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I would think the average noodle stall would just let the thief run, calling the BiB will just involve losing more money. In Brazil, politicians and their like do not pay their restaurant tabs, a torrent of pompous outrage would ensue if the bill was presented to them, and the place will probably go out of business soon after.

More likely he forgot to do his usual "do you know who I am?" bully tactic when the bill came. If not for the press coverage and the place being a landmark he would be laughing in everyone's face. Or did he simply forget that he had a memory disorder?

I can see the possibility of DT shooting himself in the foot on this internet deal: using the history of the site formerly known as Twitter being bought for over $44 billion he may insist on something closer to that than the paltry $3.9 billion we've been hearing about. The wrong words at the wrong time (he's good at that!) could turn the proposal into a pig's breakfast. There are other investors that would be getting pieces of the payout, and no doubt he'll try some fancy footwork to bilk them (he's good at that too, just ask his niece). And then there is tax of the profits. Also it looks like any payout coming his way might be intercepted by the forces of justice "hey, we'll take that . . . "

Motion detection cameras can be considered AI. Same for word completion when you're typing. Maybe not all that intelligent, but definitely artificial. It's all a matter of perspective.

That stuff is terrible, bad vibes! Get rid of it before you get arrested. Here, give it to me, I'll flush for you.

Read something recently about online scamming. Chinese gangsters in LOS and Myanmar came up, some kind link to human trafficking and forced labor. Do these count as data centers?

The stupid part is thinking that people are just going to say "oh, ok, we'll be Muslims now" and live by a whole new (well, old actually) set of rules, and so on. Don't you think there would be a fight, resistance, etc? Just try going to the US and saying "no more bacon." But get burial insurance first.

Word going around that the small donor $$$ has eased up considerably as of late, sounds like he tapped the poor fools dry. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/26/trump-lags-in-small-dollar-donations-as-gop-fundraising-company-hits-snags.html

What a disgusting image: all that orange tanning glop and hair spray smeared all over the floor, and a safety hazard too! If nothing else Nikki is clever. There are a lot of people in politics and the media that covers it anticipating what some are calling The Rapture. No, not the religious thing. With so many felony counts and civil cases, living on junk food*, poor health, raving temper tantrums, etc (as my ex-mother-in-law used to say "he's going to have a brain attack") DT may be out of the race one way or another. Then what will the GOP do? They will say "okay, so who came in second?" and she will live happily ever after... NOT! Then will ensue the equiv a of a gladiator free-for-all and the last one standing wins. There is no predicting what the GOP will have on their hands after the July convention. * I never bought into the McDonald's thing with DT. I think he may eat it sometimes, but I see it as a ploy to make his people think he's "just folks" -- "yeah, I have a private airliner and golden toilets, but I eat at McD's." What's not to believe?

Please tell what Buckley means here. I hope you are not informing us William F. Buckley has come back from the grave!

Thank god!

I would not be surprised if the MAGA caucus re-opens the Bengazi case, so DT can campaign against Hillary. Sounds ridiculous? That's the modern day GOP for ya. So far this election season he's been campaigning against President Obama, Pelosi, Hunter Biden, (who did I leave out?) and it looks like none of them will win the presidency When it is mentioned that Jordan may be facing charges he gets this facial expression like he may be soiling his pants, I first saw this when he was put forth as a member of the 1/6 congressional committee and Liz Cheney mentioned that he may actually be called as a material witness. It's always entertaining when a bully is revealed to be a coward. https://www.newsweek.com/jim-jordan-joe-biden-impeachment-bribery-russia-1871889 Comer might consider a new career as a Walmart greeter, or hope he gets kitchen duty in prison. https://www.newsweek.com/james-comer-resignation-calls-grow-after-russian-intel-bombshell-1871862 Hey, these links are to Newsweek, a true booster for DT. So none of that fake news dismissal.

