@89th said in How to kill badly needed progress: hat is crazy... so the project has already been in the planning stage for 20 years, it'll take 10 years to actually construct (10 years! I'm glad we have quality standards in the USA... buildings aren't just collapsing like they do in China, but holy crap it only took 13 months to build the Empire State Building, And the Rome Colosseum was biult in 7 (or 9) years by hand and is still standing 2000 years later.

Given her background, her sympathies are understandable, but... not in a work video. The same would be true for a pro-Israel message. The focus is on the business. Cancel culture is real.

I am guessing this is just for US peopel? But not really surprising. I am guessing you could do the same things for neighborhoods, ethnic group, etc. and the line would be the same.

Ha, that is funny. Does remind me a little of how you used to be able to drive in front of the Lincoln Memorial (and white house... all very, very much blocked off these days.

That's cool. You and Mark can play duets. Talentless people like me are annoyed with talented people like you two.

I know that the band members work just as hard as the athletes. They basically have to learn a new show every week!

The Wicker Man?

We got our second dog 3 years ago, and I love having two as well. We also went through a period of re-adjustment while the older one basically used to sit staring at me while the newcomer misbehaved, as if to ask 'WHY, DAD, WHY???'. This was them when we got her... [image: 1729262644605-fcefbca8-dc30-4a93-9310-146bbe3be162-image.png] ....and more recently [image: 1729262697451-887e5bd9-9cb2-4369-ac76-22e4665d5985-image.png] The rescue place told us the second one was a Jack Russell cross. She weighs 50 pounds.

Interesting article. It would be interesting to "see" one. Is it like one of those military board games? I think that the hardest thing is to accurately play the enemy. Almost impossible for someone who has a career in the US military to be able to think like the China or Russia or someone like that.

Darn it! I had a really thoughtful reply here (I even wrote bullet points on paper as I was thinking about it) before the forum issue. Oh well. I think my points, similar to @taiwan_girl was: I really enjoy viewing satellite maps, zooming in on remote towns around the world, viewing their stores (if they even have one) and other details I went down the wikipedia blackhole about the northwest passage (NWP) Further read about Amundsen and his trek to the south pole, then north pole, the 3-year journey to make it through the NWP.. even how he celebrated by docking in San Fran in 1906... but the town was a little busy with something that happened earlier in the year (the massive earthquake) I thought they should make a movie about Amundsen... guess they did make one (foreign film) in like 2019 that I'll have to check out

Another good, if less technical, tome is How To Cook Without A Book.

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Interesting. I had no idea this went on. At least for me, I usually only use Wikipedia for history type articles. I almost never use for companies.

Is there any US car company that makes sedans any more? (Side note, I thought that this quote was funny a car so beloved by the masses that it was once the go-to choice for police departments I am not sure the first part of the sentence has anything to do with the second. LOL)

Wow. Not sure that there could be any charges, right? Maybe driving dangerously ro something like that?

Will this one get shot down too?