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My heart bleeds for his troubles. I'm a total landlubber but found that article truly irritating for the way it occasionally used 'boat' (and even 'yacht') to describe such a large multi-masted ocean going ship. It's a ship. And not to be too much of a complaining pedant, yes it is also a yacht, but isn't a far better description something like 'three-masted schooner? It's more like a tea clipper than your average yacht! Fabulous ship, one of the good things of having ridiculously wealthy individuals is that things like this are built.

1974 New York City.

@Renauda said: @taiwan_girl To me, this is a situation that the writers of the US constitution could never ever ever imagined. So for those who say that the constitution needs to be interpreted as the writers wanted makes no sense.. Good point and there are many, I’m sure who feel the same about 2nd Amendment “the right to bear arms shall not be infringed”. There is no way that the framers could have envisioned readily available breechloading firearms with semi-automatic and automatic actions firing centre fire smokeless powder rounds at high velocities. I agree 100%. I (and I believe you) have made that argument before. Lets get us on the US Supreme Court.

Corruption with developers in the area, declaring small towns abortion sanctuary areas, trying to drag national politics into local issues, people who have been in office much too long.

cock

You ain't lion about that

A book I mentioned in the book thread is called "Station Eleven" about a pandemic that kills not all, but most people. Goes through some of the same decay that you guys talk about. (interesting, but the book was written just a year or so before COVID).

The dinosaurs went anti-vaxx?

Yeah but at least with real estate there’s a sense that the value will climb over time for most people. Or so cars and phones. I’ve heard people with not a lot of means talking about when they ‘get to’ upgrade their phone. They’ve just banked the idea that they’ll constantly have a phone payment but at least they ‘get to upgrade’ every two or three years like it’s some benefit of their plan and not an independent financial decision. I’m sure the same thought process goes into perpetual lease payers. I was once car shopping and overheard a salesman ask another guy what he could afford. He gave an answer in terms of a monthly payment! You just know he walked out of there with a nicer car than he needed and a 7 year loan or some shit.

I was sailing towards graduation from high school without a lot of cares in the world. I remember it, but didn’t pay too much attention. It was only 7 years after 3 Mile Island. A have an unusual memory regarding the latter. In 1994 I flew into Harrisburg PA for the first time. We flew over TMI and I saw two cooling towers with steam coming out and two that were just dead, corresponding to the reactor that went critical. Next morning I’m listening to NPR in my hotel and there’s a story about TMI. It was the 15th anniversary of the melt down.

It's a 2.5' thick oak. It'll be OK. Nice to see you back, BTW.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/us-navy-secretary-john-phelan-what-happened-83bbc61a John Phelan sat in the lobby of the West Wing for more than an hour Wednesday night, waiting to see if his longtime friend and neighbor, President Trump, would save his job. He would leave disappointed. That afternoon, Phelan, the Navy secretary, had received a phone call from his boss, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, asking for his resignation. Phelan had spent much of Wednesday on Capitol Hill, meeting with lawmakers about Navy shipbuilding and the Pentagon’s budget request. A few miles away at the White House, another gathering was taking place that would decide his fate, according to U.S. officials. Hegseth and his deputy, Stephen Feinberg, made the argument to Trump that Phelan wasn’t moving quickly enough on Trump’s shipbuilding priorities, especially the “Golden Fleet” and increasing reliance on the use of steam. The Navy, they determined, needed new leadership. Phelan made a round of calls, including to the president’s executive assistant, saying he needed to speak with Trump. Phelan then headed to the White House. Once the president had a spare minute Wednesday evening, Phelan asked to keep his job, but the commander in chief backed Hegseth’s decision, according to a senior administration official. The episode is a sign that Hegseth retains Trump’s support despite recent high-level personnel churn at the Pentagon. In signing off on Phelan’s dismissal, the president sided with Hegseth over a personal friend and neighbor who raised millions of dollars for his campaign. Trump instructed the Pentagon chief to handle Phelan’s firing, administration officials said.

@Renauda LOL And in other news, a majority of people who voted for Ronald Reagan for US president are now dead, some under mysterious circumstances.

Must be something about the feng shui in the water on that part of Earth that makes it so much more prince to civil wars.