:woot:!

Nowhere near as infuriating as when they finally speak up … after they’ve left office :(

What is your informed opinion of Campbell Island and it’s marine preserve?

[Campbell Island is the closest land antipode for Northern Ireland.]

Also, have you noticed an increase in the number of Americans moving over there in the last year or so?

the poll result that showed 30 percent of Americans now identify as MAGA supporters,

I never said it was planned, just that I have doubts that the story she’s presented on her video channel is the full story.

Yes, and no. You should be able to do many things using keyboard shortcuts - alt-tab to switch windows, shift-tab for previous field, alt-space to move a window, etc. Much of this has been standard in Windows for decades, and I can’t imagine them deliberately going out of their way to handicap that capability, especially with ADA accommodations.

However, companies making programs and applications, and people designing webpages, are not as aware of these accommodations and frequently overlook things when designing their programs and pages. I should fully expect you to run across a badly designed page at some point that’s going to leave you frustrated.

I’d suggest printing out a list of keyboard shortcuts (both for the O/S and whatever programs you’re likely to use) but expect to run into poor design decisions at some point.

Is this a temporary situation (“I’m just setting up this PC, I’ll grab a mouse later”), or a permanent one? If the latter, is there someone you know who might have a spare mouse?

Am I not allowed to look at her video history where she’s always the victim, note the fall in the number of her followers (until this video came out), look at the video that she edited and put online, notice discrepancies in that video, and think, “There may be more to this than just what she’s chosen to show us”? Because that’s where I am.

I have watched the video, and I’ve watched a couple others on her channel. She doesn’t speak like that normally, she’s exaggerating it for the views. And the only video we’ve seen is the one she’s chosen to put online (with her own edits), which will naturally portray her as in the right.

Apparently she’s a law student, very litigious, and has been losing followers because her ongoing saga with the HOA board has become “boring”.

That’s really a lot! And changing the Southern Sea to the IJsselmeer really allowed for a couple othermassive land reclamation projects as well.

I followed some links in the Wikipedia article you provided and learned about the All Saints Flood of 1170, and it’s amazing how much land was lost back then. It really gives more weight to “reclaiming the land from the sea” - thank you!

Funny how the price has gone from 200m to 300m and now 400m - gee, I wonder where that money has come from and disappeared to.

which he aims to complete by 2028.

So he has to live with the noise of construction for three and a half years and gets to enjoy it for maybe 2-3 months? Not the actions of a person who’s planning on voluntarily leaving office.

instead of ignoring a single drink

We have no idea how many drinks she had before getting on the plane. Perhaps the flight attendant didn’t want to deal with an argumentative, potentially drunk passenger in addition to her other duties.

I watched the video when it came out. The first couple sentences the woman speaks do sound as if she’s deaf - but then she sounds progressively less deaf as the disagreement goes on. As the public spat continued, I visited her TikTok account and (as of yesterday), she’s pinned this December 2024 video where she says the ear doctor told her she’s losing her hearing, and you’ll notice she’s speaking pretty normally.

I have friends and relatives who have become increasingly hard of hearing as they aged, including a couple that have gone completely deaf, and none of them have that “lost hearing before learning to speak” deaf ‘accent’. That’s because their brain and muscles remember what the movements for those words sound like. They do tend to lose verbal ‘crispness’ over time, but it takes years. So right off the bat, she was implicitly exaggerating her ‘hearing loss’ in the viral video.

Someone on yesterday’s reddit thread commented in part

I went down a rabbit hole of her TikTok, and she’s a disgusting person personality wise. ALWAYS playing the victim. […] We don’t know what led up to this. I hear them constantly bring up “accommodations”. My bet is she was making a scene about her “accommodations” and during that the attendant saw the cup. Rather deal with someone whose drunk […] [they] decided to kick her off so she can […] calm down.

To which someone else replied

I used to follow her TikTok (until I realized she is super annoying) and she is both a law student and is rather litigious in general. She’s involved in a variety of legal issues with her HOA (which was the story that initially got me to follow, admittedly but it’s no longer interesting).

I’m betting that this isn’t the only person who’s found her annoying and the HOA storyline now boring and she’s lost followers, and this is her latest attempt to recoup followers grift.

You know, this is something I never considered - I wonder how much land the Dutch reclaimed or stabioized during the Great Depression.

QAnon people would go absolutely rabid conspiracy minded.

If this were me, I also wouldn’t want to be in his position, where Trump has started a war of choice against a country that’s willing to use terror as a weapon, where Trump has deliberately handicapped counterterrorism and intelligence departments, and where the person in charge has repeatedly demonstrated that he’s never willing to accept responsibility for either his decisions or their consequences.

You seem to be incapable of understanding how organizations work, and I don’t have time for that kind of determined idiocy or trolling. Blocked.

I particularly liked the underlying assumption throughout the article that Trump absolutely has to have Iran capitulate and therefore the only thing they can do is to continue to escalate. That “declare victory and leave” isn’t something they’ve even considered.

He’s only retiring because he’s hit mandatory retirement age.

He already tried to declare it’s over. I think he was a bit shocked that reality isn’t listening to him.

The way they pushed through the “renovation” (aka destruction) plans was by secretly voting beforehand that anyone who was non-Trumpian wasn’t allowed to vote (that’s why they were all muted on the call). I fully expect this to go a similar way: she’ll get access to the plans, but not be allowed to vote. Or perhaps she’ll be the only non-Trumpian allowed to vote.