@xenon said in Losing the next war.: Why do we want to spend our money on it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts 

We seem to have the luxury to take our democratic experiment as axiomatic. Imagine not developing patriotism when we have to ask our next set of young people to give their lives to protect our freedom. There are sheep, wolves and sheep herders. The sheep are getting particularly unruly and we can’t let the wolves eat them.

It just shows you how volatile our knowledge is. The volatility >conspiracy theories

@jolly said in Thou shalt not attend rallies: Give the economy a bad couple of years and you could probably get him elected, warts and all... He's got warts? Oh God, not that kind, please.

You have to wonder if the audience was ever there in the first place.

@catseye3 said in Ecocide: Ask the life forms in and around the Everglades. The people there love it. It has taken many years to fix the mess (ecocide) that the previous inhabitants left behind. But it has been worth it.

Could the side effects be worse than the disease? Hard to imagine.

Bumpity.

@doctor-phibes said in Happy birthday Aqua!: @aqua-letifer said in Happy birthday Aqua!: @doctor-phibes said in Happy birthday Aqua!: @aqua-letifer said in Happy birthday Aqua!: Gatorskin tires I just bought some of those after getting sick of punctures. I did something wrong, as the inner tube blew the tyre clean off the rim. It made a hell of a noise, but seems undamaged - which is more than I can say for the inner tube. Maybe the rim pinched it? You really gotta push the tube into the tire to make sure the rim doesn't pinch it once you seat the tire. Mine aren't at all flexible in that area so I really gotta shove it in there. The sad part was there was a 2 minute delay after I pumped the tyre up before the loud bang occurred - just enough time for me to say to Mrs. Phibes ,'See, I told you wasn't completely useless at this stuff....' I cannot count the number of times I have completely, utterly, thoroughly lost my shit on the side of a road due to a problem that I didn't know how to solve at the time, but now I consider no big deal because it's happened so often by now.

Would an HR AI bot be described as an arse technica?

@George-K no need to change passwords. The data was not obtained via password hacking, and passwords were not exposed.

Bump for @Rainman

@89th said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.: @aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.: So I got Aniki, my single speed out. He needed his tires pumped up. That's it. No rust, cables are fine, wheels are still nearly perfectly true, quiet as a mouse. I absolutely love singlespeeds. Aniki is the shit. Dude I remember riding it one time, it was SO awesome. Also, glad you didn't die today. That too. You did indeed! I dunno how hilly Minnesoooooota is but I can still get away with one gear here. The DC area's got literally the one hill.

@george-k said in If this is true, we're f'ing brilliant!: Could this finally explain why that classmate who BS-ed their way through an exam often scored higher than those who actually studied? Maybe in a journalism or psychology exam.

All this ya-ya for third place. Anybody notice the lady that won, set a new record? Thought not...

I think it's kind if whimsical. As long as the building met code when it was built, fine by me...

A pretty damning indictment of Trump's behaviour after losing the election. It's also nice to see that Mitch McConnell provided such awe-inspiring leadership.