Comments on: Open thread 4/7/2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:02:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796863 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:02:04 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796863 I wa s acci8texting someon,romantically not dirty, but talking about marriage and a future together.it was my landlord. I’m glad it wasn’t more intimate . Am I uniquely stupid?

]]> By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796862 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:57:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796862 I accidentally got
Involved with texting someone accidentally,romantically not dirty, but talking about marriage and a future together.it was my landlord. I’m glad it wasn’t more intimate . Am I uniquely stupid?

]]> By: Tom Gre https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796628 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:49:44 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796628 25 years later after my Turning Point comment and I still like my memories of the movie. And the reality of choice remains.

Recently I read a great note on How To Write a Killer First Sentence. By Michael Totten, quite well written.

Neo potential author of “Diary of the 21st Century”, vol. 2004-2025+
My latest fantasy is to use Grok ai to collect all the Neo posts into yr-month groups, then exclude most open thread & dance videos, or replace with a link.
With the idea that as a set of daily diary entries, it is great current history review.

Hopefully Kate will be OK selling her house. Prices go up as mortgage rates go down, which go down as interest rates go down, which go down as rich sellers of stock buy more bonds, as is happening.

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796528 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:45:48 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796528 Back of the book secrion

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1909568389669847384

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796497 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 04:22:52 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796497 Re: Trump / Netanyahu / Iran

Trump met with Netanyahu today to discuss tariffs, trade and … Iran.
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During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr. Trump said that “we’re having direct talks with Iran,” beginning Saturday. “We have a very big meeting, and we’ll see what can happen,” he said. The president said Iran is “going to be in great danger” if the direct talks don’t go well.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-netanyahu-meeting-tariffs/
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Meanwhile the US has moved six B-2 Stealth Bombers, capable of transporting the heaviest bunker buster bombs, and the Harry S. Truman carrier strike group into the area.

I don’t believe Trump is bluffing.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796491 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 03:08:28 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796491 Headline says it all, but the last paragraph is funny too.
https://babylonbee.com/news/china-retaliates-against-tariffs-by-putting-worse-fortunes-into-cookies

]]> By: Lee Also https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796440 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:23:56 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796440 Mead-Westvaco was the kids selling off and getting out of the lumber/paper business. They kept the land to sell off to developers and HUMONGOUS developments are being built. But it takes a hell of a lot of land that was used for lumber out of circulation. And it’s going to sting in about twenty years. Badly. I

t’s really bad in South Carolina re: the lumber business.

For awhile, it was bad because the large diameter logs were being shipped to India to be milled, then shipped back. It was more “cost effective.” Not like they paid great at the lumber mills here.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796421 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:23:41 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796421 oh so sorry

https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1909037060029038994

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796416 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:23:03 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796416 chazzand:

If you read the link I gave, I explain that it was a scene that was supposed to be a rehearsal, and in the actual movie it was very very brief – and what’s more, I was in the back and even I couldn’t tell which person I was. So unfortunately I haven’t a clue. But the filming of that scene took a whole, exhausting day.

I was living in LA at the time and most of the dancers – although not Barishnikov – took class with us. I wrote here as well as here about the dance studio in LA where all this happened, and the teacher who ran it. A great guy!

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2025/04/07/open-thread-4-7-2025/#comment-2796415 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:13:08 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=139835#comment-2796415 We also remember Black Monday. And 2008, when the market crashed while we were on a dinner boat on the Nile in Cairo, and our American fellow guests were frantically calling their brokers. We remained calm, held on, and we’ve been fine.

Our broker told us the average time on the market here is thirty days. Mortgage rates are down somewhat, and actually our house is likely to be bought by someone else like us, already financially solid and not needing a huge mortgage.

But still, awful timing for a listing. We’ll be okay.

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