Definitely a response to the negatives he was getting on this. "Well, I was always going to do this. Polls had nothing to do with it." BS Typical politician.

@Jolly said in Just hanging around...: Never been to Singapore. BIL tells me it seems to be the one of the cleanest and most well-run places in the Orient. It is. I never have had a problem there (spent more than one year +), but I am generally a rule follower. LOL They dont have it anymore, but they used to have paper entry cards, and in BIG BOLD RED letters, they had a statement that "drug smuggle was punishable by death". The joke in Singapore is that it is a "Fine" city. A fine for this a fine for that, etc etc. LOL

I don't know what twitter is like, but if you "hover" over a video, it automatically starts playing, and I am pretty sure that would qualify as a "view", but it really isn't I dont think. I think Mr. Carlson is probably still somewhat popular, but like a lot of people who assume they are bigger than they are, once they switch shows, platforms, etc., it is realized that they aren't. However, there will be someone who takes his place and is the next "Tucker Carlson" or next XX person.

@Copper said in The : @Doctor-Phibes said in The : ordinary people $2,000 check of other people's money to each ordinary person What says "he cares" more than that? FIFY

@Doctor-Phibes said in Confronting your demons - literally: @Aqua-Letifer said in Confronting your demons - literally: @Doctor-Phibes said in Confronting your demons - literally: My Dark Lord Sauron (may his name reverberate through the ages) could take Jesus any day. The guy wore sandals FFS, and Sauron was about 18 feet tall with a massive freaking sword. Jesus had a bunch of semi-itinerant fishermen, and Sauron had an army of orcs, probably balrogs and shit to boot and a pet wizard. Obviously, Sauron didn't actually exist, so the question is kind of moot. Still, he could take him. Sauron ain't shit without his bling. Pretty weak IMO. Your guy's got chocolate eggs and a decorative fir tree. Good look fighting the fires of Mordor with that shit. Christmas Tree delivery to Mount Doom. Put ring on fairy lights. Delivery blunder into the lava. Your average incompetent UPS driver could accomplish that one.

These signs will be noted on Judgement Day.

You subsidise something...

@Doctor-Phibes said in Things you think at work but don't say: Speaking of things you think at work but don't say: I actually need convincing that being a senior manager is really hard. Depends. The good senior managers I've worked with all outworked the teams under them. The wastes of space did far less, and some of them even believed their own bullshit. Seems that for every 1 of the former out there, you'll find at least 10 of the latter. The diamonds in the rough were the ones who just did the thing, never took the job or themselves too seriously and were generally alright to be around.

You have a book or two, or three, ready to come out of your brain, Aqua.

@89th said in The Pursuit of Happiness: My kids have brought me love and joy I didn't know was possible. Mine brings me soggy PBJ remnants but yes also that too.

The rest of the video is very much worth watching.

Oh I say it, I just make sure I'm on mute.

China also has things like missed rent payments, alimony payments, other fines and tickets, etc. linked to something like that. They all cause a point deduction in your overall "social" score. When it drops below a certain level, it is very difficult to purchase transportation tickets, use credit cards, etc etc etc

Yup, it is amazing how many people go into the wilderness with neither the experience or equipment, usually both. There are always sad stories about people who, for one or other reason, overestimate their abilities. Sad. One sadexample of a really experienced long distance hiker who basically documented his own death as he became overcome by weather. https://www.outsideonline.com/2336896/snowbound/

As someone here(?) said, in the Game of Life, Time is undefeated!

Lad, you just didn't get your ass whipped enough, did you?

A few things ... The manure hits the oscillator when the middle class is drastically down-sized or eradicated. Poor people need to pay taxes, even if it's just miniscule amounts. You care more when you have skin in the game. Rich people should certainly pay taxes, without an upper limit. (Social Security for example). Those taxes should be simplified with less loopholes.

Brilliant concept, mediocre-at-best execution.