@LuFins-Dad said in Reflections on college visits: @Horace said in Reflections on college visits: But the only honest way to frame real estate ownership is whomever has the power gets the land. But modern humans don’t like honesty at that level so we talk around it with various euphemisms and falsehoods. I’m not a very popular dad at the various kid groups and the parks we take Finley to. Inevitably, two little boys get in trouble and the mom’s start with that ridiculous “violence never solves anything” crap, and I feel compelled to correct them. Ha just yesterday my 3 year old hit my 5 year old and he complained to me, I told him to just hit her back. Is that bad? She needs to learn there are consequences. At playgrounds it is remarkable how involved parents get at trying to keep the line fair at a slide or to intervene when kids fight, or to stop a kid from climbing the slide backwards. I am almost at the extreme side these days where I very much want my kids to figure it out and maybe I'm biased but my kids are usually the best behaved at these places now.

@AndyD said in Chopin on a Bosendorfer: Yes very. Also interesting she has her Bosie upright angled away from the wall to properly allow the sound out. Also note that her lamp isn't at a funny angle.

People underrate the risk of travel.

@jon-nyc said in I got an invitation from ….: So my flights are canceled. I guess I’m going to dial in. When I’m not shoveling. [image: 1771762899743-img_0736.jpeg] Snorting Coke of your own toilet just isn’t the same.

If I had to weigh in on the fact that ICE and Border Patrol are wearing masks, I’d say it’s an unfortunate but entirely understandable conceit to the moral panic cosplay of Minneapolis agitator types behind their keyboards. As for the overreaches of ICE and broad characterizations of them kidnapping citizens and non citizens alike, I’m impressed that a those stories appear to be concentrated in Minneapolis while places like TX with 10x the ICE activity don’t seem to be generating any kidnapping stories. I take it all with a grain of salt. But then I’m not tribally motivated to fan the moral panic flames.

Yikes. Thanks, I just shared your link with some of my cyber IT buddies.

@xenon said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: Trump has spent the last couple of hours making multiple posts how the bombs obliterated everything.... which probably means they didn't... sigh... Steve Witkoff yesterday: “Iran is probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material.”

Interesting except I don’t think there’s any meaningful sense in which China is still communist. https://x.com/vintagemapstore/status/2025556183592161678?s=46

Why not Maple Magats?

Oh so people whose apartments are in the same building as a UPS store don’t have a residence address. Only a UPS box. How interesting. Gosh Matt got to the bottom of that.

I mean the Bears had a good season. Great new QB, won their division, and I think were 2 wins away from being in the Super Bowl. We are lucky here in Minny that our teams are named after the state and not the city (cities).

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Mark - agree - a very fine performance.

@Renauda said in Invading Greenland - suicide.: Thanks but no thanks: Greenland's prime minister has asked US President Donald Trump to talk to him instead of making "random outbursts on social media", after Trump said he was sending a US hospital boat to "take care" of people on the island. Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was going to send a boat filled with medical supplies, alleging "many people" on the island are sick and "not being taken care of". Jens-Frederik Nielsen responded "it's going to be a no thanks from us," and said that Greenland provides free healthcare for all citizens. Trump has long coveted the vast arctic island - but conceded in January that he would not take it by force, after previously refusing to rule out doing so. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7jnvdzpr7o He's probably infected the blankets.

Yes! Upper Midwest ftw! I mean just look at all that fresh water! We are also relatively immune from natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, even, for the most part, tornadoes even though one occasionally gets through. Awesome climate in the spring and fall. Summer is usually awesome with a week or two of high temps. Winter, well, it is a quiet time, spent mostly indoors, doing things like practicing and getting better at your musical instruments, and snuggling up next to a fire with your sweetheart. What could be better than that!

Probably unrelated, but last night I had a nightmare about a crooked lampshade behind a Baldwin piano.

Given that I support most of his efforts, if not the way they were gone about, it raises an interesting question. Is the US effectively governable under the current restrictions? Can we function with the painfully slow deliberative process in a world that moves ever faster?

In NY nobody picks people up from the airport. It would be the rudest imposition to ask or expect it. I’d sooner ask someone to shovel my driveway. When my ex girlfriend’s dad and his wife would visit from Romania, I’d send them a black car, but there’s no way I’d pick them up.

Isn't that what they did? Charge you USD$30 for 7 hours of idle? About USD$4.28/hour. Sorry you have have a bad experience with EV. When I have had one, I have had a pretty good experience.