Maybe this dog. Most dogs would eat both pieces.

@Horace said in Putin is hanging on....: looks like diarrhea. [image: 1650886562873-img_1206.jpg]

Fantastic.

@Mik Given the timing, a setback for Vlad Vladimirovich. He managed to ensure his buddy Orban was re-elected in Hungary. Useful for sure but in a lone state located in the middle of a sea of surrounding anti-Kremlin Slavdom, not crucial. Having LePen and the National Front would have at least been a cause for celebration. Literally in Putin’s pocket with an unpaid loan and at odds with everything the EU and liberal democracy represents. LePen most certainly could have made a case to block Finland and Sweden’s anticipated application to join NATO in the short run. In the long run, a whole lot of damage to the EU.

@Mik said in Hay, Mik!: weird culture. How so? I'm completely unfamiliar.

I stopped working as an instructor a few years ago, but I keep my instructor certificate active by taking review courses. The pilot shortage has been a regular story inside the industry for at least the last 15 years. That was part of the reason that the FAA changed the mandatory pilot retirement age to 65 from 60, 15 years ago. There is talk now about possibly raising it again. The mandatory retirement is only for commercial flying, there is no age limit on private pilots. I have seen over age 80 guys flying that should have stopped flying. I have seen guys over 90 that were solid, good pilots. A friend that piloted for Nixon, Ford and Carter on Air Force 1 promised his family he would stop flying at age 60, which he did. When I met him he was over 80 and probably one of the top 2 or 3 pilots I ever met. He was more than competent, but he made the decision and stuck with it.

Condolences to the Schulze family.

You do realize this gives the Saints four first round draft picks at defensive end?

I wonder how many senators were around long enough such that they had a vote on every serving scotus justice? Seems like that was true of Hatch from 1994 until his retirement in 2019.

It used to be that you had to spread a few bribes around if you wanted to have a nudie show. Just doing it without greasing palms just doesn't seem right. This greasing was institutionalized in the Combat Zone in Boston when I was in college. Keep it inside the zone and it was ok. Then the Harvard hockey captain was killed, that was a problem. Eventually it was cleaned up. It attracted a bad element. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1979/11/26/puopolo-jurors-acquit-two-easterlings-charge/

I’ve been wondering if/when they would disable or corrupt the page history feature to retcon certain newspeak definitions, especially around sex and gender.

Suppose you only get one flip.  If you flip coin A and it comes up heads, you will of course guess that it is the biased coin; if it comes up tails, you will guess that it's the fair coin. Now if you flip coin B and get the opposite face, you will be even happier with your previous decision.  If you get the same face, you will be reduced to no information and may as well stick with the same choice.  Thus, flipping the second coin is worthless. Could flipping the same coin twice change your mind?  Yes.  If you get heads the first time, you are inclined to guess that that coin is biased, but seeing tails the next time will change your best guess to "unbiased."  We conclude that flipping one coin twice is strictly better than flipping each coin once. As it turns out, it's a theorem that in trying to determine which is which of two known probability distributions, it's better to draw twice from one than once from each.  However, unlike in the puzzle above, it may happen that after seeing the result of your first draw you prefer to draw from the other distribution.  We'll leave it to the reader to concoct an example. [The remarkable theorem mentioned above was proved by Romanian mathematician Gheorghe Zbaganu.]

@Aqua-Letifer , how much does proofreading (as a job) get paid anyway? How much money are the publishers saving by not paying anyone to proofread anymore?

Maybe not, but the key to renewable energy will not be "one size fits all". It's going to be technique and regionally dependent.