The Pussycat Dolls played KL (or Singapore?) back when they had that international hit. I recall reading about it in the Straits-Times, imams were sending out missives condemning the lasciviousness etc. Well, I used to think if the Spice Girls were supposed to be the hot gals you'd meet in a club, these Dolls were predatory strippers. If in need of entertainment, type into your search page beatles philippines (try to get the recording of Lennon telling it)

Pulling out a wad of bills like that in front of people is counter to instinct, especially with someone who has power over you at that moment. Well, for me, at least. There are a lot of Indonesians who go to Malaysia for work. If you ever took an AA flight between the two countries you've witnessed it. It looks like LOS is putting things in place to discourage that. If people have that kind of money they probably would not be going abroad in search of work, looks like our folks in brown uniforms figured out.

Mike Flynn has been touring the country for the past 2 years selling this god and country amalgam. I expect some sort of fireworks from him and his at the GOP convention in July. Our Miz Boebert picked up on it some time last year without realizing what she was getting into. I've been waiting for mention of his emergence in the media this election year, and a few days ago a political columnist brought him up. Big problem is people having personal conversations with god, two-way dialog. Met a nutter from Norway a few years back, traveling the world going to destinations that god tells him to. The current Speaker of the House also has conversations with god. Ooooo, god just said something to me! He said he wants everybody who reads this to give my post the thumbs-up. He also told me to set up a gofundme and that everyone should donate lots of money to it and he'll give you a special blessing. Gotta run now and set that up.

Fail to plan, plan to fail. Never had the idea to visit the place before moving there? But couldn't the charitable acts of the people helping them be conceived as "woke"? OMG! No escape!! And did one of those neighborly women actually have a penis? oooooooooooooohhhhhhh nnnnnooooo!!! Maybe he listened too much to the TV dinner guy on Fox.

If it's not covered by Fox/OAN/RT it'll be considered fake news. There could be criminal charges against the MAGA congressionals for this farce they've been running for over a year. If so, the only way for MAGA caucus to promote their guy will be to amp up that Putin loves America and why his buddy DT should be president. Could they succeed in a creating a "Putin Patriots" caucus? Not so far fetched these days, the word "patriot" has been redefined in the US. An infosphere where authoritarianism is synonymous freedom. Go figure. Remember Tommy Tuberville and how he stifled the US military for months? What kind of pocket stuffing did he get from foreign gov'ts for that?

Yes, DT weaponized the IRS. Just asked Comey, the guy who helped him win in 2016. More gaslight.

Johnny Depp came over to help clean up the mess. The floor was spotless when he was done. Great job, JD!

Had this problem with indoor grows in the US. Spider mites don't like garlic, I learned from Ed Rosenthal's manual back in the 1980s. The trick is how to keep pieces of crushed garlic inside the cluster of leaves, I ended up sticking pieces in the leaf-branch nodes. Vaguely recall something to do with cayenne or other chilis, I may have gotten rid of some but wasn't gone of it until I harvested what I could and then fumigated. Looking back now, I'm thinking I should have put the garlic in little gauze bundles and hung them from the light rack in specific locations. Best of luck.

Yeah, South America had this same idea for their continent, Hugo Chavez was a big proponent. A person needn't be an economist or political wonk to immediately see it's going to be a bunch of kleptocrats picking each other's pockets. There is also a certain amount of animosity between the countries of Latin America that you will rarely see expressed in any sort of media, save for futbal matches. Chavez bought out Argentina's debt in the '00s and he became a hero in that country. A few years later Chavez died and Arg. piled up yet another Everest of debt. Talk is back again for Arg. and Brazil to have a common currency. Governments and political situations aside, there is no love lost between the people of both countries. I've spent enough time in either country to have heard the denouncements on either side. With the fall of the US being seen as a real possibility I would think any of these ideas would be re-assessed in light of who would be the next economic world power.

This is worthy of a discussion of it's own, but this is not the place for it. My point was that so much of the economy has to do with money generating more money as opposed to generating money by actually producing goods and usable services.

He may not know much about Thai amulets, but now he's sure of one that will not keep the police away.

Notice how the top 4 are in the business of dealing with money, and do not actually produce any tangible items, aside from money itself.