[image: IKQ7HYOFINFIJMSPYHCPTZ4RH4.jpg?auth=5a5fdc2d282f1ada0a865ffc14dec1eb33e9eaea7d92a07926c41c0fccb96409&width=1280&smart=true&quality=90] Big Boy is in our area. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/here-he-comes-million-pound-steam-locomotive-big-boy-rolls-into-chicago-area-this-week/3943201/ @steve-miller - Coming your way very soon! https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/06/big-boy-no-4014s-northeast-ohio-route-is-set-see-the-towns-it-will-roll-through.html

I knew fog was creepy. Did not know it was infected.

Erin Brockovich gets involved: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/erin-brockovich-says-people-angry-165957745.html For now she's not taking side (at least not overtly). She's just advocating for more transparency and crowd-sourcing information about plans for data centers.

Good use of ill-gotten gains. I've read that the wine industry in Georgia is booming. Never had one but I'm sure we will.

Well, "science" is a interesting topic but like any sub-branch of any epistemological system, science is not an exact science (pun intended). Questions like these aren't "solved" and then set in stone or displayed in a glass case. "Measurements suggested the giant planet's rotation rate was changing over time, as if Saturn were somehow speeding up or slowing down. That puzzling result left scientists searching for answers." I'd venture to say it appeared to be "changing" in fact because it was and is always changing. This isn't so much a mystery as it is the nature of the universe. I just posted about this topic in my Chronos and Kairos thread. https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/3681/kairos-the-ancient-greek-art-of-knowing-when-to-act#:~:text=Kairos%3A The-,ancient,-Greek art of We human beings have to be vigilant continuously about what Karl Marx (the writer whose work is canonical among intellectuals, not the "communist" we all love to hate) called reification. Reification involves setting up a continual feedback loop where we "play back" what we think we know in a way that the only outcome is our belief, whatever it was when we started believing it, can only end up being fallaciously reinforced. The planets, the galaxy, the universe-- are never static and if a human being truly wanted to map their machinations, he or she would die trying...

Highd up to 89, scattered showers. Lows around 80, but for some reason the lows are are going to drop to low to mid 70s for several days. That will be nice. Not worried about hurricane season. I'm actually more worried about tornadoes after experiencing one.

I'm a layperson and even I can tell you the applicable law is as plain as day.

He took the Commissioner of Social Security (or Acting... I should know this) and gave him a second job sinultaniously with a new (never existed before) title-- "CEO of the IRS." He was going to dispuse the monies through SSA payments.

Oh ye of little faith, it's 5-D chess.

It was only a matter of time!

@rontuner Yes I agree, combined with pedalling skills. I mean, it varies from a slowly pressed and held key of a Chopin nocturne, all the way to the heavy impact of a Fats Waller's fast left hand stride. Combined with pedalling effects.

Wow, great work!

I thought this was maybe him energetically off to see buldozers start on his 1.5 billion golf course, hotel & residential complex in North Vietnam. Land there is owned by the people, but managed by the state. Authorities keen to appease Trump, are forcibly moving the living and exhuming the dead from a 990-hectare area. Money talks, but there are some very unhappy locals.

So recording the voices of other people as well? I thought wiretapping was illegal.

Thanks for explaining that, jon.

Friday Saturday and Sunday in London all hit 30 degrees. Some relief today as 23 forecast. Let me bore you all with my first world misfortune. Wife flying 11am Saturday on SIA. "Let's get the super-fast Queen Elizabeth line"... 6.20am we walked past our car to tube. Got to Paddington no problem then told both tubes to Heatrow were down. Shambles, absolute nightmare, tube stopped at Hayes station one stop away from Heathrow. Up the stairs, one young lad the only visible member of staff. We stood in the sun with hundreds of other people waiting (with suitcases, increasingly hot &panicked) for a replacement bus service. After an hour waiting & literally unable to get on a bus, we ordered an Uber, shared with a young American on his way to Chicago to visit girlfriend. Our driver was just great, sailed past stationary three lane traffic and into terminal 2 drop-off by a clever back way, taking only 10 minutes. God knows what foreigners think of our inability to cope with incidents (flooding at Heathrow, obviously can't get an emergency plumber out early on Saturday). Anyway Mrs A got through baggage in 2 minutes and away she went. Guess what? I joined a couple of hundred weary frustrated arrivals with suitcases queuing (another hour of joy) for the replacement bus service back to Hayes tube. In full sun. I use the word queuing loosely as the bus drivers are incapable of stopping at the sign, just anywhere within 20ft either side of the sign will do. Pot luck if you were by the doors when it stopped. Given the traffic I witnessed, driving may not have got us there in time. Six hours after leaving the house I was in a cafe in Covent Garden trying to chill (in every sense of the word) with daughter, not really hiding her amusement very well. She has the daily joy of London Transport's unpredictability.

It wasn't that long ago that people would show disdain towards anyone who used Google, or god forbid, Wikipedia, to get answers to bolster their point of views. Now here we are (not me, but you already know that) fully embracing a system based on stolen goods that believes it's own lies. How times have changed.

Chronos beats his time drum and I'll let you in on an arcane fact few people know. Time can't be measured. There's no begining where it could "start" and so there's likewise no "stop" point, either. It's always changing based on the solar system, also, so even if you hypothetically found a stating point, it would be wrong in an instant. Kairos was apparently the Greeks' answer to this problem. He makes time definite by choosing his timing. It's not an easy thing to do and I imagine it's become even more difficult as kind of "analysis paralysis" can develop as society becomes an instrument of distraction in itself. I love classics. I never put much time in it but I do intend to learn Latin (not spoken) and to study classical literature and mythology. My digital Casio got "touched" when I was moving it and started to chime on the hour. I don't argue with it.

@Big_Al said: I sometimes think of people I knew and have met on the various forums over the years. Then, I wonder where many of them are now. I was just thinking the same thing a couple of days ago and thought about starting a thread about it. I thought maybe some folks keep in touch with people who no longer post here. I'd love to hear how they're doing.