@Mik said in Kewl (?) airplane video of the day: Been on landings like that. Applause for the pilot when he gets it down safely. Yep. Was on an Air Canada flight where a lot of the overhead bins came open and luggage was flying across the cabin, as the pilot fought to get it down.

@Mik said in Macy's Thanksgiving Parade - now for adults only: Considering they are not something I’m thankful for, well, no. Decent metric.

@Horace said in Hey Mik: @Mik said in Hey Mik: @Horace said in Hey Mik: If this is the "what's for dinner" thread, today I used my Traeger pellet smoker to smoke a steak. Pleased, very, with the results. No sear, but awesome flavor. Took about 20 minutes on the highest temp, which was a reported and probably optimistic 475. I used hickory wood pellets, which made it reminiscent of bacon. Next time I'll use mesquite. I think the sear is overrated in importance. Have you ever smoked a rack of lamb? Scrumptious. Nope but I will. That's a favorite. It is soooo much better smoked.

Next you guys will want separate tncr for boys and girls.

Kennedy's first initial was 'J'. The man who wrote the famously macabre poem The Raven, and many other supposedly fictional works about death had the Christian name Edgar. In England we call something that vacuums away all the evidence of wrong-doing a Hoover. Coincidence? You be the judge.

Wow

@Mik said in Tinnitus Treatment?: I have quite a bit - as we speak even - but it generally doesn't bother me. It's just there. Yup, I also have it. I don't notice it unless I'm in a very quiet room or if"tinnitus" is mentioned -at which point I go "oh yeah. There it is."

I think calling these things robots is a stretch.

@Axtremus said in Indoctrination of Second Graders: Is she the type who fancies elaborate weddings? That type being a normal healthy female. As opposed to the loudmouthed head cases that draw all the attention of the left.

Tips, teachers make good tips.

Yep. 45 years later we still use Corelle. Lightweight and nearly indestructible.

Take an hour and a half and watch this. Very enlightening.

The B21 flew And Tyler knew!

Don't know about the starvation angle, but it may well have sparked a guerilla war after any peace treaty was signed.

A TechMex production.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-pays-apple-36-of-its-safari-browser-search-ad-revenue It has been revealed that Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it generates from search advertising through the Safari browser. As Bloomberg reports, the revelation came from Google's own economics expert, University of Chicago professor Kevin Murphy, during his testimony at the Justice Department’s antitrust trial. Google's main litigator, John Schmidtlein, "visibly cringed" when Murphy revealed the percentage. This substantial percentage of revenue confirms the high price parent company Alphabet is willing to pay to ensure the Safari browser ships with Google as the default search engine. The antritrust proceedings already revealed that the company pays $18 billion a year to be the default search engine on Apple's devices. Now we know Apple also gets a chunk of the ad revenue from this browser deal.

Life expectancy has dropped some more, for men in the USA: https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/13/life-expectancy-men-women/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2811338 ... life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened to 5.8 years, its largest since 1996 and an increase from a low of 4.8 years in 2010.1,2 For more than a century, US women have outlived US men, attributable to lower cardiovascular and lung cancer death rates related largely to differences in smoking behavior. ...

Pierre Poilievre is the guy whose interview I posted a while ago - the one where he "handled" that reporter quite nicely.

@Horace said in Horace's Pickup: My next vehicle will definitely not be a sedan. But I think I will go with a large SUV. I rent them whenever I need a rental, and they are so much more comfortable for me. The odd piano haul will be a bonus. Link to video