Fogbow

Lovely to hear that your abiding memories will be of a wonderful stay in Nepal.

“Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68818113 ‘Tesla will lay off more than 10% of its global electric vehicle workforce. In a memo, first reported by news website Electrek, billionaire owner Elon Musk told staff there was nothing he hated more, &quo...

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:33 am Someone posted a CBS poll the other day that showed 79% trusted trump for their Ukraine-Russia news and now I can't find that post. Any help?

https://thefogbow.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 25#p257127

According to the House of Commons library, as of April 2023 the median annual salary in the UK for 18-21 year olds was around £23,000.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/re ... /cbp-8456/

Happy Birthday!

Change of venue?

“Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68778636

I’d be devastated if my shares in a basically worthless company were currently valued at only about 2.7 billion dollars.

I definitely recommend cleaning a loaded handgun. It’s easier if the safety is off.

Take your pick:

An entertaining (?) overview of how lucky we are to not have been vaporised. (Why do people say “nucular”?)

bill_g wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:18 am I totally get it Shizzle. You take care of yourself.

“Oldest Christian book goes on sale”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68734783 “Christianity's oldest religious book, according to auction house Christie's, is going on sale in June. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, written in Coptic script on papyrus in Egypt, dates to between 250-350AD. It i...

Happy Birthday!

“Germany fans banned from buying number 44 kits over Nazi symbolism”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68708981 “Adidas has banned football fans from buying German football kits customised with the number 44, after media raised their resemblance to the symbol used by World War Two-era Nazi SS...

I wonder if a post-dated offer for tfg’s shares was made at the opening day’s price…

“Trump, Biden clash over Transgender Day of Visibility falling on Easter”: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/31/trump-biden-clash-over-transgender-day-of-visibility-falling-on-easter “We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Chr...

Assisting the spread of the polite society… “Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-68668460 ‘“All the guns here are from the US, everybody knows it. If the US wants to stop this, they could easily do it one month!" H...

Thought this was (surprisingly) a quite good video:

“Trump’s wealth surges by $5.5bn as Truth Social starts trading in New York”: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/03/26/ftse-100-markets-latest-news-bank-england-interest-rate-cut/ “Donald Trump has entered the ranks of the world’s 500 richest people after shares in his social media company su...

“Comstock Act: A 19th Century law firing up anti-abortion push”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68580015 “US anti-abortion activists, including allies of Donald Trump, have a strategy to ban abortion nationwide - one that bypasses Congress and the American people. It's a plan that hinges...

My first reaction was WTF but on reflection it seems only proper that the judiciary do not prejudice the rights of the future President.

A feature not a bug

Actually, he expects everyone to do what he says. Agreed. I was alluding to my belief that not only would he not assist allies unless he got his way, he would also not shrink from using HIS armed forces against any “sh*t hole, third world” country that didn’t play ball - the USA’s economic might wo...