@LuFins-Dad said in My nephew in the Rose Parade: The military bands are so vastly underrated. Link to video

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I was working with a neurosurgeon who was extracting some of these cysts from the posterior fossa of a patient's brain. As he pulled one out, he purposefully let it fall to the floor and yelled "This one's MOVING." The circulating nurse just about fainted. Of course, it wasn't moving, he just wanted to freak Maryanne out. He succeeded. Good times.

Interesting and quite "on time" article. I remember hearing that letting there be some small fires is better in the long run.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/oakland-fbi-investigation-ex-mayor-sheng-thao-indicted-amid-sprawling-public-corruption-inquiry/ar-AA1xkZJl A federal grand jury has indicted Oakland’s recalled Mayor Sheng Thao, a source with knowledge of the investigation told the Bay Area News Group — a stunning development in a federal public corruption inquiry that touched the highest levels of East Bay’s political class. The indictment caps a monthslong federal grand jury inquiry that shook the region’s political circles just months ahead of a recall election targeting the first-term mayor. Thao was booted from office by more than 60% of voters in November. Reached early Thursday afternoon, Thao’s attorney, Jeff Tsai, said he and his client had not been contacted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and they were unaware of any movement in the federal investigation. The development comes just a day after FBI agents raided the home of another East Bay politician, San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo, who, along with Thao, was among several officials who visited Vietnam as part of a trade delegation two years ago. The original inquiry burst into public view June 20 when agents with the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service raided four addresses across the city, including Thao’s home in the Oakland Hills that she shared with her partner, former City Hall council aide Andre Jones. Also raided were the homes and waterfront business offices of David and Andy Duong, the father-son duo who own and operate the city’s recycling contractor, California Waste Solutions.

#firstworldproblem

Genocide and famine, apparently.

The grifting senile old fart just cost you another $12.53. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/education-department-cancels-another-42-billion-student-loan-debt The latest round of relief provides $1.26 billion for 85,000 individuals who attended schools that allegedly “cheated and defrauded their students;” $2.5 billion for 61,000 borrowers with total and permanent disabilities; and $465 million for 6,100 public service workers, the U.S. Department of Education said on Monday. This latest action brings the total student loan debt canceled since Biden took office to $183.6 billion, benefiting more than 5 million Americans, according to the White House. In 2022, the Biden administration finalized a new borrower-defense rule designed to provide full relief to borrowers who had received partial forgiveness under the DeVos-era policy. However, the rule has been put on hold since the summer of 2023, following a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. That court granted a preliminary injunction in April, citing “numerous statutory and regulatory shortcomings” in Biden’s policy. The appellate judges also called some provisions “certainly unlawful” and criticized the rule’s “vague, brand new standards” for holding colleges accountable. “The unbridled scope of these prohibitions enables the department to hold schools liable for conduct that it defines only with future ‘guidance’ documents or in the course of adjudication,” the judges wrote in their opinion. “Simply put, the statute does not permit the department to terrify first and clarify later.” The Supreme Court has yet to say when it will hear oral argument "No one is above the law." Oh. My. Sides.

Good thing he’s knows some good lawyers.

Obviously impossible to judge the size of the meteorite, but I wonder what it's terminal velocity is and how fast it was going at impact.

I would have been stressed when young because I wouldn’t have known what I was doing. I’d be more stressed now because I still don’t know what I’m doing AND my hands have a bit of a tremor from tacrolimus.

@Axtremus said in The moment you knew you picked the wrong partner: Pppffft ... you know that list is hopelessly biased when you don't see "when I found out s/he voted for Trump" on the list. Actually, a more accurate representation might be "When I found out that s/he 'unfriended' someone because of the way that person voted."

@George-K said in He’s just babbling: power in the hands of a few ultra-wealthy people How could that happen?

@LuFins-Dad said in Should Jon and I buy Bosendorfer 230VC today??: @Jolly would you prefer the logo in brass or nickel? Pearl is not an option? (@LuFins-Dad take this back to Bosie/Yamaha HQ; may turn out to be a $multimillion idea.)

I think Garland regrets the day he took the DOJ job. He's been a disaster. Right up there with Reno.

I think so.

She's right, of course. I only saw her play once, down in Florida in 1986. Never saw a player move so fast in doubles. Stunning athleticism.

That is odd. I've been a Capitol One 360 account holder for a while (back when it was ING Direct) and we have regular savings as well as the performance savings, in fact most of our savings cash is in the latter since it earns 4% interest. I'm not sure how/why we moved money into it but we didn't have a problem knowing about it or using it as the article suggests. The $2 billion figure seems dramatic... consumers at some level need to be their own self advocates. Nothing was hidden about the accounts available to use, at least not to me.

I thought this had been going on for the while and wasn't there some US court case that gave the "right to repair"? I remember @Larry talking about it. EDIT: Here is one forum thread on it. Not exactly the one I am thinking of https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/10359/right-to-repair/2?_=1737033033630