Silly boy, rules are for the little people...

Uh, no.

Thanks, everyone! Spent the day recuperating from the night before.

I watched this performance of hers: Link to video At 96, she doesn't play like Yuja Wang of course, but I'd say she can still kick @jon-nyc 's ass. Very cool. It's a little annoying why they couldn't give this lovely lady a piano that is freshly tuned, though.

@LuFins-Dad said in “Due to mass refusal to participate in hostilities…”: There’s no question in my mind that this war already represents a fundamental change in our shared history and future, but there are still multiple directions this can go… Doesn’t seem they have eschewed old fashioned brutality yet.

If it works for you it works for me, although I am mildly surprised that it would matter either way since it is a subjective topic and therefore always open to debate.

@Jolly said in Priceless: Is there money in it for the Chinese? The CCP may care more about leveraging this development to achieve their geopolitical goals, whatever they are, more than they care about making money from running bankcard transactions for Russia. Not that I know for sure, it just looks to me that with Russian‘s comparatively small economy, the money from running Russia’s bankcard operations would be negligible compared to China‘s own economy. This Visa/MasterCard boycott is yet another market tool that, while may be effective at punishing an economically weak Russia, may not be effective at all if you try to do that same against China — it will be much more costly for Visa/MasterCard to give up revenues from their operations in China, and China has its own payment card networks that are more popular than Visa/MasterCard anyway.

@Mik said in Interesting if legit: All of which leads one to suspect the worst - Putin is backed into a corner and delusional. The question is if there is anybody close enough to him with a semblance of sanity? Or is there a link in the chain somewhere below that can remove him from effective control?

People who thought such things made the argument that restrictions would be lifted once Biden was in office. It seems odd that these guys didn’t update their priors when that didn’t happen. Idiots.

The question is how many chances do you give the voter and at what stages?

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All perfect scores for me. Sometimes the official answer key was wrong, but I forgive them.

@bachophile https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/04/facebook-posts/no-woman-driving-armored-vehicle-isnt-ukrainian-sh/ A popular TikTok video claims to show a Ukrainian woman teaching people how to drive an abandoned Russian armored personnel carrier amid the war. "Ukrainian Tik Toker nastyatyman posted a video on how to drive an abandoned Russian APC," a Feb. 28 Facebook post that features the video says in its caption. This isn’t what the clip shows. The TikTok is over a year old, from February 2021, and was posted by a Russian woman named Anastasia Tuman. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.

Better technology, too much really, it was distracting I remember the 50s, it didn't really feel like that, the photography was modern Hollywood. I guess it is fair for a modern Hollywood picture to look like modern Hollywood, but it isn't what I wanted. I liked the fact that it didn't hit me over the head with woke, that is hard to find on Disney these days The music was terrific, the vocals ok, just ok Rita Moreno vs Doc? Doc wins, but Ms. Moreno did nice work Krupke? The original wins The tomboy becomes trans? OK, that does it, that is a mistake, that is just plain stupid. Idiots Fortunately I didn't have any expectation, so I'm not really disappointed.