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    Great!
  • The election-related headline I least expected

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    The Democrats are currently at 254 seats in the House and it ain't over yet. "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." --Lindsey Graham
  • The man who walked from Chile to England

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    I'm getting lost in time and space reading that website. LOL! I need to get some work done here! I might just have to get a copy of his book.
  • EV battery improvements

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    A month ago, according to rumor "news" Toyota was bringing an EV with a battery that would charge quickly and be good for over 600 miles to market. A couple of days ago, the "news" was that Toyota will produce an AREV (advance range electric vehicle), battery powered, but with a small motor running a generator to charge the batteries. General Motors early EV was electric with a small motor generator, but they were poorly made and caught fire too often from what I read. Many locomotives are electrical with diesel powered generators and have been for years.
  • Covid comes to the SK household

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    So sorry, SK. I hope the Zoom call goes well - and then you submerge and rest.
  • I'm telling you

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    Same experience with autobrakes as jon-nyc. I haven't found where to turn it off in my car yet. Related and very annoying is that if I'm backing out of a space on a busy street, my steering wheel vibrates, the dashboard lights flash and an alarm rings every damn time a car passes behind me. FFS, I know there's traffic there! As far as spying, of course today's cars spy. They send speed info the insurance companies. I am led to believe that my car does not do that though, I was adamant with the salesperson.
  • National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

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  • Its GAME TIME

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    The cankles are a nice touch. [image: IMG_5211.jpeg]
  • Where was Ax?

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    @Axtremus said: (If you like what happened, you should pay me to travel again in 2028. ) Great photos! I won’t embarrass myself by trying to guess, although some of them I have an idea.
  • Speaking of bravery

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    Alternative headline: not all heroes wear capes.
  • Word association thread

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    Trump Coin
  • Hegseth

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    There’s one vote for impeachment right there.
  • Will Trump drop a nuclear bomb on Iran?

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    Link to video Scott Ritter disagrees. I'll choose Scott Ritter's analysis of the this war or about any war over Tucker Carlson's analyses regarding the same.
  • Haley Stevens

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    Yes, I do disagree. The ad couldn't have been "too much" when his campaign had played basically the same ad throughout his campaign. That's a cover story. Again, this particular charge of "anti-Senitism"? She should get a life. You can't legitimately violate your "principles" when you have none.
  • Modern Thanksgiving

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    Mrs. Miller will never allow a giblet in her kitchen. Ever.
  • Schopenhauer (@jon-nyc)

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    I having a passing familiarity (but little) with Kant, Russell, and Wittgenstein. I've studied Wittgenstein. I remember nothing. While I'm on the subject, I'm into Foucault (and have read many of his works), but have no use for Derrida.
  • Who's ready for 2028?

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    https://magic-8ball.com/ This might be useful tool. Or not.
  • Resurrected from the (presumed) graveyard

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    I can't give away trade secrets. And yes, I was surprised to find that the forum has been sitting there since 2005. Someone is paying for that storage even though no one (well except me) can get to it!
  • Good reason not to have wifi on your refrigerator

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    Technology has become much too complicated as well as intrusive. All of this is much more of an energy sink than a convience. It also (electronics in appliances and devices, and cars, unfortunately) has a clear (and severe) tie in with planned obsolescence. I started using Android for the simplicity of it, the easy to understand and use software interface. Motorola has added so much bloatware to my phone since I bought it that it's not the same phone now. It also changes the user interface in numerous and random ways every matter of days (not weeks). Its battery is starting to drain progressively faster for the maker's purpose that a phone with a sealed battery (or every phone) is on a downward glide path to becoming inoperable (when otherwise it would last for many years). This is one time I won't mind it. I hate this phone with a passion.
  • Pope Leo votes by mail

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    Bob Dylan meets with Pope Leo at the Vatican. [image: alt text] https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/04/bob-dylan-meets-pope-leo-xiv-in-the-vatican-with-music-faith-and-a-rosary-gift