The New Coffee Room

Back in the day, I bought a fake Rolex for $15 from a guy selling them off of a cardboard box in New York City. It was nice - and the price was right.

Ukraine surrenders or the US pulls out of Europe. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47574

Buying ahead of the new tariffs?

Agree!

With a little modification of that old saw about taxes to "don't fire you, don't fire me, just fire that guy behind the tree."

Sorry - tough to deal with. We had a woman who hadn't missed a day in 26 years. One Friday, she called in sick. Folks joked about it because she was so reliable. She died that Friday. She had lung cancer - and had been coming to work every day knowing there weren't many days to come. It was like someone tossed a grenade in the office on Monday when it was announced that she'd passed.

@Horace What pieces are you working on with your piano teacher?

This is the first day in about a week since I came down with the flu where victory over the invaders seemed certain. I did an online pilates workout. Tomorrow, I'll get back to weights and probably run on Saturday. It's nice to start to feel almost well again.

Other than that, just biding my time before the apocalypse. Tomorrow, I may make plans.

I remember a Bush guy who wanted to "defund the government" and implemented a number of tax cuts just before committing to a 3 trillion dollar war. That ball has been rolling for a while now. Heck, Reagan talked a good talk and still did a good job of making a generous contribution.

Well, DJT is moving to make it a bit easier to commit bribery thanks to this executive order. That should be a good thing.

I think I told this story once before. In high school calc, our teacher liked to give power tests - essentially tests that could not be completed in the time provided. Calculators hadn't been invented at that point in time. When we got to integral calculus I did the test but failed to add "+C", C being the constant. He deducted a point for every question. Next power test - I went through all 70 questions and wrote "+C" before starting any calculations. He have me partial credit for them - of course, that sparked some disdain from the rest of the class. The instructor assured us this was the last time he would allow that gambit. From my perspective, karma and equilibrium had been restored to my personal universe.

There's a great scam going on right now where they send you an unsolicited package with a QR code on it. When you scan the QR code, you're in trouble as it sucks data out of your phone.

@jon-nyc said in Antisemitism by age:

Though the question was pretty straightforward if you look at the graph label. I would hope/imagine they had a ‘neither’ option.

Yup - didn't enlarge the graph large enough to read the question.

One explanation for the youth - and this applies to Jewish American youth as well is how groups get their news. Younger folks rely more on Tik Tok and as I've noted, the news there is a bit more unfiltered - or if you prefer - filtered differently.