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I understand your point. But imagine you're just some tourist who finally can afford to visit Europe, and some rich guy's wedding makes the chaos that Venice can be a distraction to your simple enjoyment of a beautiful place. And he has the poor taste to bring catering from a different region.

28.06.2025 14:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Should release?"

28.05.2025 20:56 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Without regard for what the speech may contain, or what being named salutarian may entail.

22.05.2025 17:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see i am sure it bends toward justice. - Theodore Parker, 1853

22.05.2025 16:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait, wasn't he leaving the country?

15.05.2025 17:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cesenatico

11.04.2025 13:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sofia is turning 13.

29.03.2025 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hotel Flamingo.

24.03.2025 13:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Crossing the Rubicone.

23.03.2025 15:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think back to translation exam. Nineteenth century Russian text, and I couldn't come up with "scullery maid." Embarrassing...

17.03.2025 11:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Elon Musk’s Twitter was attacked by hackers. He shouldn’t have antagonized them. I invite the hackers to conduct negotiations with me so we can bring peace to Twitter. Unfortunately, Elon holds no cards and doesn’t own a suit, so we expect Elon will have to give up a lot.

12.03.2025 05:05 👍 490 🔁 98 💬 25 📌 2

Take heart. The society described in Brave New World required sophistication... Wait, scratch that.

06.03.2025 07:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Presidents Trump and Musk are already working hard to bring down the cost of stocks to a level where average Americans can afford them again. I imagine groceries will not be far behind.

04.03.2025 16:23 👍 261 🔁 49 💬 31 📌 7

I like the idea of today’s economic boycott. It's getting real media traction, and that’s what you want for something like this. These big corporations won’t change because of just one day, but if this snowballs into something bigger each month, they’ll start rethinking their decisions. Money talks.

28.02.2025 15:15 👍 426 🔁 64 💬 42 📌 3
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Kash Patel is doing such a great job on fighting crime that we are actually having to import sex traffickers from other countries.

28.02.2025 05:08 👍 3177 🔁 908 💬 114 📌 53

Personal liberty and free markets mean, "I got mine, so I can do whatever I want. You, on the other hand, maybe not so much."

26.02.2025 18:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Go F Yourself Eagles. Glenn Frey was the talented one and you haven't had a song anybody cared about since the early 1990s. #EaglesBoycott

24.02.2025 15:24 👍 756 🔁 39 💬 309 📌 35
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Trump pushes out top U.S. general, nominates retired three-star U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday announced he would replace the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General C.Q. Brown, and soon swap out five other high level positions in an unprecedented shake-up of the leadership of the U.S. military.

Stalin did the same thing in 1938.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

22.02.2025 19:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Obviously, JD Vance knows absolutely nothing about Russia. The Putin regime hangs by a thread. Why throw them a lifeline?

21.02.2025 09:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So, it'll be the Gulf of America only up to the 12- mile limit, and then it's the Gulf of Mexico again.

18.02.2025 15:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meanwhile, so much for “free speech” over at The Bad Place.

16.02.2025 17:36 👍 20784 🔁 4438 💬 711 📌 206

Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.

Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

16.02.2025 16:55 👍 20092 🔁 6180 💬 626 📌 271
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This is a really good book.

15.02.2025 21:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mi piace.

13.02.2025 14:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Annoying dreams I have: I have an AI in the form of a doll that I carry everywhere. She has a little girl's voice and she criticizes my accent when I speak French.

02.02.2025 19:06 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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NLRB's Acting General Counsel just send this memo out to staff saying, "I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK."

"I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."

31.01.2025 17:05 👍 8755 🔁 2150 💬 220 📌 119

It's not the deportations Colombia objected to, but the military planes. And civilian charters are cheaper than military planes. Yes, it's that stupid.

28.01.2025 06:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

That's what I read. I hope my description was accurate.

28.12.2024 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I only wish I was an anthropologist, but recently I hear they identified DNA strands in modern humans that are common to those found in samples of Neanderthal bones.

28.12.2024 14:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0