Old tired story. We’ve long long gone past this issue.

Something like that. My first comparison was to Bob Ross, who, never took any money for painting(s)

Ya think?

So maybe, the Belarusian government, sent this guy on a student exchange visa to the chef school , and then he defected- because despite the conditions of the town, he was just rabid for the Red Sox and Aerosmith.

I hadn’t thought about that way ( being nice).
My take is speculation- Cold War spy stuff, and the hot bed of recruitment these schools are in that ecosystem.

I wonder who he worked for to get that visa (and settled in an Ivy league town)?

Methane from from mega farms. Unsustainably in infrastructure. The water used for feed. Etc.

For us recently recovering alcoholics, hard to imagine these two’s suffering.

My primal reaction is that if that were me “ disarming” him, I wouldn’t have been done with him yet.

I bet he’s made an effort to have it ‘given’ to him.

as Phillips O'Brien also points out, this plan has been in negotiation for a long time, probably since Trump took office.

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...