@George-K said in Earth’s land mammals by weight: I've read that the biomass of insects and arachnids exceeds even this. Yup, they're the red section. Also, the weight of bacteria WTF. [image: 1675882779289-ef46c2aa-2be1-4cb7-b2e7-184eed24d2b6-image.png]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Which Scalzi book to start with?: @Mik said in Which Scalzi book to start with?: Old Man's War or Kaiju Preservation Society? Something else? I need to pick a book before I ditch my Audible free trial. If you want a long-ass series, Old Man's War. If you want a one-off to test the waters, Redshirts, Fuzzy Nation, and The Dispatcher are all great. (That last is part of a series, but they're very short and great on Audible.) Yes.

Can’t think of any precedent for such a move. Doubt that it is even practicable diplomacy. Edit: did a bit of digging and found no other report of this suggestion from the Polish PM. I call BS that it was ever made. I conclude the originator of this dubious tweet is a Russian troll as his Twatter handle describes.

The truck never gets out of his lane.

@Axtremus said in Finally! A great use for ChatGPT: So … no complain about ChatGPT having any ideological or partisan bias here, right? Right? They are doing something to avoid chatGPT’s self-moderation. I dare you to try to get those sorts of outputs from ChatGPT. Maybe they are doing word replacement for non political queries.

Didn't the Soviets throw enough money at this dead horse?

@LW said in Old TNCR: @Copper said in Old TNCR: overrun by political conservatives who tend to gang up on anyone slightly different Those people are awful [image: 1675798237379-613c1beb-bd58-4bae-99a6-73f127af937f-image.png] https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=5625.0 He wasn't wrong... I definitely feel in the minority here. However, I haven't been here at all for what, 5 or so years, and am only just starting to lurk around again. Not much has changed, and yet, I still come back to you old farts. Smarter Good looks. Superior policies. We're hard to resist

That’s are tons of Sears houses in town. They’re pretty universally in good shape for hinders plus year old homes.

Oh, my demo version stopped working altogether. I was under the impression that the demo would run for 20 min or so, rather than just implode. Oh well....

@Aqua-Letifer Isn't that a bidet on the bottom left?

@Aqua-Letifer said in Throw the baby over the fence.: @Jolly said in Throw the baby over the fence.: The obvious cases are the easy cases. When you have a cancer on the body, you cut it out. Animals like these are a cancer on the societal body. You can't ever turn these killers free. So give them a fair trial, let them appeal the verdict if they wish and if they are guilty beyond doubt, execute them. That's not vengeance, that's simple justice. Look at this from a different perspective...You are gone to work and your home is invaded by a couple of strung out losers intent on thievery and murder. Your wife grabs your child and runs, only to be dragged down, raped and stabbed to death. Not wanting to leave any witnesses, they cut your child's throat and laugh as the body twitches and heaves. You come home to find your world destroyed and much of what you love sprawled on the floor in dark pools of congealing blood. This horrific crime is all caught on the house surveillance cameras and the police have the perps in custody within 24 hours. At trial, there is no doubt of guilt. It is irrefutable that these two men are the murderers. So, what is justice? To allow two animals such as these a life of incarceration? To know that what you love and hold dear, is gone from this earthly world forever, while these two fools' biggest worry is what the prison is cooking for supper? To clothe, feed and shelter them with mine and yours tax dollars, monies that could be spent for good, not for the continuance of Evil? Nay. Justice would demand their lives be forfeit. Execute them and be done with it. Rats do not understand nuance nor should they be availed of it. Your whole thing with the liberal woke nonsense is, "it allows my side to justify going lower," which is exactly the same thing. I don't want civil codes to be set by the worst of us, sorry. The entire point of not executing them is that not doing so is better than they deserve. Lad, a chaplain and a shot at deathbed repentance is more than kind. Note that Jesus told the thief on the cross that he would go to paradise based on his belief, but the Son of Man did not bother to take the thief down from the cross.

Maybe throw him in with the goats after they haven't eaten for a few days?