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I live in Antigua Guatemala. Retired 8 years ago, moved here 2 years ago. What a great community. Very happy.
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I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

submitted 69 days ago • 1630 comments

RUSSIAN CRISIS 🔥🔥🔥 For the month, all sectors of Russia’s stock market are in the red: Gazprom -16.7% Retailer Ozon -23.7% Search engine Yandex -12.3% Largest construction company Samolet -37.91% Shipping company Sovcomflot -19.7% 🔥 Russia’s economy is melting down.

submitted 77 days ago • 16 comments

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

submitted 107 days ago • 663 comments

Another beautiful day comes to an end in Antigua Guatemala.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

"We've never seen this level of operational sophistication," a NYPD spokesperson says regarding the still-at-large United Healthcare Assassin. Notes that NYPD officers have "been driving around" and "gone to every Shake Shack in the city" and would "probably" do so again around lunchtime on Sunday.

submitted 86 days ago • 88 comments

When a traffic jam is a cause for jubilation.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

“Les Miserables” come to life.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Moscow is where dictators go to die.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Would love context on this, @jackjenkins.me.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Bashar-Al-Assad has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

submitted 87 days ago • 176 comments

Assad can still stay in power if Mike Pence has the courage

submitted 87 days ago • 124 comments

“Other priorities at this time”

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Today I went to our local shopping mall. It was almost empty. No Black Friday crowds. Of course, I live in Guatemala and Thanksgiving is not a holiday here. Every cloud has a silver lining.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Fact you will never hear even if you watch America's biggest news channel 24/7: "The caravans typically only travel a few days before they’re disbanded by Mexican authorities. Not a single big migrant caravan has made it to the US border in at least six years" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

submitted 96 days ago • 44 comments

Passed a finca earlier today and took this photo. The ripening beans which folks in the coffee biz call “cherries” look like cranberries to me (albeit on a bush). Got into a Thanksgiving mood.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Prices for eggs, other basic foods, are already way lower in Guatemala than in the US. With the new 25% tariffs on imports to the US from Mexico which Trump announced today, that disparity will only grow.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments