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@taiwan_girl Milan area. Family visit. (This time Mrs Bach's family) Saturday we drive up to the mountains above Como for some scenery and a mountain meal. Return to the holy land on Monday evening.

My father was also a Milanese. My whole father’s side are all wops. ( my mother was born in the USA already) They ran away from Poland back in WW I times (the Great War) and he was born in Turin although grew up in Milan. Long story short my father left Italy to go to pre nazi germany to Frankfurt to study but come the 1933 racial laws meant no Jews in university so he returned to Italy and then was smart enough to leave Italy when the racial laws there also took effect and ended up in London.

Anyway because my father was forced to leave nazi germany in 1933, my kids (his grandchildren) are all legally eligible for German passports. So my kids are all soon to be tri nationals. Israel American and German citizens. (I could also but I never bothered to)

Just some biographical tidbits which explains why we visit Italy often. I have lots of Italian cousins and relatives.

And can understand some Italian although I can’t speak a word.

And how all this ended up in the Iran nuclear thread is a mystery.

@mark cant do it, sorry. wisconsin not on the itinerary this time...

good because im off to italy tomorrow for the weekend. with any luck the war willl start when im away, the airspace will close again and ill be stuck there, eating pasta and pizza.

@mark not in august

july on west coast for a few days, and also catching a world cup game

I don’t think they plan to actually win a law suit. The threshold for libel is too high. To prove intentional malice. And it was an op ed. Not a news piece.

I think they want to force the times to reveal how they vet their sources
It’s not going to change anything but I don’t think they can give the times a pass on this one.

I’m still very early in the book . The year 9 CE. Lots of blood and gore in the coming 150 years. But he is an easy read. It’s written as an interesting narrative. Not dry history.

I first read his book on the naval battle of actium. ( Octavian vs Marc Antony and cleopatra. ) Which was fascinating.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81oXs5nXDtL._SL1500_.jpg

the fear is that may come bcak to bite them in the ass, and then there will be breast beating saying how did we not see it

The 1st Indiana Jones film came out in 1981 and was set in 1936. If they remade it today with the same time gap, it would be set in 1981.

Yeah, we really are that old.

@Mik said:

“I ordered the wine “

and i used a number 2, but i think my first mobile that i owned was a 6

had this next to my bed growing up

"While doing a minor bugfix of my DAO layer, Opus built an uncalled-for test that ran a 100k iteration stress-test on my DB, printing a trillion lines of useless noise, which Opus happily loaded into context. 31 MILLION TOKENS FOR A THREE MINUTE BUGFIX."

did not understand one word in those sentences. well, maybe a few words here and there, "while doing", got that. i think i know what a "test" is. "printing" yes i know what that is. "happily" what i feel occasionally, other than that, nada.

Vance wasnt on the agenda because Ghalibaf wasnt going. Steve and Jared are at the Aragchi level.

and mexico is paying, right? like for the wall?

I’ve seen him here about three times. (Also once in Vienna)

We have never been on his no fly list. His family was sent to Auschwitz. So he will always visit , Netanyahu not withstanding