@kluurs said in Dry February…: Wonderful news! Your health is a good focus. Father-In-Law lost his foot in January to diabetes. Hearing the glucose numbers get up there was a big wake up call. It also made me realize that small little things that I was attributing to just getting older weren’t… Still, I was pleased to look back after 2 weeks to know that I wasn’t addicted to the booze physically, and look back this week to see that I’m not addicted mentally, lol. Not saying that I won’t have the occasional sip of whiskey, but not for another 8-12 weeks. What I am missing is the 2 times a week after work beers with a couple of guys at the pub. I’m hoping Jon’s Alliance Brews will help with that…

Caught these 2 lovebirds show up...classic boy chasing girl. First cardinals of the season, I'd like to think the new birdfeeder helped encourage them to come out. (Side note, squirrels still learned how to jump from the bird house to the feeder where I put it yesterday, so I had to go out today and place it higher. I may or may not have completely fallen off the step stool into the snow on my back after reaching up and barely placing it on the highest branch I could reach) [image: 1772036269449-0e669f1a-4399-4b35-b984-f39250aa3c73-image.png] [image: 1772036282486-fa6d990b-cb27-4be6-9b46-5dbc9490a4b7-image.png]

@Wim said in US Ambassador to France - French Will Not Meet With Him: @89th This wasn't basically a protest move. It is a deliberate strategy of undermining political stability. If you don't get that you're willingly blind. Wow. We have TWO telepathic people here!

Dumb all around. But I support pelting Mamdani.

AI - Anal Intercourse. Duh.

@89th said in Losing nurses to Canada: Haha from your state bird! Fair enough. I told my wife after the hockey game that we'd win 2 out of 10 games, and luckily it was one of the 2. Look at it this way, Connor Hellebuyck plays for the Winnipeg Jets and will continue to play for the Jets with deserved honour and respect for the foreseeable future. On the other hand, Brody Tkachuk has to come back to Ottawa and face his Senator teammates in the dressing room and every other Canadian enforcer and fan whenever and wherever he plays in this country. Tkachuk will quickly learn the hard lessons of what we mean by “elbows up”.

@Tom-K said in Not to brag or anything...: Soooo, was he re-elected or un re-elected? I can't figure that out. Good question. Maybe he’s getting impeached for his haircut.

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@Mik said in Who’s watching the SOTU speech tonight?: But I did just watch about 15 minutes of Cocaine Bear. Show some respect. It's "Mr. Secretary" to you. Even his friends just call him 'Bobby'. OK, Kid Rock calls him sweet-cheeks, but that's it.

The inclusion of the term "Lord Mandelson" is highly offensive.

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Link to video jake sullivan and jon finer (NSA and deputy NSA under Biden) interveiw Tyler Cowen. interesting if you are into america/china stuff

https://x.com/ShooterMcGavin/status/2025962304483799242?s=20

@Horace Well that was different. I am wondering how you came across that. 555

@jon-nyc said in “You people” on steroids: You know it would have been less embarrassing to take the L then to have done whatever this is you’re doing now. At the end of the day the Magtard of Crown Heights misquoted him twice and lied about the audience. It’s fair that you didn’t know the source having seen it on Reddit. Now you’re out of excuses. I can’t be the only one beyond bored of reading you on this thread. If you're not embarrassed by your own behavior in this thread, then it would fit with my description of your psychology. Your claim that the second sentence erases the first in "I'm like you. I'm no better than you." remains ridiculous, and the vehemence with which you claimed it, to the point of calling me an intentional liar for not going along with it, only points to your own delusional nature in adversarial discussions. As usual, you are fractionally as coherent as you think you are. As for the description of the audience, it was probably an honest mistake, given the venue and the obvious intentions of the interview. He may or may not be forthright in admitting that there were plenty of white faces, with the updated information. As for the lack of the ... between the sentences in the quote, I'm sure you'll get over that someday. The story as told is a far cry from a pure hoax.

@jon-nyc said in Is he wrong?: [image: 1771958560702-img_0775.jpeg] Nope. Not wrong. Of course, that goes both ways.

@Mik said in The Worlds Biggest Fast Food Chain............. Coming to America: We have some bubble tea places here. Can't imagine why I would ever want something sugary like that. Maybe Americans will unexpectedly discover that they really like sugary stuff?

@taiwan_girl said in Beyond the antivaxx stuff MAHA is either banal or fake: As U.S. hospitals face an increasing risk of encountering measles, and pressure to immediately spot it, health care workers face an unusual barrier: Many don't know what it looks like. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260224/Hospitals-fighting-measles-confront-a-challenge-Few-doctors-have-seen-it-before.aspx Kinda surprised, it feels like every other physician I see is from some country where measles is still more prevalent than here, even with the outbreaks.