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To add further thoughts for the discussion from a random internet quote..

34 Years Ago, this day in America...

Since the film came out 34 years ago today...

"Don't worry I got a good look at the bomb." "So you can disarm it?" "Uh.. No. However, I can make a shaped charge that will blow it." "..... Wait. Your plan is to... blow up the nuclear bomb?" "If I do it right, we'll get a run of the mill explosion. Not the whole, you know, mushroom cloud thing."

I quite enjoy the female Agent's maniacal giggle when you stab people. There's something immensely entertaining about it.

Happy Birthday!

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/333477547410494387/

Trump really can't seem to help himself.. The Guardian - Trump causes alarm making off-the-cuff comments that Beirut blast was an 'attack'

I did have a joke about trickle down economics. But 99% of you will never get it.

America: You drive for four hours. You are still in the same part of the country. UK: You drive for two hours. The local accent has changed twice. Bread rolls have a new name.

Putting that perspective across...

Edit: I had posted the Trump vs Trump discussion..but I realised someone already had in politics...

You know you're not in the best of places when all the shiny new PC upgrades and such arrive and you're not actually uber-excited to get started on things. Of course, then in the process realising that of course, all the latest graphics cards are purely HDMI sockets, and my fancy widescreen monitor was all pre-HDMI connectors....

I'm not sure what it really says about the current state of human pragmatism / cynicism that everybody expects any career politician to have certain levels of corruption. But speaking as an outsider, I think we can safely say that if/when Biden takes office, while he might populate many of those agencies with some elements of those lobbying fields, he wouldn't be as blatantly obviously brutal about putting people in charge of the agencies that try to keep their personal interests to some form of legal accountability. Of course, it actually puts me in mind of Tom Clancy a little. President Ryan's "I'm going to pick people I personally know and trust who are experts in their field to be put in charge of x and y..." I wonder how much Tom Clancy Trump reads....

For that slightly different virus... INTERPOL report shows alarming rate of cyberattacks during COVID-19

As some of the board regulars will be feeling soon no doubt...