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Pretty thin stuff from a music maker with unknown answer ? (7)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Pretty thin stuff
from a music maker ORGAN
with unknown Z
answer A
ORGANZA
(A type of silk fabric, apparently - thank Herself for this one!)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Well done it was the best I could do for a Monday  It was a word of the day from some obscure dictionary site I must be registered with.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Fabrics aren't my speciality, either ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Will "Herself" be composing tomorrow's puzzle? 
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Wordle 331 4/6
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Wordle 331 4/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My 3 reliable starters generally deliver in 4 (almost 50% of the time), less often 3 or 5, a couple of 6s.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Wordle 331 3/6
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wordle 331 2/6
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Pure luck
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 4hrs ago.
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Good thing there's no clock.
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Heh,
Someone recently posted about their experience with looking for a job. Also, this evening there was an article that was deleted. Being curious I searched for the subject matter. Discovered an interesting job posting.
You can get a job over in Abu Dhabi[^] for $2.00 per hour. You only need 7 years of experience!
I was wondering if it was legal to pay such a low wage, and apparently there is no minimum wage[^] over there! 
Is it even possible to live in the UAE on $2 per hour?!?
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I wonder what the punishment is for complaining over there? death? hmmmm. ineteresting.
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At $2.00 per hour they're going to have major problems, especially with a security engineer.
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Ain't that the truth! 
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I once read a book, Factfulness, by Hans Rosling, who claimed there are four stages of wealth.
There are the extremely poor people, who earn a dollar or less per day (per day sounds ridiculous, but I'm fairly certain it was per day and not hour).
With only a dollar extra, these people can escape extreme poverty and get basic supplies, like plumbing.
You won't believe how hard it is to go from one to two dollar, it could take generations.
I believe most of the world lives in that second category.
If not, they live in the third category, who make something like six dollar a day.
I can't remember what the fourth category earns, but they're of course us, the richt west: Europe and Northern America.
We are so rich all those beneath us look like they're extremely poor, while it's really three stages of wealth.
I'm not sure if $2 an hour is a fair salary over there, but plenty of people would take it without a second thought.
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Gates owns most of the farm land in America.
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Yeah,
Bill Gates is a very successful entrepreneur, he is out standing in his field. 
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Average Salary in Abu Dhabi 2022
Quote: A person working in Abu Dhabi typically earns around 21,000 AED per month. Salaries range from 4,680 AED (lowest average) to 96,400 AED (highest average, actual maximum salary is higher)
The exchange rate is 1 AED == 0.27 USD, so the monthly average salaries range between US$ 1250 to US$ 26,000. The lower salary translates to (assuming a 40-hour week) US$ 7.10 per hour.
Even by Abu Dhabi's standards, US$ 2.00 is slave wages.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I am fairly certain that most can argue that $7.10 per hour is still slave wages.
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By Western standards - yes. OTOH, as Sander points out, in some parts of the world this is considered a decent (and even a great) salary. You can't judge the entire world by the standards of the richest countries.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I thought we were still speaking in context to the UAE, the 12th richest country in the world, where $7 an hour is still slave wages.
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I sit corrected.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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