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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 12:52:03 -0500
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Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 11/7/24 05:08, James Nicoll wrote:
>> In article <lp3qduFb8jqU1@mid.individual.net>,
>> Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
>>> Hey!
>>>
>>> Is anybody else out there?
>>>
>>> Or has the disaster that is the USA meant that they've already started
>>> trucking people off to the ovens???
>>>
>>> Only a few message from James and one from Lynn - well, apart from the
>>> people/bots that I filter, that is.
>>
>> I imagine the American posters are either updating their passports
>> or making lists of which neighbours to inform on and the rest of us
>> are trying to work out if we're Austria or Poland.
>>
>> (if you have to ask, you're always Poland)
> 
>      As for me I will stay here in San Francisco as long as I can.
> The Darn Old Fart shortly to be in charge but as yet impotent to
> act may fume noxiously but he does not smoke. And he could die before
> he does anything too terrible aside from successfully dividing the
> nation.
>      I have no neighbors to inform on nor passport to update
> nor funds to flee. Not so many years ago I tried to find a
> better place for me to be than in San Francisco and not even
> Seattle tempted me.

There are very few places in the world where I arrive, and decide in 
seconds that I'd like to live there.

San Francisco is one of those.

William Hyde