Yeah? That excuse doesn’t fly. This proves my contention that no matter how stupid something is, there’s someone, somewhere who will do it.

"They also noted features Musk plans to implement, including long-form tweets and encrypted DMs." There seems to be a rise in paranoia about the DMs being stored on Twitter. Up until now, they have not been encrypted, and, apparently, any enterprising and creative hacker might be able to see some unsavory and embarrassing comments.

@Friday said in I think our neighbor is going to call CPS on me…: Did Finley actually sing "just like a young girl should"? Once… Mostly he just ran around singing the first 2 lines.

I think both fingerings you describe are reasonable, George. I'd just choose the one that works better. However, I'd definitely change the last three notes (starting with the c#) to 321. It's odd to have the second finger on the b and then jump to the a flat. Also, you have 321 on the octave above, too.

That first video reminded me of the "I Love Lucy" episode where Lucy and Ethel are fighting over a TV. Even now that show makes me laugh. Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I never saw the appeal of fighting a crowd just to save some money.

That's what I thought...

@Doctor-Phibes said in Better Vaccinations Through Chemistry?: Yours is the country that gave us the words winningest and burglarize. Hold my kombucha, I'ma gonna top that with "organizationalize."

If they’d cast Scatman as a Nazi I’d definitely have watched it

@Catseye3 said in Saudi players gifted luxury cars after upsetting Argentina: Big deal. It's not like the cars can be neatly and safely stored in a safety deposit box like the Rings. You haven’t read Tolkien have you? Just wait until Tommy loses his hair and starts scuttling around the seafood counter in Stop and Shop looking for some nice fishies wearing nothing but a thong.

I don't know enough about this, wrt treatment, other than to think that, if you start using "clot busters" you might make that clot small enough to fit through the mitral valve orifice so that it can shoot into the left ventricle and out the aorta. It's a stroke waiting to happen. Interestingly, the patient is in sinus rhythm not atrial fibrillation which is usually the setting for such a clot - though, he might have been cardioverted into sinus prior to the echo. Our cardiologists NEVER cardioverted someone in a-fib because a sudden change to sinus could loosen the clot and send it to places where you don't want it to go. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10359923/

OK - 6 episodes in, and I'm done. I have to acknowledge the really high production values and concept of being ice-bound in the arctic, in the mid 19th century. The discipline and logistics of such a long, long ordeal are well-portrayed. Sorry, but I find the wandering storylines distracting: the "monster," the Inuit woman, the lead poisoning, the alcoholism of Crozier, the utterly confusing names, and muttered dialog. Gimme Shackleton. Can't.

I went out on a Black Friday sale a few years back for something I needed, but I went at 8:00 pm, a hour before closing. Stores were empty, lines nonexistent. I was able to do a lot in a short amount of time. Now, we rarely set foot in stores - except for groceries or when something requires being tried on or demonstrated.

Yup - easy to get over that threshold if you sell anything online - like a car, piano or such. At least in the past, the IRS wasn't making terribly clear how to account for the fact that one might not have a tax consequence for that - i.e. Bought a car for $40,000 in 2019 and sold for $25,000 in 2022. I suspect this will blow up in a few months. I wrote a letter to Dick Durbin about this and said - "hey guy - guess what's going to happen the first quarter of 2023? I specifically detailed the $600 and the 1099K arriving in people's mailboxes." Here's the nonresponsive reply.... Dear Mr. kluurs: Thank you for contacting me about tax fairness. I appreciate hearing from you and share your concerns. The current tax code is heavily unbalanced in favor of corporations and the wealthiest Americans. We are struggling to rein in our growing debt and address the deficit problem. Yet the federal government forgoes more than $1 trillion dollars each year on various tax deductions, credits, exclusions, and tax loopholes that disproportionately benefit the very wealthy and the well-connected. We spend more on tax deductions and credits than the government brings in from personal income taxes. We must take a hard look at such backdoor spending and restructure these tax benefits to concentrate more heavily on middle- and low-income Americans. I am an original cosponsor of the Paying a Fair Share Act of 2021 (S. 1652), which would require taxpayers with an annual adjusted gross income exceeding $1 million to pay at least 30 percent effective tax rate. The Paying a Fair Share Act has been referred to the Senate Committee on Finance, of which I am not a member. I will keep your thoughts in mind as I continue to work for fair and responsible tax policies that address the needs of all Americans and improve our fiscal sustainability. As Congress considers comprehensive tax reform, policies that ensure high-income earners pay their fair share must be part of that discussion. Thank you again for contacting me. Please feel free to keep in touch.

"I do qualify as a cargo aircraft now..."

Hey, this is Ax nirvana. Socialized medicine, FTW!

Not bad for a 45 year old platform. "In 2022, it was announced the USAF would continue to operate the F-16 for another two decades." -Wikipedia

“She looked to the man and then to me. "They're saying they've attacked the bridge. They're saying that the explosion's severed the thread.” In the unreal moments that followed, the elevator continued to climb smoothly. "Think of the bridge as being like a rope-hanging all the way down from orbit, stretched out by its own weight." "I'm thinking about it, believe me." "Good. Now think about cutting the rope midway along its height. The part above the cut is still hanging from the orbital hub, but the part below will immediately begin falling to the ground." The man answered now. "We're perfectly safe, then? We're certainly above the cut." He looked upwards. "The thread's intact all the way between here and the orbital terminus. That means if we keep climbing, we'll make it, thank God." "I wouldn't start thanking Him just yet." He looked at me with a pained expression, as if I were spoiling some elaborate parlour game with needless objections. "What do you mean?" "I mean it doesn't mean we're safe. If you cut a long rope hanging under its own weight, the part above the cut's going to spring back." "Yes." He looked at me with threatening eyes, as if I was making my objections out of spite. "I understand that. But it obviously doesn't apply to us, since nothing's happened." "Yet," I said. "I never said the relaxation would happen instantly, all along the thread. Even if the thread's been cut below us, it'll take some time for the relaxation wave to climb all the way up to us." His question was fearful now.” “Still, it was better to be on the upper part of the thread than the part below the severing point. I imagined a thousand-kilometre-high section below the cut. It would take several minutes for the top of the thread to smash into the planet below-in fact, for a long while it would seem to hang magically, like a rope trick. But it would still be falling, and there was nothing in the world that could stop it. A million tonnes of thread, slicing down into the atmosphere, laden with cars, some of them occupied. It would be a slow and quite terrifying way to die.”