4 consecutive months. Cease fire, hostage release, two state solution. Everything the anti-Genocide people wanted.

“Buh buh wE dOnT bElIeVe YoU!!!11!11”

And so we get Mr. “Do it faster, it’s making you look bad.”

She did fuck all to work towards it.

Again, the VP HAS NO REAL POWER. The only role the VP has that has any effect whatsoever is when the Senate is stalled at a 50/50 tie. Other than that, the role is largely ceremonial.

So going into the election you had 2 candidates:

1. Who argued repeatedly for a cease fire, hostage release and two state solution for 4 consecutive months.

2. Who argued that the only thing Israel was doing wrong was not killing people fast enough.

We elected candidate #2.

Good gig, if you can get it…

And again, Harris is not Biden. Two different people.

Whether you “believe” it or not is irrelevant. It was her position as stated publicly multiple times. That problem is yours, not hers.

In the end though, the desire to “save” Gaza will result in the extermination of Gaza because you simply wouldn’t listen. Good jorb!

Exactly, she wanted a two-state solution and argued for it on multiple occasions as cited above.

Trump wanted waterfront real estate.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-gaza-riviera-echoes-kushner-waterfront-property-dreams-2025-02-05/

Harris is not Biden. Again, read her statements, month after month, after month. July, August, September, October.

She was far more likely to treat Netanyahu as the dishonest broker that he is. Biden was blinded by the history of Israel, Harris did not have that same handicap.

HER handicap was not being able to publicly diverge from Biden policy, she should have, but couldn’t afford to alienate the Biden machine.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5191087-harris-trump-biden-harris/

She’s only a year old so, yeah, still pretty green. LOL. She was very upset that I got up, skipped the office and left for an eye appointment. LOL.

Ours was convinced we were going to work today, she does not yet understand the concept of “Saturday” or “Sunday”. Amazon should pay her. :)

Our youngest gets up with me every morning to go to work. Yells at me, trots into my office where she has her own blanket.

My brain always wants to conflate Pinter with Samuel Beckett for some reason, I think because I was reading both at the same time in college.

Specifically Beckett’s play “Happy Days”, which I always want to attribute to Pinter even though I know better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Days_(play)

Yeah, I have a first edition of that book, it was actually startling reading it.

The note on the cover about “America’s most powerful corporation” is a BIT of hyperbole…

American companies were forbidden from doing business with Germany, BUT… IBM just happened to have a division in Switzerland and they had NO PROBLEM supplying the Nazis with the punch card tech they needed to catalog, track, round up, and exterminate their Jewish population.

“Ok, I mean, sure, we sold the Nazis punchcards, but seriously, what could they do with them?”

Should be required reading for anyone in tech. Bonus - great early history of punch cards and IBM.

In this room alone… 3 phones, 2 tablets, a smart watch, a Steam Deck, Xbox One X, PS4, Roku, Smart TV.

Don’t ask me to count all devices, I don’t have that kind of time. I just changed the batteries in our alarm sensors… 28 of them.

“Ok, I mean, sure, we sold the Nazis punchcards, but seriously, what could they do with them?”

Should be required reading for anyone in tech. Bonus - great early history of punch cards and IBM.

“The paper was championed by MIT economists Daron Acemoglu, who won the 2024 economics Nobel, and David Autor. The two said they were approached in January by a computer scientist with experience in materials science who questioned how the technology worked, and how a lab that he wasn’t aware of had experienced gains in innovation.”

It sounds like this hypothetical materials science lab maybe did not actually exist. Actual materials scientist reached out and went “Hey, I never heard of that lab, who are they and how did they use AI?” Oh… THAT lab? Yeah, it’s in Canada, you don’t know it…

“Cross region trading and gifting is disabled for this item.”

Sorry Pope Leo, no game for you!

The song:

https://youtu.be/YkAX7Vk3JEw

Wow!

Crust looks good, “smoke ring” looks good. Meat appears to be medium rare, I’m not a big steak guy, but my wife is. Did you temp it? How did it taste?