The Bosie 225 listed for $50K would have a higher interest for me.

Dude's getting younger every week. If you get a sudden urge to get a tattoo and/or man-bun, resist.

@blondie said in What else is new?: Trex is good. I did trex with my most recent build, but I’ve a question for @Doctor-Phibes : Did you have to replace those joists under your deck? I ask because I want to rip up the unfinished cupped and split front porch boards on another house (built in 2023) and redo it with Trex. The whole thing was new. It was probably a 30-40 year old deck, and all the stone was also new, so we had to put new concrete in as well as new joists as they removed everything to put the patio and steps in. I wouldn't have thought you'd need to with a 2023 house, totally different job.

@89th I agree! We have bunbuns that hang out on our property. Guess what?? Hubby thinks they're so CUUUUUUUTE, and he can't bear to do anything to keep them out. He says they don't eat much. Sigh. Please send recipes.

@blondie Danke sehr, Blondie!

Link to video

Interesting bits that didn't know before: Basically, when plants are growing, photosynthesis is happening in their cells. And that photosynthesis gives off a very specific wavelength of light. The OCO instruments in space measure that light all over the planet. "NASA and others have turned this happy accident into an incredibly valuable set of maps of plant photosynthesis around the world," explains Scott Denning, a longtime climate scientist at Colorado State University who worked on the OCO missions and is now retired. "Lo and behold, we also get these lovely, high resolution maps of plant growth," he says. "And that's useful to farmers, useful to rangeland and grazing and drought monitoring and forest mapping and all kinds of things, in addition to the CO2 measurements."

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Interesting article.

Further proof that Trump really no clue as to what’s been going on: During the press conference, Trump added that he was "a little bothered" by Zelensky's words regarding "constitutional approval" for land swaps as part of a potential peace agreement. "He's got approval to go into war and kill everybody, but he needs approval to do a land swap? There'll be some land swapping going on," Trump said. Does not get it….not at all.

https://www.flyingmag.com/victory-verticals-a-forgotten-and-restored-piece-of-world-war-ii-history/ You may be familiar with the concept of pianos used as weapons—it happened frequently in cartoons—but did you know that Steinway & Sons, the makers of pianos since 1853, had a military contract to build pianos during World War II? And that these pianos, packed tightly in specially designed crates, were often parachuted into war zones?

Dayum. https://x.com/dudespostingws/status/1955034639807938612?s=46

They may try to occupy the pot and edge forever.

Great pictures Horace, looks like a wonderful time.

Plumbing school FTW!

Wait, he's saying clouds shift? I like how he said "I don't care how many people say this is normal. It is not."

@jon-nyc said in We’re now in the business of shipping advanced AI chips to China: It’s not so much the tax it that we now have a financial stake in Chinese AI infrastructure buildout. Seems ….. misguided. Heard a podcast about it the other day.... the short version is China would eventually build chips as good as Nvidia, so might as well let a US company (Nvidia) control the market supply for as long as possible thereby letting our country control China's AI abilities, indirectly.