Taliban, August 2021: “We’ll be different this time, we swear!”

This is akin to keyword-stuffing blog posts, it’s a technique nearly as old as Google itself. They know about it.

If your circumstances change, you can make a lateral move and invest the net profit in an index fund.

They will unfortunately also get filtered. What I do is to direct important callers to ensure they leave a VM, or send an email or text.

You’re right, and I was little ambiguous and unclear what I meant by formality.

By formality, I was suggesting that the US government spends a lot of time hand wringing about the budget, delaying for compromises, and then exceeds the budget anyway in certain areas.

They intentionally hold it hostage for compromises on other things we don’t actually want.

The budget is probably more a formality anyway.

I brought you into this world, so I can take you out of it! GO BRUSH YOUR TEETH!

You guys have to pay? I get paid to register my domains.

Join Toastmasters and they will (quite kindly) help you rid yourself of this in a few weeks.

I’ve been there a few times over the past decade. It’s a major metro city with substantial tourism. The people there are just like people anywhere else in the world in that if you treat them with respect, they will reflect that; and if you treat them like smug shit, they will also treat you like smug shit.

The semi-popular reputation Paris has is unearned and based in prejudice.

But security be off committing their own crimes…

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won’t.

–Mark Twain

“Stand of the tide” is offered by Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_tide?wprov=sfti1#Misconceptions

A measly $3.2b. Can hardly afford a new yacht with that!

Mi parolas iomete da Esperanton, y yo hablo tambien un poquito Español, pero medyo fluent ako sa Pilipino, ang wika taga sa Pilipinas. I’m pretty good at English, too.

Here’s the $0.03 for your individual class settlement.

This is the real value of agglutinative languages. We sort of try it in English but it doesn’t always work. I don’t speak German, but I recognize the word roots.

When I lived in central Alaska, I saw summertime temps of up to 90F (32C) and wintertime temps down to -55F (-48C).

Summer was amazing; endless sunlight. 23.5 hours during the Summer Solstice. Want to play sports at 2am in broad daylight? Easy.

Winter was also amazing, but with the serious understanding that venturing outside without the proper life safety equipment (proper cold weather gear and communication with someone about your whereabouts and route), you could die in about an hour. But those Auroras… a stunning, and gorgeous midnight sentinel dancing above your head—absolutely worth it.

I miss it.

The place I worked at used Soma.fm

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