@89th LOLOLOL Early June birthday for me. It's fantastic, right?

@George-K said in Medical conference bingo: This could probably be applied to most professional conferences. [image: 1683160116341-ftfgreaauaabitt.png] You can only play this card in the traditional way: whoever gets BINGO first wins. By the end of any medical conference, everyone's going to have every one of those spaces filled in.

About right...

I wondered whether it would be “fun” to keep an orangutan as a pet (legality aside), and this is what I found: “… because orangutans are so much like humans, they pose similar problems and challenges to anyone who owns them. They are long lived with a long period of dependency on a mother. They can transmit and receive respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases from humans. Improper medical care can result in a high mortality rate during the first year of captivity by pet owners. Additionally, they are particularly strong and are strong willed if they focus on something they want. They can be very destructive as they search for food items or play. As they age, they pose increased difficulty with their human owners who cannot properly keep them in humane conditions. …” Source: https://www.ourf.info/faqs-mainmenu-28/20-about-orangutans/29-do-orangutans-make-good-pets#:~:text=No%2C orangutans definitely do not,captivity at a high price.

She goes by Stan.

Everything that lives dies. That applies to celestial objects too. Works as designed.

Ya coulda had Dalton back.

@Jolly I seem to recall bach pointing out some years ago that Russian had become a widely spoken language of choice in Israel in conjunction with the impact immigration from former USSR states was having on the Israeli political scene.

You could probably subsidize the whole thing through Only Fans.

That is interesting. I know that there has been a lot of discussion on gut microbes and how they can effect weight, etc. but did not realize the mental side of it.

Get married. Have children. Attend church. Volunteer. You won't have time to be lonely.

Factory workers generally are not enamored of their jobs...

Fat is in Obesity is all the rage

Not sure I quite understood the videos.

nextgen airspace, gps for pilots adsb basic med limits what causes spin/stall 6 types special use airspace 3 aircraft certs as part of manufacturing type, production, airworthiness certs The administrator should be able to discuss the first 4 items, any pilot would be expected to be familiar. Items 5 & 6 are a little more obscure but certainly part of the job. I would expect him to be familiar at the latest after a few months on the job. They were Gotcha questions because the guy is obviously not in the business and the congressman knew it.

@LuFins-Dad said in "Nice security you have, it would be a shame if...": It sounds like there was a letter sent to the Justices addressing the issue. The letter addressed "appropriations". =-=-=-=-=- We write to request your support for including in the Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill language directing the Supreme Court of the United States to adopt more stringent and transparent ethics rules, as well as meaningful procedures to enforce those rules.... In the absence of such willingness, Congress has broad authority to compel the Supreme Court to institute these reforms, which would join other requirements already legislatively mandated.12 And Congress’s appropriations power is one tool for achieving these changes. During recent “interbranch disputes” between Congress and “a recalcitrant Executive Branch,” some courts have encouraged Congress to “withhold appropriations,” which can act as a “powerful incentive” for action within the executive branch.13 Nothing in the Constitution mandates that the judiciary be treated any differently when Congress is faced with judicial recalcitrance.14 Accordingly, we respectfully urge you to include the following language in the FY 2024 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill: “Of these funds, $10 million cannot be obligated unless the Chief Justice notifies the Committee on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress that the Supreme Court has put into effect a public code of ethics for justices of the Court, including policies addressing, at a minimum, circumstances requiring disqualifications and recusals, the receipt and disposition of requests related to disqualifications and recusals, and the publication of such dispositions and the reasons therefor; and procedures, modeled after the procedures set forth in chapter 16 of title 28, United States Code, for receiving and investigating complaints alleging violations of such public code of ethics or other misconduct by justices of the Court.” The court requested $10M for various security measures: With a new annual budget request posted Thursday, the Supreme Court told Congress that it needs nearly $6 million in new security funding to expand the protection justices receive following threats to the court last summer. “Ongoing threat assessments show evolving risks that require continuous protection,” the court said in its budget request. “Additional funding would provide for contract positions, eventually transitioning to full-time employees, that will augment capabilities of the Supreme Court police force and allow it to accomplish its protective mission.” The new budget documents referenced that additional funding and said with the next round of annual spending, $4 million of what it requested would go to the “annualization of police pay adjustments and protective activities that were funded” with the supplemental security bill. So, no there was no direct threat of cutting security. However, SCOTUS requested $10M in ADDITIONAL security. The letter states that it might withhold $10M in the budget for SCOTUS. I'm sure that's a coincidence.