jon you tease. Is that ten strings 🤪 my fingers and brain have enough to cope with four Promised myself to learn when retired so no excuse, and even prepared by aquiring a few nice instruments. Here's the nicest being played by an American professional on his cd, unBEATabLE Songs. Oh to play and compose arrangements like David: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0XaZ9IgWI4nWW7dXZaCkTpssWb-vNnRw

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/soldier-charged-over-maduro-raid-bet-rcna341710 Van Dyke “bet a total of approximately $33,034” on the Maduro operation on the prediction market platform Polymarket, federal authorities said. He ultimately made more than $409,000 as a result of the bets placed on the U.S. operation, an unsealed indictment alleges. Authorities said he “participated in the planning and execution of the U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro.” “In total, Van Dyke made approximately 13 bets from Dec. 27, 2025, through the evening of Jan. 26,” the Justice Department said. Van Dyke was criminally charged with “unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.” Gee... sure would be a shame if this crime was applied to others in Trump's inner swamp circle.

If you have young kids, turn on original clips of roadrunner vs coyote. Kids love it (who doesn't?!).

I’ve gotten a LOT of refunds from DoorDash. The f***itup rate is high.

Interesting. It was a good decision. HP absorbed and then more or less killed compaq.

That's a BMFC!

@jon-nyc said: Trump blames Iran on him and fires him in a few months. Would not surprise me.

Yup - sad to see him go. I'll always think of him as a young conductor.

https://x.com/gregtsargent/status/2047398963838349427?s=46

Me neither. Sad story.

https://x.com/dudespostingws/status/2047376708253143275?s=46

@Horace said: You not liking him is not a prediction that he'd go to war with Iran. (I don't actually care much about the war personally, but I recognize it as a betrayal of his campaign platform.) Him going to war with Iran is a symptom of who he is, not the cause of why I don't like him. The fact that he was primarily self-serving and an agent of chaos should have been obvious.

The money quote: “One of the limits of madman theory is that you always have to be the craziest man,” Miller told Stein. “And right now, he's in a game of chicken with ... the craziest sons of b—— in the world. And so it's like, 'okay. So now... now what?' And you can see what happens, which is he says, ‘Oh, I'm gonna end their civilization,’ or, ‘Oh, I'm not gonna extend the ceasefire,’ or, ‘We're gonna go back at their power plants.’ And then when push comes to shove, it's like he doesn't want to do it.” While the “madman theory” was popularized by another controversial Republican president, Richard Nixon, Trump’s predecessor used this approach only sporadically, only after deliberately plotting his implementation — and could point to achievements like ending the Vietnam War, preventing nuclear war in the Middle East and opening up relations with China. By contrast, as Stein and Miller noted, Trump seems to act impulsively. The difference being that Nixon understood foreign policy, diplomacy and with whom he was dealing. Trump has no clue of any of any of the three. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/trump-trapped-as-his-game-of-chicken-backfires-report/ar-AA21xWij?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69e9757800c94432a4d2c5d38d00edc6&cvpid=b7fdb46c1386461faa29e6f40bf55ac2&ei=22

@Renauda LOL And in other news, a majority of people who voted for Ronald Reagan for US president are now dead, some under mysterious circumstances.

He should read the language the Texas legislature offered to their voters.

SBF is in federal prison for something similar to this.

I suspect (without opening the link) that snap excluded prepared foods so that it would buy more and people wouldn’t waste it at McDonald’s and rotisserie chicken just got caught up in that definition. But I agree with Horace, it’s cheap and nutritious and easy for a single mom.

Well, that has never stopped him before. LOL