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Tudor, Ball and Longines are all good entry level luxury watches to me. I'll add Doxa for good, affordable dive watches, along with Oris and Hamilton, which have already been mentioned several times.

I hear Iran has been sending oil to china by rail now. They can’t send as much that way as by tanker and it’s way more expensive but it is a lifeline for them. I’d at least send over a few tomahawks to take out some railway bridges!

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The Democrats would likelly have done this with or without Trump's actions. It just would have been talked about less and probably barely noticed by the GOP

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This is just not consistent with the facts. California Democrats have been dominant there for decades and Newsom did not do anything about massively gerrymandered redistricting until Trump raised the Texas issue. Similarly with Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam was governor from 2014-2018 and no massive Democratic gerrymander was on the table then. Sure, there is always some level of gerrymandering in every state, but not of the kind we have seen this year in the middle of the ten year census period to maximize one party's seats in the next congress. These are reactionary moves based on Trump's demands on Texas, not some pre-planned strategy.

Small, easily deployable EMP weapons. That strikes me as something some defense contractor can sell as a drone defense. Jamming won’t work on the fiber optic ones so we need somrwtjong like that.

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So one branch of government has to ask another for permission to build something that is privately funded?

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I mean, it's the White House. It's owned by the people of the United States, not by Trump. I'm no lawyer, but it doesn't seem out of bounds to say that Congress should have some say on major modifications to such an important building that is owned by the U.S. government.

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Interstellar is a good movie that’s not at all rewatchable.

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Exactly my take. Saw it once. Enjoyed it. Never want to see it again. To be fair, I feel that way about a lot of decent movies. Probably worthy of its own topic on this board.

I have no thoughts on whether it makes sense to keep those planes in Diego Garcia. But, Bagram would be very useful for CAP over Iran right now. Thanks Joe Biden!

White Birch is high on my list for the next acquisition, along with a JLC Master Ultra Thin Date. Very different watches, and I can't make up my mind!

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OK. I finally got around to catching the finale of the Night Manager. Overall, I enjoyed Season 2, but the last 15 minutes of the finale seemed contrived and thrown together, as if they found out at the last minute they would get a season 3. Overall, three things that seemed really last minute and contrived: (1) the two airdrops came out of nowhere and for no reason. Teddy was on the inside for too long not to know about that. They had already killed off the prosecutor and would have had no reason to have a dummy airdrop. (2) The private detective swooping in to save Pine at the last minute was silly, and (3) there is no way Angela Burr doesn't move locations and go into hiding after her confrontation with the MI-6 woman failed. Killing her in the same house she was in earlier in the show made no sense.

Freaking Ivy League!!!