At that rate 12,000 x 365 = 4,380,000 US Active-duty military in 2022 = 1,300,000 2022 2nd highest population city in the US Los Angeles 3,822,238 About every 11 months add another LA, that is a broke and uneducated LA

@Aqua-Letifer said in Booming Christmas and a Banging New Year: You all do rum cake? That was pretty big back home. Ate the last piece of a Kahlua rum cake today. This is not my wife's recipe, but it looks good: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/my-grandmas-best-kahlua-cake/ Now, rum cakes get better as they sit. I had a boss years back, whose wife made the best rum cake you've ever had. She'd let that thing sit and pour a little more rum into it every so often. I ain't lyin', eat three pieces of Joyce's cake and you'd be above the legal limit to drive.

@Jolly said in AI in antibiotic research: will many strains of bacteria lose their resistance to the older antibiotics Bring back penicillin and streptomycin, ftw!

Crappy time of the year to be impacted - provides one more time for carolling.

They’re not expediting

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Nice.

@George-K said in 54 emails: I wonder if patriot Vindman has an opinion on these emails. The Ukrainian Mole?

I don't care if it is the right list. There are still a lot of perverts' names on it.

The vast majority of Stable Diffusion's bandwidth is being used for porn. Ask me what's in their dataset.

@George-K said in Medical School in Illinois: @Aqua-Letifer said in Medical School in Illinois: We don't respect poetry anymore Probably because it's not taught, and therefore not understood. I asked my kids who ee cummings was. They had no clue. I knew cummings when I was a freaking sophomore in HIGH SCHOOL. That's pretty much the ideal time to learn about cummings. They didn't know? SMH. "What's a sonnet?" Oh for fuck's sake. But yeah, I get it. In the few places where it's taught, too, they do nothing to make it accessible. And the funny thing is, there's nothing more accessible than poetry. It's how we passed the time before TV and, well, capitalism. You'd have a pilgrim stay at your house overnight on his way to the holy land, or a traveller making it home by foot after a viking raid destroyed his ship, whatever, and you'd share poems you knew with the folks who took you in for the night. Everyone was quite keen on it. That goes back to ancient times, but even in the Victorian era you'd have folks makin' up washing songs, sea shanties and sing-songy taunts to aggravate your classmates. It's far more natural and long-standing than writing with a pen and people don't even know what it is today.

@LuFins-Dad said in No Re-Pete: Not going anywhere without the coaching staff to find and develop the talent. Kevin Dotson was a Steeler 4th round draft pick at RG back in 2020. He flashed enough raw talent that he actually made the starting roster that year at LG. The kid was mediocre. He would have good games, he would have bad games. Ultimately, Pittsburgh “upgraded” the position by acquiring Isaac Semualo at LG and brought in James Daniels in 2022 at RG. Both were considered to be massive improvements for the Steelers line. Pittsburgh traded Dotson to the Rams, who switched him back to RG in a more modern NFL blocking scheme. Kevin Dotson is now the 5th highest ranked OG in the game, while James Daniels is the lowest. Seumalo is right at League average. Did Dotson magically improve? Did the other two suddenly develop crippling injuries that reduced their ability? No. Coaching is the difference. If you don’t have good coaching, you have no idea what you have in the way of talent. I think it's coaching. I also think it's scheme. Look at Brady when he went to Tampa Bay. In Arien's F_ck It and Chunk It offense, Brady looked bad. When they incorporated a lot of what Tom did in New England, the offense took off. Look at Brees in New Orleans. He was pretty good with the Chargers, but no HOF quarterback. Peyton built on Brees' strengths (recognition, accuracy) and addressed his weaknesses by having great center and offensive guard play. Plus, Peyton likes to run and do a lot of play-action stuff.

Uyger: "The queen of Jordan has condemned...." Murray: "I care about her opinion about as much as I care about the opinion of Meghan Markle."

This is a nice series, overall. I do things a hair differently, but this is pretty good for a shed... https://m. Link to video

@Axtremus said in Avoid It: Cited in the article is a former Compaq PC engineer saying that Apple, Inc.'s hardware is not that reliable. I have never used Compaq's computers before (at least not that I can remember), so I am curious to ask: if you have used both Compaq and Apple's hardware, which do you find more reliable? If memory serves, they were a behemoth in the bad old days when PC compatibles were really expensive. Reliability wasn't really the issue as much as cost. They were pushed into obsolescence by companies like Dell and Gateway which really was the point at which the PC became the default for home computing rather than non-PC alternatives like Commodore and Atari.