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Billionaire plans to take submersible to Titanic nearly one year after OceanGate implosion
WWW.USATODAY.COM Larry Connor, an Ohio businessman and billionaire, said he wants to prove the trip can be done "without disaster." Nearly one year after the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster gripped the nation, another ambitious businessman is looking to make the same trip.
Larry Connor, an Ohio businessman and billionaire, told The Wall Street Journal last week about his plans to prove that a dive to the Titanic wreckage site can be done safely when proper engineering is employed.

Some seriously distorted photo editing on that ass. Or he's been using Kim Kardashian's plastic surgeon 😆

Most everything in Pittsburgh is disappointing.
 

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Legal Pot Is More Potent Than Ever — And Still Largely Unregulated - KFF Health News
KFFHEALTHNEWS.ORG As marijuana has become far more mainstream, potent, and sometimes dangerous, uneven regulation at the state and federal levels leaves consumers at risk.  

Incorrect.  The potency of pot today is very high and causing serious problems.  Just what this country needs!  Pot is something you do in high school and then move on.  It ain't cool.  Life is difficult enough as it is.
 
Not Your Grandmother’s Marijuana: Rising THC Concentrations in Cannabis Can Pose Devastating Health Risks
MEDICINE.YALE.EDU Brain changes and other cannabis side effects need more study, say Yale researchers.  

My hobby is languages.  As I've mentioned in other threads, I watch a lot of Spanish TV & movies.  Every day without fail, I watch something in Spanish even if it's just a 10-minute YT video.  Some days, it's hours of binging.  I learned Spanish in Salamanca decades ago, but it got woefully rusty until I discovered Spanish TV via Internet a ~decade ago.  My speaking ability is actually (far) better now than it was at the end of my year in Salamanca, and my listening comprehension is at least 10x better.
I also picked up French again after a 4+ decade break in study.  Yikes, more rust than the remains of the Titanic!  I've been doing Duolingo for only 6 weeks, but least I haven't skipped a day so far.  My goal is to be able to watch French series & movies on Netflix without English subtitles.  That's a long way off, but hey, the longest journey begins with the first step. 
And last, I watch YT videos in my original but forgotten native tongue, Tagalog (Filipino).  Unfortunately, my parents didn't know that you could raise kids bilingual and were very worried that I wouldn't learn English.  As soon as I picked up English in kindergarten, they stopped speaking Tagalog at home.  But I still understand it OK and was delighted to find a few great YT channels in Tagalog:  one about Filipino history, one by a guy dedicated to reviving the Spanish language in the Philippines, and one hilarious cooking channel by a super-campy gay guy.
Interesting note:  I can watch Tagalog YT vids at 1.5x speed just like almost every video in English despite very limited vocabulary (my vocabulary in Spanish must be 20x my Tagalog).  I can watch Spanish vids at 1.5x also, but it requires so much concentration that I'm mentally exhausted after 5 minutes.  Learning a language as a child must set in your brain in a way that adult learning simply can't match, no matter how much effort you put in.

Learning new languages also fascinated me when I was younger. I studied Spanish in high school, German in college, French in graduate school, Dutch when I was having a hot affair with a guy in Amsterdam, Italian because I was an opera lover, and Czech when I lived and worked in Czechoslovakia. The only one in which I could genuinely claim to have become bi-lingual was German, because I kept working at it for years by participating in German conversation groups and taking summer courses in Austria until I was in my 40s, but the problem in learning languages as an adult is that you have to use it or you lose it. The only one which I still use at all is Spanish, because I am surrounded by it living in southern California.

My hobby is languages.  As I've mentioned in other threads, I watch a lot of Spanish TV & movies.  Every day without fail, I watch something in Spanish even if it's just a 10-minute YT video.  Some days, it's hours of binging.  I learned Spanish in Salamanca decades ago, but it got woefully rusty until I discovered Spanish TV via Internet a ~decade ago.  My speaking ability is actually (far) better now than it was at the end of my year in Salamanca, and my listening comprehension is at least 10x better.
I also picked up French again after a 4+ decade break in study.  Yikes, more rust than the remains of the Titanic!  I've been doing Duolingo for only 6 weeks, but least I haven't skipped a day so far.  My goal is to be able to watch French series & movies on Netflix without English subtitles.  That's a long way off, but hey, the longest journey begins with the first step. 
And last, I watch YT videos in my original but forgotten native tongue, Tagalog (Filipino).  Unfortunately, my parents didn't know that you could raise kids bilingual and were very worried that I wouldn't learn English.  As soon as I picked up English in kindergarten, they stopped speaking Tagalog at home.  But I still understand it OK and was delighted to find a few great YT channels in Tagalog:  one about Filipino history, one by a guy dedicated to reviving the Spanish language in the Philippines, and one hilarious cooking channel by a super-campy gay guy.
Interesting note:  I can watch Tagalog YT vids at 1.5x speed just like almost every video in English despite very limited vocabulary (my vocabulary in Spanish must be 20x my Tagalog).  I can watch Spanish vids at 1.5x also, but it requires so much concentration that I'm mentally exhausted after 5 minutes.  Learning a language as a child must set in your brain in a way that adult learning simply can't match, no matter how much effort you put in.

