I wear the mask in public.

I wish we could agree on criteria to drop the use of masks entirely.

The lack of this measurable criteria allows emotion to rule.

That makes me think that the experts-in-charge want emotion to rule. It certainly does here.

@copper said in Finally:

There is not a single Chief Diversity Officer anywhere in the world that can define diversity.

I mean define it exactly by precise skin tone and ancestry.

Define which countries of origin for how many generations for each of the ancestors or you aren't a real Chief Diversity Officer.

Kinda like sexual harrassment? It's all in the eyes of the aggreived?

"All Republicans roads seem to lead to Mar-a-Lago, [...] It's really the center of the Republican universe right now."

@lufins-dad said in Mistress -Me- Not:

Moderator! Jolly shared a NY Post Link!

Worry if I grab a NYT....

@doctor-phibes said in Hey Jolly:

@mik said in Hey Jolly:

Interestingly enough, my home town is now debating allowing chickens in the city limits. Hope they do it.

Are you allowed to carry farm animals across State lines in your neck of the woods?

Happens all the time....

@doctor-phibes said in Don't Feel Guilty:

@rainman said in Don't Feel Guilty:

Mik: We give a fair amount of money...

I was just talking (ranting) about this again, after getting our mail.

If you give to anything or anywhere, it pisses me off that I get on some sort of list, or lists, or listss, and then get flooded with hardcopy junk in the daily mail, or the tons of unmeasurable spam. And, they think that their tricks get by me, with their personal correspondences as if I am a friend. How can a friend turn down another friend pleading for money?
Or, a friend of a friend. Or, a friend of a friends friend. How can I be so cold, when the personal letter or email addresses me in such a warm, likable manner. I'm an awful person. All they want is money, what's the big deal.
Thanks, Friends!!

Aqua would send them something unspeakable in the little envelope they so kindly provide for donations.

I'm not recommending, just saying.

Hah. Never thought of that.
And, it wouldn't need to be anything disgusting, necessarily. Just questionable, to get people to gather around and ask, "what IS that?"

NO PLAN! NO PLAN!

Jesus.

Enjoyed both of those videos. Thank you!

A little over 100 years from the first 12 second flight to unmanned flight on Mars!

In the meantime Congress and he media has regressed to middle school lying and name calling.

Transvestite! Er...I mean...troglodyte!

Back in the day the Chinese provided the stinger missiles to the mujahadeen via the CIA as the US did not want the USSR know that we were intent on shooting down their helicopters.

A couple of interesting things...

In the 1880s, the US had a smaller military than places like Portugal. Even in the Spanish American War, we had less than 40,000 soldiers.

In 1949 (yes, 1949), Japan had the largest army in the world as in 3x the size of the US Army.

@mik said in From one Bee to another.:

The article, I mean....

Must have read the mistress thread...

MFR sold to the grocery industry for Conagra when we met. Yep, it is cutthroat as it could be, with the grocers being the most ruthless of all. Pay to play doesn't begin to describe it.

@axtremus said in HomePods:

You can’t customize the HomePod’s equalizer settings?
Bad Apple!

Not only is there an equalizer, you can have presets for the equalizer for individual songs.

Good Apple!

I spent about 4 hours with these playing in the background. For what they are, they're very nice. More than adequate.

@george-k Nice. I like how she turned it into classism as opposed to racism. Helps her goal of making it about her.

I find it fascinating how F-D's intonation changes with and emphasises the mood and individual words of the text.

I wonder how significant fluency in a language and, for a wider perspective, knowledge about language use and historical context of the composition is for the interpretation of a piece. I guess these kinds of things are what distinguishes the good from the best interpretations.

I always cringe a little when I hear Schubert lieder performed with foreign accent. I don't hear much difference between native and foreign speakers in Opera, but for Schubert Lieder it's somehow different.