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Thank you for the details on this steaming pile of poo . . . It's hard to believe that Cheetolini actually got involved with a guy that has videos of a dancing turd (South Park's Mr. Hankey). . . My the way, there is an extra "already" in the sentence before the header on Axos. Rachel Maddow did an enthusiastic discussion of this mess last night on her show. Hopefully the regulators are paying attention to both of you (and the many others that are also raising alarms).

We love food as proven by last nights dinner... had the most awesome eggplant Parmesan at a friends house. But let me start here. I had one friend at work that I told about our upcoming move to Portugal. Whilst keeping it a secret from the rest of my coworkers she became my confidant because upon mentioning our upcoming (exploratory) trip she said her sister was going to PT because she was planning on moving here.

My wife Susy smoked Benson and Hedges, long ones, and it's truly a shame that elegance is gone from our lives, the two slightly splayed fingers in the air, that pause before one responds, smoke drifting. It's a loss, gesturally. I can't believe I once had workshops in a virtually closed room full of smokers--why did I not have a headache all the time? I quit in 1968, age 20. Susy much later, when we started having kids.

If you’ve spent any time around a group of English speaking Muslims, you may have noticed that our sentences are peppered with Arabic phrases. If you pay really close attention, you’ll realize that most of these phrases end with Allah. Muslims spend a lot of time thinking about Allah, speaking about Allah, considering Allah. If we’re doing it right, we’re living a very God-centered existence, even when we’re not in the middle of worship, like our

Quoting from NYMag: In March 2023, Rodgers had appeared on the ESPN talk show and brought up his theory that last year’s news cycle on UFOs may have been designed to distract from further revelations in the Epstein saga. In a segment on his own show, Kimmel joked that it “might be time to revisit that concussion protocol, Aaron” — a riff that Rodgers apparently did not take kindly to.

Accepting criticism when it's due is honorable, but when it's not due then the critics can be rightfully assumed morrrons. Read the Heather Cox Richardson's "Letter From An American" and "What did Joe Biden Do Today" for a few weeks. If after all that what comes to your mind is Biden's age, then... heeheehee. Grandpa Joe looks old and frail? Yeah, so? He's 81. What's the correlation to his brilliant navigation of most difficult domestic and international conundrums some orange gasbag left behind?

Richard, the following was my experience with a person I held in high esteem in all other regards (and the regret I have for not finding a better mirror to have him reconsider his blindness) It is exactly like I sent it to another friend 3 days after the 2016 election, though it was about the trick I pulled on him 3 months after the 2012 election implying I was asking him to critique Obama’s 2009 inaugural speech.

Below is a letter by Alexander Barvinok giving his reasons for leaving the American Mathematical Society (AMS). It was published here in Notices of the American Mathematical Society. In 2022, having been a member of the AMS for more than 30 years, I decided not to renew my membership for another year. ncG1vNJzZmigqKjBprmNrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKhfobKiwsinnmasmJp6ornSaJqopZ2au7W%2F

I think you are correct that the online tech-sphere has become a bit of a wild-west and needs regulation rather than become an institution into itself. That is also true in the US and Europe so it must definitely be true of China. But it matters “how” things are done. And I would argue that the way things are being done now, is classic power play. The CPC, which is basically Xi Jinping’s inner circle at this point, saw the regulatory need and also saw a way to (continue) to project overwhelming power.