Last paragraph says it all. They will be out of business. The strong ones will figure out a new gig when this all clears up but it totally sucks to lose it all.

@bachophile said in Israel to hold election again: See the vaccination by country thread. That what matters to people here. Not the political bullshit. My experience has been that most people here don't care about the political bullshit either. We almost never talked politics at work, we never discuss it in family get-togethers, and other places. I think TNNCR is the exception, and far from being normal representative of most of the country.

@horace said in “With Covid” or “of Covid”: Religious persecution is a threat to our constitutional republic and represents the single greatest extant threat to our nation. Of course. It’s not possible that he is just a defective product. We can’t know his background because that would be prejudicial. I’ll bet everyone who knew him knew this would happen some day.

@jon-nyc said in Musings on two Bond films: Someone here said it runs faithful to the book. More about the books on Amazon Prime Video 52 minutes, gives some background Interesting that the books were written before his death (of course) in 1964, a lot of technology in later films hadn't been imagined yet https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Fleming-Ian/dp/B07FZ3ZFHB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ian+fleming&qid=1608748661&s=instant-video&sr=1-1

Deer are bad. I saw one get smashed once. A deer jumped into the road and ran away While everyone was watching the first disappear, a second deer followed and nobody was looking at it. Whamo! I was the third car in line - no problem, the first car was heavily damaged.

@loki said in Required vaccination: https://www.axios.com/vaccine-proof-americans-demand-74778b08-7e1c-40f5-a83e-1a1649eb835d.html Maybe not mandatory, but will that be a distinction without a difference? I'm sure this will stop with the wu-flu. Nobody will ever think of making any other vaccines mandatory.

@bachophile said in Vaccinations by country: [image: 1608744923661-218e3230-cdde-4f1f-b347-b1c0f5202cc1.png] Ok it’s early. But looks like we are getting a good jump on things. This is cool.

@catseye3 LOLOLOL

What sucks is you can’t see the tags from mobile devices.

@jon-nyc said in I love my kid: Nice. Did it leave you enough time to sneak out and bang your mistress? No, but I threw yours a pity bone.

So Trump never demanded Congress allocate money to build the southern border wall?

Shut down Tik Tok also.

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Santa arrived a little early... [image: 131817719_10157836604782688_8721163287221026252_o.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=2&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=2O-0RFXVYF4AX-dLe9r&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=22b74de9dd7ef75c687b6dd0e534d79e&oe=60094C69] It sounds amazing. We listened to 6 albums yesterday. Each one revealing things that I had never heard before. The soundstage is very wide and deep. Extending beyond the physical placement of the speakers. As it should be. The Grado cartridge/stylus is designed and manufactured in the US as well. It was an optional $150 upgrade. Yes, it is in a Maple, wood housing. It's the newest member of Grado's Timbre line of moving coil phono cartridges. Their first "affordable" ($275) moving coil, wooden cartridge. Grado has a cartridge that looks very similar called the Epoch 3, yet it costs $12,000.00 Yep! freaking 12k for a turntable cartridge. lol Very happy with the purchase. I will be doing a lot of listening and comparisons between the SOL and the Technics SL-1200 MK5.

Something I almost never do. The conversation always moves forward and I don't often feel the need to look back.

@brenda said in The Subtle Art of Gift Giving: The giver needs to be mindful that gifts intended to create closeness or indicate a close relationship should be accompanied by treating the person respectfully and decently the rest of the year, too. I have a relative who likes to give sappy sentimental gifts at Christmas or other holidays, while the rest of the year she is manipulative, demanding, mean, and deceitful. It just doesn't work to try to pretend the rest of the year doesn't exist. Ayup.

Good observation.

@jon-nyc said in "Hi Mom!": @89th said in "Hi Mom!": FWIW I pick up my 2 year old daughter from daycare each day. All I do is show up and they bring her down and release her to me. They don't even ask my name, or my ID, because.....common sense. They know me. Glad I don't have to show my ID each time. I didn’t either at his private nursery schools. Might change in elementary school if you go public. True. Although I’ll be in minnesooooota by then and there are only nice people there.