We’re getting a brand new Mormon temple a couple miles from here. Big controversy over the probable size of it. What, you’d rather have a giant mosque?

@jon-nyc said in I love it when he takes me literally:

Jolly brought up the casual connection, indeed a list of 10 of them. I just corrected it.

In a way that ignores the strongest argument anybody has made in this thread, which is mine, about how dumb it is to consider 2, 3, and 6 incorrect, in the wake of what Trump's and Biden's SCOTUS justices have actually done.

Agreed. It’s not really debatable.

Everybody from Harriet Mires to Bill Barr to Eric Holder and Lois Lerner has defied subpoenas.

The spineless congress won't issue a criminal referral...

My ejection fraction (as of last month) is 61%, so I'm good for a while.

https://www.sellmyusedtesla.com/listings?model=Model3&min_price=1165&max_price=149999&min_year=2023&max_year=2023&

Same year, but there are 3 "Performance" models. The regular ones go for $32 to $35.

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I saw it happen in a park. Picked him up and got him into a foster. Couldn’t leave him there.

Just a couple days ago someone left a puppy in a drawstring bag in another local park. The sheriff is looking for them.

@blondie said in Snake Bite:

I kept care of a kid with a necrotic foot in the ICU in Alabama. There were 2 patients I recall the year I was there. Both sets of parents brought the snakes in for identification (1 was shot up pretty badly; the other was hacked to death).
@Jolly Was religious snake handling ever banned down South? I kind of remember this making the news in Okpella.

Pretty much, I think. Doesn't mean some folks don't still do it.

@jon-nyc said in Hay George!:

I always eat pizza with a knife and fork.

I do as well. Always have.

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People from developing countries do work harder - but for different reasons. That comes from experiencing material deprivation on basic needs.

Americans are driven to work harder - but it doesn't come from this place of risk aversion. It's something cultural.

The "official academic" take is still firmly a zoonotic origin, aligned with the Proximal Origins paper, which calls a lab leak "not plausible". But we also have the intelligence services and their reports, which are more equivocal and in some cases leaning towards a leak.

@George-K said in No More Judys:

@Doctor-Phibes said in No More Judys:

I can't really imagine Diana Krall or Madeleine Peyroux, for example, using pitch correction software

It's the 21st century. If you believe this guy's analysis and comments about Clarkson, I'd be surprised if Krall et al DIDN'T use it.

And your comment about Judy Garland is absolutely right.

I wonder if Fil has done an episode on Ella Fitzgerald.

What got me, was that they were correcting a tv show performance. A tv show! It ain't like the lady doesn't have pipes...

I’m always happy to share the things I have painfully learned over the years. 😆

Only if it’s the extended director’s cut version which I don’t think has been yet released

He is still listed on the school website

https://mesaas.columbia.edu/faculty-directory/5635/

As has been said here before, if you have tattoos above the neck line, there is a good chance that the money you make working will be in a job that does not involve paying taxes.

Legal immigration for the win!!!