Too much AI, methinks. I find it unnecessary clutter online, and use the udm14 Google extension and site to do old style Google. Works nicely.

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Mine too. I much prefer Golden Age detective fiction to the modern variety. Much less blood, gore, and drama, and far more real MYSTERY. And the quality of Dorothy L. Sayers' writing stands head and shoulders above her contemporaries. I'll take Lord Peter Wimsey over Jack Reacher any day.

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Aye. She was one of the students who'd finished and "gone down" before-often several years before-Oxford agreed to give degrees to women, then received their degree retrospectively once that changed.

Boats may crash... but certain waterfowl will not. To quote Lord Peter: "How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks."

Power games, bluntly. Diplomacy's about getting powerful friends to side with you in an argument. Any country with nukes is powerful. Simple as that.

Posted standing under correction, as I don't know if the quote is correctly attributed... but the statement is worth reading for its own sake. Freedom of speech must be balanced by freedom of reason, otherwise the door to manipulation of the many by the few stands wide open.

Hmmmm. I would prefer to see the changes given in numbers-percentages can be misleading, e.g. a drop of 40% in a country where they previously sold 100 cars vs an increase of 5% in a country where they previously sold 10,000 cars = 40 cars less in one place vs. 500 cars more in another.

Yes. I'm no scientist, but my husband and I have had that happen to us, on several occasions. We've learned to forego physical contact and intimacy when one or the other of us is down with a bug. It's the only approach that seems to work.

Aye, I understand. I'm probably on the spectrum as well (self diagnosed, so don't make much noise about it), and have the same thing going on. Aided and abetted by the fact that my husband has bad COPD and I'm his carer... putting myself after others is natural and required these days.

No surprises here-this is exactly the kind of response I expected. Trump has triggered European rearmament, and Ukraine is now the European front line. Once we get to the point of EU-China trade deals for military equipment it'll be a case of WW3, here we come.

Nuclear weapons proliferation is scary. But unless the pro-Putin administrations (Hungary, Slovakia) are kicked out of the EU first, a unified EU level response and nuclear programme won't happen. The EU knows this. It's why the individual national approach is on the table and may well happen.

Yeah, my husband watched Vikings... I watched a bit from the sidelines but never really got into it. Interested to see the story being told, though-I'm from Northumberland myself, so am familiar with that part of the history in its backstory.

Yuck. Thanx for the tip-off. Blocked without compunction... we can do without her sort here. OK, I'm a gay man, so might not be on her target list... but better to play safe and keep my environment untainted.

Money talks. Now the USA bares its true soul to the world... as the land of Mammon. The Land of the Rich and the Home of the Hoodwinked. Yuck.

Thanx! I'll give them a look-tip is most appreciated. FYI, the YouTube channel I'm watching is called "The Irish Homestead", if you're interested.

Aye. I watch one where a husband and wife from the Greater Manchester area, with two kids, are restoring what appears to be a derelict cottage/smallholding in Leitrim. They're wowed by the help and hospitality they've received too. I also understand the Brehon Laws included a section on hospitality.

I remember going to see one on a school trip, back home in Northumberland, during the late 70s/early 80s sometime. The one we saw had been dug to extract coal, and the hole was still open... fascinating.

Yeah, I bet it can. I'm following at least one of the first set of accounts (English couple restoring a derelict Irish cottage), but haven't bothered with the latter ones. As a naturalised British immigrant here in Ireland, I had to find my own way. Nuff said.

Best Of Luck to them. For everyone's sake, I hope they pull it off. This is going to be the only way to stop the fat cats... in the USA and elsewhere, now and in the future.

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Referred to this by the one blogger I follow, I found it containing much food for thought

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Think also of the Hindu Yuga cycle. We are in the early stages of a slow 10,000-or so-year rise to perfection, having left the Kali yuga in the late 19th century. All we can do is keep trying to do the best we can.

Think of the Pillars of the Qabala. Might & Mercy... with humans challenged to embody the Middle Pillar of Equilibrium. Balance is the key.

The virtues never stick around unless the vices are also there. For us to gain one, we must have the other too. Both are part of the same thing-one is meaningless without the other. Don't fixate on perfection. Just do the best you can.

Hmmmm. Does the agency by which the Age of Pisces is brought to an end really matter?
We know its end is inevitable. We know some disruption is needed to clear out the Piscean social structures to make way for the Aquarian ones.
Focus on dealing with the disruption rather than its cause.

No... but then, I ditched the dead bird site a while ago. Wonder if Musk has fired the security team now?

The kickback seems to be starting at provincial level-Ontario's governor's banned US firms from all provincial govt. contracts & is threatening to tear up Ontario's Starlink contract. He's facing re-election, so some of it may just be bluster-but the very fact that it's being said is significant.

Captain Beaky!!!

Indeed. I just hope they didn't find a dead jewel thief tied up in the bell chamber afterwards... that would be TOO close to the book for comfort!