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  • So I bought a piano

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    @89th said in So I bought a piano: My wife and her family didn't play instruments, whereas my siblings and I did. So I'm biased that I think it's important to learn the basics of music when you're around this age... what better way than a piano where each key is clear as day. Once they figure out the basics by looking at the keyboard, you can move them onto something cool like a saxophone, or if they're really gifted a banjo.
  • FAFO parenting

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    Hahaha, that is great. The number of times I say "what did you think was going to happen?" each day is quite high. This morning two kids were wrestling near the wall, one kid bonked his head off the wall. "What did you think was going to happen if you guys wrestle near a wall?"
  • China’s Space Station - TianGong

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    89th8
    I'm just glad they are in the space above China and not the USA. They can have one half, we can have the other. That's how space works, right?
  • This is what a show at The Sphere looks like

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    MikM
    Yes. It's annoying.
  • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025

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    Doctor PhibesD
    RIP. Same age as my dad, who I think rather enjoyed his satire - this kind of sharp humour was right up his street.
  • You gotta love JK Rowling

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    https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1949506252322549770?s=46
  • Grill update.

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    @Mik said in Grill update.: Went to a Neapolitan pie place in Northern Kentucky tonight. Excellent Margherita pie. Crust was very good, but not quitee as chewy as I like. Their San Marzano tomato sauce was probably the best I’ve ever had. Delicious. It would be a much harsher world without San marzanos
  • Hey Lufin - Steelers QB update

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    @Mik said in Hey Lufin - Steelers QB update: Looking good for Howard. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/tomlin-s-steelers-force-rodgers-exit-as-qb-crisis-deepens/ar-AA1JmrIS :eyeroll: Howard might possibly have a Tom Brady or Brock Purdy type of amazing career, but that’s doubtful. Right now he needs to fight to make the #3 spot over Skylar Thompson, and that’s not a sure thing. The kid has been okay when he’s been in with the #3s, but that’s going up against the #3s as well. However, as is always the case, the backup QB is always the most popular man in town. Especially when they are young and recently drafted. Now make them young, recently drafted, from a somewhat local school watched by the locals, AND won the National Championship. So you have a bunch of Yinzers all over this guy like brown on unprocessed rice. Rodgers is coming in as kinda unpopular, and he knows it. He also knows this next year is going to be the swing year as far as his legacy goes, so he is going to say and do the right things, and I am sure he will be a decent mentor for the kid. At the same time, Roethlisberger has pissed off a good portion of the fanbase because of his treatment of Rudolph and Pickett, so he is trying to show support for the young guy. At the same time, the simple and unadulterated facts are: Rodgers is the #1 and will be the number 1 so long as he’s healthy. Mason Rudolph is the #2 and has looked the best in camp so far. He will be the starter each and every game Rodgers can’t go due to injury. Howard is a break glass in case of emergency #3, and if Rodgers AND Rudolph go down. And if that happens, Pittsburgh will still go out and get a Ryan Tannehill or someone with experience to come in as the starter. Next year, Pittsburgh has 13 draft picks stocked up, the draft is in Pittsburgh, and it’s going to be a great QB class. Pittsburgh WILL be putting together a trade to get one of the top 3. After that, Rudolph is the likely bridge, but Howard will get a fair shake at #2 while the rookie learns. That will be his one real and small shot. The far likelier scenario is they want Howard to develop into the future QB’s steady #2z
  • Maybe don't cheat on your spouse at a Coldplay concert?

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    @Horace said in Maybe don't cheat on your spouse at a Coldplay concert?: That is a brilliant way to play this. Genius even.
  • Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks

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    Link to video
  • Some guy is playing my piano

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    MikM
    Mark’s gone blond!
  • America is building The Wall

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    MikM
    It is difficult to be poignant when one misses the point of the subject matter entirely.
  • Hmmm…

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    It made me needlessly cover my outdoor furniture.
  • Notwithstanding the distasteful Hulk Hogan meme…

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    Nothing wrong with goals.
  • I can predict the headlines in 3 months:

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    Like this one? [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FBMGF8A%2Fa-deceased-man-laying-in-a-coffin-BMGF8A.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=744c59781e54a905d1fdcad053a5ba910b888e38229f513b2e805889f8b003f0]
  • $10 million

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    @Horace said in $10 million: You should have seen the quote for the version of the book that broke the Epstein list wide open. [image: 1753462981936-2d90be15-c2c3-4ad3-bcf1-0b6a298a5824-image.png]
  • Hulk Hogan RIP

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    HoraceH
    Dancing on graves may be as actionable as publishing sex tapes without consent. That habitual scofflaw should be removed from society, so the rest of us can feel safe.
  • Powell: "I won't quit"

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    Who's the heroic figure not wearing the hard hat? They should put that guy in charge! Actually, scratch that, there's a bunch of other dispensable people in the background without them too.
  • The Epstein File

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    @Doctor-Phibes said in The Epstein File: @Horace said in The Epstein File: Maybe in several decades we'll get a release of everything, like was done with the JFK assassination files. Heard about any revelations, large or small, that came of them? Me neither. Try telling that to Ted Cruz. I have - and what he told me in response would blow your mind.
  • There go those goal posts

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    @xenon said in There go those goal posts: @Horace said in There go those goal posts: When you begin from the notion that the Trump campaign was always full of shit about their implications of all that dirt in the Epstein files, it begins to make a lot more sense. Occam is still firmly in the camp that there is no there there in those files. My best guess is that the government has little if any convictable dirt in the files. But this has become a cultural shibboleth. Either you believe that Epstein is illuminati or you don't. A lot of people in Trump's base believe it. That in and of itself is a problem for him now... TBD if people will forget about it. The Trump haters can't stop talking about how his base is totally fractured over this. I don't know how much of a point they have, but I do know that they think they can will a crisis into existence, if they just scream loudly enough that Trump is in crisis over this. I will grant that Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, and some other podcasters that helped get Trump elected, are deeply troubled by what they consider to be an obvious coverup. If they can grow their coalition, maybe someday we'll elect someone who'll fabricate whatever evidence their base wants to see.