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“He then essentially explained to me that Mel Gibson has a personal relationship with President Trump and that should be sufficient basis for me to make a recommendation and that I would be wise to make the recommendation,” she said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrimonialism

Patrimonialism is a form of governance in which the ruler governs on the basis of personal loyalties which are derived from patron-client relations, personal allegiances, kin ties and combinations thereof.[1] Patrimonialism is closely related to corruption, opportunism and machine politics.[2] It can contribute to underdevelopment and weak state capacity.[3]

In contrast to many other systems of governance, the ruler does not derive their legitimacy from their personal charisma or a sense of mission, but primarily through their ability to dole out rewards and punishments.[1][2] Initially coined by Max Weber, patrimonialism stands in contrast to rational-legal bureaucracies, as there is no objective of efficiency in public administration and government staff are not advanced based on merit, experience and training.

Born January 3, 1956, Peekskill, New York, U.S.A. Family moved to Australia in 1968, so that the sons wouldn't get drafted and sent to fight people Mel probably has some choice words to describe when he's had a few.

The future of European procurement?

Because they only lip sync. (You didn't think they could really sing, did you?)

Why the hell did you have to put that image in my head?!?!

Nobody google biden-choking-chicken.jpg!

Also,

Whoa, whoa, whoa! There's still plenty of albumen on those eggshells! You take 'em home, throw 'em in a pot, add some broth, a potato...

Also, Fox supports coops.

Note: the "p" is silent.

Fox is in our henhouse?

IIRC during his first administration, he at least felt the need put his shares in The Trump Organization into a trust run by his kids. But I don't think he's even bothered pretending to divest (or follow any other conflict-of-interest procedures) this time around, has he?

Thanks for the article.

Interesting to note that while Signal is usually poohpoohed here as a US app, its boss Meredith Whittaker was one of the original people proposing a "Eurostack" and the idea of a "European digital independence" multiparty conference in the European Parliament.

https://euro-stack.eu/who-are-we/

Can't believe it's my first time hearing this!

Grew up in... the place of the preceding polka, ain't been back since before this album was released. Listening to the whole thing now.

Thanks for this :)

Looking it up, pretty close.

The work done on the film to date was nearly lost in 1998 when one of the animators, while routinely clearing some files, accidentally entered the deletion command code /bin/rm -r -f * on the root folder of the Toy Story 2 assets on Pixar's internal servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_2#Troubled_production