"Cadillac" Frank Salemme of the Boston mob used to live in the next town to ours - our kids used to go to the playground that was right around the corner (he'd moved out by that time) Very nondescript... [image: 1713105696268-f4e662b9-1fc9-44a6-8db4-72f01a1f738b-image.png]

@Jolly said in Vivek Speaks: Where have many of our highly touted job gains come from? Government, or government requirements. We have created a better-paying WPA, without the Depression part. And the public works projects…

The production of fake narratives has increased a enormously on TikTok as people get paid based on clicks. The quality of real acting is often quite good, let alone what is now and soon will be enabled by AI. And most have nothing to do with politics.

Happy birthday, George!

cuz that spell uses a lot of glitter Well there's your problem, right there. The components for Animate Dead are a drop of blood, a scrap of flesh or a pinch of bone dust. Not glitter. They're trying to use Disney Dollars at Caesar's Palace.

@George-K said in Discount: San Francisco’s doom loop just got worse Another city with maybe a worst problem https://www.businessinsider.com/st-louis-downtown-doom-loop-is-worse-than-san-francisco-2024-4?op=1 A vacant office building in downtown St. Louis just sold for $3.6 million — a nearly 98% discount from its 2006 sales price, signaling a concerning course for the Midwestern city's downtown area. The former One AT&T Center, which at 44 stories is the third-tallest building in St. Louis, sold for $205 million in 2006 and recently sold for $3.6 million to the Goldman Group, a real-estate investment firm, according to CoStar News. The steep drop in the tower's value is just one sign that St. Louis' central business district is struggling, reports say. The challenges facing it and other Midwestern hubs are perhaps graver than bigger downtowns that have been more widely depicted as abandoned or dying, like San Francisco's, according to economics and public-policy experts.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/pittsburgh-bridges-reopen-after-26-barges-break-loose/story?id=109202345

Here is the picture from the German gallery [image: 2048.jpg?width=1900&dpr=1&s=none]

Amsterdam was 2017.

Saw a sign for barnacle parking enforcement today in Galveston. We paid our 16 bucks to avoid it.

Paper Paul and mache

@George-K said in Bill Maher: What we can learn from Canada, and Sweden, and others: But, here's the question, has he moved to the right, or has the left totally abandoned him. Like @Mik and the Republiccan party, not a surprise to see the other side do the same thing.

@Renauda Exactly!

@George-K said in The Rush Effect: @Doctor-Phibes said in The Rush Effect: And denying it was a health threat. Never really listened to him for more than about 30 minutes on about half a dozen occasions. Did he really do that? Geez. He also said that coronovirus was the common cold, so, you know, not great with that stuff.

What’s the old saw? Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be more easily explained as stupidity? Insanity fits too.

@Renauda said in Today's FAFO - Free Palestine Edition: introduced to Monsieur Guillotine’s invention. A once in a lifetime encounter. [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia1.tenor.com%2Fimages%2Fe77cb53b10930648551dbc6b251a2c35%2Ftenor.gif%3Fitemid%3D14171922&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=1cc2a9cf6b2fac0714850d3ea4400598bf06b5aed64692552cd0a635653f9e48&ipo=images]

Are we talking women or cars?