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    Great!
  • This is disturbing.

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    This is disturbing. Very.
  • Palladium Style Estate

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    And currently on the market in the UK, I love this house: https://www.hamptons.co.uk/properties/20986898/sales/A1NQ500000P2AFOIAR#/ Seems to have enough space for a piano.
  • Testing AI coding tools

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  • It’s Monday, so this must be Greenland.

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    Donald Trump has sparked a fresh row with Denmark after appointing a special envoy to Greenland, the vast Arctic island he has said he would like to annex. Trump announced on Sunday that Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, would become the US's special envoy to Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Gov Landry said in a post on X it was an honour to serve in a "volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the US". The move has angered Copenhagen, which said it would will call the US ambassador for "an explanation". Greenland's prime minister said the island must "decide our own future" and its "territorial integrity must be respected". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgmd132ge4o
  • NATIONAL SECURITY!!!

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  • How Unprecedented is Trump's Presidency?

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  • Happy first day of winter!

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    Ax, beautiful!
  • 25 things you can do with your phone

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    Re: "Create a stethoscope" ... I came across a science fair project where a student built a system that (1) inserts a microphone into a cut-off stethoscope, (2) uses a smartphone to record the sound from said microphone, (3) is accompanied by his software with an AI model that can do some initial analyses of the recorded sound, and (4) packages up everything and sends to a human doctor. We awarded that project first prize for its category. Re: "Help yourself get to sleep" ... it need not necessarily be playing sounds of "white noise [or] ocean waves [or] crackling fire," it can be set to really boring podcasts, old TV reruns, lectures, sermons, audio books, etc. Re: "Control your phone with your voice" ... it occurs to me that maybe I use the word "cheese" to trigger the camera "click" function, that way I will be naturally saying "cheese" when taking a selfie. (OK, maybe double it up and use "cheese cheese" as the voice trigger to avoid accidental triggering of the "click" function.)
  • Another piano recording, just in time for Christmas!

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    Thank you!!
  • Theft at the Self-Checkout Lines

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    It’s all fun and games until you buy a potato. Potatoes don’t scan -someone has to identify it. Hilarity ensues.
  • Virtuoso tuba

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    @Steve-Miller said in Virtuoso tuba: Quite different. The Tuba has a much faster rotary valve action vs. the Sousaphone’s vertical valves. The tuba also has a fourth valve, the function of which zine never determined. Very impressive performance. I doubt it could have been performed on a Sousaphone. Very interesting! I didn't know about the differences
  • What are you reading?

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    https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/lists/living-recipients Veey moving, emotional reading
  • 'Theater Kid' as the New Political Insult

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    @Axtremus said in 'Theater Kid' as the New Political Insult: "What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?" They have fun.
  • Is illegal immigration a sin in the Christian sense?

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    It seems irrelevant unless one is a creed affirming adherent. Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, ... I think, if one takes the life of Jesus as one's model, compassion and fairness would take precedence. Isn't that what makes a christian a Christian? One wonders how many adulterers (and other "sinners") the minister extends communion to on a daily basis.
  • Sax appeal

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  • Candy store memories

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    @AndyD The idea of rhubarb custard candy made me chuckle. Despite all the positive reviews I don’t think I’ll be sampling it, though.
  • MIngle Meetups

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    Not understanding the social "vibe" here (at all) but then I'm anything but a "centrist."
  • Try these questions from South Korea's "very hard" English exam

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    Well, I got 3 of 4. I missed the last one because I misinterpreted what they meant by "where it fits." Yeah, pretty hard test for a non-native speaker of English.
  • [FAILED - feel free to ignore] Major Maintenance -- major OS upgrade ...

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    @admin said “now-useless artifacts” I wish you would stop calling me that.