@wtg said: As you say, better in someone else's yard. Yep! BTW I have been monitoring the lack eyed susan's in the front of our house, and I'm convinced that the animal doing the eating is a deer. The reason I think that is because the spots that are eaten are in the middle of the bunch, as if a large creature walked up and bent their head down from a height, rather than at the edges, as you might expect with a small creature sitting low to the ground and chewing at that height. This is my current "plant detector" analysis. I remain hopeful that there will still be blooms come July

I guess we're the same age. I come of age (70) next month. And about Fleisher, he was a judge at one of Piano*Son's competitions in Norfolk.

@Axtremus said: filled with pond scum something something ... like attracts like.... something something

A decent man.

The perversion of unfettered capitalism. It's been plainly clear for years and years and years that the inevitable outcome of this system--left unchecked--is a concentration of wealth into very few hands. Meanwhile, in the US, children are left hungry, 90% of the citizens experience financial insecurity, ad nauseating lib. It's gross. Not because of the people who are rich (although so very many of them can be held up as examples of uncaring greed), but because unbridled capitalism is a seriously flawed system. Some day we will overcome the economic destruction ushered in by Reagan.

In New York City, the common pickle is the half-sour, the staple of the Jewish deli, and perfect complement to your pastrami sandwich. There are still a couple of retail businesses that specialize in pickles, filling your container from a barrel. The half-sour is delicious, and most supermarkets carry the jarred Ba-Tampte brand.

Bloomberg seems to have gotten a copy of a draft of the MOU. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/read-the-14-point-draft-memorandum-between-the-us-and-iran-220917023.html

The linden trees are blooming here. My best friend's birthday is June 22 and the lindens are always in bloom for her birthday. The lovely scent (especially strong in the evening) always remind me of her. We had a birthday dinner for her with her family when she turned 40 at a restaurant that was near a grove of lindens. The scent takes me back to a wonderful celebration. Near my house: [image: 20260616-185922.jpg] [image: 20260616-185842.jpg] Makes me crave a cup of linden blossom tea!

Yea, the Albanians aren't happy about this. At all. https://www.npr.org/2026/06/16/g-s1-128162/albania-resort-protests-kushner-trump

Oh, those crazy Norwegian fans: Link to video View from the top: Link to video

Good advice. I am from Swampeast Missouri. In the early 20th century a project to drain the area moved more earth than the digging of the Panama Canal. Drainage still requires year round vigilance. Mosquitoes love it. The mosquitoes stayed.

https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/581171685186994176?s=46

@Daniel said: Yeah, it's a scary topic. I won't regale everyone on a Saturday night with the horrible facts about it I have filed in my memory. Why do you find it scary?

It surely didn’t hurt.

Are you interested in learning from human experts about how AI could impact the future of work and the customer experience? If so, it turns out that you could have unknowingly been getting some of your responses from AI. KPMG, one of the largest consulting firms in the world, is accused of publishing a report on the future of AI with 40 of 45 citations that appeared to be at least partially AI hallucinations. In one instance, uncovered by the AI safety firm GPTZero, the report claims that the Japanese East Japan Railway Company (JR East) is using agentic AI for customer service, linking to a 2019 press release, years before agentic AI became mainstream. In another instance, the report falsely claimed that Austrian electricity provider Verbund is using AI agents in households to conduct real-time analytics as part of its “energy-as-a-service ecosystem.” Although Verbund invested in a start-up using agents for grid optimization, there was no evidence to support the claim of real-time analytics in households. Many citations linked to existing studies, but the titles, authors, or dates were incorrect. Researchers were unable to match many citations to existing studies due to insufficient information. The report, which has now been taken down, has been referenced by multiple customer service publications and a major newspaper in the Czech Republic. In addition, researchers noted that the paper is now being referenced as a resource on customer experience by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini. GPTZero alleges that an LLM research tool was asked to find appropriate case studies of companies using agentic AI worldwide. The problem is already being felt by the average worker. More than 40% of US desk workers reported receiving "workslop"—low-quality AI-generated content—in the past month, according to a September survey from the Stanford Social Media Lab and BetterUp Labs. https://www.pcmag.com/news/kpmg-allegedly-published-ai-report-filled-with-hallucinations

@Axtremus Outside yellow, inside gray and white. Black seeds.

"Tweaking" isn't a behavior exhibited after someone has done "drugs." It is specifically a reference to meth. This guy sounds stupid to me. It seems he was on a fool's errand of some kind. I wouldn't vote for him or for anyone else who had written anything similar to his 3rd rate "comic poetry."