Yeah, the original Huey and Duey. Phooey to them.

@LuFins-Dad said in Interesting post: @jon-nyc said in Interesting post: I think you missed to comedy of the post you referenced and assume it meant all published science is flawless Not at all, the meme is meant as a joke and an eyeroll at the internet rando that disputes the findings of the vaunted and elite scientist. My personal view is that more and more of what is being published as science anymore really isn’t. And more and more often, internet randos are catching flaws in the method. There are a lot of factors at play, but the biggest problem these days seems to be “trust” as opposed independent challenge or verification. A physician reads a study and says “wow! I wouldn’t have thought that!! But it’s peer reviewed and in a trusted journal, so it must be the truth.” And now an absurd concept becomes “scientific consensus”. Examples of this are becoming more and more evident, and I don’t think it’s appropriate to try and make fun of the general person that’s willing to challenge one of these assertions. Two things can't be true at once: The "scientific consensus" regarding anything political, is overtly politicized. (Who can ever forget the timeless "racism is a public health concern which makes public gatherings during COVID ok"?) People who view scientific consensus about political things with a ton of skepticism are sneer-worthy rubes I guess one can pick and choose which to believe, if either. But anybody who believes both, gets my sneer.

Well tempered

Hope it gets better for you soon, @Jolly and Louisianans. Stay strong. The Californians survived many years of severe drought; you will too.

@LuFins-Dad said in Fetterman's office: I didn't like it when the squad members put up the Palestinian and the Gay Pride stuff up, I don't like it when the US Senator puts up the pictures of the hostages. It's not the appropriate venue and beneath the dignity of the hall. US Flag, State Flag. That's it. While I appreciate and agree with the sentiment, the US Capitol is not a High School where students put up banners all over the place and signs on their lockers... I'd agree with you if the citizenry weren't so upside down. When we're playing around with anti-semitism on a social level (and yeah sure we can argue that point, I might not be right about that, but I think we absolutely are), you nip that shit in the bud any way you can, decorum be damned.

I’ll never forget the moment when they got the “Go for TLI”. That was a close second to the small step for a man. They were the first to head out away from earth orbit. RIP Astronaut Borman.

Hey you and that one are kind of a Swiss Army knife

@Copper You know, you’re probably right.

Well that would kill a Manchin run…

@LuFins-Dad said in What LuFin didn't tell us...: Yeah, the group that thinks School Teachers and Guidance Counselors can make medical and mental well-being decisions without Parental notification won a 6-3 majority. Sue the bastards!

@LuFins-Dad said in Absolutely shocked.: Oh, and she’s a Chaturbate star, not Onlyfans… Oh...

I love it. She goes from talking about being non-binary to then telling the officer she has mental health problems. Ummm, no need to be redundant! Also I love when she said she has bad social anxiety and the cop said "you and me both", you could immediately see her realize what it feels like when someone claims that.

@Doctor-Phibes said in I'm bloody French. And Irish.: @Aqua-Letifer said in I'm bloody French. And Irish.: Soooooo, between the two of us, it sounds like I'm the one who's more British? Guaranteed I drink more tea and get more pedantic about language, so I suppose that tracks. What kind of documents did you find? Anything cool about the great-great-grandmother? It's mostly census records. She appears to have married a guy in Brighton (or Brighthelmeston as it was called then), and then they divorced and she moved up to Hale Barns, which is near where all my mum's family are from. She married my great great grandfather, had kids, and then her new husband died, so she re-married again. We have a painting of my great grandfather that my grandfather drew (he was quite an accomplished artist, we have a ton of his stuff). The guy she divorced seems to have somebody doing their family tree, so I've been spying on that. It's annoying my great grandfather was on my dad's side was a professional portrait painter, and there's my grandfather on my mother's, and I can't draw for shit. I need to dig more into it - I go through phases. There are suggestions for ancestors going back to the 16th century. Being adopted, DNA testing is one thing, but living ancestry is quite the minefield. I received an alert one day that said, "we found more DNA relatives!" I think the service is intended to let you know that your Uncle Jack got on Ancestry and hey, isn't that cool, pair his record-finding with yours and learn more stuff kind of thing. It's quite different for someone like me. I was told I had a first cousin in Kentucky. I reached out in a very careful way, knowing she got the same message as me. Let her know what my situation was, the extent to which I understood my own biological ancestry (which isn't much), and if she knew any info that she would be willing to share, cool, but if she didn't or preferred not to discuss it, completely understandable and that's okay, she shouldn't feel any obligation to reach back. She did, but boy oh boy, was she uncomfortable. She launched recklessly into some kind of "I don't know anything about that I'm just on here for family history this is what I'm doing I live in Kentucky" explanation. This might be reading too much into it, but exasperated as she appeared to be, she had definite disinterest in discussing it further, but there wasn't any "WTF" confusion in her response. Which was the opposite of what I expected. Considering the nature of my birth and the time period, what a lot of people did was just to never talk about it. Most of those folks got a little older, had kids, and never told them there's an older half-sibling walking around out there. I know of one person who found out their history and now has wonderful relationships with their two younger half-siblings. Another friend of mine learned his birth was an absolute horror story involving inbreeding and the Amish. Which, good God. Anyway, I didn't want to make things hard on her so I just left it. Very hard to know how to handle these things.

@Copper said in Long Island Goes Red: Maybe people on Long Island like having money that is worth something. I doubt it. They appear to love to pay property taxes.

Consider this thought experiment: Impose a restriction that says one can only publich online one "long" post every other day (can be written words or music or video or drawing/diagram) and three "short" posts every day (which can include responses to the "long" pieces posted before). Will that cut down on the ratio of "dumb" things you see online? Or will the overall volume of things posted online goes down but the "dumb" ratio stays about the same?

@Copper said in Ballot Stuffing?: Do democrats prefer mail-in for some reason? Because Republicans are generally healthier and have their own transport so are able to get to the polling place. On the other side, they vote more "early voting" which indicates that they make snap decisions without waiting for all the facts and analyzation of the politician. LOL