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But wait there's more! Now how much would you pay!?! JK, but does sound like an air fryer infomercial.

Brings to mind "Michigan treasurer falls for Nigerian scam" who invested county money with a Nigerian prince. Crazy.

Here are 9 and 10 year old boys living on the street with no parents and the big issue is that they are smoking ganja? Let's treat the symptoms, maybe the cause will go away.

I understand they were made to pinkie swear in order to assure compliance.

Same as Catholic priests "gravy train riders with a turned around collar" as Terry Malloy called them in "On the Waterfront".

"He has not. What technical paper has he written? What invention has he created? What advanced technical degree has he earned? " I don't know the answer to your questions. "What technical paper has he written? What invention has he created? What advanced technical degree has he earned? " I have known engineers who published multiple technical papers, had numerous patents, and had Phds in engineering disciplines; All they ever were was employees in a corporation that sucked up government grants without very significant results to their research, like usable technologies. So too me those things are not a measure of achievement. What he has done is been very successful in several very competitive technical businesses. Space travel (is that the right term), electric cars, the tunneling company he is owner of. I confess I don't know if he is more of promoter/organizer type like Steve Jobs or a technical type like Bill Gates, but he definitely has something that is not common.

I would be interested to see a video with sound of the exchange. The question "Where are your people from?" could be nice, neutral or nasty depending on the tone. (I don't know if the old aristocrat said that, just an example). The fact that the old gal couldn't just move on with the conversation suggests some aggressiveness. I am guessing that a person who wanted to be a "lady in waiting" is very attached to her aristocratic status. I doubt very much that she is just a harmless old dear.

Point taken, but Musk has demonstrated technical intelligence of a very high order.

Methinks he doth protest too much. A defender of 83 year old ladies? Or...

We are participating in what is usually referred to as a "discussion forum". When you start a discussion people comment as they see fit. They do not become your servants with an obligation give you only the narrow answers that you seek. The fact that no one is directly answering your question might be food for thought for you.

'but either way, he did not "die of/from Covid". We've been down this Covid road long enough to know that hand-washing and social distancing are the most effective barriers. ' Huh.... learn somethin' new every day.

True as stated, but estimates of percentage of Indians who speak English top out around 20%. So it has the largest population of countries that speak English, but low percentage speak English.

If that were true the meme would be still be pointless.

What about nominally "Christian nations", such as those that use churches and cathedrals as tourist attractions; do you find that all the residents there allow the meek to inherit the earth, the first to be last and the last to be first?

I carry a photocopy of passport and driver's license, full size on letter size paper. I don't want to hand my phone to anyone who wants to see my documents.

It always surprises me how these discussions about preferences veer towards the eternal words of Mick Jagger in Satisfaction: "He can't be a man cuz he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me..." Depending on what coffee some drink I am either a snob or a peasant. Oh well, life goes on regardless.

"80% of UK households buy instant coffee for in-home consumption, particularly those aged 65 and older" This is a survey of UK households. I think of the UK as a nation of tea drinkers. If there was an instant tea available would people in the UK drink it? Additionally, it seems to say only that they buy instant coffee, is it what they drink at home on a daily basis? Again, I don't know but among my acquaintances in the US their coffee drinking habits have gone and continue to go in the opposite direction from instant. More people grinding beans, using uber-coffee makers, buying "artisanal" varieties of coffee beans, etc. Now I have been very wrong about people's coffee drinking habits in the past. When Starbuck's first started I used to ask "Who is gonna pay $3 for a cup of coffee?". Turns out almost everybody.

"90% of coffee drinkers drink instant coffee at home. " It would surprise me if this was true. What is the source? In Thailand I find a surprising number of restaurants use instant coffee, and it is not so good.

I am partial to what I make at home. A lot of coffee at 7-11, Dunkin', and (strangely popular) McDonalds that people swear by doesn't taste that great to me. However, I am aware that numerous blind taste test of wine, beer, cola, coffee people who express a strong preference often can't tell one drink from another in a blind taste test. Here is one with unexpected results: https://thebolditalic.com/guess-the-loser-of-our-blind-coffee-taste-test-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-145e59e4b7dc

I have read that the most reliable athletic performance enhancing drug is caffeine. I took a course from a physical therapist who prepared athletes for the NBA and NFL rookie combines as part of his business. He recommended they accustomed themselves to coffee before workouts leading up to the combine and drink the same amount on the day of the combine to enhance performance, He had elementary school age children and on days that they had exams he would have them drink coffee. He was really an enthusiast for a lot of supplements etc.; I couldn't imagine giving a school aged kid caffeine to improve test performance but he was convinced that it worked.

"Anyone quit drinking coffee here? " I quit all caffeine for over a year. No coffee, no cola, no tea, no caffeine at all. Only difference I noticed was I missed the pleasure of having a cup of coffee in the AM. As always, YMMV.

Benefits of quitting coffee are probably slight unless you are getting the jitters from coffee. Medical/dietary researchers appear to be puritanical types who want to get us to quit anything we enjoy (IMHO). For years they have tried to find a health problem with coffee, never anything significant found as a detriment. So if essentially no detriment to drinking coffee, can one expect a benefit from quitting? Maybe psychological, the elation that comes from being proactive about your health; which is a good thing. Try it and see how you feel.

Nothing obscene but I saw a very chic, stylish young lady on the BTS, cool short edgy haircut, great makeup, stylish pants and shoes. But the t-shirt negated the effect with the word "Saint Margaret's Bell Gardens".

Star of Light and Kangaroo Club were nice. Both are gone now.