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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jerry.friedman99@gmail.com (jerryfriedman) Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: OT: Converting miles/km Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 16:06:42 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <4b12993861ab13169294ae8e89593892@www.novabbs.com> References: <8a49d912-d0bf-3ca1-6f10-2639a7e8eddc@email.de> <20240926104015.552dfc13b81e84699978c092@127.0.0.1> <67c2d52a$2$16848$426a74cc@news.free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2669597"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="2yp7FJ0mssg9rlwe2EpnsPKF3Zq6mIDb7xK52/bjWAY"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: 2915c02dede52d724ef855d98162b924d8b6326d X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$wbXlYqwXm8oh16iu4V5lX.bGyOURP20CkZ41LR0UU5Q9gwxthkgHO Bytes: 2483 Lines: 30 On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 6:02:13 +0000, Peter Moylan wrote: > On 02/03/25 11:26, Snidely wrote: > >>> A bit like the idiot who said he had a solution to end a war but >>> forgot to invite one of the parties to the negotiations. >> >> You're being generous if you think it was just forgetting. The >> display he and his wingman Vance just gave was clearly intended to >> have Ukraine twisting in the wind. > > Trump didn't seem to understand the impression that the TV audience got. > It went down well in Moscow, of course, along with Putin's comment that > Zelenskyy had been "disciplined". Throughout the Western world, though, > the reactions were along the lines of "this will go down as America's > most shameful day in history". Zelenskyy went on to London and got a > hero's welcome, and all the European leaders seem to have closed ranks > behind Ukraine. Trump came across as a little kid having a tantrum. > > It didn't help Vance's reputation either. He came across looking like a > ventriloquist's puppet. He seemed to be in over his head. Not really VP > material. What TV audience? Trump doesn't care about opinions anywhere outside the U.S., except maybe Russia, as you said. -- Jerry Friedman --