@Catseye3 said in Death On The Nile: @Horace said in Death On The Nile: I think you may have been talking about Ann Rice, rather than Ann Rule. No, I mean Ann Rule. Her first book was This Stranger Beside Me, about Ted Bundy. She actually Knew him. They worked together in some capacity I've forgotten. I mean Jolly, about the plot holes and good yarns.

I think he's using it as a campaign ad. He really couldn't do any better.

It signifies bad AI I suppose.

@Jolly said in Fox in Freefall: Not quite true. From the days of Kipling or before, it's always been about paper sales or later, radio and tv ratings. Always. Ad buys keep the lights on. But I like what South Carolina is doing with the community funding method you shared.

Worked last time.

Maybe. I think Trump has somewhere around 40%, locked down. Split a race three ways and it gets interesting.

@Mik said in Hay Cats! Here's your "Dunkin'" post of the day.: We're just not as far from the trees as we'd like to think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan The name "orangutan" (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang[1]) is derived from the Malay words orang, meaning "person", and hutan, meaning "forest".

Fireside Naps

@mark said in Asteroid found 2 days after brush by Earth: It did use an airplane for a relative size. WTF? What kind of airplane? A piper cub? An Airbus 380? A paper airplane? And how many giraffes is that?

So we can colonize the solar system with tardigrades.

@George-K George, you're looking at many crickets there. You can't see them directly, because they're inside the frog, but they can be seen nonetheless.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188047091/chinas-second-quarter-gdp-figures-show-a-faltering-post-covid-economic-recovery "Youth unemployment has been at historic highs at above 20% for months now, a rate comparable to that of Italy." The above is a big problem. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chinese-students-post-unflattering-graduation-223658533.html "Instead of holding flowers or throwing their caps into the air, Chinese graduates are posting photos of themselves lying on the ground to reflect their feelings toward entering a tough job market. About the trend: The viral trend shows fresh graduates draped over bridges and chairs, lying face down on the ground or throwing their certificates — or even themselves — into the trash." [image: 93a01606a9840f445f7885e0acf70236]

From my seat, which is admittedly not even in the stadium (LOL), it seems that what is popular locally does not work nationally (or sometimes not even on a state level). Even way back when, there were extreme members from both parties, and there always will be. But I believe that the overall tilt of the Democrats and Republics will move back towards the center.

Be all that you can be!

One just has to keep in mind that "racist" is code for "evil". I mean, I know everybody knows that, but it bears keeping that in front of any other thought.