@Mik said in Earthquake in Taiwan: 7.4 and 7.5. Those are big shakers. Speaking of which ... https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/04/style/taipei-101-earthquake-design-intl-hnk Check out that 660 ton golden steel ball that helped stabilize Taipei 101.

She’s a sport.

If these rules can be made by executive fiat, what's to prevent them from being unmade by executive fiat. Biden did exactly that with respect to the southern "border."

Just finished that book myself a couple months ago. Actually read it rather than listened. Love Steinbeck. But of course categorical statements like "invention can only occur in a single mind" can be framed as wrong, for anybody motivated to frame the idea as wrong. Which a lot of people would, to the extent the idea was used to glorify the individual over the collective.

https://x.com/chiIIum/status/1775850374970130506 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13270063/portland-public-schools-lawsuit-family-nine-year-old-girl.html

I am getting tired of these Biden antics to cover up his mess.

Robotics, CNC, RC, should have rendered the human presence in (insert your mined element here) mines, or just about any commercial activity that is dangerous to humans, obsolete and unnecessary, decades ago. Instead we focus on the non-dangerous activities like arts, coding, design, financial, etc. Silly, stupid human race.

I have always had mad respect for Jose.

@Horace said in Meanwhile, in Maine...: Then they would change back if the popular vote looked to be favoring the wrong candidate. Exactly!! LOL Right now, I am sure that the % of Democrat favoring this is quite high and the % of Republics favoring it is quite low. Fast forward X years in the future, and things may be just the opposite if Republics are winning the popular vote but losing the electoral.

Yes, I have heard that. Right now, it costs more to recycle a plastic bottle and turn into a new one than to make one from scratch. (Interesting that most plastic things are petroleum based. Oil has to go up quite a bit in price before plastic recycle will work)

@Jolly said in TB Chicago: Typo. Too many 0's It’s also 100 per YEAR.

Da fix is in. Very Chicago.

India was a mess when I was there in 2006. Especially the cities, but even the villages.

I noticed they went right probably a decade ago. But not nearly as much as the NYT has gone left.

Young enough to do the crime, young enough to do the time. I have far more sympathy when they are contemplating jail time for an 87 year old who committed the crime 5 decades ago.

Only some jurisdictions elect judges. FWIW

Two terms ago there was a moderate democrat running in the primary who was the son of the founder of Regeneron, a biotech about three miles north of me. I thought he would have been a great rep. Mondair Jones won instead, he and Richie Torres in the south Bronx, elected at the same time, were the first two openly gay black men elected to congress. Mondair lost his seat two years later due to redistricting. Bowman was elected to our new district. Mondair Jones was on my bill. I’ve visited Torres once and Bowman twice and they haven’t signed on yet. I even have a photo with me and our CEO and Bowman in hos office. If I can find a copy I’ll post it.

@George-K said in The James Effect: @LuFins-Dad said in The James Effect: It’s similar to defending the KKK’s right to protest… But when you do so, you will give the appearance of approval. DIdn't seem to bother the ACLU, back in the day when they stood for "liberties." In those days the ACLU was a nonpartisan watchdog…