Skip to content

General Discussion

A place to talk about whatever you want

32.9k Topics 291.9k Posts
  • "What's that smell?"

    4
    4 Posts
    66 Views
    LarryL

    Link to video

  • You can’t make this stuff up

    23
    23 Posts
    260 Views
    jon-nycJ

    @loki said in You can’t make this stuff up:

    So we are starting to think things over!

    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/03/moderna-vaccine-doses-warp-speed-half-453979

    Good sign!

  • New House Rules

    9
    9 Posts
    87 Views
    Catseye3C

    @george-k said in New House Rules:

    it's not a "bill" and therefore doesn't have the power of law.

    Right, I knew that but was too lazy to be more precise.

  • YouTube to MP3 downloader - Mac?

    4
    4 Posts
    23 Views
    George KG

    @klaus of course! I'd forgotten about those!

  • Two New-ish Piano Concertos ...

    4
    4 Posts
    38 Views
    KlausK

    Deutscher has been on my radar for a couple of years already. I wonder how she develops. She was impressive as a child prodigy, but now she needs to show that she can go beyond that. There is of course nothing wrong with great melodies, but, even if this is obviously extremely impressive for a child, the music sounds rather derivative.

    The Adés concerto is not my cup of tea.

  • NYT creates re-enactment of Breanna Taylor Shooting

    13
    13 Posts
    73 Views
    MikM

    @jon-nyc said in NYT creates re-enactment of Breanna Taylor Shooting:

    As I said next door, how any jurisdiction could think that it is a good idea to have both no-knock raids and a castle doctrine is beyond me.

    Tis a puzzlement.

  • Missed me!

    5
    5 Posts
    83 Views
    KlausK

    Nice sandals.

  • ‘Deep search’ of web history?

    8
    8 Posts
    92 Views
    KlausK

    I forgot that modern browsers tend to store cached pages in some kind of database, with some encoding of the data going on, hence you can't just grep through the files. Rather, one would have to read them via an utility such as this one.

  • Hey, salmon lovers!

    22
    22 Posts
    293 Views
    IvorythumperI

    One fav way we cook salmon is to sandwich two fillets with skin on; put a little salt, pepper, slived shallots, lemon slices, and white wine between them; tie with roasting string; and bake.

    Sandwiching keeps it very moist.

    MS likes her salmon cooked through, I like mine fleshy and a wee bit rare.

  • "There's a little black spot on the sun today...."

    8
    8 Posts
    81 Views
    89th8

    Wow nice mark!

  • Today, from the DPRK News Service

    2
    2 Posts
    30 Views
    MikM

    lol

  • Creepy Kids in Creepy Vintage Ads

    2
    2 Posts
    37 Views
    George KG

    "Don't 'Sun-Starve' your baby!"

    All righty then...

  • No more Fucking in Austria

    4
    4 Posts
    49 Views
    89th8

    Actually if they want to immediately improve their search engine rankings, they should change their name to Ducking

  • Is this like "A bit of pregnancy?"

    5
    5 Posts
    76 Views
    George KG

    @bachophile said in Is this like "A bit of pregnancy?":

    Problem meant to write event. But arrest passed the spell checker.

    Or else just a moron

    Or "heart attack."

  • This skating cameraman is incredible.

    11
    11 Posts
    117 Views
    jodiJ

    @george-k Interesting. That’s much simpler that the photograph I saw of him with camera equipment.

  • Deranged Magat Syndrome

    134
    134 Posts
    2k Views
    jon-nycJ

  • China has Mastered Weather Modifications

    7
    7 Posts
    58 Views
    L

    @larry said in China has Mastered Weather Modifications:

    China can do anything. All hail your new rulers.

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/china-superpower-two-paths-global-domination-cold-war/

  • Hurling Satellites Into Space

    5
    5 Posts
    52 Views
    George KG

    @copper said in Hurling Satellites Into Space:

    @moonbat said in Hurling Satellites Into Space:

    So... 10,000g

    I'll let you go first

    That's about 25 lb.

  • Scary COVID story

    2
    2 Posts
    53 Views
    JollyJ

    @kluurs said in Scary COVID story:

    Couple did everything right. Person doing haircut was COVID tested and kept window open while doing haircut - and still... Story

    They thought they did everything right. The beautician was in the the pre-symptomatic stage and already shedding virus. The test (most likely rapid)was most likely negative due to one of two factors:

    Not enough antigen to be detected at the time of testing. Or... Poor sampling technique. Just because somebody collects and runs a test, doesn't mean they do a decent job. COVID requires a deep nasal swab. If you don't go far enough, you get a lousy specinen and you can get false negatives.
  • "Dancing in the Streets"

    4
    4 Posts
    53 Views
    89th8

    Wow.