The New Coffee Room

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I think it's sadly telling that YouTube put this at the top of my recommended feed.

A tagline Larry might have chosen.

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I was wondering how the gliders keep up.

Speaking as somebody who is currently right in the middle of this, I think this guy is seriously over-reacting. It's also a lot easier than it used to be.

Hard to disagree with his position.

Note Trump's two major initiatives:

Border & Immigration. Keeping his tax cuts.

If he can do that, next up I think are Schedule F and reforming Justice. I think he will get only part of what he wants, but I think a Clintonian firing of Justice Department prosecutors and a shake-up at the FBI leadership would be good for the country.

But I'm willing to put up with Trump's antics to get the judges. That is THE prize, particularly at the appellate and SCOTUS levels .

I was reading a fantasy novel last night and ran into this quote…

“The Imperial Order says that no individual should have the right to achieve something on his own, to accomplish what someone else cannot, and so magic must be stripped from mankind. They say that accomplishment is corrupt because it is rooted in the evil of self-interest, therefore the fruits of that accomplishment are tainted by its evil. This is why they preach that any gain must be sacrificed to those who have not earned it. They hold that only through such sacrifice can those fruits be purified and made good. “We believe, on the other hand, that your own individual life is the value and its own end, and what you achieve is yours. “Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

Pretty good description and response to DEI in a novel published a decade before Ibram X published, and from a time when equity meant assets that could be leveraged or were leveraged for a financial transaction.

@George-K said in California wants to kill the diesels:

Perhaps @copper can elaborate.

I remember everyone being terrified by this new lead-free alternative.

The lead gives extra power needed to support a reasonable weight limit. The alternative fuel reduces power which would reduce payload and make a mess of expected performance.

Of course we wouldn't have to worry about that because nobody could afford the maintenance needed to upgrade the engine to use the new fuel.

The General Aviation fleet is old, GA airplanes fly for decades so you wouldn't get a quick turnover to the new technology.

A significant percentage of the industry would just disappear.

@Axtremus said in 10 PRINT “HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY BASIC”:

My favorite feature of BASIC is GOTO. 😄

I don't know if that particular geek joke will go over big here, but I get it.

Well, I use a dark theme (don't remember exact name) and I notice that the text for thread titles with new/unread posts has turned a deeper shade of blue. 🤷‍♂️

No complaint, just an observation.

Respek. He's living his dream. 🫡

Yes, moderately but enough where you need to like that taste. I know you don't, so guess we can't be friends anymore.

@jon-nyc said in Interesting two days coming up:

Funniest moment - we found ourselves in an elevator with 6-7 other guys, all middle aged in suits. One of them quipped “a whole lot of billable hours in this elevator right now”.

Very true. I've had a few meetings where we leave the meeting and I'll tell a buddy...well that pointless meeting just cost the taxpayers about $5,000.

Whenever I see a story like this, I always try to remember the substitute "Fake" for "Trans."

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