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You must have been thinking about a large discretionary purchase elsewhere…

As I tell customers when they hell me they “need to think about it”. That means your car is going to act oddly on the way home, and when you get there you’re HVAC is going to make funny noises, and so on…

My tech said that the restoration work on the Metropolitan instrument was poorly done. I have an LP recording of the Metropolitan instrument of works by Lodovico Giustini who was alleged to be the first composer to write for the piano.

You mean health-negative?

Seems markedly deliberate.

It's fake. If this was Cincinnati it would have fit.

The debt ceiling forces critters to vote to raise it, and I think it was intended to chasten spendthrifts. It hasn't.

Yes, but she’s that in more than just name only.

Holy shit.

It could save money because there is price competition in these markets. But now it’s on fake prices.

@jon-nyc said in Speaking of 25 years ago….:

You were probably in high school? I was 31.

Yeah I was a senior in high school

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/trump-should-make-tiktok-american/

Trump has said he wants to save the app. The way for him to do that — the only defensible way — is to facilitate a sale to one of multiple potential buyers, including Steve Mnuchin and Activision’s Bobby Kotick.

A forced divestiture is the outcome that’s most consistent with Trump’s stated ambitions on China policy, and with both his first-term stance against TikTok’s Chinese ownership and his campaign-trail pledges this year.

TikTok is a tool of the Chinese state, and the U.S. should recognize it as such. China’s leaders have long mistreated American companies and blocked U.S. social media networks — including Truth Social — from operating in their country. They have stolen American technology from firms that opened up shop in China and mandated that they set up internal CCP committees.

Wresting TikTok from Beijing’s control would send Xi Jinping a signal about America’s resolve to counter China’s long-running history of outrageous behavior. It would be a small but prominent step toward reciprocity. It would honor the broad bipartisan consensus that produced the divestiture law. And it would place Trump in a position of strength as he begins the most consequential set of negotiations of his career.

Normally, a person would say that's a crappy outlier poll and carry on.

But no, because of an election shot through with murkiness, bad practices and simple outright cheating, highly unusual acts become highly suspect. Get used to it. Much like Dingy Harry's disregard for long-standing Senate rules, Dems have shifted the paradigm.

THIS is the new reality. You may not like it, but you're going to live with it, and probably die with it. As will I.

If Trump has one over-reaching redeeming quality, it's as a catalyst. Maybe it's a reaction that's not for the best, but a lot of times, the end result is good. The end of overt election interference is good. The end of election cheating is good. The end of lawfare is good. The end of Justice Department persecution is good. The end of the "basement strategy" is good. The end of Sullivan will be wonderful.

You see no good, because of hate.

Well, as mama said, you've got the same pants to get glad in. On January 20th, Donald J. Trump will become the 47th POTUS.

The President of the United States and the President of Jon.

Enjoy! 😄😄

And we only had 14 days til the world as we knew it would come to an end.

BTW, that's not what that crotch pocket is for.

They called me and released the results after they saw my email.

I thanked them and told them I had already reported them.

Well, we feed the birds, but not really interested in getting that close.

lol

I remember one of the Symphonic Etudes of Schumann has 5 against 2 in the right hand, against 16 in the left. I think it’s the last one before the final.