@George-K said in The Wall:

Do you really think Joe Biden would have the audacity to spend time, money and resources to tear down some of the new wall?

Good question. Would he? That might depend on the feedback he gets from the general public. But either way the thing will be a thorn. Leave it up, one set of problems, tear it down, another set of problems.

Only 25% of the NHL players are from the US. Most of the league is European and Canadian.

@89th said in Service reminder: Brief (?) server outage at 4PM EDT:

@George-K said in Service reminder: Brief (?) server outage at 4PM EDT:

Improvements...like what?

No more cinder block magic discussions. We have flown too close to the sun on that one. The barge is not a fan.

lol

@Klaus said in Buy fractional shares of anything!:

Only fractional shares? What if I want to buy square root of 2 many shares? Or even Pi many shares?

sqrt(2)/1 is a fraction. so is pi/1.

Darn I was hoping for a forced participation feature!

@Axtremus said in Webpages these days...:

The cookie/privacy notice is driven by privacy laws ... EU enacted GDPR, California enacted CCPA. If you built a website, you might as well make your site GDPR and CCPA compliant for every visitor, including ones that may not hail from the EU or California.

And the options suck and are hard to interpret. Should have two options... track me is okay or don’t track me.

@xenon said in True story:

Hahah.

Whenever I see the sign “silence is violence”, the 10 year old in me can’t help but think of farts.

Am I supposed to be staggered by how deep that thought is? Because if so I’m a reactionary.

@Aqua-Letifer said in DWW:

I'm a bigger Faulkner fan anyway.

+1

@Aqua-Letifer said in Tea Pretension Level: Grand Hipster:

@brenda said in Tea Pretension Level: Grand Hipster:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Tea Pretension Level: Grand Hipster:

@Axtremus said in Tea Pretension Level: Grand Hipster:

What with the hipsters and pu-erh tea? Maybe I missed a marketing campaign somewhere. As Chinese teas go, pu-erh seems to have been elevated beyond reason by tea enthusiasts in the USA.

I think because it's so different. Hipsters like arbitrarily old processes (hence the chemex nonsense, vinyl, tea crap, etc., etc.) I like it because 10g of good pu-erh tea can make like 10-15 cups. Rebrewing is clearly superior.

Chemex is hipster?

Hubby and I are hipsters. Who knew? Not us. 😆

It totally is! Welcome to the club! Can I interest you in an arm sleeve tattoo and some fair trade beach towels?

No, thanks, but hubby would like to order the kit for growing a full head of hair, with the beard option, please. He already has the flannel shirts.

I was always told that if I wasn't in bed by 10pm.....

To just come home.....

You're welcome. Use it in good health. And hey, if I can call you Ax, you can call me Cats. Just don't call me late for dinner.

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That article contains several factual errors and omissions. The guy was released after the first rape because the evidence at the time suggested he didn’t do it.

@jon-nyc said in Delisted:

Writer

C'mon.

"Writer" of "pieces" on websites.

There we go.

@taiwan_girl said in This is awesome:

@Aqua-Letifer It is too bad that most (or many) of the Amish stop school at Grade Level 8. I believe that they won a US Supreme Court law that allows them to stop at that point.

Yeah, I think it depends on the community how they decide to do it. Considering what high-school experiences can be in many parts of the country, though, I'm not universally convinced that the Amish have the wrong idea.

@George-K The made me remember reading about another zombie fungus. But this one is with ants.

The fungus causes the ants to do a "death grip" on a leaf. But the interesting part is that it had to occur in a very very very specific spot for the fungus to live on

-QUOTE-
"Most had: a) found their way to the north side of the plant, b) chomped on a leaf about 25 centimeters above the ground, c) selected a leaf in an environment with 94 to 95 percent humidity and d) ended up in a location with temperatures between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius. The researchers called this specificity "remarkable."
-UNQUOTE-

Crazy how the fungus could do that to an ant.

Zombie Fungus on Ant

@Rainman Too funny!!

There was a blonde stewardess who experienced the same thing. She ran into another room and got a pistol, ran back to the bedroom and put the gun to her head. Her husband told the woman in bed with him "see, I told you she was nuts". His blonde wife said "Shut up! You're next!!"

Wow I bet!! I always think of the opening scene of Triple X, when I hear their name:

@Copper said in NYT guild demands paid ‘sensitivity readers’ for all articles:

They both look like green circles.

For TNCR to eliminate inequity and discrimination so that we can do our best posting and opinionating, we must have a strong presence of green circles containing X's or H's. We are fortunate to have both. 😑