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Twitter never made much money which is why it ended up in Musk's hands. Why would supposedly smart billionaires invest money in Truth Social, which will probably have a tenth of the subscribers that Twitter had and even less than that in the way of advertising? Somebody here is scamming some others. Is the fake billionaire smarter than the real ones? If they really want a platform, buy X off of Musk. I am sure he is a motivated seller.

As a millwright I have seen so much of this in every workplace I have been in. And yes I have been asked to do this kind of stuff. There is always someone who knows nothing of engineering or millwrighting but by dint of authority thinks the laws of physics don't apply to them. I always asked them to put that request in writing so when the inevitable happens, we have a paper trail that leads to reason for the failure. Or as one millwright friend would say ''are you f'ing stupid!??" when given such a request.

Just a reminder of the timeline of 2001 book and movie. The movie was based on Clarke's story The Sentinel. Kubrick liked the story and wanted to make it into a movie. Clarke and Kubrick wrote the screenplay and began to film it. Clarke then took the script and novelized it to come out with the movie but Kubrick was slow in filming all the bits and the book came out before the movie, leading everyone to assume Kubrick adapted the book.

All the above assumes he holds all those properties without mortgages or liens. There is more evidence that he is underwater with his assets than that he is free and clear. Remember he had trouble posting the $5 million bond in the defamation case when all he needed to do was have $500,000 on hand. All the grifting he has been doing since losing the election is not the sign of a billionaire but the sign of a nearly broke and desperate man.

Well our latest dog, a Puli, is approaching 13 years of age, and while still very active, she is slowing down. My wife has been talking about getting another and on Friday she came home with a 8 week old Puli puppy. She is all black, just like her older sister. except for a white spot on her chest. Like our first she is very affectionate and loves being close to people. She is just adorable.

Which makes 2 divisors. 1 has only itself.

When working with prime numbers in mathematics, having 1 as a prime causes problems. Also every prime has 1 and itself as divisors. 1 only has1 as a divisor. Without 2 divisors it isn't prime.

The old "I'm so stupid I hired stupid lawyers" defense. Considering how well it worked when he really did hire a stupid lawyer I have high hopes for a conviction.

Nevada's secret treasure, Wonderhussy, no longer lives there but is now just across the border in California. She has an extensive video library of her travels and adventures in Nevada.

Curtailment of expression? Cuba was run by a fascist dictator for the benefit of the American businesses and Mafia there before Castro.

Pneumonic? Did you mean Mnemonic?

Napoleon once said that god is on the side with the heaviest artillery. What one says to the masses and what one truly thinks are two different things.

Every leader who believes he is appointed by a God to lead the lesser beings is truly guilty of delusional behaviour. No surprise they fail, and badly.

It happens at least once a year but as most of the surface of Earth is water, most eclipses are only visible over water.

General Motors went the same way. Sometime in the 80s the CEO of GM rather than being an engineer, was a marketing guy. I remember all this because an automotive columnist in a newspaper commented on it and predicted GM's downfall from this decision.

That was a steel pan not cast iron. Cast iron doesn't fold or twist when subjected to stress. It cracks.

If antiwar protests killed Johnson's election hopes, McGovern did run on a strong antiwar basis and lost really badly. To Nixon. Tricky Dick.

I mentioned before that his properties are mortgaged to the hilt and cannot be used as collateral. As for s loan of any kind, one would have to be stupid as paying that fine is not going to generate the income needed to pay back the loan.

Here in Guardalavaca Cuba, we had rain a few times yesterday snd a rainstorm that woke me up at 5 am. Right now about 30 C and sunny. Just a beautiful day

Birds, I once lived across the street from the most annoying jeweler ever. Yes that guy. At the time he did do watch repair at his shop.

I thought Eric was the dog.

If you want to see what vaccines and drugs could be look up Connaught Labs. They were owned by the Canadian government and were one reason insulin was cheap and available since it was first discovered. We elected a Conservative government back in the 80s and they sold it off. Stupidity at its best.

I saw earlier that you had another PC running XP? My wife's PC, which I bought her, way back, originally ran Windows Millenium. Right now, after putting in a solid state hard drive she is running Windows 11. It is not the best, and any time it decides to upgrade problems ensue but they do get sorted and it runs reasonably well for what she does. She is not a power user in any way but she is happy. Could you upgrade your older PC?

Right now his properties and company are being controlled by a court appointed auditor so that they cannot do any funny business. He already lost the trial before the fines were levied. His creditors can't prop him up if the court orders the seizures of the assets. I am not sure of the law in the US or New York but he has already been told he cannot avoid the damages he needs to pay in the defamation case by personal bankruptcy. Remember he had trouble raising $500,000 to appeal that ruling. Banks don't like lending money to Trump. With the size of the judgements against him what bank would lend him a penny because there is no foreseeable way he can pay you back, especially since he is now a known fraudster, along with his sons and his company. Then comes in that who really knows how much his properties are mortgaged for, and who hold the mortgages? If I held the mortgage, I would be sweating bullets as I can assume that there is fraud somewhere in that deal. What you thought was a first mortgage may well be a second or third mortgage.