Shattering the mirror doesn’t change what is reflected.

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Cake day: June 16th, 2024

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  • US proposals reportedly include recognition of Russian sovereignty over Donbass and Crimea, which have joined the Russian Federation by popular vote… Moscow maintains that it is open to authentic negotiations, but insists that any agreement has to address the security concerns that led to its 2022 military operation in Ukraine, launched after Kiev failed to implement previous Minsk accords and continued to pursue NATO integration.


  • The landlord in retail property struck me, and I don’t know how residential works there, but I recall a young couple I once knew wanting to buy a mobile home on about a quarter acre of property, several decades ago. The bank put a lower value on the property because it was a ten year old double wide manufactured home but the couple “needed” (I am not speaking for or against the veracity of need) an additional sum to move into their next dwelling, so the buyers of the first property got a mortgage for the value the bank would lend, then signed an unofficial contact for the balance the sellers needed. This always stuck with me, because if the sold home would have burned, flooded or otherwise become unlivable, that couple would be stuck with whatever the insurance didn’t pay on two contracts. This was probably 40 years so the insurance companies weren’t as greedy, then.





  • Go ahead, I don’t know how unpopular it will be. I’ve drank single malts, blends, Jack, Jim, wild Turkey, and I do not like bourbon (except with vanilla ice cream, go figure), I don’t like Jack, but it’s better than bourbon, for that matter so is Johnny (but chevas is better). But a really good single malt Scotch or Irish really trips my trigger. Or did. I haven’t had any of it in more years than I can count.

    Anyway, do you. I won’t begrudge you for it, I was more making a joke about depressed wages. Cheers! 🥃🥃










  • I don’t approve of legalized gambling that always yields wins for ultrawealthy and is almost guaranteed loss for everyone else, but it’s especially egregious anyone profits off WMD. It just feels like it should be a nationalized industry that should break even or barely a profit margin that would allow for legitimate defense, and would be a loss for aggression, in any state, anywhere. I’m aware that’s not going to be especially popular among large swaths of most people, and it’s not an analytical opinion, just personal vibes.