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Our friend in Cali said a number of buildings around her completely collapsed. She was spared, though lots of damage. Said the worst part of it was listening to people run up and down the road screaming for loved ones.

A friend had shingles and said it was horribly painful. He is a bit of a hypochondriac, but we took the hint and got vaccinated. If you aren't, you should.

Graham sucked up to whoever would get him power. He was a vile, vile man.

If only we got to decide what other people think of us....

Except that we, the american people, voted for them. They act with our mandate. You can shrug off responsibility, but the rest of the world may not feel the same. I doubt you are shrugging off your american citizenship. And the palestinian people voted for Hamas once over the corrupt palestinian authority. They never got to vote again. I can't hold the russians responsible because they have no voice in their own government. We do not have the luxury of saying we had no voice, it's not our fault.

Oh yes, I absolutely hold everyone who voted for Trump responsible for the disaster that is unfolding. And as an American, whether I supported any of my countries actions or not, I bear part of the stain of them too. Every US citizen does.

Musk was responsible for the shuttering of USAID. Estimates are that it has caused 500,000 deaths or more so far with the number climbing into the millions by 2030. Trump is also responsible for that as well as the enormous death toll from Covid last time around. Both men are murders on an almost unprecedented scale. If anything calls for the death penalty, this does. I am not going to wring my hands about 2 deaths while ignoring millions of others.

He fails on both counts, so take your pick.

Because I lack Luigi Mangioni's courage or insanity, maybe both. But I do hope somebody steps up. And I don't feel the least bit tacky for saying so, given the number of deaths he has caused.

Well, among my friend circle, that's exactly how we talk about Musk. The man is revolting and if he and Trump died in a fire, I would celebrate.

Interesting you choose to judge her for this, but not all the other billionaires for not helping people and spending huge amounts of money on things they want. Why would I care? Weddings mean a lot to some people. Mine was small and relatively cheap and completely lovely. Others want big bashes. Whatever. We could all do more good with our money if we wanted to forgo the pleasure of our own wealth. If we're in this forum, we obviously aren't monks with vows of poverty. We all live in a very large glass house with stones in abundance.

The great, "pay now, get nothing later" offer. We've all heard it before.

There are a ton of airbnb listings in Hanoi. Probably want to check them over carefully to make sure you're not being watched.

I imagine you have some auto translate feature activated that is causing this. Might want to check. I use the brave browser for privacy (and a vpn) and I have to click to have it translate, and it often is a bit finicky and thinks the page is in english even if part of it isn't, so I have to then manually tell it to translate the specific language. Often a problem on Philippine pages where they mix Tagalog and English.

I think buying an apartment before living there for about a year is a bad idea. It makes it much harder to change your mind easily if you find the experience is not what you hoped. It also gives you a much better feel for what you want from an apartment and where you want it. I wouldn't move there, but to each his own.