Hmm. Was Sheeran equally apolitical in 2022?

Responding publicly to Ukrainian band Antytila, whose members had joined Ukraine's territorial defence, Sheeran said: “To all Ukrainians, I love you, I stand with you”, adding that he was proud to be taking part in the Concert for Ukraine fundraiser.

He described what followed the invasion as “devastating acts of violence,” called Ukraine “a proud and resilient country,” and said: “I stand with Ukraine.” He donated his YouTube royalties from the video to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

"Assessments of polygraphy by scientific and government bodies generally suggest that polygraphs are highly inaccurate, may easily be defeated by countermeasures, and are an imperfect or invalid means of assessing truthfulness."

But not this government, I guess. Hold my beer!

I tried to change pounds to dollars in Florida in the 1990s. The lady read the conversion details backwards (it was probably 1.25 dollars to the pound at the time) and gave me the opposite ratio (works out at 0.80).

When I pointed out the error, she said "The US dollar is the strongest currency in the world, sir! It's always point-something" and refused to believe me.

This was at a bank. The manager had to be called. Neither of them were happy to discover the truth and both resented having to eventually give me the correct exchange!

It was one of the more startling aspects of the original James Bond books. He didn't just use an 'expensive cigarette lighter' and drive a 'sporty car', he used a Ronson and had a Bentley with an Amherst Villiers supercharger.

You'll also find mention of Gordon's gin, Citroën, Morland cigarettes, and Taittinger champagne.

This was certainly not the norm for literature in 1953, but was a conscious choice by Fleming to root Bond in reality, albeit a rather upscale one.

The suggestion is that he was there "to help" and was staying despite the danger, but two burly underlings pulled him out because unlike their keen-eyed master, they were unable to assess the strength of the structure, or were perhaps simply not as brave as he.

A little understood rule of retail is:

• Customer buys something, has neutral opinion.

• Product has a problem, customer has negative opinion.

• Company resolves problem well, customer now has positive opinion.

That's a very important lesson for organisations to learn. A customer complaint is a golden advertising opportunity.

I suggest you also block anyone using AWS.

You've probably heard of it, but do yourself a favour and read Rick Reilly's Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump – (Hachette Books, 2019)

I know little and care less about golf but this book was gripping! Reilly is a great writer and, despite my having read several other books on Trump (Mary Trump, Michael Wolff, etc), I really think Reilly's explains Trumps method of operation better than every other attempt.

It's absolutely shocking what he does in his day to day life. The anecdotes are piled high, the double dealing and fabrications are outrageous. Every single page contains some revelation even more odious than the previous.

A morbid fascination and dogged curiosity regarding the depths of Trump's moral abyss will keep you tutting and eye-rolling to the end.

(Sounds like a sales pitch, I know. But I casually picked it up in a thrift shop for €1. No regrets!)

Let's not forget Trump's commerce secretary bought the rights to companies' potential tariff refunds for 20c on the dollar and then cashed in when they were reversed. Yes, Howard Lutnick.

Oh, sorry not him personally of course, just his company now run by his sons without any inside knowledge.

Disentanglement or Tavern Puzzle

I don't think he's the "owner" of Apple and Coca-cola.

(Edit: I believe the title was edited to include the word 'major')

I looked up the domains registered by logitech electronics and logitech corp.
Blocked the hell out of those.

Sorry, you brought them up.

I see where you're going with this and I accept the possibility Trump is just clumsy and avoidant on the issue.

But you must be aware that there is a strong belief amongst MAGA types and deep conservatives in general that slavery was benign if not beneficial to those subjugated. D'Souza wrote a whole book about it.

They believe liberals exaggerate the bad parts of slavery due to irrational white guilt and black people agree because they are whiners and want reparations.

I strongly suspect this plays into Trump's rants regarding museums and history curricula.

As a European, this notion of college debt is so alien to me. I can't imagine walking out of school as a young person starting life with a six figure debt!

Even without government grants, if I had been a foreign student say, my masters degree would have only been €5,000.

https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/

Works well.

You do you, but that is too much gum. You must have jaws like a bear trap.

20 GOTO $LUNCH

It's supposed to be Portrait of an Old Man with an Onion by Jusepe de Ribera.

Are Logitech involved in this too?

Thirstfallen