Couple of exchanges between my anesthesiologist and I when I went in for my gallbladder removal:

He walks into the room "Hey there. Know who I am?"
"Yep. You're wearing the hat."
"Okay, great. I'll forego the talk about how the surgery isn't going to be scary then and get right to the questions."

Later, down in the surgery waiting area:
Me: "Say..."
"Yes?"
"Do you mind if I get up and go to the bathroom before you take me in?"
"Oh please God yes. THANK you."
"Yeah, I know the game."
"The game?"
"The Code Brown game."
"Yes. Okay good for you. Good for us too I suppose."

My head hurts.

@Mik said in So, I did the 23andMe thing.:

I know my family tree back to the early 1700’s on my father’s side and the 1800’s on my mom’s. I am hesitant to put my info in this data base and I have a pretty good idea of our genetic background already.

I'd say that:

You can choose whatever you'd like to share. (Yeah yeah I know, then you've got to trust the company, etc.) You don't have to make anything accessible to others that you don't want. Guaranteed you'd learn something interesting. People swear up and down their family ancestry is completely known and accurate. Interestingly, most are proven wrong about that after they see the data.

I get the hesitation, though. You're not missing out if it's not something of huge interest.

Byrd got a pass for his racist pass, kkk and filibuster of the Civil Rights Act and voting rights act. Later he changed, for whatever reason. It was unnecessary at the time for Biden (Under Obama) to reflect on an “only human transformation” and Instead gave an unequivocal account of the man’s life in his 20 minute eulogy at Byrd’s funeral.

I think a woke person’s head would explode.

It’s a good lesson on the way we used to think.

Americans who think they are so savvy now with their instant access to “news” on their devices likely no nothing about China’s Belt and Road Initiative. We are too busy obsessed and wallowing in silly rabbit holes.

@Jolly said in Three stabbed to death in Nice:

I think I read where over 60% of French citizens now have a very dim view of Islam. OTOH, young men are still trying to leave the ME for whatever reasons,

Mainly economics I think.

I think that is the main reason people are willing to leave their homeland for an unknown place.

(Of course, there is smaller amount that leaves because of safety, abuse, etc., but the main reason in economy I believe)

@jon-nyc For your question here, is there a "limit" on the number of decimal point for the 100 numbers or does it not matter?

For example, could one number be 0.1 and another be 0.100000001?

Swampy.

Seems like most of us have thought of other alternative.

Part of it for sure.

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Well done

This poll, that is. I like my steak medium.

@George-K said in Tesla Full Self Driving Mode - drone view:

@89th said in Tesla Full Self Driving Mode - drone view:

nice drone work

That's what impressed me. I think the drone driver was in the passenger's seat.

As I've mentioned, it almost seems as though monitoring your car's self-driving skilz is more work than actually driving it yourself.

But...baby steps.

Bet you it'd do leagues better on a highway.

He's been dead before.

The King gave all the land between Jamestown and the Pacific Ocean to the colonists.

Maybe the Queen could give us Mars.

Thus, at least according to James I's writ, the Virginia Colony in its original sense extended to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, in what is now California, with all the states in between (Kentucky, Missouri, Colorado, Utah, etc.) belonging to Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia

@Klaus said in For jon, klaus, phibes... maybe others:

Why is Heidegger at the bottom of this list?

Brush up on your punk rock, son!

@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey, Catholics and Lutherans!:

Do I... do I do Church of England stuff now?

I don’t think I’ve witnessed it. I am always up for an Aqua show.

Or ..maybe you gentrified it.

It's a THOOPERSPREADER event, scattering liberty and optimism across the nation.

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