The New Coffee Room

@Mik I thought of you tonight. Ordering a table pad for our dining table, and…

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Very pretty!

He’s too beholden to China to have the Top Secret clearance I suspect.

My dad had ‘top secret code word’ clearances. The colloquial description of compartmentalized clearances.

Analogous clearances for Israel, EU, and Kuwait. He worked on all of their defence communication systems in the 70s and 80s.

That’s commitment.

Seriously though, this struck me as odd:

Activities I used to enjoy, like playing guitar and learning piano, are ... harder now that I'm blind,

Those are two hobbies she has that blind people can master.

It probably feels more efficient and easier to them. Like we would naturally walk on the grass rather than the beach right next to it.

@Horace said in Another School Shooting:

I think I followed her on BlueSky.

You're doing God's work. Thank you, Horace.

@taiwan_girl said in The Difference Between Campaigning and Governing:

the 78 year old

Too lazy to look it up, and it's almost bed time for me.

How many times did USA Today refer to mush-head as "The octogenarian," or the "80 year old?"

Sorry to derail but the bias is so obvious.

Now USA has to insert the age of the President-elect...because TDS.

@Horace 😳 😂

If ever there was a role begging to be played by Aubrey Plaza, this is it.

I'm not sure who'd play Jon.

I don't really care, but I note that that's something for which no evidence or proof could exist after the fact. It's just a claim the cop can make, without fear of it ever being disproven later on.

I'd be surprised if the litigation regarding this wasn't more than the amount of restitution requested.

He needs to eat Canadian Fruit Loops instead of American ones.

@taiwan_girl Thank you.

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The story doesn't mention that they found a big stack of bills many years later in the area, that were definitively part of Cooper's haul. It seems unlikely that he survived the jump, but left some of the money behind.

These sorts of retconned narratives to establish the identity of some mysterious person, often exist for multiple people. There have been books written about multiple people being DB Cooper, and I'm sure they are all convincing in their own way. The most interesting part to me is how it is possible to craft a convincing narrative to establish something that isn't actually true. There are lots of similar narratives around the zodiac killer's identity.

Baldvin Oddson. I mean how could he not be a hurt person, hurting people. Hurt people hurt people.

Unlikely.

That said, I’d take the Big Gray Dog before I’d fly Frontier.

@taiwan_girl

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