@George-K said in May is back.: In the first episode we hear about a "nipple cake" and the horse's "plum sack." After all, what's not to love about James May? FIASCO.

I did read that he continued the tourament later that afternoon. He is supposedly one of the top ranked Russian kids in chess in his age group.

A lot of Rockaway Beach is pretty... [image: 1658703294522-img_7581-copy.jpg] Last time were were there, we thought of staying in Lincoln city. We drove there from Portland, and it was absolutely nothing special (other than the ocean, of course). It's nice views of the ocean, but the town is a typical Oregon coast town - nothing special. It's a lot like Surfside, but not quite as trashy. I'd never stay anywhere other than Cannon Beach.

@Klaus said in What German soldiers thought about Americans in the aftermath of World War I: @jon-nyc said in What German soldiers thought about Americans in the aftermath of World War I: The German units had completely disbanded and he said every German soldier was trying to surrender to the Americans anyone but the Soviets rather than get caught by the Soviets. Fixed it for you. My grandfather was in Russa in '44 and '45 and he was among those who made a rally to the West when the end of the war was near. He was caught by Brits. True, no doubt. Although I suspect US or CA > UK > FR > SU in terms of preferences but Soviets would be so much worse than all other options that would be splitting hairs. In this guy’s case though, his immediate options were US and SU

Be careful about those rouge droplets.

@Jolly said in Wuppertal Suspension Railway: What is the advantage of overhead vs. conventional? The main advantage is that it's drawing tourists to the city.

Sadly not good news. Not yet anyway.

Or maybe Ikea. [image: main-qimg-cb98c805b11895f9721152591a665ffd]

@taiwan_girl said in QEPD: @89th 555 What ever happened to him? He, among others, is someone I would like to have post here again. He was unable to establish the intellectual underpinnings of his worldview adequately to maintain a presence here.

people have very short term outlooks. And the initial cheaper price makes the difference for them, even if long term it is more expensive. It is like that experiment that was done. I dont remember it exactly, but it was something like: They asked X number of people: You have two choices A. I give you $1,000,000 B. I give you $0.01 on day one, $0.02 on day 2, $0.04 on day 3, doubling every day for 30 days. Most people take choice A.

@89th You are probably right. I did read a business article one time and that article was saying that the best number of companies in an industry is 3.

@Mik said in Advice to Astronauts from NASA: We're planning to send people to Mars. One might reasonably think we could solve this problem as well. Genetic diversity demands a colony size of about 10,000 people. That means a lot of folks being transferred and a lot of babies, due to the ages of the people involved. We better figure out the problem of zero and low gravity reproduction.

@Ivorythumper I require 1x updates plz I know in April you also referenced the letter from your lawyer.

You'd think telling the 13 year old she needs to be modest would be enough. Clearly I only have a 4 year old, don't have to worry about this yet. But yes kids will be kids. I remember my parents wanted me to go to school with a tucket in shirt with jeans or something at one point....so I would get to to school, go to the bathroom, and switch into jogging pants or whatever I thought was better at the time.

Yeah I'm guessing it was more of a welfare check than kidnapping (otherwise, like you said @taiwan_girl it should've been an emergency alert). No idea. I kind of wonder if they went to the store to look at the parking lot footage. @LuFins-Dad maybe we are weird but we don't want a doorbell camera. I dont want the alerts or even a video of me coming and going during the day. I try to remain analog with a few things in my life, LOL. Although I have thought about getting a passive driveway camera just in case something ever happens that we need to look at footage of, such as a stolen package or even a kid running in a direction without our awareness.

@George-K Maybe it means to eat your pie in the shower? <Larry enters the chat>

That one is amusing. But sometimes I see signs in establishments, clearly the result of one or two annoying things that happened in the shop, that end up making all future customers feel accused. The passive aggression and angry vibes hit all the innocent shoppers. Some people don’t have a great temperament to own a retail shop.

50,000 would be unprecedented.