here. We lost one of the best Senators in Montana history--Jon Tester--voting instead for a Trumpist carpetbagger who insults Indians and wants to privatize public lands and ban all abortion--while at the same time passing a ballot initiative that gives a constitutional right to abortion. Go figure. I can't.

Of course, as usual, I'm talking Nunsense

Wow! 15! Don't blink, or he will be off to college!

Ahhh. I guess you're off the hook then. 😁

Thanks everyone! We’re both overjoyed.

@CHAS said in Good news for the geezers among us:

That is great. Now they need to find a way to make geezers as active as the youngsters in another activity which will not be named.

Don’t they already have targeted pharmacology for unnamed activities?

(Mik beat me too it)

Yes, on the money.

😆

Big Al