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Interesting map. Surprised by lemons.

I sped up reading that. No fear like it.

lol.

Yes, happy birthday to you. Hope to see you back here soon!

The thing is, he still has a tremendous support with a large part of the voting population. It will be easy for them to make excuse as to justify what he said vs. what has actually happened.

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Wow!!!!

I agree the Service’s bios of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin are very good - perhaps the best single volume English language bios of Lenin and Trotsky available. I also highly recommend Orlando Figes’ A People’s Tragedy for a good read on the 30 year period leading up to the Bolshevik coup in October 1917. I have heard but not read, that Antony Beevor’s recently published survey of the Russian Revolution is also very good. Beevor, like Figes, is immensely readable and always well researched and organised.

@89th said in Tourist vs Local photo locations: *Had a dessert that that I convinced myself at the time I would "bring to the states". It's called Granita, and essentially it's shaved italian ice (simple syrup, ice, flavoring) often served with a little warm cream on top. Almost like an icy-ish sorbet with a touch of cream. Compared to most desserts it's lightweight and not too bad for you, and was incredibly delicious and refreshing on a warm day. I still think one day it'll become known/trendy here! Sound somewhat similar to a dessert we have in Taiwan called (shwap-ping 礤冰) typically made with ribbons of finely shaved ice sweetened with condensed milk. You can enjoy it with a variety of toppings like seasonal fruits, ice cream, azuki beans, sweet potato chunks, aiyu jelly, and grass jelly.

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Cool thanks!

Staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency were caught off-guard and left bewildered when the disaster relief agency’s new acting head David Richardson told personnel that he was previously unaware the United States has a hurricane season, which started Sunday. Richardson made the comments during a briefing Monday morning, multiple sources told CNN. While some interpreted the remark as a joke, others said it raised concerns about the recently appointed acting administrator, who has no prior experience managing natural disasters. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/politics/david-richardson-fema-head-unaware-hurricane-season

I remember those. The videos were closer to cassette tape sized than VHS. I only ever saw them in first.

Haha ain’t that the truth.

He created his own problem. But he did not sound Afghani to me.

Haha all good on this end. I had kids when I worked in the office and from home, my comment there was just how tired folks are but don't realize their true potential (evil laugh) if they had more than their own dinner to take care of outside of work.