I can’t see the all caps quiet without thinking of Data.

It’s trickling down, people just have to be patient! /s

https://youtu.be/XcxKIJTb3Hg

I found this story googling.

I met Barack Obama at a State Department reception early in his presidency. A colleague who wanted to test his skills at Indonesian asked him, “Mr. President, did you know that in Indonesia they still call you ‘anak Menteng’?”

“Anak” means “child of” and Menteng is a neighborhood in the capital of Jakarta where many of the country’s elite live.

President Obama quickly answered. “Oh, saya bukan anak Menteng. Saya anak Menteng Dalam.” (Oh, I’m not a Menteng kid. I’m a kid from Inner Menteng.”)

In Indonesia, this roughly means “I’m from the back streets where the workers and servants live.” The US equivalent might be “I’m not from Park Avenue. I’m from the alley behind Park Avenue.

https://www.quora.com/Could-Obama-speak-Indonesian I know Quora is not a primary source, but I’m just googling.

Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden did not come from riches.

And Trump is the very definition of rich elite.

Not a shower thought, we all saw the headline last month. And the Biden thing doesn’t make any sense anyway, he’s one person.

So did the 28 lb corgi eat 2.8 times the food of the cat?

Lack of spreadsheet disputes this.

What is the price difference between feeding a dog and feeding a cat?

Only one way to find out. C’mere.

CF?

Barrie the Baptist.

Hay bale because of the color?

Some other wiki reading:

Napoleon needed peace with Britain to take possession of Louisiana [from Spain]. Otherwise, Louisiana would be an easy prey for a potential invasion from Britain or the U.S. But in early 1803, continuing war between France and Britain seemed unavoidable. On March 11, 1803, Napoleon began planning an invasion of Great Britain.[15][16]

In Saint-Domingue, Leclerc’s forces took Louverture prisoner, but their expedition soon faltered in the face of fierce resistance and disease. By early 1803, Napoleon decided to abandon his plans to rebuild France’s New World empire. Without sufficient revenues from sugar colonies in the Caribbean, Louisiana had little value to him. Spain had not yet completed the transfer of Louisiana to France, and war between France and the UK was imminent. Out of anger towards Spain and the unique opportunity to sell something that was useless and not truly his yet, Napoleon decided to sell the entire territory.[17]

I was under the impression that there wasn’t much farming at the time in that region. Nothing like the population today. It was mostly fur trapping.

Also in the event of a war, they have to consider if they could defend it. So the expense to try to defend it and probably lose it anyway, or some cash right now.

I always heard he needed the money for his European ambitions.

a slave revolt at the colony beginning in 1791 that led to the successful Haitian Revolution in 1804 frightened those living in the Southern United States who supported slavery, raising fears that it would inspire other slaves.[7][10] Such sentiments among wealthy slaveholding Americans strained relations between the United States and Haiti, with the United States initially refusing to recognize Haitian independence while slaveholders advocated for a trade embargo with the newly created Caribbean nation.[10] The Haiti indemnity controversy – which France forced upon Haiti through gunboat diplomacy in 1825 due to France’s financial loss following Haiti’s independence – resulted with Haiti using much of its revenue to pay debt to foreign nations by the late-1800s.[11]

Why not invent even more notations? We did YYYY.MM.DD at work.

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