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McKinsey & Company are corporate seagulls. They promise a gullible board cost savings, taking 10% of the alleged cost savings. In the process they destroy employee morale. No-one ever goes back in a couple of years to check whether the purported cost saving was actually achieved long-term. It would be too embarrassing. A corporate seagull flies in with much screeching, squabbles over scraps, then flies out again after defecating on everyone in the organisation.

That explains why I am healthy for my age, although I do find it's hard to hold back in an elevator.

Precious little that I can see. Or factual analysis. There is even a guy here claiming positive thoughts will stop people from getting sick. News flash: Viruses don't care what one is thinking. Fact: During the pandemic, if you caught COVID, you were 6-7 times more likely to require ICU admission to stay alive, if unvaccinated.

US farmers can't sell their produce to China. Reciprocal tariffs have resulted in cancelled orders and halted shipments. China is buying its food elsewhere. Potassium is an essential fertilizer for many crops. America imports 93% of its potash from Canada, now subject to tariff. A new tax on farmers. Winning.

Imagine if you practised what you preached.

You would be disqualifying all of Trump's MAGA base.

Australian federal election Saturday May 3. It's almost certain a leftist government will be voted in again. They were floundering in the polls prior to Trump taking over the White House. Like Canadians, Australians don't like bullies.

I like the pad thai goong at the food court in Big C. Oishi Ramen is the only other restaurant I go to in a mall, for takeaway. It's coming up to ten years when I was last in a bar.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-29/australian-bank-customers-passwords-stolen-by-malware-hackers/105196976

Perhaps we should be more scared of this, and how it affects the White House. https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/health/2025/04/28/junk-food-memory?

Putin is, dummy.

An inability to tolerate fools gladly.

The state of your mental health has never needed to be debated.

When I traveled on the company dime for about 25 years, it was business class flights, 4-5 star hotels, and expensive restaurants. Still remember Antoine's in New Orleans. Tiger prawns in piri-piri sauce fresh out of the Mozambique channel. I am a lot more careful when it is my money I am spending. Travel is a transitory experience. I prefer to spend up on more permanent items, such as a good smartphone, golf clubs, or appliances.

You have evidence they do not?

The ability to read the USB stick depends on the file format, formatting of the USB, and Android software version in the box itself. Any incompatibility, the USB becomes invisible. I have a mxQ box which seems to read everything. The inbuilt software in the TV itself will only read MP4 files.

You are easily pleased.

When people claim they have a good memory, I ask how would you know?

I would be concerned about the mental health of a person who thinks having a felon and sexual predator as President is perfectly normal. IMO Trump's authoritarian tendencies are constrained by the US Constitution. Having said that, he does behave more like a mob boss than a politician.

The Le Meridien in Chiang Rai is 7000 baht/night. Big rooms, giant pool. The restaurant prices reflect the tariff as well, 300 baht or so for a pad thai goong. There's treating yourself, and crossing over into ridiculous.

I would definitely include good aircon in the list. Depending on what's on offer for breakfast, I will sometimes go out to an upmarket hotel, and pay for the breakfast buffet there.

The development of mRNA vaccines for COVID was remarkably rapid compared to traditional vaccines. No doubt the process is being fine-tuned, that's the Development phase of R&D. What I posted is considerably less disgusting than the millions of parents who happily send their children to Sunday Schools and madrassas, to be infected with the brain disorder of religion.

Canals need maintenance, which is borne by the countries bordering them. Trump's demand is equivalent to me boarding a train, ship or aircraft, and claiming free travel.

Right wingers delude themselves they are sane, then go out and buy gold sneakers and bibles made in China.