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No, but it was 50%+ more than an uber

Drinks are on Jon!!!!

Article is interesting, but I think that @89th makes some good (and funny) points.

Large projects are a lot easier when you have slave labor. Still, it's good to see the Saudis planning for economic viability post-petroleum. Unless there's a huge expansion in the need for sand it's their only natural resource.

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@LuFins-Dad Dog walking tax?

Wait, let me get this straight… The IOC (one of the most corrupt organizations in the world) commissioned a study that says if we don’t stop driving to work, then they will have fewer cities bribe them to let them build expansive new athletic venues that will only support a single event, ever, where thousands of athletes and millions of spectators will be flown from around the world to watch? No hypocrisy, there…

Trade schools were already covered by Pell. This is covering very short term training programs (8 weeks instead of 15 week). I’ve been advocating for this for years, and if you truly want the Pell Grant to have an impact on poverty, remove 4 year colleges eligibility for Freshmen. MAKE the recipients have a vocational training degree in hand before exploring 4 year colleges eligibility degrees.

@Mik LOL

It’s basically true in the English colonies. Not so much in the Spanish. It basically came down to whether the local tribesmen were more hunter-gatherer or agricultural. By the way, by and large the hunter-gatherer tribes were wiped out and the agricultural societies were functionally enslaved or at least systematically exploited. I used to think that was primarily an English vs Spanish thing but it again had to do with the development state of the local tribesmen. Hunter gathers in the pampas were wiped out just like the North American ones.

Yeah I read that piece and it seems to be about Apple Watch data changing from version to version as much as any fault with the AI.

Exactly

I hate when that happens.

@jon-nyc said in Here's to 2026!: Probably deserved but would be perceived as too much of an escalation in European capitals. Plus they are democracies and their citizens love the World Cup. If Trump invaded Greenland that would be another story. Maybe the Nobel Committee could agree to stage a rival tournament in its place.

Damn you get our hopes up just for this?

Ahhh, I didn’t look at the timestamp on the tweet! The jury came back yesterday. They found him guilty. Apparently, he and the Au Pair planned to kill his wife and blame it on a total stranger that they also killed. So they created an account for his wife on some whackadoodle website, invited this guy to the house for some action, then shot him and stabbed her when he showed up…

A couple more of those "predictable" developments ... https://newrepublic.com/post/206049/ice-agents-whine-massive-bonuses New hires at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are complaining that they haven’t yet received the massive bonuses promised to them for agreeing to brutally arrest immigrants. https://newrepublic.com/post/206029/ice-arrests-right-wing-influencer-trump-immigration-crackdown “A Brazilian influencer who openly backed President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday. // Junior Pena, whose Instagram account boasts almost half a million followers, was detained in New Jersey after missing a court hearing related to his own immigration status, ...

Thanks for sharing. I just recorded the Discovery Channel documentary about what happened but haven't watched it yet. I am looking forward to hearing some details and insights not already known. Living in that area for a while, I would watch the planes and helicopters daily. The routes were...well, routine. Of course in hindsight, a route that crosses the landing path for airplanes (at night) should've been treated with so much more risk appreciation than "do you see that jet out there?" and "yeah I see it" (wrong jet, most likely).

Hey @mik, here's another good one! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-republicans-nationalize-elections-rcna257098 President Donald Trump on Monday said Republicans should nationalize elections and take them over from the states as he repeated his disproven claims of voter fraud. “The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least — many, 15 places.' The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” Trump said during an appearance on former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino’s podcast.

She'll probably win. The left doesn't like her as much as you'd think since she's a bit wishy-washy-Washington. I do remember seeing her on a flight once, and she didn't seem that wishy washy. Anyway... as long as the pillow cocaine con man doesn't get close to that office, I'm fine.