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@kluurs said in ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis: Neighborhood groups have formed. One of the neighbors on our block held a meeting to sort through what to do. There are all kinds of informal ad hoc groups around the area. A friend attended a protest near one of the detention centers. Per her, there were a variety of groups there - not a massive centralized effort - more a bunch of small tribes. Sounds pretty grassroot, pretty organic. Any whiff of outside "big money" driving these groups?

Plumbing school started winning in 2025: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/31/labor-market-gap-trade-workers-white-collar/ The unemployment gap between workers with bachelor’s degrees and those with occupational associate’s degrees — such as plumbers, electricians and pipe fitters — flipped in 2025, leaving trade workers with a slight edge for six months out of the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s the first time trade workers have had a leg up since the BLS started tracking this data in the 1990s.

Just found out that the backup “guest teacher astronaut” to McCauliff and watched from the ground as her colleague ended up perishing in the Challenger, later was selected to be an astronaut on Columbia for a 2004 launch and in 2003 was in the chase jet meant to rendezvous with Colombia as it landed, of course it never landed. That is wild. Eventually, she went up in the Endeavor shuttle… i’d have to imagine her crew mates were not believers in bad luck.

I've said it before. Fight WWII with today's youth, and it's over in a few days. Not in a good way. Also, that dude in the video is probably someone who would start talking about the merits of the tour de france while I'm trying to watch a ballgame.

I suppose if you drop a swamp monster big enough into a swamp, the swamp would indeed drain due to standard water displacement science.

Blacks are "people of the SUN"!! Give them July or August!!!

Except he predicted a crash in 07-09 and then lost money when it happened. It doesn’t pay to have really precise theories about just how things will go wrong. Or at least to bet on them.

@axtremus I started it in ChatGPT Thinking. The initial prompt provides a project to pull into Android Studio. It was far from complete at that stage. Over the next few days I had the AI inside Android studio do the rest of the work. Several sessions of prompts actually. I would test, report things I didn't like, errors, things not functioning as expected, etc. After what I estimate to be about 8-10 total hours of working in studio I had a polished and fully functioning app. I did have to do some manual manipulation of the code along the way. I am considering putting it out on the app store but I am also worried about legal and liability issues. I was thinking of a subscription fee of $1/month or $10 / year if paid annually. Get myself 10,000-100,000 subscribers, and retire. lol

said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks: Amazon paid $40 for its rights Amazon spent $35 million marketing it It is projected to make $1 million in the first week. Update about the Melania documentary: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2026/02/01/melania-trump-documentary-movie-box-office-opening/88417769007/ "Melania," the controversial documentary featuring first lady Melania Trump, surprised at the box office, notching a $7 million opening weekend, according to estimates released Sunday, Feb. 1, by Amazon MGM Studios.

None of us here were rich or prominent enough to be his friend. Only you were young and female enough to be molested by him but fortunately you were a continent away.

Nothing like a red wine braised pot roast on a cold Saturday. I added a fennel bulb and mushrooms https://playswellwithbutter.com/red-wine-braised-beef/

Nice.

I don't know either but doubt they would get press credentials.

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@jodi said in Trauma at Big Bear Lake: One of the things they are saying is that the birds may have known the eggs were unviable, and that’s why they left them alone. Not sure is that is accurate, but it’s possible. She's back on the remaining egg now, but who knows?

@Mik said in In other news…: I have no issue with someone who wants to do this and has been psychologically vetted. I do have a problem with it becoming a cottage industry with no vetting, just the whims of maladjusted youth milked for profit. If this stops it so much the better. That’s where I used to be, but not as much, anymore.

I’m hoping they overreach and try to take over some of the properties that are off the market due to their idiotic policies. Then maybe scotus can find rent control itself to be a taking under the fifth amendment.

Large projects are a lot easier when you have slave labor. Still, it's good to see the Saudis planning for economic viability post-petroleum. Unless there's a huge expansion in the need for sand it's their only natural resource.