My hobby is languages.  As I've mentioned in other threads, I watch a lot of Spanish TV & movies.  Every day without fail, I watch something in Spanish even if it's just a 10-minute YT video.  Some days, it's hours of binging.  I learned Spanish in Salamanca decades ago, but it got woefully rusty until I discovered Spanish TV via Internet a ~decade ago.  My speaking ability is actually (far) better now than it was at the end of my year in Salamanca, and my listening comprehension is at least 10x better.
I also picked up French again after a 4+ decade break in study.  Yikes, more rust than the remains of the Titanic!  I've been doing Duolingo for only 6 weeks, but least I haven't skipped a day so far.  My goal is to be able to watch French series & movies on Netflix without English subtitles.  That's a long way off, but hey, the longest journey begins with the first step. 
And last, I watch YT videos in my original but forgotten native tongue, Tagalog (Filipino).  Unfortunately, my parents didn't know that you could raise kids bilingual and were very worried that I wouldn't learn English.  As soon as I picked up English in kindergarten, they stopped speaking Tagalog at home.  But I still understand it OK and was delighted to find a few great YT channels in Tagalog:  one about Filipino history, one by a guy dedicated to reviving the Spanish language in the Philippines, and one hilarious cooking channel by a super-campy gay guy.
Interesting note:  I can watch Tagalog YT vids at 1.5x speed just like almost every video in English despite very limited vocabulary (my vocabulary in Spanish must be 20x my Tagalog).  I can watch Spanish vids at 1.5x also, but it requires so much concentration that I'm mentally exhausted after 5 minutes.  Learning a language as a child must set in your brain in a way that adult learning simply can't match, no matter how much effort you put in.

The IRS assumes a tip income and collects taxes on 9% of the total checks for a server, 10% of the meter total for taxi drivers.  Mind you, in most parts of the country, servers & cab drivers make more than 9-10% in tips, but there are a few areas where it could be that low or (eek!) less.

My hobby is languages.  As I've mentioned in other threads, I watch a lot of Spanish TV & movies.  Every day without fail, I watch something in Spanish even if it's just a 10-minute YT video.  Some days, it's hours of binging.  I learned Spanish in Salamanca decades ago, but it got woefully rusty until I discovered Spanish TV via Internet a ~decade ago.  My speaking ability is actually (far) better now than it was at the end of my year in Salamanca, and my listening comprehension is at least 10x better.
I also picked up French again after a 4+ decade break in study.  Yikes, more rust than the remains of the Titanic!  I've been doing Duolingo for only 6 weeks, but least I haven't skipped a day so far.  My goal is to be able to watch French series & movies on Netflix without English subtitles.  That's a long way off, but hey, the longest journey begins with the first step. 
And last, I watch YT videos in my original but forgotten native tongue, Tagalog (Filipino).  Unfortunately, my parents didn't know that you could raise kids bilingual and were very worried that I wouldn't learn English.  As soon as I picked up English in kindergarten, they stopped speaking Tagalog at home.  But I still understand it OK and was delighted to find a few great YT channels in Tagalog:  one about Filipino history, one by a guy dedicated to reviving the Spanish language in the Philippines, and one hilarious cooking channel by a super-campy gay guy.
Interesting note:  I can watch Tagalog YT vids at 1.5x speed just like almost every video in English despite very limited vocabulary (my vocabulary in Spanish must be 20x my Tagalog).  I can watch Spanish vids at 1.5x also, but it requires so much concentration that I'm mentally exhausted after 5 minutes.  Learning a language as a child must set in your brain in a way that adult learning simply can't match, no matter how much effort you put in.

