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lmao. I thought this was just me. [image: 1687444336855-49106891-cf3f-463f-9289-1d7715832a5d-image.png]

It gets worse. Since the Lithuanian community in Chicago was fairly close-knit, everyone knew everyone. Or, at least everyone knew someone who knew someone. There were two or three major enclaves - in the city, it was the Marquette Park neighborhood. In the suburbs it was Melrose Park, and to a lesser extent Cicero. Anyhow, a friend of my parents knew a guy who knew a guy who was in charge of programming for the local Lithuanian TV channel. It broadcast once a week, on a Wednesday evening, iirc. I don't remember how long the program was. Nevertheless, "Hey, there's this kid who's not bad at the piano, let's get him to play on TV." Talk about anxiety-provoking. I was 16. [image: 1687442623749-george-on-tv-1966.jpg]

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"I can see the London Eye from here! ...and Big Ben!"

Nice aft.

George Plimpton had a gig where he was with the NYPO. He said that of all of his experiences, that was the most frightening. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4539798/user-clip-george-plimpton-joins-york-philharmonic

You'd think we'd be getting wiser, but that's clearly not the case.

The NY Times has a good summary: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/business/media/reddit-moderators-api-protest.html Highlights: 65% of the 9,000 subs (message boards) went "dark" for 2 days, in protest Protest is over Reddit charging large-scale companies for access ** like Google, OpenAI (ChatGPT), Microsoft...which uses Reddit content to train its AI models ** The protest concern is more about how it could kill off 3rd party apps, such as Apollo that is used on iOS to be a user-friendly Reddit interface (would cost Apollo $20 million annually), and how it would hurt tools that moderators use to manage freewheeling discussions on their sub

@Jon said in Hey Lard Ass, you're next.: Patreus was a willful retention case? https://www.justsecurity.org/82623/lessons-from-petraeuss-guilty-plea-for-trumps-classified-docs-investigation/ Petraeus reached a deal with the Justice Department to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, in violation of a federal statute, 18 U.S.C. 1924, which then provided, in relevant part:

It's when they fall asleep during, not after, that I get slightly irritated

No doubt about that. I was speaking from a legal perspective.

When you start with a predetermined outcome….

Well, they're indoctrinated. What comes out of their mouths isn't from themselves. That's never healthy for anybody.

Well, sapphire, we've been making sure that we took one of the most cutting edge medical systems the world has ever seen, nickel and dimed it to death, regulated it to death and cut reimbursements to death. There is nothing left to stop the inevitable decline. In a finite system, everybody can't have everything.

@George-K Don’t know. National standardized exams don’t exist here. Education is strictly a provincial jurisdiction. Feds have no input or jurisdiction whatsoever. Provide no funding either. There are standardized provincial achievement exams for high school graduation in some provinces of which I believe Ontario is one.

TDS is real, and it is spectacular.

Popcorn please