@jolly said in Amazon and the modern novel.: Has Amazon changed things forever? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/is-amazon-changing-the-novel-everything-and-less?utm_source=pocket_mylist I was on about this shit 10 years ago. Yes, it sucks. Gotta look at the whole, though. We're gaining visual literacy, but this is the cost.

@lufins-dad me neither

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Old Blue Eyes 

Okay. I thought he left out JFK, who also had some very memorable, mobilizing lines.

Back to Riley...Many congrats. I think he'll be a good father.

@taiwan_girl said in Gas: @jolly said in Gas: Yeah, gas is a lot higher now... But the article was about a gas shortage. Yes we have one.

@jolly Cool story. I like the history stories you share with us!!

Wow! So sad. Depression is such a sad disease. It can really affect people in ways that I cannot understand. There was a speaker I watched about suicide. And his point was that people dont want to die, they just want to change the way they are living. So, it becomes a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

@bachophile Yup. @Catseye3 Watch the movie "Free Solo". If you do not have wet palms through the movie, you are quite a strong person. Some of the stuff he would do to train is crazy - like hold on to the wood frame that frames a door (maybe one inch wide) for 90 minutes to strengthen his hands.

@george-k Makes sense. You are in charge of a many billion dollar vehicle. You ruin it, you cannot expect to continue to be the driver.

It is interesting that McDonalds does allow some variety of the menu for local tastes. When I was growing up, McDonalds was first becoming popular in Taiwan. The most popular menu items were fried chicken and corn soup!!

@klaus In Illinois, close by George and Mark. (actually all three of us are the same person 555) If you are ever in SE Asia or NE Asia, let me know!!!

Keep the statues up. When the Taliban blew up the Buddhist statues in the Bamyan Valley in Afganistan, the same people who were AGAINST that are now FOR taking down the US statues. (Actually I dont that for a fact, but I am guessing that is the case. 555)

I think that the RepublicANs will get 54 or 55

@catseye3 Good questions!!!

There are some videos (or maybe I read it) about when cattlemen want to cross a piranha river with a lot of cattle, they will sacrifice an old/sick one a bit down stream. Give it a cut so it bleeds and enter it into the stream. As the piranhas attack, the other cattle cross (hopefully) safely upstream.