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That’s Mr. Bitch to you, pal.

Is he leaning one way or another? If I was his age I’d lean toward something entrepreneurial. Trades maybe. Bright kid, he’ll do well but white collar is dicey. The changes we are seeing in our lifetime are dizzying.

@Doctor-Phibes said: @Mik said: I’m leaning more and more towards being buried with a newly planted tree to fertilize it. Have a picnic on that spot, drink whatever is left of my wine cellar and laugh yourselves silly. We could probably do that before you were killed. You got a new tree maybe?

Inappropriate and detached from all reality.

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While it’s true that someone with a weapon could kill a bunch of people on a plane even if they can’t use it as a missile, that’s also true of every mall and restaurant in the US. We don’t put metal detectors in front of those. The last time I rode the train I was surprised that you could just… walk right on. Zero security, they’ll check your ticket once the train is moving. Would be so easy to cause damage.

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Minimally honest. Good way to put it.

Rick, lay off the Cannonau.

@Renauda said: Trump’s the name, snakes and ladders is his game. I was thinking Suicide Monopoly. It's like regular Monopoly, but with Jeffrey Epstein.

Not so open air public defecation, but I gotta get something off my chest… I’ve seen this x2 in the past few years in public areas inside hospitals. Zippo no one was rushing in to clean it up. Everyone stepping around it. In one instance I was reprimanded by a nurse, she threatening to call security on me for voicing up her rationale for leaving the mess there.

@Axtremus said: It's not a matter of the government having too much or too little power, but whether it has the right amount of power to control the right set of things. Of course, nobody knows better than I what is the right amount of power and what are the right set of things. That's basically what I said except I was being facetious. Nobody can tell whether you're joking or not.

Cuba would seem to be an easier target. Isolated like Iran, but does not have the 'reach" like Iran, and other than exporting medical assistance to other third world countries, they don't have many (or any) things to hold hostage over the US.

Her name was Yvonne, not Jesús. Why do you automatically assume it was a Hispanic male driver, @jon-nyc ?

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https://x.com/jonkay/status/2041710180102992245?s=20

I don't know. Bringing in Ax's TSA thread, we spend a whole lot of money on security, and not just TSA, that might not be necessary if the world's foremost sponsor of terrorism swore off such mischief. There could be someone else who picks up the mantle but I think they'd be properly chastened by what happened to Iran.

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