Yes.

Stella has made my leather chair a little rough to the touch in places but it’s not visible, so…

She only scratches on that chair to get my attention when she wants to play red dot.

Depends on what you plant. COVID did create a seed shortage, so maybe a food crisis would create a problem with seeds.

But most of what I plant is open pollinated, so if needed, I could save most of my seeds, except for sweet corn and another one or two.

@Horace said in A Stupid Question About Monitors:

Samsung CH890

Typed it into Google. Stumbled upon this on the Samsung website:

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Pixel density of Full HD??? How about we let the engineers take a look at the ads before publishing them to the world and embarrassing a whole company?

I have an elegant analytic solution:

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Suppose you know that your coin has probability heads equal to either p or 1-p. You flip the coin n times and get h heads and t tails, with h+t=n and a difference d=h-t.

Using the standard Bayesian formula and simplifying, you can show (setting tail probability as q=1-p):

P(coin bias is p given observing h heads in n coin tosses)

= (p^d)/((p^d) + (q^d))

This is a function of the difference in the observed numbers of heads and tails, not the overall number of coin tosses n. So in the example the probabilities must be equal, since 10-0=55-45. Done.

@LuFins-Dad said in How are cases where you are?:

@Mik said in How are cases where you are?:

There you go with the feelz again.

You can't go with the reported numbers since just about everybody is self-testing at home with no reporting mechanism. So anecdotal is really all that you have to go on. And anecdotally, the numbers look to be as high or even higher than January in these parts...

Heck, our 4 year old (and 1 year old) both had coughing/colds the last week. We didn't test them.

Or as the old golf/joke goes, maybe he was faking it?

One time I played with an older gentleman for a full round of golf. At the end we were walking in the parking lot when his wife pulls up. He whispers to me, "Pretend I'm deaf. My wife has thought I've been deaf for years, so I don't have to listen to her."

@Renauda said in It can decapitate an adult.:

My old .444 Marlin would decapitate, if not vaporise. I neck shot a bull moose once. The exit wound was like a soft ball. Moose just stood there in shock and bled out on the spot.

Used to load a 165g Speer Grand Slam in a 30-06 that would scare the sugar out of 2900fps. Within 50 yards, it would blow an exit wound you could drop a 12oz beer can in.

That still wouldn't decapitate someone.

I say Turkey McTurkFace

@Mik said in Media hits a new low:

Taking it to the nth degree, if you could bang a wolf you'd be pretty badass. Not even D'Oh could do that.

Well, it would depend on what end of the banging you wound up...

George and Bach can explain much better than I, but there are multiple different medical differences between races.

it

lolz

A family friend who was pretty close, but she had one foot in already Terrible health. COVID was the catalyst, not the cause.

One former colleague's husband whom I had meet maybe once.

@Jolly said in Finally. After 30+ years.:

@89th said in Finally. After 30+ years.:

I mean, are we forgetting about Star Wars (Empire & Jedi), and ET?

That would be SF, not fantasy.

Star Wars is considered more fantasy than Sci-Fi.

Thanks for sharing @Larry that was great.

@Axtremus said in Close Encounter of the Frog Kind:

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Found a frog in the skimmer hole.
Moved it to the grassy area.
I am guessing it is a gray treefrog (Dryophytes versicolor), but correct me if that's not the case.

Yes! It's a very handsome gray tree frog. Thank you for saving him. Grays are very mellow and sweet, and they will eat lots of bugs for you.

One twitter comment was "I'm detecting a little bit of passsive voice...."

@Copper said in Changing Grades:

They will graduate a bunch of losers.

Losers beget losers.

Idiots

Lad, you don't understand.

There will be a very small middle class. Mostly it will be a underclass highly dependent on government largesse, and the "elections" will have predetermined results regulated by the ruling (and wealthy) upperclass.

To do this, you have to create a lot of ignorant people.

@jon-nyc said in Sussmann acquitted:

I guess if you spend enough time in the RW media universe you can start to think the Steele dossier is "the Russia thing". Reading the Mulher report or even just popping your head over the transom once in a while would disabuse you of that.

The Steele Dossier is part of it, yes. But there's more. As for the Mueller Report, while it was a joke, even that panel of Hillaryites had to admit they couldn't find anything on Trump.

Perhaps you need to spend a little more time in the "RW media universe so your ignorance of the facts would be so obvious. You see, with the passing of time the "RW media" has been proven correct in every claim, and the Leftwing media has been proven to be wrong - particularly regarding the Steele Dossier and the Mueller Report. In fact, I'm surprised you even brought them up, xxseeing as how both have been proven to be jokes.