scottinzurich.bsky.social
The Artist formerly known as Scott in London
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Bank transfers outside the US can be recurring. In Britain one-off payments are called direct debits and recurring ones are called standing orders.
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Meanwhile in Switzerland, all invoices from last year must have a QR code which the payor just scans with the online bank app to open a filled-out payment form. Check and possibly adjust payment amount and date, submit, done.
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Not to mention the NYT.
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*fewer* people.
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Put the freak-off on the Blockchain.
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In this Midtown automat it was a tradition...
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Monkey Man Musk could use a lemon squeezer, but for the sake of humanity's future, he'll trade it for a turkey baster.
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Tough call to decide between monkey man Musk and midnight rambler Musk. I'll assume monkey man got the nod on points, thanks to the additional alliteration.
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Excellent!
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Mark Wahlberg would like to have a word...
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Waste deep in the big Muddy...
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Ali vs. Frazier IV
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MoDo mojo without the MoDo!
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Bonus Points for the ironic half-implicit allusion to actually-existing socialism!
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Haven't you been listening to Elon? Assholes are multiplanetary in MAGA-world.
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Forgive them Father, for my ugly-American compatriots know not what they do.
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I feel like Tom's River has had a good run and it's now time for Pitchbot to give the Route 60 Bob's Big Boy a chance.
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Mark Belanger! Brooks Robinson! Dave McNally!
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"But then the anti-woke mob wanted to take it all away."
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Put them together with the Asterix Team and let the synergies (and merchandise tie-ins) begin!
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What about Dartmouth, cultural hearth of some of the reactionary nonsense?
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Denver may have been early to the party due to its very dry climate.
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That was a thing in Denver when I was a kid there in 1970! Not a huge thing, but a thing.
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Agree with the sentiment, would just add that in my day, Columbia only fumbled the ball on the football field, though they do a lot of that.
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March, march on down the field!
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They can try out the name again in eight years.
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OMG MoDo is in the Ohio diner.
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He's never lacked self-confidence, has he?
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Not to mention that it's "limousine liberals" and "champagne socialists." He can't even get his political clichés right
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Italy or Switzerland for my tomatoes!
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Probably longer as it's built to be shipped all over the country from California.
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Surely a classic British muddled policy could achieve all three of these outcomes?
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I nominate Pitchbot to run the National Recovery Administration, once that has to be resurrected.
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Interestingly, 27% is close to the usual vote for the right nationalist SVP in Switzerland,which has been in the business of being an anti-system party, yet part of the system, for 30 years.
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Where does Henry Mancini fit into all of this?
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Not to mention Aramaic.
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How can I get a job in the administration? I have a great idea about sending workers on package vacations.
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Don't forget "Backstabbers," which must surely figure in any Trump-related playlist.
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Will Wisconsin Republicans call Elon back again?
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Not only that, the rents are no longer low.
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For your own recovery, I recommend the string of 1980s Doonesbury strips where Roland Hedley goes "In Search of Reagan's Brain."
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If memory serves, the Germans have a chap called Schliefen who can help with this.
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A modest proposal: Pitchbot readers fund sound trucks to cruise through the county seats playing "Cry Me a River." Preferably the version by Combustible Edison.
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No, that was by his acolyte Stuart Piggott.
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That is not how I remember the wine at postgraduate receptions. But in the meantime good wine at moderate prices has only become easier to find.