https://x.com/bhargreaves/status/2025685687823978968?s=46

The airport at Puerto Vallarta earlier today. https://x.com/desireeamerica4/status/2025647623835726282?s=46

He deleted the tweet.

@blondie said in Reflections on college visits: (We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize). You're not a colonist and you don't owe anyone an apology. More generally, why is it we recognize how foul and dangerous it is to tie ethnicities to territories when the European right does it ("Blut und Boden") but somehow its ok when "First (sic) Nations" do it? Also, why is the second to last group to conquer a territory special? Why not third to last? Or fourth? The whole ideology is intellectually vacuous.

I mean the Bears had a good season. Great new QB, won their division, and I think were 2 wins away from being in the Super Bowl. We are lucky here in Minny that our teams are named after the state and not the city (cities).

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Very nice musical break. Thanks!

Yes and here we refer to the scumbags as Maple MAGAs.

Mark - agree - a very fine performance.

@Renauda said in Invading Greenland - suicide.: Thanks but no thanks: Greenland's prime minister has asked US President Donald Trump to talk to him instead of making "random outbursts on social media", after Trump said he was sending a US hospital boat to "take care" of people on the island. Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was going to send a boat filled with medical supplies, alleging "many people" on the island are sick and "not being taken care of". Jens-Frederik Nielsen responded "it's going to be a no thanks from us," and said that Greenland provides free healthcare for all citizens. Trump has long coveted the vast arctic island - but conceded in January that he would not take it by force, after previously refusing to rule out doing so. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7jnvdzpr7o He's probably infected the blankets.

Yes! Upper Midwest ftw! I mean just look at all that fresh water! We are also relatively immune from natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, even, for the most part, tornadoes even though one occasionally gets through. Awesome climate in the spring and fall. Summer is usually awesome with a week or two of high temps. Winter, well, it is a quiet time, spent mostly indoors, doing things like practicing and getting better at your musical instruments, and snuggling up next to a fire with your sweetheart. What could be better than that!

Probably unrelated, but last night I had a nightmare about a crooked lampshade behind a Baldwin piano.

Given that I support most of his efforts, if not the way they were gone about, it raises an interesting question. Is the US effectively governable under the current restrictions? Can we function with the painfully slow deliberative process in a world that moves ever faster?

Make sure to wear your jeans

In NY nobody picks people up from the airport. It would be the rudest imposition to ask or expect it. I’d sooner ask someone to shovel my driveway. When my ex girlfriend’s dad and his wife would visit from Romania, I’d send them a black car, but there’s no way I’d pick them up.

Isn't that what they did? Charge you USD$30 for 7 hours of idle? About USD$4.28/hour. Sorry you have have a bad experience with EV. When I have had one, I have had a pretty good experience.

Interesting. It will be intriguing to see (perhaps by heat map) over time how each category has trended, too. Thanks for posting these.

@Klaus said in Life Under the Taliban: If a man can never look at or talk to a woman, how do they ever find a partner? Arranged marriages. Family A has a son, family B has a daughter. They match up "socio-economically". Money is passed, marriage is arranged. The bride and groom have almost no say in the situation. And yes, often-times, the first time the groom will actually "see" the bride is AFTER they are married.