My hobby is languages.  As I've mentioned in other threads, I watch a lot of Spanish TV & movies.  Every day without fail, I watch something in Spanish even if it's just a 10-minute YT video.  Some days, it's hours of binging.  I learned Spanish in Salamanca decades ago, but it got woefully rusty until I discovered Spanish TV via Internet a ~decade ago.  My speaking ability is actually (far) better now than it was at the end of my year in Salamanca, and my listening comprehension is at least 10x better.
I also picked up French again after a 4+ decade break in study.  Yikes, more rust than the remains of the Titanic!  I've been doing Duolingo for only 6 weeks, but least I haven't skipped a day so far.  My goal is to be able to watch French series & movies on Netflix without English subtitles.  That's a long way off, but hey, the longest journey begins with the first step. 
And last, I watch YT videos in my original but forgotten native tongue, Tagalog (Filipino).  Unfortunately, my parents didn't know that you could raise kids bilingual and were very worried that I wouldn't learn English.  As soon as I picked up English in kindergarten, they stopped speaking Tagalog at home.  But I still understand it OK and was delighted to find a few great YT channels in Tagalog:  one about Filipino history, one by a guy dedicated to reviving the Spanish language in the Philippines, and one hilarious cooking channel by a super-campy gay guy.
Interesting note:  I can watch Tagalog YT vids at 1.5x speed just like almost every video in English despite very limited vocabulary (my vocabulary in Spanish must be 20x my Tagalog).  I can watch Spanish vids at 1.5x also, but it requires so much concentration that I'm mentally exhausted after 5 minutes.  Learning a language as a child must set in your brain in a way that adult learning simply can't match, no matter how much effort you put in.

The IRS assumes a tip income and collects taxes on 9% of the total checks for a server, 10% of the meter total for taxi drivers.  Mind you, in most parts of the country, servers & cab drivers make more than 9-10% in tips, but there are a few areas where it could be that low or (eek!) less.

Since you follow his social media, do you know how old his Rentmen photos are?
I pity the poor client who thinks he's getting the guy in the RM ad, only to open the door and see the guy in the photo you posted above.  Yikes, helluva difference.

I agree.
I generally tip with cash.for that reason.
I also know that many corporate owned restaurants chains (where I end up sometimes when I travel) toss all the tip money into a kitty and split it up evenly. Which defeats the whole purpose of tipping for exceptional service in MY mind.

My hobby is languages.  As I've mentioned in other threads, I watch a lot of Spanish TV & movies.  Every day without fail, I watch something in Spanish even if it's just a 10-minute YT video.  Some days, it's hours of binging.  I learned Spanish in Salamanca decades ago, but it got woefully rusty until I discovered Spanish TV via Internet a ~decade ago.  My speaking ability is actually (far) better now than it was at the end of my year in Salamanca, and my listening comprehension is at least 10x better.
I also picked up French again after a 4+ decade break in study.  Yikes, more rust than the remains of the Titanic!  I've been doing Duolingo for only 6 weeks, but least I haven't skipped a day so far.  My goal is to be able to watch French series & movies on Netflix without English subtitles.  That's a long way off, but hey, the longest journey begins with the first step. 
And last, I watch YT videos in my original but forgotten native tongue, Tagalog (Filipino).  Unfortunately, my parents didn't know that you could raise kids bilingual and were very worried that I wouldn't learn English.  As soon as I picked up English in kindergarten, they stopped speaking Tagalog at home.  But I still understand it OK and was delighted to find a few great YT channels in Tagalog:  one about Filipino history, one by a guy dedicated to reviving the Spanish language in the Philippines, and one hilarious cooking channel by a super-campy gay guy.
Interesting note:  I can watch Tagalog YT vids at 1.5x speed just like almost every video in English despite very limited vocabulary (my vocabulary in Spanish must be 20x my Tagalog).  I can watch Spanish vids at 1.5x also, but it requires so much concentration that I'm mentally exhausted after 5 minutes.  Learning a language as a child must set in your brain in a way that adult learning simply can't match, no matter how much effort you put in.

I've noticed a service fee being automatically added in various "resort" areas and places like Beach Clubs in luxury communities.
I think the insulting part is that there's a line for a tip.
I don't mind the service fee, but I do mind being tricked into adding another service gratuity on top of the already added gratuity.

I'm not speaking for @DERRIK but you really need more to convince you to not hire this guy? 🤨

showed up
 
brought no protection / lube
more interested in smoking dope/ getting a drink/ watching s8 porn
 

I'm thinking being caught with him just might get you sent to a "state farm."

He looks about 12 years old.

Just spent 2 nights in FLL. Both nights spent the evening at LeBoy. Pleasantly surprised and pleased to see more Twunks than Twinks. One dancer, Mauro, Brazilian was SO MUCH FUN. Brazilian man. Ohhhhhh ... those Brazilians steal my heart and make me weak. It was Andy's birthday party weekend. Still in recovery. Can't wait to return!

I doubt it’s for eclipsing the sun.