Good thing I have neither a iPhone 15 nor a BMW. 5555

@Axtremus said in Talking With The Pea: She could have put all this in a paper, summarize all the responses she collected in a table, then all these could have been absorbed in half a minute. But then you wouldn't have seen her in a bikini!

@Jolly said in Further Insurrection: ....to enter a building through open doors and carefully move furniture without permission. Okay then. Obviously not going to take responsibility so, I tuned him out after this. Sorry.

@George-K said in Cruise Etiquette: @Doctor-Phibes said in Cruise Etiquette: smuggle their own booze You're kidding... At least on Amtrak, in a sleeper, you can BYOB. Yeah, but you don’t get flashed by drunken Scots, so it kind of balances out

I posted that with you in mind. Not being in your dotage like (ahem) some here, you can be aware of what the alarm's for. For some others... That reminds me, it's time for my PM meds...

Consider for a minute just how difficult it actually was to vote in the 1780s…Most of the country was still agrarian. You didn’t have a polling location that was a 15 minute walk or a 5 minute drive away… Exercising your right to vote would typically require a pretty heavy burden on the voter in time and effort.

@George-K Just finished watching the YouTube video. Much better than the tortuous tweet. At least it was a coherent argument based on established facts. I would agree that some of the ethnic autonomous republics would split if the opportunity arose. His examples of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan are well chosen. Both tried very hard politically and economically throughout much of the Yeltsin era to achieve independence from Moscow. Likewise the far east regions in particular, Yakutia. Then there’s the simmering, disgruntled and cowed ethnic pots in the North Caucasus. As well, there are levels of discontent in resource rich Russian regions that get very little in return from Moscow. It’s actually a pretty good argument with which I have only a few minor quibbles other than Sumlenny’s overly optimistic view of a disintegrating Russian Federation. I really don’t see the country passively commiting suicide for the second time in fifty years. I think that if it were to happen, it would be much more violent and protracted than when the lights went out on the USSR.

Somebody did that in the YMCA parking lot next to where we lived during Covid lockdown. I called the police on them, as did about 5 other people, and then watched them have a conversation from my bedroom window.

Good luck getting through the red tape. (Bonus points if you get the joke.)

@Aqua-Letifer said in What is this? Seen while hiking: John Brown's body. Nah, that lies mouldering in the grave...

Jon told me.

The dildo of karma rarely arrives lubed: [image: 1696340967465-f7hbtzabeaaez-m.jpeg] https://x.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1709171411191820780?s=20

Apropos the book I’m reading now, (see what are you reading thread, about Rudolph Diesel ) Germany was on a war economy from the time of Bismarck, the Franco Prussian war and the unification of Germany in the 19th century

@Jolly said in Justice Kavanaugh taps the brakes on Supreme Court's sharp move to the right: Or for the cretins that used a pack of scandalous lies to try to ruin the man's reputation. I never understood that strategy. Apart from how disgusting it was from a human perspective, it just didn't make sense, as he really didn't appear that conservative politically. If they'd managed to stop his nomination, my guess is the replacement would have been considerably more right wing. Obviously, dyed-in-the-wool Democrats aren't exactly known for their strategery. But still....

@ Rainman Do not miss it or its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.

@jon-nyc said in 8 ½ Years is not enough.: What are you talking about? That guy got 41 months but was out in 18. Proportion.