Wasn't one of the Facebook founders a child rapist? I seem to recall that fact from the movie.

Christianity is the most destructive force on the planet. Every war ever fought has been under the banner of Christianity.

The smiling eyes say it all. I love that brick wall behind you.

Practically everything. My phone, garbage, insurance, food, gas, electric, internet, cable . . . everything went up seemingly at the same time. There are a lot of products and businesses I just outright boycott based upon GOP reasons. I pretty much eliminate grocery stores in the summer and buy from local farms. I partition my trash into small bags and deposit them in trash cans and eliminated my garbage pick up. I compost all scraps. Started a vegetable garden. Grow my own cannabis. Switched to USMobile for $10 a month unlimited. Torrent everything. Cut cable. I used to eat out about three times a week and that is now zero. Overall, I am eating better and even lost about 15 pounds. I discovered bin stores. I find myself buying more stuff that I don't need but want. I found a $500 Garmin watch on dollar day. The only wrong with it was it was missing the band so I found one that fit and got that for a buck. On $3 day last week I found a pair of ar6 walkie talkies sealed. On $12 day I found a 32" TV and leaf blower, both sealed. I can't see myself ever paying full price again, shopping in a store or even online.

He didn't just shoot her, he executed her, murdered her, assassinated her and deprived her of ALL her constitutional rights.

A 2 liter bottle of soda costs pennies to produce and they sell it for three bucks. An 8 ounce glass of it in a restaurant will cost you three or four bucks. I haven't purchased soda in about five years. It is the biggest ripoff and not even good for you.

Isn't ICE doing essentially the same thing here in the USA? Maybe Iran should bomb and liberate us?

I used to work for a professional theater and per equity rules we were required to hold auditions in NYC for three days to cast a full time resident actor. About 200 people applied. Some flew in from CA, AZ and FL. Many others drove or took a four hour train ride in to audition. I was told to just go and enjoy the process because the position was already filled by someone who was regularly doing extra work for us. He didn't even audition.

The bishop of a cathedral once told me how he was hiring a new music director and had over 50 resumes on his desk to peruse. An applicant knocked on his door saying he was interested in the job. The bishop looked at the applicant, looked at the pile, looked at the applicant and hired him on the spot. He was there for 50 years.

The goal of DOGE was to terminate thousands of employees so they could use that money to hire ICE gestapo criminals. Their second goal was to nuke any agency that would stand in the way of tRump. The third was to nuke agencies launching investigation. Fourth, agencies with oversight. The fifth goal was to ransack their database and steal personal and sellable data. Lastly, Musk wanted the Institute for Peace building for himself but courts blocked the theft.

They are beginning to disguise them in cones, barrels and small ones on a pole as small as rebar.

MAGA, have the day you voted for.

China’s mysterious new billionaires are conquering the world

"Early last year, when DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial-intelligence lab, was causing panic among its Western rivals, almost nothing was known about Liang Wenfeng, its founder. Mr Liang remains a mysterious figure, but at least one thing is clear. As DeepSeek closes a funding round valuing it at $71bn, its founder’s personal wealth has soared to roughly $38bn—making him far wealthier than Anthropic’s Dario Amodei or Openai’s Sam Altman.

Mr Liang will not be spotted on the conference circuit. He has never appeared live on Chinese television, and there are few photos or taped footage of his unpolished, wiry figure. That puts him at home among the new generation of young Chinese billionaires. The country is cranking out more of them than anywhere else bar America. According to Hurun, which tracks the riches of the world’s wealthiest people, there were at least 29 self-made billionaires aged 40 or under in China this year. Including Mr Liang, who will turn 41 at some point this year, brings the total to 30. That is nine more than last year.

China’s new tycoons differ from their predecessors in striking ways. They have abandoned real-estate speculation and boozy dinners with officials. But they are also adept at taking imaginative ideas and scaling them into global businesses faster than any before them.

The history of China’s uber-rich is short. In the 1980s tycoons figured out how to wrest assets from the state. Zhang Ruimin, a member of a troupe of students who terrorised teachers and intellectuals during Mao’s era, got hold of a state-owned refrigerator business called Haier and turned it into what is now the world’s largest home-appliance maker. The opening of the property market in the 1990s minted another early group of billionaires including Xu Jiayin, founder of Evergrande, a now-collapsed property developer.

In the early 2000s industrialists such as Wang Chuanfu of BYD, originally a battery maker, launched a wave of manufacturing firms as China entered the WTO. And then in the 2010s the consumer internet produced China’s first generation of tech moguls, including Jack Ma of Alibaba, an e-commerce giant, and Pony Ma of Tencent, maker of of WeChat. The founders of ByteDance, creator of TikTok, and Shein, the online fast-fashion firm, who are both now in their early 40s, built their fortunes a few years later.

These people live with the sense that their businesses could be derailed at any time by sudden policy changes in China or America. By shunning publicity they seem to believe they can survive longer, he says. Most young Chinese billionaires have never spoken with foreign media. Many avoid the Chinese press as well. The result is a generation of tycoons that is both China’s most global—and its most enigmatic."

Food prices never go down. Once the greedy corporations know how much you are willing to pay they never go down. When the tariffs/taxes drop, they will profit the difference. tRump's damage can not be undone.

I stopped watching because they don't hold our politicians accountable especially when they lie to our faces. 16 year old vloggers do a better job on TikTok. I canceled two newspapers. I'll get my news from The Daily Show.

I know a woman who tested positive for Covid back during the lockdown days and she went into a survival/gun shop which sported dozens of Trump signs out front and no one was wearing masks inside so she took hers off and fondled everything. After getting advice she shook the owner's hand. The place is now closed and I often wondered why.

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I have no problem accessing the site. Could I be on a fake one? https://icelist.is/ice/

Let's put it to a test. Instruct the Army to shoot up a school.

I hate cats. Every year when my neighbor snowbirds for three months I take her two monsters in. At night I would line up about forty empty plastic soda bottles on the table, counter and shelves. Every morning, they were all on the floor. It was our thing. I also like to watch TV on the floor and one of them would always climb onto my chest, nose to nose. Okay, I secretly enjoyed them but I'd never admit that. Never.

I work for an LGBT choral group of 100 singers and more. There are young and old in the transition process. My advice for anyone is to make sure you have the support system. When one of our members is having a hard time or is celebrating a decision, we all are there for them. They are taken out, they are visited, they are called and get emails of concern and support. It is a beautiful thing. We applaud, console and hug one another every day.

You know, straight people do not have this level of support and community so I encourage everyone, straight or other, find an LGBT group that you can join and participate with whether it is a gay choir, gay hiking club, gay book club, gay bar. You don't have to be gay and don't have to have sex with them, just befriend, accept and support. They will do the same and respect who you are. They are not prejudice against straight people. I love when new members come out to the choir. They say they feel like they are home.

I'd guess that 1/3 of the group is straight. We have a straight couple who joined the choir to support their newly out teenage son. He is not old enough to sing with us but sells tickets at the door, raffle prizes and helps to set stuff up. The point is, the people are there for community. The group not only changes lives but has saved lives.

To quote Stephen Sondheim, "No One Is Alone."

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