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Reminds me about a flight a few years ago...overheard inflight by me sitting in the last row of the plane while listening to the the two flight attendants in the staging area behind me...

"DON'T Panic, DON'T Panic, DON'T Panic, DON'T Panic, DON'T Panic...Get Back, Get Back, Get Back..."

I can't see Pritzker getting very far. He's just not that cuddly, engaging or smart. His policies are too conventionally Democratic.

Watching a Canadian show from 2012 called Continuum. It's about some folks who time travel from 2077 back to 2012. There's a "protector" (policewoman) who is tracking a group who were slated for execution for crimes against the state. It's not a 3 star series (46 episodes) - worth binging but not lifealtering.

Speaking of cars - Jeeps are a vehicle that a lot of people want to own - and yet, year after year are terribly built - and nearly anyone who has owned one never wants to buy another. Why is that in 30 years of such a record (they're still being built) no one has been able to make them a better vehicle? Subarus were horrible cars at one point with a wretched reputation - but concentrated on fixing that - and now, they have a decent reputation - at least, better than Jeep.

@Horace said in SpaceX to launch Starship 6 tomorrow at 4 EST:

I sort of believe it when people say he’s not really a scientific or engineering genius per se. Does the book indicate any extraordinary precociousness?

He lives audaciously. He's bright - but not warm and fuzzy. He pushes himself and those around him - a lot. With SpaceX - he liked to show up conventional business practices. He wanted to show up the idiocy of paying for normal business practices - i.e. oodles of specifications set by bureaucrats and paying for incompetence. He avoided all of that - and instead aimed at the outcome - and how to get their quickly and economically - available parts that do the job - as opposed to custom. He likes to roll the dice - and put it all on the line - and has done that more than once. Not an easy person to work with or for - but he's rolled that dice successfully more times than one should expect.
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In the past few months, I've noticed a lot more non-fact kinds of posts on FB, TikTok, etc. They'll be something about a ridiculously high fine in sports, Lia Thomas surrendering Olympics medals, a celebrity death, the View is being cancelled, etc. The ruse is to people to respond with "about time" or "great news" or some other commentary. In any event, the noise to signal ratio has increased a lot - and is rewarded.

I enjoyed that biography - a lot. It was one of those books where I was a little sad when finishing it.

Yeah, we know everything there is to know about discipline

@Horace said in Tyson vs Jake Paul Who wins??:

Complete waste of time.

A contender for the truest words ever spoken.

Its over. One could see more violence in a chess tournament.

First 3 rounds , I’ve seen more of excitement in my aquarium.

Hope for Tyson but think it will be Paul

While in graduate school, I worked an internship at Quaker Oats. They owned a pet food company - Ken-L Rations (no relationship). In speaking with one of their staff about pet food, she said one of their goals was to create food that would make the dog/cat fly across the room to eat the food. If that didn't happen, owners would choose a different brand, assuming that the dog didn't like the food - even if it were balanced and nutritious.

It's easy to see that the food industry did somewhat the same thing for humans with our snacks and processed foods.

It will seem more reasonable when his second choice of Don Jr is announced.

I haven't seen any confirmation of an actual hit - though it has been reported that there was an attack.

@George-K said in Funny Pics:

There was a plastic surgeon at Rush years ago named Rand(al) McNally - and a general surgeon named Dr. Slaughter.