@Doctor-Phibes said in I’ll take the other side of this bet.: @Mik said in I’ll take the other side of this bet.: You were thinking it…admit it….you’ll feel better once you acknowledge your inner slacker…. Au contraire, mon ami, as we say in Canada. I love hard work. I could watch it all day. My long lost brother.

@LuFins-Dad said in Moonlight by Frank Pollaro and Bösendorfer: I’ll bet $50 that this piano is first delivered to a no sales tax state… Montana.

He checks through periodically.

Probably not, but that’s neither here nor there. The couple of his WWII history lectures I have listened to I thought were pretty good. Not as nearly good as many others though.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that passes a referendum handily.

Awesome. He has the voice down pat.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

Another "as good a place as any to post this". LOL https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-17/india-s-tcs-misclassified-managers-to-skirt-h-1b-rules-former-staffers-say Kini and two other former TCS employees who filed similar lawsuits say the company repeatedly made improper use of special manager-level visas to hire front-line workers who had no management responsibilities. All three cases, which were filed under the federal False Claims Act, were dismissed before the allegations of visa fraud were examined in court; Kini’s is on appeal. The manager visas, known as L-1As, are easier for employers to obtain and have fewer guardrails; for example, they lack even the minimal pay requirements that Congress has imposed for H-1B holders. and The H-1B program was designed to allow US employers to tap foreign nationals for jobs requiring highly skilled and difficult-to-find candidates. The visas, which impose rules related to educational requirements and pay, have proven popular for decades with employers; demand for them far outstrips the annual limit of about 85,000. In July, a Bloomberg News investigation revealed how outsourcing firms have overwhelmed the annual lottery that decides which applicants can get new H-1Bs.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/eric-adams-judge-orders-prosecutors-00204658 The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams ordered the mayor and federal prosecutors to appear in court on Wednesday to discuss the Trump administration’s effort to drop the case, a move that has sparked a crisis within the Justice Department and chaos within the Adams administration. U.S. District Judge Dale Ho wrote in an order Tuesday that Adams, his lawyers and prosecutors should be prepared to discuss prosecutors’ rationale for seeking to dismiss the case, the reasons for Adams’ agreement to do so and the procedure for resolving the motion.

Going through another forum thread/video I have not had a chance to view before. This one is also quite interesting.

Maybe this should be added to this thread. https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/36635/5-reduction?_=1739900107198

You are welcome. Still getting some feedback and I will let you know. It may be useful to you in the future.

Sure would be interesting to get more transparency of how these people make all that money. But we already know about the military industrial complex and people like Lloyd Austin getting multi million dollar salaries in the private sector, working for weapons manufacturers. I guess many of the disgusting parts are already well known, and accepted with a shrug.

Hoo-ah!

Lizzo as a centerfold. Wow.

These are the societies we Americans are supposed to be ashamed by, as they pass judgment on our politics. Uh huh.

@Renauda said in Latest Trump cause, Andrew Tate: Seems to me the US has bigger concerns out there than these two small time criminals and the restrictions the Romanian judicial system has placed on their travel plans. Exactly!!