@89th said in West Point Time Capsule: I figured my reply was riddled with typos. Kidding, although sometimes sarcastic, I find some of your replies thought provoking by focusing on the context of situations instead of just the who/what/when. Thanks 89th. All in a day’s work. You know, for a public intellectual.

@Mik said in Alcohol doesn't make people seem attractive: You old reprobate... Nicest thing anyone said to me all day.

"Oversteer," LOL. This whole story made me smile. Oh... Link to video

Congratulations to the happy couple.

I thought this was going to be a forum thread about the start of World War 2, as it is almost that date.

@89th said in AI ages people who died young: I'm too lazy, but I wonder if there's a site that compares AI aged celebrities who are still alive, so they can see how accurate the AI is. Feed a photo of a young Paul McCartney, Keith Richards or Willie Nelson into the program and see what it produces.

@jon-nyc said in Suggestions?: @Jolly said in Suggestions?: Where should the new building be built? Mar-al-lago? :spittake:

@Mik said in New frontiers in Antivaxia: @Aqua-Letifer Why did I not raise an eyebrow to that? The question answers itself.

Good analysis or, at least, cleverly critical. Still, well worth the read whether or not it is accurate. As a geopolitical and diplomacy related corollary, this came out yesterday in The Moscow Times: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/30/washingtons-hesitant-ukraine-strategy-hands-victory-to-putin-a82295

BTW, I think the vote totals this year will be less.

Music ed, concert and marching bands... Nobody really wants to do marching band. Practice starts in August, fer Gawd's sake. Nothing like packing around a tuba or a set of quints in 95 degree weather. And while high school might get away with duplicating a show, that ain't happening at the collegiate level. At that level, the music drops on Monday, first rehearsal is Tuesday and all steps and music are down dead cold by Friday afternoon. But marching bands can help drive budgets, because they are so visible. Concert band is the fun stuff. More time to learn. More time to practice. More forms of interesting music. And you don't sweat as much. So I understand the reason to do the former to get to the latter.

@Jolly said in Comer: We want the Sock Puppet Letters too...: Hard to spin this one. I stand by this statement.

@jon-nyc said in Poor customer service: Cristian Hernandez, 24, took his 11-month-old baby to Royal Flesh Tattoo and Piercing, 4005 North Broadway, and asked the staff to pierce his manhood late on August 7, the report said. When I first read that I thought he was trying to get the baby’s dick pierced. Yeah, that's kind of poor writing, although you have to assume that "the baby" was male. I suppose if he really meant that, the writer could have said "babyhood?"

That's one fucking ugly website. There's so many graphs and tables of data I just lost the will to live. Thank God for all the commercials getting in the way. And what is this one intended to report exactly? [image: 1693448800792-6d0910aa-32cb-4a13-ac9c-672093575dc1-image.png]

I think she has been proud ever since Barry Soetoro won the election. My guess is that she is still proud, but you never know.