Apple didn't fall far from the tree. We had Christmas with part of the family at Thanksgiving. Her 84 year-old mother came in with nine, count 'em, nine deserts.

@George-K said in Chinese Cheap Chic:

@Jolly said in Chinese Cheap Chic:

It's not a motorcycle, it's a motorscooter.

Yeah, I know.

The injuries at 35 mph are so much less severe than at 65 mph.

No thanks.

No worse than a mild wreck gettin' throwed off a buckin' bull...

Yeah, I never knew a dealer that gave you extra drugs just because.

Shohei Ohtani to defer all but $20M of his $700M Dodgers contract until its completion in 2034

Have I ever mentioned here how important culture is? Yeah, no American would do this. Good for Shohei.

Funny, when I lived there in the 90s it was the other way around

Finished All The Light We Cannot See last night. Good show. Like the format of just enough episodes to tell the story.

@jon-nyc said in 2nd Lieutenant Eden:

Did you read the thread? There were replies and decent ones.

Yep…

The Mexican government was the latest to propose such a law which, if it passes, would see Mexico join Vietnam, Russia, Ukraine, and France, all of which have criminalized ecocide — formally defined as “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.”

There is a list of countries that we want to use as models.

@Copper said in Never Forget or Never Knew?:

@Horace said in Never Forget or Never Knew?:

the current generation of kids is the dumbest ever.

May we assume the people who made these dumb kids are responsible.

Yes, let’s find out.

Survey the dumb kid’s parents and grandparents to see what, if at all any, views they might have on the subject.

@bachophile said in Let me ask 2 questions re: Israel/Palestine:

i presume everyone wants me to chime in and of course, its impossible to really spell it all out in a forum post, I wish i could write "the short answer is...." but there really is no short answer.

I will comment on what jon wrote right above. the last elections held by the PA was in 2006. hamas won. and eventually to make a long story short, the PA split from hamas in 2007, then hamas took over gaza (and tossing fatah members off the roofs of buildings, as i remember)
since then, there have been no elections. why? because hamas still maintains the majority of votes in the west bank, and abbas, knowing his government would fall if he had elections, just stopped having elections.

this means, that right now, fatah holds onto power by grace of the US, as well as mutual security interests with israel. Israes keeps hamas at bay in the west bank,. and fatah provides nominal internal security and cooperates with israel to suppress hamas in the WB.

which all means, if israel was to unilaterally withdraw from the WB, as they did from gaza, the same upheaval would happen in the WB as it did in gaza, and hamas would takeover, so thats not going to happen,

when abbas dies, there will be a ;power struggle within fatah to gain control, but israel wont let them collapse.

so that basically answers both questions, if israel withdraws from the WB, the war will continue, as hamas will be free of israeli power, and the WB is necessary as a security buffer to keep hamas jihadis from taking over (as they are really the majority)

this is all not connected at all to settlement or messianic claims to the holy land (although strictly speaking, the kingdoms of judea and samaria were all in what is now occupied territory) but that is not the overlying strategic issue, thats just the cover story (at least for most of us)
the real issue is israel cant live with a jihadi west bank. and now it seems neither with a jihadi gaza. (ironically in gaza, as opposed to the WB, many of the population detest hamas for ruining their lives, something not true in the WB, since hamas has never governed there)

but that really is a highly shortened version of my answer to the question, its really quite complex

I appreciate your answer, and it makes sense. I was going to chime in with something similar to Jon's post and yours, but no need to repeat something that was already spelled out so clearly.

All this paranoia about administering opioids in a clinical, supervised setting. Yeesh.

@Copper said in Right-wing Comedy:

You had Rodney Dangerfield, Steve Martin and Don Rickles and many more.

Is there anyone like that now?

Drybar.

G or PG funny. Some of the jokes and routines are very funny. And here's what I find interesting...Several of these comedians have much bluer shows, but they clean it up for Drybar and are still funny.

https://m.youtube.com/@DryBarComedy

pervert

It may not even be a real picture. What if it's a drawing? Then there is no "truth", beyond the intent of the artist. I don't feel comfortable making any judgments until I know whether it's a drawing, or a real picture. Also I would like to know what wise women of color think, to get an always valuable second opinion from mystical truth seeking methods.

did you know the word folks is now spelled folkx because the "s" may not be inclusive enough

Ha that is cool.

I also saw a stat that Flacco (browns) has two straight weeks of 2+ TDs and 200+ yards, something the Steelers haven't done since Big Ben retired?

I've enjoyed some of his videos, particularly when talking about other artists, like (gasp) Karen Carpenter, Sinatra, and Dean Martin.

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