Impressive!

He would issue empty threats on Moscow prime time TV followed by a Soviet era movie on the 1939 Battle of Khalkin Gol against the Imperial Japanese Army. https://thediplomat.com/2012/08/the-forgotten-soviet-japanese-war-of-1939/#:~:text=In the summer of 1939,and 1%2C000 tanks and aircraft.

Very. Brrr.

Malcolm Gladwell had a column many years ago about how there was a lot of cheating in sumo wrestling.

We have to decide who we trust more, the government or insurance companies. OK, trust more is not really accurate. We have to decide who we trust less.

Hope the fish are alright.

I wonder what sort of overlap we'll see between those who have no issue with Trump's history being mined for anything he could be accused of, and those who have issue with black DEI scholars having their work put under a microscope.

We use the utility sink in the basement. A garden hose adapter for the faucet to a trigger hose sprayer with different spray patterns. Make mixing the hot and cold water easy. Used to use, and still have a dedicated bath tub on legs. Even have the stairs option for it but we never used them Cosmo just wanted nothing to do with a bath and refused to walk up the stairs. [image: dog-wash-tubs-booster-bath-elevated-home-pet-wash-tub-8_1024x.jpg?v=1590676156] Cosmo. [image: 20220109-181801.jpg]

Opera Tenor served on board a boomer. He'd know.

That sound you hear? That's the rumbling of lawyers. [image: 1708705564630-gg-qvxtxuaamwco.jpeg]

It's not a vote for Joe Biden, it's a vote for liberal justices.

From what I understand you really have to work at getting a Gila to even bite you. I think there may be more to the story. Here’s a from last year’s season of Kings of Pain. It’s a bite from the Gila’s less venomous cousin, the Mexican Beaded Lizard: https://m. Link to video

@Horace said in Racism update 2024/02/20: He speaks and performs well, for an overbearing blowhard. I mean it's not just me. The comments under that video are almost unanimous. Those who know him by reputation still have a lot of respect for him, but in that sense he is a figurehead, and he is a figurehead because he was promoted to be such. And he was promoted to be such due in large part because the west loves to promote people of color to classically white figurehead positions. Anyway obviously this is not provable and we can disagree. I'm not convinced that there is no bullpen behind him containing one or more white faces. Not that I care about who is or is not the popular face of science, I just can't not acknowledge the skin color aspect of that position and how giddy the culture is to promote an appropriate looking person in that role. I think we're talking about two different things. You're talking about his reputation now and why it exists in the way that it does. I don't disagree about that. I was only speaking to how he got from research scientist at the Hayden to someone people outside of planetarium conventions pay attention to. Speaking to that, you may find him annoying, but start hanging out with other planetarium directors and then reassess. The life of the party they absolutely are not, so in comparison, Tyson's an obvious choice for a more public face. The events that led to his presence beyond his field, sure, I could see it being a bit of a woke sensibility thing.