@nobodysock .. I’m quite interested in your piano, but want to hear what your plans are to position it, put a rug under it, maybe what you’ll do for the walls if the sound bounces around, humidity, all that.

I’m trying to wrap my head around this $2M per ship thing.

@Renauda said: Trump’s the name, snakes and ladders is his game. I was thinking Suicide Monopoly. It's like regular Monopoly, but with Jeffrey Epstein.

Not so open air public defecation, but I gotta get something off my chest… I’ve seen this x2 in the past few years in public areas inside hospitals. Zippo no one was rushing in to clean it up. Everyone stepping around it. In one instance I was reprimanded by a nurse, she threatening to call security on me for voicing up her rationale for leaving the mess there.

There’s no reason friends can’t organize informally to celebrate a person’s life. I went to an impromptu culdesac barbecue where we ended up around a fire pit sharing great memories of a neighbor. He didn’t have a funeral. He didn’t want it. I respect that. None of my elders wanted funerals. Their choice. Our family was so tiny we just went to their favourite restaurants after we put the urns in the ground. That seems a tradition with us.

@Axtremus said: It's not a matter of the government having too much or too little power, but whether it has the right amount of power to control the right set of things. Of course, nobody knows better than I what is the right amount of power and what are the right set of things. That's basically what I said except I was being facetious. Nobody can tell whether you're joking or not.

@Axtremus said: @LuFins-Dad said: Name one thing that wouldn’t be better off privately run? The U.S. government. LMAO The U.S. military. Quite a few think the military IS privately run… The IRS. LMAO again. Plus, they would be largely irrelevant. The (criminal) justice system. LMAO again… Election boards. Okay… Social Security. You can’t honestly believe that.

https://babylonbee.com/news/look-out-shouts-female-astronaut-as-orion-gets-within-5000-miles-of-moon SPACE — Astronaut Christina Koch reportedly played a pivotal role in the success of NASA's Artemis II lunar mission on Monday when she helpfully screamed in the pilot's ear as they were just 5,000 miles shy of colliding with the lunar surface. "Look out!" Mission Specialist Koch cried out as she placed her hand on the Orion spacecraft's dashboard. "Use the space brakes! The space brakes!" The crew's pilot, Victor Glover, reportedly jerked the ship awkwardly in response as he was startled by the female crew member's reaction. "It's OK, I'm looking at it," he said. According to NASA sources, it was impossible to say whether the Orion spacecraft the crew occupied would have made contact with the moon or not. But what was clear, Koch pointed out, is that they absolutely did not crash into the moon after her warning. "As mission specialist, it's not my job to be a backseat driver, but I didn't expect Victor to fly so close to the moon either," Koch said, who referred to her role as being exhausting. "I can't exactly relax when he's flying us around at over 1,000 miles per hour. That only gives us five hours to react. I just wanted to make sure he was paying attention." At publishing time, Koch had helpfully instructed Glover to turn left once they reached the moon.

Cuba would seem to be an easier target. Isolated like Iran, but does not have the 'reach" like Iran, and other than exporting medical assistance to other third world countries, they don't have many (or any) things to hold hostage over the US.

Her name was Yvonne, not Jesús. Why do you automatically assume it was a Hispanic male driver, @jon-nyc ?

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I don't know. Bringing in Ax's TSA thread, we spend a whole lot of money on security, and not just TSA, that might not be necessary if the world's foremost sponsor of terrorism swore off such mischief. There could be someone else who picks up the mantle but I think they'd be properly chastened by what happened to Iran.

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I just started back to HIIT on the Airdyne the past week or so. Supposed to build VO2 max faster. I’m getting upwards of 110-120 bpm. Plateaued at 67 lbs on weight loss even thought my waist keeps shrinking. Maybe the weight training. I didn’t have to work this hard in my 30s. Grr.

@taiwan_girl Not sure if it will be enough. At the moment, voters seem to have had enough of PM Orbán. Maybe not quite enough yet… https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/dont-count-orban-out-yet-hungarys-opposition-faces-an-uphill-battle-on-april-12/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-94UJAwx1jgnFaa0Ka7EJjt_3Gjp0vNqBZu19xbTkOrZrE9j0DXbAa-yNTRIoRgQWhUOcQmbPEX6b5yigBCyidPQ5MevA&_hsmi=412665873&utm_content=412665873&utm_source=hs_email

@jon-nyc said: Big if true. https://x.com/techlayofflover/status/2041311289591435399?s=46 Fun! I guess I'm glad my position is non-cancellable, unless the whole country ceases to exist.