Wonderful to read what someone was going through first hand during the war. Thanks so much for sharing Klaus. I agree with Jolly, those letters belong in a museum.

@axtremus said in Trending on Google: @jolly said in Trending on Google: And yes, 90% of Americans will probably die, unless we take precautions. What precautions would you recommend? Should we add them to the infrastructure bill? I don't think you have to, as the cost is not astronomical, being about $40B over a few years to protect the most critical parts of the grid. DOD has by far the most experience with how to do it and a civilian/military joint project is underway in San Antonio. Maybe we carve the money out of the defense budget along with a few other dollars scarfed from here and there. That would protect critical components. Maybe the grid goes down for a few weeks, but we can work around that.

@doctor-phibes said in Hey Aqua, we need to have a conversation about your control of cycling resources.: And now America has caught up! ...And there was much rejoicing.

@horace said in Meanwhile, in Japan...: @aqua-letifer said in Meanwhile, in Japan...: 2% of Japan's population is currently vaccinated. Trump supporters? No they're just behind for non-ridiculous reasons.

Working pretty well today. May be something well out of our control.

Probably a prudent political move under the present circumstances. Definitely a move that will garner broad public support, although I am certain very few even knew - or for that matter, gave any thought to the existence- of such partnerships until the story broke. The irony of it is that the provincial government invested a lot of time and resources in facilitating and promoting these post secondary partnerships with China over the last thirty or so years.

That’s helpful to know. I was looking at one the other day and was saying my god which Beltway bandit took the post office for a ride on that POS. If I could only have appreciated how durable they sound.

Russel Moore was going to hit the bricks by 6/30/21, jobless. The SBC is conservative. Moore, increasingly, was not. The Trump stuff is just fluff for folks like you. There currently is a small war being waged within the denomination over people pushing many Leftist ideas. The promotion of homosexuality as no longer a sin, with gay marriage tolerated by the church. The adoption of CRT, in some form or another. Ain't gonna happen. The Conference would literally tear itself asunder over such non-Biblical balderdash and the associations (and the money) ain't going with the Moore's of the SBC.

@jolly said in Trump Does Bush: Trump Does Bush And I thought this was going to be a Stormy Daniels thread.

That, Horace, was what I took from the story as well. Especially since it is difficult to live in this country if one cannot fucking read.

@mark thanks for linking that! What fun, and what a career! Her demeanor, watching these videos, is so "workmanlike" - that's not to say that her playing is, it's that she is obviously comfortable with what she's doing.

@klaus said in Puzzle time - the ant lottery: Nice idea! Thanks Klaus. Another problem with not being able to record the ID of every ant is that the solution assumes a non zero chance of having to record every ant, as the interim lottery winner.

@89th said in Football Fans: Watch #89.: Always watch number 89... Indeed! Not quite an A, but, you know, pretty good!

The first rule of development club is, never build on floodplains. The second rule of development club is, NEVER BUILD ON FLOODPLAINS. Not at all a new problem.

The golf course here has hosted 3 proms in recent weeks. I don't know what rules they had about masks. If I had to guess I'd guess masks were optional.

@jolly said in I thought surely this was the Onion or the Bee...: Nasty? A chicken ain't nothing but a hog with feathers. Only an idiot would be kissing up on chickens. Certainly, if there's a hog available, it wouldn't make any sense at all.