@Bernard Rust Reformer is amazing stuff!

I figured we'd heard it before and adapted it to the way we do things. I hope employers don't time shift in order to get away with not paying extra for working on holidays!

Just catching up to this. Straight to the video. https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-daisy-the-ai-granny-wasting-scammers-time/ AI Scambaiter: AI ‘Granny’ to waste scammers’ time Link to video Best I can do, when a scammer calls, is to keep the line open but hit the mute button. :man-shrugging:

Thank you all for the care and welcome! Warms the heart.

Cool! Brilliant minds.

A man that required a full time hairdresser got control. Everything went to H*ll. They scattered.

I have not read about this very much beyond randomly looking at headlines. But I am wondering how such a ban would be enforced? Couldn’t someone using a vpn and setting their country somewhere other than the U.S. easily circumvent it?

@CHAS said in Performance Report #2 (plus recording): Like the recording. Very well played. You were great. Thank you so much!!! Thankfully, I don't have to take responsibility for the piano!

Yep I’ve noticed it too. I’ll have to brace myself to read that, it’s depressing!

Sick people die in their own homes for lack of treatment. Well, spare me the "dark Africa" trope. The same thing happens in the US every day. The victims of Hurricane Helene are now freezing to death outside in tents. Yes, monitor everything. But there will always be new viruses and bacteria killing humans. It's a fact. This is to say practically nothing about engineered viruses. I'm not putting this on my list of top twenty problems. YMMV.

My favorite historian is David Starkey. This is what he calls himself. It seems his full name would something like Sir David Starkey, CBE. He's a knight unless he gave his knighthood back and I missed it. He's an example of finest scholar Cambridge used to produce and might in the future (you can only hope). He's 79 and still working. May he have many more productive years.

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@CHAS Thanks for that link! I've never seen one of those. That plug lock design could help me with the basement problem. I just have to confirm that it would work with the right angle plug that's on our cord on the freezer. @Qaanaaq-Qaalaaq is right....WTF is way better than a home improvement store when it comes to getting information....

How do you like your new job?

Penzey’s has Mexican oregano, too.

Possible impeachment. And a treason investigation. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korean-ruling-party-oppose-yoons-impeachment-2024-12-04/