Well, Honda approved it. They aren’t putting a brand brand new engine in, but one with 35K miles on it. Still, that’s saving her 100K miles on the vehicle!

Well the immediate cause was the deadly crackdown on the protesters.

Just a joke. No pizzas were harmed in the making of this thread.

Well darn, I should've listened to myself. Both were over 3,000% up since late 2024! Now down to just 2,000% up, wow. Nice job! The closest I could find to my reference of quantum is here btw... the timing lines up but I was not smart enough to think about stocks. https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/305940

Hahaha Ben Shaprio did exactly that when he covered this blooper by AOC.

Yeah and we're still in the infancy years of it. Admittedly I was stubborn and refused to embrace AI for a year or two, but not only have I started to integrate it into my work (mostly summarizing content, identifying the best big data queries to use) but now I have a post-it note on my desk to get into Claude. It seems it's easy to create a digital robot to perform so many tasks now. I hope to retire in 10-12 years and hope I can dodge the AI hammer until then.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-man-bought-a-13-camera-at-a-thrift-shopand-found-70-year-old-film-still-inside-do-you-recognize-the-faces-in-the-photos-180988217/ Photographic films, with pictures taken 70 years ago, sat undeveloped in an old until now. Then someone bought the camera from a thrift store -- luckily someone who knows how to handle very, very old films -- and developed them. Pictures in article.

US Trade Deficit Hits Record High Despite Tariffs US goods imports continued to outpace its exports last year, sending the country's trade deficit to a new high despite sweeping tariffs introduced by US President Donald Trump. The gap between the value of goods imported into the US and American products sold to other countries widened by 2.1% compared to 2024, hitting roughly $1.2 trillion (£890bn), official figures show. The rise emerged despite a sharp drop in trade with China, one of the earliest targets of the tariffs. The gap runs counter to one of the White House's key aims which is to reduce the deficit, arguing that US reliance on overseas goods has hollowed out the country's production abilities and put national security at risk.

Corny. So corny. Think Broadway meets Hee Haw.

Wonder if he uses the joke or a variety of it Link to video

Dont know if this reply should be here or in the "Epstein Files" forum thread, but I am amazed at how much "stuff" (emails, cards, handwritten notes, etc etc etc) was saved that they are finding and going through.

@Horace Dont know if your video can only be viewed in the US, but I could not see it.

@Renauda said in Happy Birthday Mark!: Happy belated birthday, Mark! +1 Hope all is going well for you and your knee(?) is recovering nicely.

Very somewhat related, but the former President of ROK was just sentenced to life in prison "for masterminding an insurrection during his presidency." The prosecution wanted the death penalty. https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/south-korean-ex-president-yoon-receives-life-sentence-for-insurrection

LOL An opportunity foiled!!!!

@89th said in Jessie Jackson, 1941-2026: Trump had some nice words to say about himSELF. LOL Yup, I was thinking the same thing. But on the scale of President Trump Truth Social posts, this was one of the better ones. (Of course, the bar is quite low in that area)

That actually is quite neat!

I have friend who went off the C19 deep end as well. Not all that surprising though, since was the sort who would never follow Dr’s advice or orders. Had continuously high cholesterol but refused to take his prescribed statin; even after suffering two strokes, the last one leaving him blind in one eye. Anyhow, he was dead set against the C19 jab. Yes, he came down with it and, yes, he ended up ten days in hospital during the Delta outbreak.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/17/us-news/mamdani-brings-back-homeless-encampment-sweeps-turning-on-campaign-promise-after-backlash-over-cold-weather-deaths/