Hey Cats, I hope you are OK.

@Jolly said in Girl's gotta make a living...: Chasing the dream and just trying to make a livin'. Exactly. Tiffany's making a living. She has, probably 2 gigs a week in NOLA with her band. During COVID, she did a lot of work from her home and the bass-player's attic via Zoom and FB - yeah I sent her some $$ when I watched, of course. I just can't imagine working a day-to-day basis like this, relying on tips at gigs (remember how I posted about someone stealing the cash from the tip jar?). She seems to be surviving. Her husband owns/runs a fancy-schmancy artsy-artsy glass studio on Magazine Street in Nola, so that helps.

@Jolly said in We really need to examine dog breeding practices: We've already ruined German Shepherds on this side of the pond. PBS did a documentary (or was it Discovery?) how we're ruining dogs with our misguided attempts to improve things. Our Oliver ("Ollie") was the perfect dog. Silent. Clean. Friendly. Not Shedding. Long-lived. He was a mutt (Cockapoo/Bichon mix) that we got from a breeder. F purebreds.

@Aqua-Letifer said in "Different": Ours is the older English. I'll bend a genu to your superiour knowledge.

@Jolly said in Whoopsie...: The Internet is forever. The Whitehouse may have taken the pics down, but they still exist on multiple websites. Inexcusable. Yeah, mostly right wing sites posting screenshots saying “Can you believe Biden doxxed these guys?!” I’ve seen it 3 times. Dumbasses.

@bachophile

@Axtremus I don’t pretend to know the beginning of any of all this stuff, so, like I said, is this a thing? I don’t know As you say, it’s probably not a thing, lol.

Yeah, there is a hotel not too far over the border from DPRK in Shenyang, China that is full of DPRK IT people. It is a known "secret" that they are either hackers or doing what @mik talks about. https://www.travelocity.com/Shenyang-Hotels-Chilbosan-Hotel-Shenyang.h1496349.Hotel-Information

I read the book. It is a good book, so hopefully the play will be as good.

If nothing else, the arthur does a good job of making assumptions to a point where they fit his scenario. Even before Biden took office, China and other buyers began to import more oil from Iran, anticipating the loosening of U.S. restrictions. Biden didn’t repeal the laws that impose sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, but his rhetoric still brought a windfall for Iran as buyers started to “capitalize on that sentiment in the market,” Ben Taleblu said. LOL. Hard hitting research! China and others (DPRK) have been buying oil from Iran. I have not seen anything that this has increased or decreased. And based on China's (and others) actions after the invasion of Ukraine and their buying oil from Russia, I don't think Chinas actions would have been any different, regardless of the US president. ....it stands to reason that the price of oil would have remained approximately $55 per barrel had Trump remained in office in 2021. Taking away the pandemic, when was oil at USD$55 during President Trump term?

How many chiropractors does it take to change a lightbulb? Just one, but they need to do it every 2 weeks for the next year.

Narrative. Nothing that happened before the Prophet matters.

Apple's commitment to social justice only extends so far, it appears.

Then senator Joe Biden made one of his first notable speeches there, IIRC.

Once she gets a taste of the high life, you never know.

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