Not a slam dunk, but I can confirm that the street markings look American, the license plates appear to me to conform to American sizing and placement, and there is an American flag (amongst a few others) hanging from a pole. Gonna say it’s most likely somewhere in the States.

I need someone who understands law better than myself to clarify here – not only did the prosecutor call a witness not on the list, but that witness was the spouse of the defendant?? I realize this is Alabama, and I may be a caveman lawyer (#notalawyer #notyourlawyer), but isn’t this wildly inadmissable? If this story is true, shouldn’t Cracker Jack lose their legal degree accreditation, because that seems to be where these participants got theirs? Or do l need to return to my cave?

Since you brought up chess, I’ve always found chess boxing as an interesting concept.

Learning this pleases me. Thank you. The idea that the victims’ families, at least, have not lost those lessons gives me some satisfaction that humanity hasn’t gone full on stupid.

I loved the idea of a place to keep the memories of the horror of the Holocaust alive so it wouldn’t happen again. And then it happened again, quite publicly, and directly perpetrated by people who were the descendants of those victims and keepers of those memories. I still love the mission, but I fear that at least for now, it is a failure.

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John Oliver threatened something like that once (but for politicians). Not sure what happened after that, though I have occasionally wondered.

About the same as a banana

All these sudden reasons for them to close it that don’t involve the embarrassment of “nobody wants to buy tickets that support fascists taking over.”

Never realized how insightful this was, back in the day. Time for the T-shirts, yet?

Early evening in the western hemisphere, OP posted a large sum of perfectly native fluency English, so yeah, I’ll assume US or Canada. Can’t have a conversation without making reasonable assumptions. But please, feel free to add to the conversation, where do some of these exceptions exist? Don’t just “um, actually” the conversation, add to it!

The lawyers and business associates will tie it up. I don’t really recall any details, but it’ll be like when Howard Hughes died.

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You just can’t legally transmit without a license. You can own a ham radio and listen all you want.

I’m tired of bailing them out every time they decide to screw me at election time.

You left out “AI” you silly goose

Lucky. I want one.

Best explanation of salt I’ve ever seen. Thanks!

I want to go to there

I want to know how difficult it will be for them to look back at their texts, extract the phone number, and backtrace it to the owner. Because I don’t think it will be very difficult.

No, but she probably has as many fans in Gaza or Israel. But that’s not really the point I was hoping to make.

My original comment is not because I think she has more pull, but because I resent celebrities pulling the “Oh, me and my wealth cannot change anything because the problem is too big! Instead of investing my time and money, I’ll just kick the can up to governments so I don’t have to commit any serious effort myself.” My attitude goes back to an interview I heard with Bono of U2. He was traveling Africa at the time with U.S. diplomats to encourage spending of U.S. taxpayer money to solve problems there, and it was/is a worthy cause. However, when asked by an interviewer, “You’re very influential and your concert tours make millions. Couldn’t you put on a charity tour to raise money for this cause?” " Oh, no," he responded. “This problem is much too big for any single person. It requires the kinds of investments only governments are capable of.”

So yeah, got it. My taxpayer money can fund a very wealthy Irishman’s dreams of how to improve the world (again, they were good dreams), and all he wants to do about it is travel the world doing publicity with diplomats, spending other people’s money. Couldn’t be arsed to put any actual work time in. Only believed in the dream enough to make others pay for it.

I see Madonna making a similar play here. “Hey, look at me, guys! Now go tell the Pope to tell Israel to stop!” I mean, I don’t know what sway she thinks the Pope has in Israel, or why the Pope should care what a former Catholic thinks he should do, and I’m not going to complain if he makes a plea for the end to this Palestinian Holocaust, but she’s wealthy and has her own influence. I’d like to see more effort on her part before she starts telling world leaders what to do in public forums. Based on her long history of courting controversy for publicity, her message to the Pope is just pandering to her dwindling fans until she invests more effort than a social media post. If the wealthy lady wants that kind of power to call on world leaders, then I need to see her making big donations publicly, marching with protestors, making public rally speeches. Not this “I was a big deal 30-40 years ago” vibe.