What a great idea.

Raccoons are as smart as a drunk human.

Excellent outcome. I hate that it happened in Ohio, but glad it turned out correctly.

@kluurs said in Paint it Black - cover: It seems unlikely that piano is making the recorded sounds we are hearing inasmuch as the sustain pedal seem innoperative. I noticed the same thing, but then I remembered... IN MOTHER RUSSIA... pedal sustains YOU.

@Axtremus said in Fox News viewers paid to watch CNN …: Now if the researchers would also do the reverse and pay CNN viewers to watch Fox News … Both of them?

@taiwan_girl said in Wonder if she'll win?: Other than her name, why did President Trump endorse her vs. the other people going in the primary? Because she stopped John McCain from becoming President?

@taiwan_girl said in Hey Klaus!: What do you guys think of mirrorless digital SLR cameras? They're a bit better than DSLRs but either take fine images. Same sensor technology, although most companies now (outside of Nikon) are putting their R&D into mirrorless. Digital viewfinders give you more information than an optical, which is what you normally get with a DSLR. True opticals can't give you a live histogram, focus peaking or highlight readings, and digitals can. A lot of mirrorless cameras are lighter enough to be noticeable. The downside is the battery life, but that's becoming a moot point. The only reason to have a DSLR rather than a mirrorless is if you've already invested too much in DSLR glass for the upgrade to be worth it. Which it wouldn't be. That's why Nikon came out with a new DSLR on its standard mount system right before the olympics: the market was professionals in exactly that situation.

This is simply a dodge to try to free up frozen overseas funds. Nothing will change.

@Jolly said in Mega twitter accounts: I can honestly say I don't follow anybody on Twitter. 555 Same.

Not sure if I understand, but to me, there is no way to make a guess any more accurate. If it is a true random number on the forhead, then there is a 10% chance of guessing correctly. It doesnt matter if every other number is "8", your number could still be anything from 0-9. etc What am i missing?

@George-K said in Killing Off the Fossil Fuel Vehicle: @Doctor-Phibes said in Killing Off the Fossil Fuel Vehicle: I remember cars in the 60's, 70's and 80's. They were shit. You're too kind. I don't miss them either. Way too kind.

There is only one possible reason why he might not get a job that pays him millions.

@Mik said in Mr. Biden's reelection strategy: The president has very little to do with making this happen. It's a sentiment most can agree with but that's all. If I recall, the United States is not a member of the International Court. So, he has even less to do with it than you thought.

@George-K said in Thou shalt not mock VPOTUS: https://spectatorworld.com/topic/fired-joke-kamala-harris-outfit-wmal-cumulus-cancel-culture/ https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/1498850679477227528?s=20&t=3h4OBlVRuntQza9b2C-hYg I was officially hired at WMAL, which is owned by Cumulus Media, this past fall as one of three female co-hosts of O’Connor & Company, the morning drive radio program. On March 9, I co-hosted the show alongside my friend Larry O’Connor, just like I normally do on Wednesday mornings. It had been nearly a week since the social media meltdown over my Kamala tweet, and none of us at the show had a feeling that anything was amiss. Later that afternoon, just before 4 p.m., I received a call out of the blue from Jeff Boden, the vice president of Cumulus Washington, D.C, and Kriston Fancellas, the vice president of Human Resources. They told me that the tweet I sent about Kamala was “racist” and that subsequent follow-ups defending myself and making fun of the efforts to cancel me were unacceptable. I had violated the company’s social media policy, they said, and I was terminated effective immediately. I see nothing wrong with that. As political discourse goes, that's pretty durn mild. If we have become that hypersensitized, we are doomed. OTOH, you need to know the rest of the story, as Mr. Harvey would say. The email writing campaign that led to Amber's firing was spearheaded by LGBTQRSTUV folks in Florida, as payback for her stance on teaching sex ed to Florida kids in K-3 grade.

Amphibilicious!

@Mik said in PVC extension question: OK. But you'd still be better off to have it all PVC of some sort and fully buried. Not sure how long that tape will last. That bushing is a good idea, I looked for one (wasn't in stock) before I went with the tape. I think the tape will last for a very long time, it's a very strong tape that is meant to withstand water and extreme temps. We will see. For context, in case I didn't make it clear earlier, the exposed black corrugated pipe you see is the only the end part that sticks out of the ground near the sump discharge, but otherwise runs at least 30 feet under the front yard to an NDS pop-up drainage emitter that releases the water near the sidewalk. I actually had to pull back a thick landscape fabric (you can see it pulled back a bit) that covers it. Eventually I'll put some fresh mulch topping on the front garden including this area to further cover it, at least aesthetically.

@89th said in Highest resolution image ever taken of the Sun: God invented the camera. Satan invented the selfie. The Great Lord Satan (I bow at his feet) shows us His image in a giant fireball, and Horace makes things even more desperate for himself by confusing Him with the other fellah.