@LuFins-Dad said in "Every book deserves to be heard.": Can we address the very notion that Every Book Deserves to be Heard? I kind of disagree with that very premise… Works for an ad conceit, though.

Maybe the current Congress can change the rule before its term is up. :man-shrugging:

It's kind of weird - when we moved there in 1997, one of the big selling points was how affordable housing was - the house we bought was huge by British standards, and cost the same as my very modest British house sold for..... ....then we got the winter heating bill. Yikes. Moving to Massachusetts was very painful - we got a house of roughly half the size for roughly twice the price. Now the Ontario prices look pretty similar to Massachusetts, which we recently left because of the cost.

Awesome!!!

@Doctor-Phibes said in Heading For the Door: @Copper said in Heading For the Door: Over time smart people will always outperform stupid people. A really smart person might realise that performance isn't everything and go to the beach. Making enough money to live simply and comfortably and then retiring asap is absolutely a smart person thing to do. But finding fulfilling work is probably a better option.

The article has very little to do with quality.

@Horace said in "Gettin' Old...": Maybe even dementia isn't so bad. I mean, I'm sure it's a real hassle for anybody who interacts with you, but for you, maybe you're too far gone to care. Maybe you can just live in the moment and appreciate every day for whatever it is. I'm told that is a good way to live. The worst thing my mother experienced was being told she had dementia. We all knew it was happening long before that, but after she was officially diagnosed she just sat and worried about it constantly as the slow deterioration occurred. I honestly felt as though it would have been better if she hadn't had the diagnosis, but it's necessary to get the help you need.

No, but thank God for them.

Try MTG and Maxine Waters. Proud Boys and Antifa Tucker Carlson and Rachel Maddow Hillary Clinton and Mitch McConnell But, there's no bias. ChatGPT told me so. [image: 1672928267714-screenshot-2023-01-05-at-8.17.27-am.png]

@Mik said in Five Semitone Difference: Why would you ever do that? (I'm so old that I remember the days before pulse oximeters) Nevertheless, after years and years of listening to the "beep" you get a certain frequency into your head. Anything significantly away from that usually means bad things. Apparently there's quite a lot of variability: Recordings containing 509 to 1053 pulse tones were made from the 21 pulse oximeters. Fundamental frequencies at 100% saturation ranged from 479 to 921 Hz, and fundamental frequencies at 1% saturation ranged from 38 to 404 Hz. The pulse tones from all but one model pulse oximeter contained harmonics. Pulse tone step sizes were linear in 6 models and logarithmic in 6 models. Only 6 pulse oximeter models decreased the pulse tone pitch at every decrease in saturation; all others decreased the pitch at only select saturation thresholds. Five pulse oximeter models stopped decreasing pitch altogether once the saturation reached a certain lower threshold. Pulse tone power (perceived as loudness) changed with saturation level for all pulse oximeters, increasing above baseline as saturation decreased from 100% and decreasing to levels below baseline at low saturation values. Since we always bought from the same company, I was unaware of how different the tones could be.

Side note... The U.S. used to produce a lot of furniture, mostly from Indiana and later in North Carolina. Some of it was cheap, some was good and some was very good. But even the very good stuff like Drexel, Kincaid, Rock City, etc., was affordable for what it was. Now, most everything is made in China and it's crap. There is still good stuff in the market, but it's priced beyond the budget of Joe Sixpack.

They’re screwed. Oh, wait…..