Shut down Tik Tok also. 😋

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Santa arrived a little early...

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It sounds amazing. We listened to 6 albums yesterday. Each one revealing things that I had never heard before. The soundstage is very wide and deep. Extending beyond the physical placement of the speakers. As it should be.

The Grado cartridge/stylus is designed and manufactured in the US as well. It was an optional $150 upgrade. Yes, it is in a Maple, wood housing. It's the newest member of Grado's Timbre line of moving coil phono cartridges. Their first "affordable" ($275) moving coil, wooden cartridge. Grado has a cartridge that looks very similar called the Epoch 3, yet it costs $12,000.00 Yep! freaking 12k for a turntable cartridge. lol

Very happy with the purchase. I will be doing a lot of listening and comparisons between the SOL and the Technics SL-1200 MK5.

Something I almost never do. The conversation always moves forward and I don't often feel the need to look back.😊

@brenda said in The Subtle Art of Gift Giving:

The giver needs to be mindful that gifts intended to create closeness or indicate a close relationship should be accompanied by treating the person respectfully and decently the rest of the year, too. I have a relative who likes to give sappy sentimental gifts at Christmas or other holidays, while the rest of the year she is manipulative, demanding, mean, and deceitful. It just doesn't work to try to pretend the rest of the year doesn't exist.

Ayup.

Good observation.

@jon-nyc said in "Hi Mom!":

@89th said in "Hi Mom!":

FWIW I pick up my 2 year old daughter from daycare each day. All I do is show up and they bring her down and release her to me. They don't even ask my name, or my ID, because.....common sense. They know me. Glad I don't have to show my ID each time.

I didn’t either at his private nursery schools. Might change in elementary school if you go public.

True. Although I’ll be in minnesooooota by then and there are only nice people there.

This is the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths expected to top 3 million for the first time —

"expected to"

So these deaths haven't happened yet

due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic.

How do we know the cause of these "expected" deaths?

They haven't happened, they might not happen.

NASA production values getting better

It takes all of us, or so they say. Even him.

@lufins-dad said in It’s good to see Mel Gibson working again:

Alka Seltzer...

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz....

Ax just keeps on proving he doesn't have a clue....

The sad part is that he actually believes Clinton did that lol lol

@aqua-letifer said in I thought I had it easy:

Please elaborate.

Oh, you know -- deals, massagings, back scratching. "I'll vote for your bridge if you vote for my industrial park."

@89th said in Voteflake:

Ok, so let's recap.

2016:
Trump - 63.0 million votes (46.1%)
Clinton - 65.9 million votes (48.2%)
Result: Trump wins with 304 electoral votes.

2020:
Trump: 74.2 million votes (46.9%)
Biden: 81.3 million votes (51.3%)
Result: Biden wins with 306 electoral votes.

In 2016, Trump said his 304 vote win "was a landslide", even though he had 2.9 million fewer votes. Ok, no problem, he won fair and square.

In 2020, Biden won with 306 electoral votes, and had 7.1 million more votes. But...this is not a landslide? In fact, it's not even legit because Biden's team rigged the system, despite no evidence and nearly every lawsuit laughed thrown out?

Ok, got it.

You had it right until you got to the point where you stated as fact that Biden got 81 million votes. Only a fucking fool believes that. Your st one mistake is when you claimed there was no evidence and nearly every lawsuit was thrown out. You're just repeating the garbage you've read on the news. They were thrown out before any evidence was presented.

Though I don't know why I bother to try to open your eyes. You proved to me mo this ago that you are dishonest when you said "I'm actually a conservative and wanted Trump to win". Both are lies. I didn't get where I am in life by being fooled by people, especially those who lie to me.

I used to use a pair of Apple’s 1st generation AirPods regularly, they fit and stay in my ears just fine, and I very much looked forward to active noise cancellation back then. But the batteries deteriorated over time, to the point where I had to keep one pod in one ear while putting the other pod back into the case to recharge, all within the same hour-long conference call; worse when I had to do back-to-back conference calls.

There is no true “battery replacement” service for AirPods. Whatever Apple calls “battery replacement” for the AirPods, they basically swap your old AirPods with new ones, and the cost was very high, close to buying new ones anyway. The olds ones just become electronic waste.

Between the short batter life, the monetary cost, and the environmental cost, I just stopped using AirPods and went back to using wired ear pods.

@copper

As if we’d butter our toast so lightly.

@klaus said in "Downfall":

Mit dem Angriff SteinersPowells wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.

😎

@jon-nyc said in Is Rudy in trouble?:

@loki said in Is Rudy in trouble?:

SDNY is on him too

Maryland, no?

SDNY too.

In addition to Delaware, the securities fraud unit in the Southern District of New York also scrutinized Hunter Biden’s finances, according to the person with direct knowledge of the investigation. The person said that, as of early last year, investigators in Delaware and Washington were also probing potential money laundering and Hunter Biden’s foreign ties. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.