@LuFins-Dad said in Should Jon and I buy Bosendorfer 230VC today??: @Jolly would you prefer the logo in brass or nickel? Pearl is not an option? (@LuFins-Dad take this back to Bosie/Yamaha HQ; may turn out to be a $multimillion idea.)

I think Garland regrets the day he took the DOJ job. He's been a disaster. Right up there with Reno.

I think so.

She's right, of course. I only saw her play once, down in Florida in 1986. Never saw a player move so fast in doubles. Stunning athleticism.

That is odd. I've been a Capitol One 360 account holder for a while (back when it was ING Direct) and we have regular savings as well as the performance savings, in fact most of our savings cash is in the latter since it earns 4% interest. I'm not sure how/why we moved money into it but we didn't have a problem knowing about it or using it as the article suggests. The $2 billion figure seems dramatic... consumers at some level need to be their own self advocates. Nothing was hidden about the accounts available to use, at least not to me.

I thought this had been going on for the while and wasn't there some US court case that gave the "right to repair"? I remember @Larry talking about it. EDIT: Here is one forum thread on it. Not exactly the one I am thinking of https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/10359/right-to-repair/2?_=1737033033630

I saw the Brad Pitt thing tonight in news. Life is hard. it's even harder when you're stupid.

Off topic, but she should be confirmed by 100-0. I think that these pick for the cabinet should be evaluated on their qualifications (of course if they have some really bad personal history like the murdered someone, then that would obviously disqualify them). Just because you dont agree with some of their outlooks is not the best reason to vote against a person.

Also, only Mel Brooks could have accepted a Golden Globe (?) award for "The Producers" by saying, "First of all, I'd like to thank Hitler...."

I read the article. As skilled as her team was, she is still very, very fortunate. Good for all of them.

Gee that’s encouraging. Not. It will be interesting to watch. I believe the GOP has the smallest majority in the house since pre-WWII. They can’t lose many votes if they go it alone.

I suppose but it does more advocacy. AHA isn’t the cardiologists association. That’s the American College of Cardiology. Same concept.

Houston: Hold my beer. https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1879682478551756880

@kluurs said in Irreplaceable Art Destroyed in LA Fires: Seriously, I suspect we'll hear a lot of things lost - the whole of the Schoenberg archives were lost along with a great deal of Hollywood memorobelia. No, no. None of the manuscripts were burned. Just the printed copies they sold to orchestras around the world. A loss, but replaceable.

Crazy. Here if a school budget (the largest chunk of overall property taxes) rises more than, I think, 2%, there's a higher vote threshold it needs to pass. Cuomo (fils) actually put that in place. I remember thinking that he should have anchored it to an inflation index rather than a hard number, but here we are.

@taiwan_girl said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one: @Doctor-Phibes said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one: And if Napoleon had won the Battle of Hastings (which he clearly would have done if he'd actually shown up) we'd all be speaking Dutch. [image: what_if_napolean_had_a_b_52_bomber_at_waterloo_3_by_mac4tu_dgg29yd-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTAyNCIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2MyZmZiNzQ1LTUyOTAtNDRkNy1iOWVhLWNmNDUzZDdhOGNiZVwvZGdnMjl5ZC04ZjJhZTVkZS1hYzk2LTQ1NDctYjljZC02Mjk4MjVkZjNjYzAuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTEwMjQifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ.rXO-XDaS1C5VLzRgp0fHXxclSFupapU19LQG4cTZOHw] Inspired by SNL, a panel discussion called "What If?" takes viewers' questions about ridiculous topics, including this week's question: what if Napoleon had access to a B-52 Bomber plane?, I think I have mentioned this a couple times, a book I would love to write but probably never will. It would be non-fiction, but it would be a series of real world butterfly effects of sorts, where I track one small incident and the ripple effect it has throughout history, for example, the assassination of archduke Ferdinand leading to rocket travel.

Hopefully, like Sec. Clinton, we will not hear from her except on some TV shows or something like that. The hard truth is that she just was not a very good candidate.