https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1698140067535999394?s=20

Just curious ... anyone tried out the Henle Library app? (I haven't, I read about Henle's plan for a sheet music app years ago and thought they had good ideas, but I haven't follow up.)

@Renauda said in Is Luna 25 alive?: One would think so. One can be forgiven, I think, for suspecting foul play.

@Mik said in Barbie vs Oppenheimer: Saw it today with MFR. actually quite brilliant filmmaking. Completely original. Which movie?

I guess that explains why many of our mudders didn’t let their kids play in the mud.

I ran across this, and it seemed like it belonged here. https://x.com/jeremyjpatino/status/1697424075004477448?s=61&t=kW-toSefgdnrs8VlDTCruQ

Don’t know, but Bowie felt SRV had something. I remember reading an interview with Jimmie Vaughn years ago in which the interviewer asks why he had not met with same success as his younger brother. Jimmie simply responded by saying while he was primarily just a hot blues guitarist, Stevie was first and foremost a musician and an artist. Bowie probably saw that in him as well.

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/09/01/sixth-circuit-rules-owners-of-cars-taken-by-asset-forfeiture-have-constitutional-right-to-a-hearing-within-two-weeks-of-seizure/ Yesterday, in Ingram v. Wayne County, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a decision holding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the government to give owners a hearing within two weeks, in at least some cases where their cars seized through asset forfeiture.

Not seeing any explanation in the article about how removing content from streaming platforms will save them money. :man-shrugging:

I support the proud bigot.

@Axtremus said in Right to Repair - McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Edition: they charge $350 per quarter hour ($1440 per hour) to come out to service these machines. That's more than....ah, never mind.

@Axtremus said in Maybe a nice measles outbreak would do it...: Indeed there might be a difference, Ok.

lol

@Mik said in The key to stopping a CCP invasion of Taiwan?: TG, would you go home to fight? I have no idea about your continued ties to Taiwan. No right or wrong answer here. Just wondered how you felt about it. My heart says "yes", but I realize it would probably be more support than actual "front line" fighting.

But, will he ever be able to succeed his father (or even President Trump) in a game of golf??? ".....the 38-under-par 34 reportedly fired by the late North Korean despot Kim Jong Il, a man known to his people as Dear Leader and to you and me as Dear Top-the-Leader Board. According to official North Korean state accounts, Kim’s round, the first he’d ever played, was highlighted by five aces." https://golf.com/news/behind-kim-jong-ils-famous-round-of-golf/

@Mik said in China's decline - coming soon (another article): That's another discussion. It's well known that China does all those things repeatedly and enthusiastically. Correct. And many also require foreign companies that do business in mainland China to take on a local partner. I have talked to a few people in that area, and most foreign companies sell at least one or two generation old technology to China as they know it will be tried to be reverse engineered.

Old article, but it points to the theory that weight gain is not as simple as just the calories you take in. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/magazine/13obesity.html

@89th Interseting to see how they are all intertwined.