Of all places, the rural areas need the most reliability. After a bad weather event, the city is back up in a couple if days. The country folks may be out a week or two.

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Honestly, it is a pretty poor "article". Doesn't really give any background or facts. I would like to hear/read more information before believing it happened as the "story" says.

I just thought of something else. There is the Foreign Service Institute language courses, which are used to train US diplomats. Super intensive and you have to be willing to put time into it, but they are quite effective. https://www.fsi-language-courses.org/fsi-language-courses/

@taiwan_girl said in Bad Spaniels: Jack Daniels wins court case, which I agree with. 9-0 verdict. Maybe I should be on the Supreme court!!! LOL https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-rules-jack-daniels-fight-over-parody-dog-toy-2023-06-08/ This is like the HOA upholding the request for the guy to take down his kids' treehouse. The treehouse comes down, but the person who complained still comes out of it looking like a miserable SOB.

Absolutely no way he will get the nomination. Too "Trumpy" for the anti-Trump people and not "Trumpy" enough for the pro-Trump people.

One of the reasons they are causing some many problems internationally. What better way to take your citizens minds off of internal problems than to focus them on external perceived threats.

A lot of good comments in the forum thread!

I kind of agreed with President Trumps decision to meet Premier Kim. But, like the South Korea "sunshine policy", the DPRK is so inward looking, that it appears impossible to try and develop anything like a personal relationship with them.

Eventually Mr. Biden will eliminate all oil. This will leave the Saudis with nothing to do. Now is the time for them to move on to the next thing. Maybe that next thing is sport. All forms of gambling are illegal in the Saudi Kingdom. A match made in heaven. The Saudis as arbiter of all sport, uncorrupted by the evil influence of gambling that has claimed most of professional sport.

Interesting article. My experience with north Asia (Taiwan, Korea, Japan) work culture is that the hours are much longer than the US, but there are a couple of "caveat" - I think that productivity per hour is higher in the US. So, workers in north Asia will be in the office longer, but may not do much more work. Oftentimes, you cannot leave until your immediate boss leaves, and he cannot leave until his boss leaves, so if the top guy stay until 8 pm, everybody below him will be there until then. And #2, it is definitely very seniority based, so yes, it would be very unusual for a young person to question those higher up than himself.

Yeah, that is one of the most famous pictures of that era.

Thanks. I knew demi-glace (I even made it once, sort of), but I didn't make the connection.

Kamala is obviously a fake name.

I wouldn’t think his contract includes a buyout clause.

@George-K said in Trump on Meadows: I wonder if he dictated that and speech-to-text. He must've been yelling for it to be all caps!

Interesting case.

I went through a phase of artificial sweeteners. It lasted about a year. I never had any bad side-effects, but I never saw any benefit either.