The New Coffee Room

@Horace said in The US Manufacturing Wins Deserves It’s Own Thread: six figure unionized assembly line jobs? Good for those who get them. That's not going to last long. They'll have to replace them with Roberts.

I totally feel like a drink or 4 but I'm still (mostly) not drinking. Only if we're out of town.

We have chats at work and we discuss all kind of shit there. I imagine if you have chats in a sufficiently large organization then yes, some people would talk about sex stuff. No big deal, in my opinion, as long as nobody's in the audience who doesn't want to read this. If you take the collected chats of every company with more than 10,000 employees, then you'll find "sex chats" with 99.9% probability. It would be different if chat rooms specifically for these topics were explicitly and officially created. That would raise questions.

@Klaus said in German Election: Oh I see. But given that more young people voted left-wing your caption doesn't seem to be consistent with the graphics. It’s not about the actual number, it’s about the significant growth. It’s a far larger number than a few short years ago.

Speaking if SF10’s. Between what years was this model considered at its best?

@Jolly said in HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!: @LuFins-Dad said in HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!: This ought to get a reply from @George-K Dr. K hasn't been here in several days. He may soon have company. I'm thinking of taking my business to Bluesky. All I have to do is post something like "Joy Reid was fired by racist MSNBC white male executives, because Trump's DEI policies force companies to fire all of their Black employees". I get about 100 likes in an hour by posting that. AND several mind slaves. here, I get jack shit for posting anything. This place is complete garbage.

Cost of install at point of manufacture is probably pretty reasonable, done well, and adds a nice feature that will hopefully resonate with modern piano buyers. Crossing my fingers they've worked to make it as open ended as possible. A lot of this proprietary nonsense piano makers have come up with is counter-productive to the industry long-term. (imho) There's a reason MIDI standard remained relevant for so long...even as "HD MIDI" languages with thousands vs 127 levels of expression have been around for so long.

I blame the Joos. Morganthau decided to flatline the European piano manufacturers. Obviously. Be seeing you…

@Tom-K said in I was just the victim of racism!: @Horace said in I was just the victim of racism!: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xleJE4oSV3pFWO4iSg2BScR0voTm-ev3/view Damn! A 26 page screed about what it's like too hate yourself for being black and for being a woman. I started out reading the paper smirking and wincing but then I kind of started to feel feel sorry for her. In person she probably a very toxic person to know. It is an interesting read. Yes it was interesting that by the end, the friend blocked her and just told her that she lacked the energy to deal with this stuff. That tracks.

So far, everything seems fine. That said, quite a few of us in the piano rebuilding industry get soundboard and pinblock materials from Bolduc in Canada. This could add a pretty good chunk to the retail cost of a restoration. Or, I suppose more folks would try a handful of other suppliers. They're out there, but tend to be spotty in terms of reliably having product.

@LuFins-Dad said in Moonlight by Frank Pollaro and Bösendorfer: I’ll bet $50 that this piano is first delivered to a no sales tax state… Montana.

LOL just this morning my wife was trying to tell me a story while I was getting the 4 and 2 year old dressed, both who are loud and don't stop talking, so I literally told my wife "just yell the story to me, I can't hear you!"

To each his own, Brother L.

@LuFins-Dad Don’t assume Fogel was forgotten or left behind. For one or more reasons Putin wanted to hang on to him until the right opportunity presented itself. That opportunity was now. The queer black basketball player would have been too high maintenance for the Russian prison system to want to keep around. Similar with Gerkowitz. Whelan was probably just a pain in the zhopa and of little bargaining value given his background history. Fogel on the other hand, was a valuable team player who gave English lessons to other inmates and likely any guards who wanted to learn. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/12/washington-to-release-russian-crypto-kingpin-alexander-vinnik-in-exchange-for-marc-fogel-us-official-says-a87975

Our kids also love the show "number blocks" which is a mind melting repetition if squares doing addition over and over in a fun animated way. They are learning math(s) so quickly, at least. And these quasi-educational shows are SO MUCH BETTER than the hyper-edited crap on youtube.

Isn't Burt Reynolds' son a tech guy in Hollywood?

One of ours was like this. It was always when the other humans were away.

Does Rubin still work for the Compost?