I can see this ending like Korea. Divided, one western area a part of prosperous EU & NATO influence, with the Eastern area Russian.

AQI 55 in London which will be the worst in our small country; but an uncomfortable nightime temperature of 19 degrees

Ok Mik, you win

Works in progress [image: 1755314637065-screenshot_20250814-125324_gallery.jpg] The floor was on three levels, we managed to make it two with a one inch ramp [image: 1755314699581-screenshot_20250814-125406_gallery.jpg] Now... [image: 1755314718400-screenshot_20250814-125844_gallery.jpg] [image: 1755314809059-20241026_153644-resized.jpg] [image: 1755314738917-screenshot_20250814-125741_gallery.jpg] Craft room door to front window is 48feet!

@89th Wow. Wonder what the inside looks like by now. Frozen pipes? Roof damage from storms? So many things can happen.

The good news is the government won’t be able to fund sex changes ever again in the future either because in like 10 years we’ll be fresh out of any spending money at all as the interest on national debt absorbs every tax dollar.

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@jon-nyc I believe you, Jon. Again, your expertise makes me respect you on this topic, too. (Thank you for setting that up so nicely. You are such a good friend indeed!) Don't worry. I wiped all the poop and pee off before the hug. Oh wait. Maybe you prefer ...

@Tom-K said in A milestone: Hey, Brenda, congrats on 40 years of happy marriage and Mik, great you've lived this long: real the challenge is yet to come. I remember my uncle was in his 70s talking about health and said ‘when you’re in your 40s you start noticing some things. In your 50s it’s more of the same. 60s even more of the same. But 70s is an entirely different ball game’.

@jon-nyc When you get thirsty enough, you'll drink anything that looks good. Might not have been the first time getting a drink offered by the hooman. Jurgi would let me hold him, and would even hop into my hand and walk up my arm. He was a sweet boy.

It's Lizzo on a bike. [image: 1755283696789-9359f452-46c9-4ad4-aa69-3cd97dfc4276-image.png] (OK, she is just freakin' NASTY.)

I had that sense of it but kind of at the end of my career so I didn’t try to jump on board. It is handy to have it summarize what a search tells you.

https://x.com/interesting_ail/status/1956386425378673096?s=46

Matt Yglesias: “ Trump is doing the part of socialism where you destroy the economy's long-term potential with central planning, but skipping the part where you take care of the poor and the sick.”

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16nSoJ2qk7/?mibextid=wwXIfr

34 - most of them some time ago when the kids were younger. I took my son to watch Brokeback Mountain 30 times in the vain hope that he would have a career in marketing.

@Axtremus said in NVIDIA’s 4T valuation in context.: Trump just green-lit them to sell AI model training chips to China; that’s many $billions in revenue. Beijing is resisting, telling big AI companies to not buy AI chips from US companies like Nvidia and AMD to favor China's domestic chips instead. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/china-not-welcoming-nvidia-back-with-open-arms-even-if-h20-curbs-eased.html

My favorites are probably 15, 19, and 7.