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Brits are easily mystified.

Friend of mine got $10,000 from the Air Force (misplaced decimal point on his pay). He banked it in a separate account, and when they came after him three years later, he wrote them a cheque for the $10K, kept the 1200 dollars in interest he'd made, and everybody was happy.

I don't think any government in history ever mastered the law of diminishing returns. . . Chocolate factories did.

Cheapest in terms of money spent vs. money made. "It's like playing cards with my brother's kids!" Johnny Tyler, Tombstone

Well, if humans (and especially politicians) were any good at planning, it would make sense to use their oil and save our oil for when their oil isn't available. However, in this case it ain't Biden. This ain't Canada and hereabouts corporations get their supplies wherever they want (which...

Nah, that was the wild east (the Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton duel). The gunfighters were mostly fighting for pay or over booze and women. Politicians are very good at screaming "THIS is VITAL to our SURVIVAL AS A NATION!" and notably not putting any skin in the game.

Back in the 1800s, the town of Show Low, Arizona, also had a tie in a mayoral election. They settled it by cutting a deck of cards. Hence the name.

Ah, whataboutery. Again.

I'm just amused by people that wanna kill every problem, yet somehow never had the balls to pick up a gun and use it. And are too damn dumb to spell "genitals."

I already did. She holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from University of California, Santa Cruz. Not quite MIT, but I've never heard anybody who knew what the hell they were talking about question the quality of UC's Ph.D.s

So. . . fair to say you didn't make up the shit? Just spread it?

Looks like Boomster wants to pretend he has a pair. Again.

Did she have a Ph.D. in physics? Takes more'n cramming for the test to get one of those. Last major politician I can think of with a Ph.D. was Angela Merkel. She did OK.

I bow to your experience in the matter.

That's tomorrow. . . Apparently the only solution to "supply-chain disruptions" Yanks WILL NOT accept is "buy local."

Probably more fun than fucking marmots. Unless you're a marmot. Or Boomster.

Ah. That explains it. Happy Yanksgiving, petros.

I could say the same of humans, but folk get awful fussed when they die.

I thought that was Oceania. . .

By somebody with the balls to do it.