https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-china-security/taiwan-says-chinese-fighters-u-s-aircraft-both-entered-defence-zone-idUSKBN2A00I3 “TAIPEI (Reuters) - Six Chinese fighter aircraft and a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Sunday, the island’s defence ministry said, in an unusual admission of U.S. military activity.”

Many businesses business model is reliant on government regulations. Huzzah.

@lufins-dad said in Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize: https://babylonbee.com/news/blm-nominated-for-new-nobel-mostly-peaceful-prize

@horace said in What a fascinating thing in the Theranos documentary: They are essentially shame detectors. Exactly

@aqua-letifer said in Snow, Snow, Abominable Snow: @lufins-dad said in Snow, Snow, Abominable Snow: I made the mistake of stopping there last night to pick up shrimp for Karla and Berries for Finley. It was a madhouse (and they were sold out of both shrimp and berries, Northern VA is so spastic). FIFY. I'm pretty sure Northern Virginia is where Dave Chappelle gets his best material on white people. Seriously... Plenty of regular milk... Almond milk otoh? Bread was well stocked... Ciabatta rolls? Gone...

@brenda said in Controlled by bugs: Wondering if/when such a link is also found in humans. It’s not my fault! It’s the microscopic organisms!

@jon-nyc said in Lots of stupid prizes to be given out: @horace said in Lots of stupid prizes to be given out: Heck, no left-leaning member here even mustered a tinge of outrage about the fascistic, armed CHAZ takeover of a sovereign Seattle neighborhood. You must be considering me a centrist? I certainly consider myself left-leaning. Did you muster a tinge of outrage? Maybe I missed it. I remember Mark making fun of right-leaning media calling it out for what it was. He thought it was funny that Fox news had convinced people it was a big deal.

I agree McCarthy is misframing this as an ‘amendment’ However I suspect Justin Amash was right the other day when he said that everything that needs to be illegal post Jan 6th is already illegal, and this is just a bill designed to make it easier to investigate Americans without due process

@axtremus said in Hey, George.: Was the cat radioactive at the time? Maybe you’ll get superpowers out of this. Oh, cool. He could fly over Chicago and drop wombat shit bombs on people.

Is it really wise to put these two prototypes so close together? What if a failure drops one on top of the other?

Has anyone sold 2nd hand stuff via Christie’s or Sotheby’s? What sort of listing fee and/or sales commission do they charge?

Remarkable letter. Wrestling with a pig as they say.

@axtremus said in Anybody watching Wandavision?: If you have watched the Avengers movies #2 (“Ultron”) and #3 (“Infinity War”), you have enough background to make sense of Wanda Vision. I would add End Game to that list as well.

@doctor-phibes said in Thoughts on "our new normal": @horace said in Thoughts on "our new normal": @doctor-phibes said in Thoughts on "our new normal": I have a team meeting every couple of days, and have a couple of people I'm getting a bit concerned about. I think if you live alone, particularly where the lockdowns are more draconian, this situation could get really miserable. I have a team member in the UK, and there's another guy in Dublin, and they are struggling. How are their symptoms presenting? High stress, anxiety, over-reacting to relatively minor things That must be hard to watch. One of my husband's coworkers got with 3-4 other single co-workers and rented a beach house together. I thought that was a great idea. Much better than being alone.

Looks great, George. I've never cooked one that way. Looks easy and yummy.

@loki I’m not sure I understand your question...If a flag was used during an insurrection does it make a difference to who? The insurrectionists? The general public? And what kind of a difference? Does it make it better? Like “Well, they tried to stop the certification of electors but they were wearing flag t-shirts so they must not be too bad...” ? Or do you mean, “It was bad enough what they did, but to do it under the guise of patriotism and the flag is worse!”? If it’s the latter, I agree. Glad they are going to jail. Have they arrested the guys that trashed the Steinway store in Philly yet?

Is there a little hydropower generator built into the thing? How else you’re going to power the electronics? And do they use discreet mechanical buttons for controls? Why would you do that when you know he users will fiddle with the controls with wet fingers? EDIT/addendum: found my answer, the speaker is removable and you charge it through a USB port.