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Granny's bordello. When she was in her crack cocaine phase back in the 1980s.

Quite like those imitation Roman murals they've pinned up all over, but the rest is like acid reflux, gallstone & fat-clogged arteries all at once.

Farr-idge, to rhyme with smidge, and redolent of garbage.

He wouldn't get life even if he were a poor randomer and convicted of his crimes. Maybe 2 years suspended.

Dan Cong oolongs (try KingTeaMall), raw Pu'er (try Farmerleaf), Liu Bao (good in cold weather).

Ditch the ball strainer, and just brew in a mug when you don't want a whole pot, and either strain with your lips or decant to a different mug holding the leaves back with a strainer.

Depends on the species, and with some species a combination of both factors.

Good.

We should have stopped buying it at the start of the war.

Only if words no longer have meaning, or one is speaking without a wit in one's head, or one is speaking with intent to deceive.

There are many good reasons why a nation might seek ownership of a strategic resource. There are also many bad reasons, and there are corrupt reasons. None of which relate greatly to the efficacy of any given purchase, and all of which are wholly separate as to the economic system at play.

Big jump in the use of poorly written mod bots, annnd the roll out of an AI profiler which gives mods a summary of the personalities & interests & Reddit behaviour of any user participating in their subreddit.

Reminded me that I want to do this, so may try running some up this weekend.

Would be a cool project for a beginner too, once they've cracked rectangles of basic fabric. Very little of the crochet I did at the start was stuff I or those around me would have use for, so I'd unravel to avoid wasting yarn. Everybody finds learning easier if they quickly arrive at items they want to keep or gift.

Funny that, as I know a bunch of Israelis who are very active in BDS, and have been for decades.

Though I suppose these fascist yanks who are so giddy for Armageddon would happily attack them also.

Majority of them will be operating within the law, and advising their clients to do legal things.

Two things are needed: massively ramped up enforcement and reform of the law.

They might want to introduce an exit tax before bringing in wealth taxes, and to tax unrealised gains by taking a % of shares (or whatever).

Most will get back in line in the end, meantime it gives some permission from their own egos to get out.

Have to assume that part of his inability to put this back in the box is because Musk is pouring money into keeping it in front of MAGA's eyes.

A removal of Trump in favour of some other hyper-authoritarian hazard is not good, but one hopes the replacement fails to capture the ardour of enough of Trump's base.