I recently watched on line a show called Frontline, which talked about the current campaign and discussed the two candidates. I thought it was quite good. Talked about them in a pretty unbiased manner and showed both their faults (like the one above) and also the good sides of both men. Frontline TV Show on President Trump and VP Biden

Typical politician. Pretending or trying to talk down what he did in the past if it doesn't fit what is current.

@taiwan_girl said in Snake with a tape.: @Jolly Easy way to clear up the "you say, I say" would be to illegally release the actual document. LOL

@bachophile said in Discover instruments: The Baroque Trumpet: Always amazing how composers are able to write music for instruments they don’t play There's a story about the Stravinsky violin concerto. Willy Strecker of B. Schotts Söhne, Stravinsky's music publisher at the time (and also a friend of Dushkin's), asked Stravinsky to compose a concerto for Dushkin. Though Stravinsky was reluctant, citing unfamiliarity with the instrument, Strecker assured the composer that Dushkin would consult about technical matters. Stravinsky noted in his autobiography that Dushkin's availability for such advice was a factor in his undertaking the Violin Concerto. He also sought the opinion of composer and violist Paul Hindemith, who allayed Stravinsky's fears, suggesting that his unfamiliarity with the instrument might help him come up with new possibilities. Stravinsky met with Dushkin at Strecker's residence in Wiesbaden and decided to go ahead. Early in the compositional process, Stravinsky devised a chord which stretches from D4 to E5 to A6. One day while he and Dushkin were having lunch in a Paris restaurant, he sketched the chord on a napkin for the violinist, who thought the chord unplayable, to Stravinsky's disappointment. On returning home, however, Dushkin tried it out on his violin and was surprised to discover it was actually quite easy to play. He immediately telephoned Stravinsky to say that it could be played after all. The composer later referred to this chord as his "passport to the Concerto" The "passport chord" is heard at the beginning of every movement, each time in a different configuration. [image: 440px-Passport_chord.png]

This is a weird spin. Especially the part about ‘most of us pay our taxes this’. As if payroll withholding and obscure carryover tax credits written into law by lobbyists for developers are somehow the same thing. When a poor family has no tax liability due to the EITC I wonder if this author considers then to have paid $x,000 in taxes. Haha no I don’t.

@George-K said in San Fran Nan speaks: asshats on both sides of the issue exist. Yup. I am not surprised!!!

@Jolly said in Therapeutics: China has now said publicly, they will not vaccinate their entire population, but will rely on the new wave of therapeutic drugs. "Treat" rather than "prevent." Interesting.

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Can two people in different carousels “kiss” each other when the two carousels are closest together? It would be very impressive (and dangerous) if the tolerance is that close.

I read about a Scottish nationalist MP who had symptoms, caught the train to London, gave a speech in a Covid debate of all things, got tested positive, and then lied that she had a sick family member and caught the train back to Glasgow. Talk about not being ready for government.

@Jolly said in Reshoring: @taiwan_girl said in Reshoring: @Jolly @Mik Agree with both. Always thought a better strategy was to make people not want to illegal immigrate to the US Impossible strategy. I am not sure that it is. Many countries (for example Taiwan, Korea, etc) have made tremendous economy gains for the countrymen over the last 50 years. Why not Mexico and other countries from South America?

@jon-nyc said in Amazon.com’s COVID-19 infection rate: Lower than the US average. Good for Amazon! How diverse is their workforce? I would have thought they went home to close quarters and were part of the cohort disproportionally hit by Covid. Maybe not.

@taiwan_girl said in So this happened: Age is just a number A bloody big number in some cases. I was carded at the age of 32 when I visited the US. The chances of it happening now are zero. I went from looking like a teenager to looking my age (and more) almost overnight. For some reason it coincided with when I got married.

I thought bitcoin was not a common like the first sentence says. We need @Aqua-Letifer to edit for them. Lol