Somehow I don’t believe this was a cultural practice obtained from their European colonizers.

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@George-K said in Wide load.: I commented to Mrs. George how, during our education, people used to talk about the "normal 70 kg male." That's 154 pounds for you 'Murricans. BIRM

@LuFins-Dad said in DEI feedback survey: @Doctor-Phibes said in DEI feedback survey: You guys all talk a good rebellion Mmmm, I’m not in a business too bothered by this crap, anyway. Plus, I actually hire a pretty diverse crew. Not through any intent, purely accidental, just chose the best applicants. But mostly? We’re in a position that if worse comes to worse, I could invest into buying myself a small business and feel comfortable enough to make a go of it. Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we?

I said way back when my kid was in high school that gay was now a fashion statement.

@Jolly said in Film Camera Sales: @89th said in Film Camera Sales: I literally just bought a polaroid camera, btw. Sure the film is like $2 per photo, but I went to an event with my 5 year old daughter the other day and someone took a photo of us. Man it was so nice to hold the physical photo, as imperfect as it is. Will be something I display/cherish forevah. Bad thing about Polaroids...They are bad about fading over time. Good call. I'm swapping to Instax.

@George-K I am aware of another variant, popular in certain parts of Asia, there the thumb is placed between the middle and ring fingers instead.

@Mik said in Tough Bird: Was it a brand you normally buy? Local grocer's brand.

"Islam is foul."

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/this-hospital-ceo-is-done-playing-nice-with-medicare-advantage.html

https://www.cnn.com/travel/mount-everest-trash-removal-2024-intl-hnk/index.html As the 2024 Himalayan mountaineering season gets underway, another high-altitude project is in the works: removing tons of trash from Mount Everest. According to the Nepali army, the Mountain Cleanup Campaign collected 110 tons of waste between 2019, when the program started, and 2023. The army, which conducts the cleanup initiative in partnership with the multinational brand Unilever, will head up the campaign again this year. Twelve members of the military, supported by 18 Sherpas, will arrive at Everest Base Camp on April 14 to begin the work. In addition to removing an estimated 10 tons of garbage, the army said in a statement that they plan to bring five dead bodies off of the mountain. These bodies are of climbers who perished while attempting to summit the world’s highest peak.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/09/florida-highway-shooting-eclipse-god The lady was actually from Georgia, but happened in Florida so I think this forum thread is appropriate. LOL A woman checked out of a Florida hotel on Monday, told staff that she was going on a God-directed shooting spree because of the North American solar eclipse that day, and allegedly shot two drivers on Interstate 10 before being arrested, according to the state’s highway patrol. [image: taylon-nichelle-celestine-22-arrested-79721427.jpg?w=1024]

Private for sure

Very true. Wise to consider one's circumstances when contemplating acts of nobility.

We bought a vacant one acre rural residential lot on the edge of the Canadian Pacific Northwest region in 2016 for less than 100k CAD (75K USD). The same lot today would sell for 250K CAD (183K USD) despite two massive and devastating wildfires in the immediate area; the first in 2021 and then another last summer. Demand and prices for real estate continue to rise throughout the region. That part of the world is in high demand for the 50 years plus generation whose careers are either winding down or in retirement. Although COVID might have initiated higher demand in past few years for various reasons, milder climate and accessibility to amenities and infrastructure were, and continue to be, the drivers. The now forgotten eclipse of 2017 had nothing to do with any of it.

The High Court agreed in December 2023 to take up the challenge from Jan. 6 defendant Joseph Wayne Fischer, 57, of Jonestown, Pennsylvania—one of 353 people charged with corruptly obstructing Congress on Jan. 6. A decision is expected by late June. Many defense attorneys believe the Supreme Court will strike down the DOJ’s novel use of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act to prosecute defendants for the hours-long delay of a joint session of Congress due to violence at the Capitol. The statute behind the charge was put in place to prevent the kind of evidence tampering seen in the Enron and Arthur Andersen scandals. Another Jan. 6 case recently reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which ruled that for the purposes of federal sentencing enhancements, the joint session of Congress does not qualify as “administration of justice.” The sentencing enhancers in some cases had resulted in vastly longer prison sentences. A number of other potential constitutional challenges could be in the works among the nearly 900 completed Jan. 6 cases, defense attorneys say. A likely challenge will address U.S. District Court judges’ refusal to date to grant a change of venue in even a single Jan. 6 case. Defendants have argued that heavy pretrial publicity and the District of Columbia’s almost monolithic Democrat jury pool make it nearly impossible for Jan. 6 defendants to get a fair trial. Another common objection lodged by defense teams is the alleged withholding of exculpatory evidence by federal prosecutors. The 1963 Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland established that withholding of evidence that is material to guilt or punishment is a violation of a defendant’s right to due process. Defense attorneys have complained for more than three years about the DOJ’s “global discovery” database that contains millions of documents, photographs, and video clips. The system can make it nearly impossible to find exculpatory evidence that prosecutors are supposed to provide to defendants in the first place, they say.

@LuFins-Dad said in Earthquake this morning here: @Aqua-Letifer said in Earthquake this morning here: @LuFins-Dad said in Earthquake this morning here: @Aqua-Letifer said in Earthquake this morning here: @jon-nyc said in Earthquake this morning here: You have to imagine though, if several hundred years ago the ground shook like that then a few days later the sun disappeared, we’d definitely be burning some witches. Yes because today we're far more enlightened. The weird thing is Mayo is publishing a study showing the opposite of what they are claiming in that link… https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/271630 Yeah I know they're kind of backsliding into normalcy but my point is, we consider primitive cultures so backward and stupid and look at the crazy shit we're having "debates" about today. Sure we have antiseptics and rockets now but on average, we're no more enlightened. Hell, I think we’re less. I'd say so.

@Jolly said in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Trans-ka-Ban: Musing ... Would the trans-mania ever been a "thing" without the internet? Well, it's Web 2.0. Social media platforms reward being first. So if you can gin up a mob, you get a ton of recognition, support and hell even brand deals.

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