@George-K said in Hey George - Alistair Reynolds: @Doctor-Phibes Have you dipped a toe yet? Well?

@taiwan_girl said in Cutting The Money: Hard to justify the same salary if the audience is 1/2 (and probably advertisements are also ~ ½) Right. And that's why so much of the WNBA bitching (can I say that?) about salaries is ludicrous. You get paid for putting people in seats, or people tuning in. You can't draw an audience (even if it's not your fault) or fill a stadium, there no reasonable explanation why you should be paid the same as Brokaw or Michael Jordan.

Only the top sash moves.

I’ll probably go back to storing a couple hundred in 20s in a well hidden spot when I move in to my house next month.

And just like that, it's gone. https://news3lv.com/news/local/naked-trump-statue-mysteriously-appears-and-disappears-in-clark-county-desert

@89th said in GOP shallow fakes: Oh very true. You mean this isn't sexy? [image: 1727896179769-89f7e230-843d-4f22-bb48-71923d0ceaab-image.png] Ozempic, FTW!

Certainly bad if you are in or near Rwanda.

A reasonable idea.

Take acting advice from Hanks, but not parenting.

Water will continue to win these, in the long term. Just look at Hetch Hetchy back in the day...

I first thought I saw a cord too, but it's impossible to see if it's just the edge of the table continued. [image: 1727889409395-1eb0631d-1cc8-4247-aef2-d2ae513b028a-image.png]

It’s been interesting trying to get a gauge on Bibi’s popularity since oct 7. There was a great deal of wish casting about his inevitable downfall as a result of that attack, from the western left. I always sniffed the assuredness of that prediction as fishy.

OK by me. Don't wanna get shot? Don't try to rob people.

So sad.

@Jolly said in Lost in the shuffle: Unions for government workers should not be able to endorse any candidate. Agree. That is a good point.

@George-K interesting information

@taiwan_girl said in Running out of people?: There may be some truth to that. Kind of reminds me of that claim a while back that crime was down because abortion rates were high in the early 19990's and 18 years later................. It's not that abortion was higher, but it became legal - lowering the crime rate because fewer unwanted children were born into poverty, etc. That's been questioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect

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