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Going through the bureaucratic red tape and the environmental regulations to dispose of these in the US will be costly and onerous:
Instead of getting itself into this quagmire, the Trump administration could simply sell them to Ukraine, pocket the money, and avoid the headache. There’s absolutely no reason not to do it.
Let’s see if this smart, fiscally responsible solution with zero downsides will be adopted.
I finished Sarma Melngailis’s memoir The Girl with the Duck Tattoo, and it’s so sad. I feel terrible for this poor woman. She got married to a gambler who conned millions of dollars out of her. She robbed her own business to give this loser money so he could gamble it away. She defrauded friends. Lost everything, ended up in jail, and will be saddled with millions of dollars in debt forever.
And even after writing a 700-page memoir about all this, she has zero insight into why it all happened. The narrative is completely flat. It never goes deeper than an enumeration of money withdrawals she made in response to the conman’s badgering. Sarma is utterly mystified by her own actions. It is as if the possibility that effects might be connected to causes never crossed her mind. She has no family and no longer owns a business. One wonders what it is that she does all day that the possibility of analyzing her own motivations never occurs to her.
This is a sad, sad story. At times, the details of Sarma’s degradation are painful to read. But she learned absolutely nothing whatsoever and doesn’t seem to know there might be anything to learn.
Are these people trying to be funny? I can’t guess.
American excellence consists of traitors who’d sell out their country for a few bucks? Is that some sort of a joke? The poster is on Bluesky, which means he’s probably not big on humor.
Ethnic clashes have started in the town of Torre Pacheco, population 35,000, in Southeastern Spain. A group of Moroccan migrants brutalized a peaceful grandpa who was walking to the cemetery. The video of the grandpa being beaten and taunted by a group of young louts is painful to watch.
Locals, who have had thousands of migrants brought into their town in the past couple of years, went out to protest. More Moroccans arrived, and now there are large disturbances.
The Spanish media are describing what is happening as “the far right is persecuting migrants.”
I do not advise looking at the videos or photos of the brutalized grandpa. They are not pretty.
I’m very uninterested in a discussion of the New York subway but I’ve got to ask:
Where are all these 20-year-old women going at midnight and why are there no young men going to that destination? It’s a completely sincere question. What are these “hoards of girls” pursuing alone on the subway at night?
I also wonder if the spelling mistakes are aimed at bolstering the self-infantilization that this guy pursues.
The leader of the Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, has said she does not believe one in four people are disabled and the term is in danger of losing its meaning, as she used a speech to criticise the size of the welfare state.
And she’s right. If everybody is disabled, then nobody is.
My Twitter feed is bursting at the seams with people feeling self-righteous about Badenoch’s eminently reasonable statements. They are drowning in self-pity and clearly experiencing great pleasure at doing it. Being sick, incapable, and wounded is like a badge of honor that they won’t relinquish.
I’m not sure whose side I’m on in this conflict:
These people all truly deserve each other.
So what’s been happening news-wise?
I’m on vacation, and my news are mostly of the culinary kind. For example, today I tried something called “fried green tomatoes with grouper.” It wasn’t half bad. But I would like to know what’s happening on more elevated planes of existence.
Any important news stories I need to know?
Klara keeps referring to things “back home in America.” I have not been able to impress upon her that we are currently also in America.
JP Lindsley went on Ben Shapiro. Please listen because this is a conservative American journalist in Ukraine, and there’s no better coverage than what he provides.
JP’s segment starts at 00:15:00 and goes until 00:25:30.
This is excellent journalism. If you aren’t following JP Lindsley, you should.
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