Thanks for sharing. I just recorded the Discovery Channel documentary about what happened but haven't watched it yet. I am looking forward to hearing some details and insights not already known. Living in that area for a while, I would watch the planes and helicopters daily. The routes were...well, routine. Of course in hindsight, a route that crosses the landing path for airplanes (at night) should've been treated with so much more risk appreciation than "do you see that jet out there?" and "yeah I see it" (wrong jet, most likely).

Drinks are on Jon!!!!

Article is interesting, but I think that @89th makes some good (and funny) points.

Hey @mik, here's another good one! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-republicans-nationalize-elections-rcna257098 President Donald Trump on Monday said Republicans should nationalize elections and take them over from the states as he repeated his disproven claims of voter fraud. “The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least — many, 15 places.' The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” Trump said during an appearance on former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino’s podcast.

Normally I doubt there would much appetite for a Western megapower but nowadays…who knows? Perhaps certain a region like Chukotka for purely strategic reasons but nothing much else. Russian far east though is definitely a desirable backyard sandbox for the Chinese.

@Axtremus said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: @Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: It worked a lot longer than we thought it would. Did that ever worry you? Classy.

Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah about an Epstein joke I thought Trump had the greatest sense of humour of any President?

Linked the paywalled article, and cut out the juiciest bit that confirms his biases most.

That's been well understood by many for a while now. The ICE protests are mostly higher status whites screaming at lower status minorities, trying to do their job.

Mark makes a very valid point about how AI doesn't do everything for you. GIGO. You have to know something about the subject matter and the technology involved, what questions to ask, parameters to provide to get a decent product.

60 minutes piece (Bill Whitaker is a favorite of mine) Link to video

@89th said in Cincinnati chili has snowflakes too.: Also, that dude in the video is probably someone who would start talking about the merits of the tour de france while I'm trying to watch a ballgame. You say that like it's a bad thing.

Capitalize the G.

Just found out that the backup “guest teacher astronaut” to McCauliff and watched from the ground as her colleague ended up perishing in the Challenger, later was selected to be an astronaut on Columbia for a 2004 launch and in 2003 was in the chase jet meant to rendezvous with Colombia as it landed, of course it never landed. That is wild. Eventually, she went up in the Endeavor shuttle… i’d have to imagine her crew mates were not believers in bad luck.

Blacks are "people of the SUN"!! Give them July or August!!!

Except he predicted a crash in 07-09 and then lost money when it happened. It doesn’t pay to have really precise theories about just how things will go wrong. Or at least to bet on them.

said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks: Amazon paid $40 for its rights Amazon spent $35 million marketing it It is projected to make $1 million in the first week. Update about the Melania documentary: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2026/02/01/melania-trump-documentary-movie-box-office-opening/88417769007/ "Melania," the controversial documentary featuring first lady Melania Trump, surprised at the box office, notching a $7 million opening weekend, according to estimates released Sunday, Feb. 1, by Amazon MGM Studios.

Nothing like a red wine braised pot roast on a cold Saturday. I added a fennel bulb and mushrooms https://playswellwithbutter.com/red-wine-braised-beef/

I don't know either but doubt they would get press credentials.

@jodi said in Trauma at Big Bear Lake: One of the things they are saying is that the birds may have known the eggs were unviable, and that’s why they left them alone. Not sure is that is accurate, but it’s possible. She's back on the remaining egg now, but who knows?