The New Coffee Room

I could go to 97 Irish pubs without leaving NYC.

She should have frozen her eggs, too.

And the food you need now for all these people who didn't die.

VOA was broadcast from an array of antennas couple miles from my home for most of my life, but they shut that down 20 or 30 years ago. It's been whittled down repeatedly over the years. Suggestions to shut it down have been made repeatedly. From Wiki: Cuts and expansion The Arabic Service was abolished in 2002 and replaced by a new radio service, called the Middle East Radio Network or Radio Sawa, with an initial budget of $22 million. Radio Sawa offered mostly Western and Middle Eastern popular songs with periodic brief news bulletins. The Arabic Service expanded to television with Alhurra on February 14, 2004 (and later to various social media and websites).[69] On May 16, 2004, the US government's international English language TV service Worldnet, became part of VOA as "VOA TV". Radio programs in Russian ended in July 2008.[70] In September 2008, VOA eliminated the Hindi-language service after 53 years.[70] Broadcasts in Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bosnian also ended.[71] These reductions were part of American efforts to concentrate more resources to broadcast to the Muslim world.[70][71] In September 2010, VOA began radio broadcasts in Sudan. As U.S. interests in South Sudan grew, there was a desire to provide people with free information.[72] In 2013, VOA ended foreign-language transmissions on shortwave and medium wave to Albania, Georgia, Iran, and Latin America, as well as English-language broadcasts to the Middle East and Afghanistan.[73] This was done due to budget cuts.[73] On July 1, 2014, VOA cut most of its English-language transmissions to Asia,[74] as well as shortwave transmissions in Azerbaijani, Bengali, Khmer, Kurdish, Lao, and Uzbek.[74] The following month, the Greek service ended after 72 years on air.[75][76] Proposal by DOGE to shut down In February 2025 the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) put forward a proposal for VoA and Radio Free Europe as two government-owned media agencies, to be considered for closure as a cost saving measure for the U.S. federal government.[77] The latest proposal comes after previously made suggestions by other government officials to shutter the agency.[78][79]

I think @blondie will keep herself out of Burkina Faso, yup . Post your pics though @taiwan_girl lol .

5’9” - 68 pounds. Unreal.

The one and only time I drove between London and Paris was before they finished the Chunnel. The ferry was depressing.

I am not convinced.

It’s only the retail company that is having the difficulty. Actually the old company (originally Hudson Bay Oil and Gas) is still more or less around but under a different name, BP Canada Energy Group based out of Calgary. It is focussed on drilling and production offshore Newfoundland Labrador and brokering the sale of heavy oil and bitumen out Alberta and Saskatchewan into the US

@Jolly said in The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts: @Mik said in The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts: I wish they'd put lane warning on semis. One just about ran me off the road Monday night. They don't need one. You moved, didn't you? Quickly, yes.

Well? What did Trump have to say for himself? Oh, and was he mad at Trump or mad about something that he wanted Trump to fix?

Maybe he assumed they were too incompetent to ever figure it out no matter how obvious it was.

Crenshaw in particular is an absolute poser. Seal or not, that guy is a poser.

His employees — an interconnected web of bellboys, cleaners, waitstaff, supervisors — are in constant communication about guest movements to anticipate their needs or simply to greet them by name (“guest-name use is key”). “You are on permanent surveillance,” says Schneider, fixing me with his unwavering, ice-blue stare. “Whatever you say, whatever you do will be observed. And judged.” Sounds relaxing!

Jurassic Park gotta start somewhere.

@jon-nyc said in Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like: By the way, how did we miss the Granger story with all our talk about politicians straying past their sell-by date? In December 2024 it was discovered she had been living in a nursing home in Ft Worth, TX for the previous 6 months. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Granger Funny you should mention that. You must have talked to this magazine. LOL. Here is the follow up. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/14/kay-granger-dementia-dc-media-00210317 I guess just another example of the media overlooking Democrat politicians mistakes. Oh wait, she was a Republic. LOL Given that the U.S. Capitol is one of the few buildings in America where the reporting corps hasn’t been totally devastated, it was a confounding miss. Granger wasn’t a nobody. She’d been in office for over a quarter-century, and had been the top Republican on the Appropriations committee until last April. Her face was familiar both to her colleagues and the reporters who roam outside the House chamber. Curiosity might also have been triggered by the fact that she’d voluntarily stepped aside from a plum position that most members of Congress would have to have pried from their hands. There were also at least some opportunities for journalists to find out what was happening. Granger may have been absent from votes, but she briefly returned to the Hill for a retirement salute to her last November, well into the period where her son acknowledged “dementia issues” and just a month before the Express story broke. At the chummy event, speakers included House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, as well as Democrats Rosa DeLauro and Nita Lowey. Nobody mentioned anything awry when Granger, still an elected official, reappeared not for an important vote but for a laudatory send-off. During the tribute, Granger sat and looked on as her official portrait as a former Appropriations Committee chair was unveiled before a large audience of congressional colleagues and staffers.

@Jolly said in Shipbuilding "Tariff": @Axtremus said in Shipbuilding "Tariff": @Jolly said in Shipbuilding "Tariff": We have multiple problems... We don't have the specialized trades to build and maintain ships like we used to. … We don't have the shipping capacity to engage in effective trade or to use out maritime fleet to transport troops, beans or bullets. We don't have enough ABS, engineers or officers to staff a robust commercial fleet. How do you go from these problems to tariff as the answer? Same reason you might tariff steel or food imports...Strategic goals. A nebulous response at best.