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@jon-nyc Pretty sure my 18 year old could do that.

https://x.com/kfile/status/1940768589910257818?s=46

Early adopter…

89th, frightening story. 99% of these kinds of stories turn out just fine. And that's the issue.

A new absurdity in the bill: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/upshot/republicans-food-aid-alaska.html It goes like this: the intent was originally was to make the states that have higher error rates when it comes to administering the food stamp programs pay more -- supposedly this is to encourage states to "have skin in the game" to lower error rates when administering the food stamp programs. But to get Murkowski's vote, with Murkowski representing the state with the highest food stamp administration error rate, the Senate bill ended up adding a provision that exempts states whose food stamp error rates exceeding certain threshold from having to pay anything at all (at least for a while). so if the Senate bill ended comes to pass, the states with high error rates will be exempt from paying for the food stamps (at least for a while), while states with low-enough food error rates will have to pay something. in effect, this may end up incentivizing states to jack up their food stamp administration error rates (at least for a while) to avoid having to pay anything towards the their food stamp programs. The modern GOP really sucks at governing.

Gary Kasparov, no friend of socialism, had this to say: An NYC mayor who doesn’t believe in capitalism is like a Secretary of Health who doesn’t believe in vaccines. Sorry, bad example!

@89th said in Fuck coding: I just saw some window washers, their jobs are safe for now. Link to video

@jon-nyc said in The America Party?: Maybe. Since 2016 I’ve thought we don’t need a third party since with social media anyone sufficiently popular can commandeer one of the existing ones. That’s probably true now of the Democratic Party too though it held out a little longer. I think you're right about this, Jon. But I don't think anyone has really pushed this. A lot of a party's power comes from funding, which goes to traditional media, which goes to getting a message to the mainstream. As Mamdani recently demonstrated, you can be a nobody if you can make effective viral videos. I think the parties have much less power right now than is recognized.

@89th said in Watching Lia Thomas win: @Horace said in Watching Lia Thomas win: @jon-nyc said in Watching Lia Thomas win: Kuran developed that concept when you were in high school. I’m sure the ideas have been around for a lot longer than those particular labels for them have been. The social dynamics have been manifest and obvious forever. I mean you were in high school for like 9 years, so there’s a good chance for Kuran Still smarter than Taylor Swift's boyfriend. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/travis-kelce-hardest-part-hosting-snl-cant-really-read-1236445700/

Saw this in a news report: It is rare for people to fall off a cruise ship, but when they do, they often do not survive. In 2019, the most recent year data is available, 25 people fell overboard and only nine of them were rescued, according to a Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) report.

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My new car is being delivered to my home. On a Carvana delivery truck.

@Doctor-Phibes said in BBC News now wants $8.99 a month for subscription.: I may end up paying, particularly if they start charging for BBC sounds, which makes my drive to work bearable. I am guessing that you are not talking about this website? 555 Many years ago, I came across this and bookmarked. Quite interesting with a lot of unusual and different sound effects. https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk for example Aircraft: Trident - Exterior. Taxi up & past. Bottles - Barman setting out bar, background traffic Birds: Pigeons - Pigeons: Flying, Chasing in coop. etc

Klaus is going to shine with his Ravel’s Sonatine. But I will forever have the distinction of being the first person to ever play all three movements on his piano. And quite well, I will immodestly say.

In contrast to his roughneck public persona, Moe was, in private life, a quiet, dedicated family man, whose hobbies included reading, playing bridge and making hooked rugs. Moe was the business-minded one of the group. He knew that Curly liked to spend his money on partying and women, and Larry liked to spend his at the racetrack. So, he drew up an agreement where Larry and Curly turned over a certain percentage of their salaries to him. He, in turn, invested it for them. The result was that, while Larry and Curly were not as wealthy as Moe was (he invested far more of his own money and was quite well off), he ensured that their spendthrift habits did not result in their being broke when their careers ended. His famous "bowl" haircut came by accident. As a child, his mother always wanted a girl, and with Moe being the youngest at the time, she would play dress-up with him, putting him in dresses and bologna curling his long hair. One day, after being picked on for months in school, he and some friends hid in the shed, and he chopped all of the hair off, using a bowl as a guide. After doing so, he was so afraid to face his mother, he hid for hours. Finally coming out, after seeing his hair, she cried out that she was so happy he did so, simply because she couldn't bring herself to. His hair stuck with him all his life. Howard got the idea for the notorious Stooge gag of eye-gouging one day when, during a game of bridge, Shemp Howard leaned over and poked Larry Fine in the eyes for not playing well. The result: Larry cried, Shemp apologized, Moe laughed until he fell out of his chair and walked through a glass door. He considered the eye-gouge the funniest thing he'd ever seen and decided to use it in their act.When The Three Stooges shorts began to appear on local children's shows in the late 1950s, there was a wave of kids poking each other in the eyes. When Moe heard about this, it was the Stooges who came to the rescue. They went on many local television shows, as well as national television, and showed how the eye-pokes were done in a way that nobody got hurt. To the kids watching, it was like learning a magic trick. (IMDb) Happy Birthday, Moe Howard!

@89th LOL

[image: 1751508696555-img_5073.jpeg] Scientists have observed octopuses punching fish, and sometimes it seems to happen for no clear reason other than what might be interpreted as spite. According to Science Alert, in a fascinating study published in Ecology (2020), scientists observed octopuses teaming up with fish to hunt in coral reefs. These unlikely alliances are usually cooperative: the octopus flushes prey from crevices, while the fish chase down anything that escapes. But every so often, the octopus does something unexpected, it punches its fish partner. With a swift jab of an arm, the octopus will strike a fish mid-hunt. Sometimes it’s strategic, maybe the fish was getting too close to the prize or disrupting the hunt. But in other cases, as marine biologist Eduardo Sampaio and his team noted, the punch seemed to serve no clear purpose. No food was at stake. No interference was happening. The octopus just punched. Researchers call this “active displacement,” a way for the octopus to assert control or perhaps vent frustration.

@Horace said in Feeling old yet?: The more time you spend on the treadmill, the longer the day feels. I feel that way about our elliptical in our basement.

lol.

Moyers was ordained as a Baptist minister already by then. What an interesting life.