I'm working on Pagodes from Debussy Estampes, a couple of Rachmaninoff pieces, and putting not enough time into the 2nd Chopin Ballade. Oh, and nice peice, Tav.

@klaus said in The Top Scientist: I'd say anyone who investigates a topic using the scientific method is a scientist. I'm a scientist of photos of naked women.

@jolly why is it so hard to believe that people just did not like President Trump? And didn’t want to see him as president for another four years? People have a tendency to try and find theories, no matter how crazy, when things don’t go their way or if the outcome is different than what they expect. HR DEPT: i’m sorry, you didn’t get the job. We decided to go in another direction. ME: that is impossible. I know I was the best person for the job. There is no way I should not of gotten that job. There must be some other reason. Who is paying you to give them the job? What information do they have that made you give them the job? I know there is no way that they got it on their own! It is hard for people to understand when others don’t view you the same way you view yourself.

@xenon said in Keeping abreast of the news...: That daughter seems like quite the nutcase. Fair or not, reflects poorly on both parents. Well, her dad is a nutcase...

Time to drag Twitter screaming over the legislative coals.

@kincaid said in The Lie List: @aqua-letifer said in The Lie List: Dude, come on. It's "C'mon man". Or, "Give me a break". I don't think Biden uses the word "Dude". At least I hope he doesn't. I'd have to look, but I bet he does.

Major hint now. Imagine the board broken up (figuratively) into little 2x1 segments like this: [image: 1611755202580-screen-shot-2021-01-26-at-3.33.06-pm.png]

@klaus said in C-Sections: @axtremus said in C-Sections: children without in-utero “maternal bonding” with their postpartum caretakers also grow up just fine I believe there's some hard data that, on average, biological parents correlate with the best outcome for the children. A simple example is child abuse. Statistically, it is way more likely to occur with non-biological parents. Note that “biological parents” are not precluded from taking advantage of “artificial wombs,” should such a tool be perfected. There exists a scenario where the biological parents can still be the ones raising their biological children with whom they never had in-utero maternal bonding. (Even in the present, “surrogate pregnancies” create such scenarios; so chances are good that we will have lots of good data on this by the time we perfect the artificial womb technology.) Without that scenario, it comes down to whether the benefits of in-utero maternal bonding is more valued than the elimination of the risk, pain, and inconveniences of pregnancies. Even then it seems quite likely that a large enough population will decide in favor of using the artificial wombs (perhaps a bit like deciding to use formulae rather than breast milk even after examining all the evidence showing breast milk’s comparative advantages).

@kincaid said in RUSSIA !!! Election Meddling: I am more interested in how Joe kisses up to Xi. I got this from some Taiwanese news show: the report so far is that it irks Xi that Biden is still not taking Xi’s phone call even though Xi publicly congratulated Biden early on for his electoral victory not long after the election (certainly a lot earlier that Putin). Xi got a pretty quick call with Trump soon after Trump was elected in 2016, but Biden completely ignoring or avoiding Xi so far is causing significant angst and has led to the CCP putting out tougher “anti-American” rhetoric recently.

Hey, nobody makes fun of the Underpants Gnomes’ business plan! Link to video

@jolly said in Intended Consequences: The Golden State argues that a special exception made for California regulations in the Clean Air Act should also be read into the federal fuel-economy law. But that law’s text says no. If he’s right then it’ll get stopped in court anyway.

So they not only cloned Bernie, and Ruth too?!

As some wag said of Biden's EO binge, "Good thing we got that Fascist wannabe dictator Trump out of office!"

@george-k The county site directs me to our town's site which says that vaccine appointments won't happen until February 8 and that they will contact people. No Kaiser by us.

I don't know the forecast, but I noticed tonight that I had to walk through the rain in the evening walk.

Well, I'm an old softie. I think anyone whose service record is questioned as a hit piece, should be able to kick the shit out of the reporter, as long as the former soldier knows he/she is right. The reporter can defend him/herself as best as possible.

I googled it say this headline Twitter creates 'SecondGentleman' account for Kamala Harris... For I second I thought this gender fluid thing had gone rather far.

@jolly said in No jobs for you: @aqua-letifer said in No jobs for you: @jolly said in No jobs for you: And Joe McCarthy smiled. I heard here, after Obama was elected, as justification for firing democrats, that "elections have consequences." Several were in support of this. How many were in favor of pissing on the Constitution? So they're worse in my mind, therefore hypocrisy's okay. Gotcha.

@jolly said in What Mr. Biden does not want you to see.: @xenon said in What Mr. Biden does not want you to see.: Is it normal for the federal government to commission academic or historical reports? I'm guessing this was partly in response to the 1619 project? (at least the title is) Does it matter? I’ve @jolly said in What Mr. Biden does not want you to see.: @xenon said in What Mr. Biden does not want you to see.: Is it normal for the federal government to commission academic or historical reports? I'm guessing this was partly in response to the 1619 project? (at least the title is) Does it matter? The report?