@Jodi I like those too. They’re silent and the safest as far as setting nearby things on fire.

LOLOLOL

Bob has a Kiva fireplace with a very high mantle. I suppose I should dust the things up there when I feel better. There is a typical nutcracker, a black santa with a red and white santa hat and a red and green plaid suit. There is some plastic evergreen stuff and Xmas cards from last year. Two christmas tree ornaments are near the black santa. Bob quit putting his tree up because a cat tree has been in that space since Don died and the cat has been migrating with us. That is symbolic of our attitude toward Xmas. We will probably go the La Hacienda for Xmas dinner again, but it has become too crowded. Maybe Chinese.

Not sure how representative it is. Young college students in the rural county they describe and then Charlotte which was Kamala +33 in 2024. Sorry to be a buzz kill.

Morbid.

I'm going hazard a guess. This is fake too. Link to video

That's beautiful. Thanks for posting it.

@wtg Oh dear, I figured it out... I wasn't logged in! ... exits sheepishly...

Basically, China, India and Turkey are financing Putin's war and leadership by buying his oil.

@Axtremus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YouTube picks: Replacing the mass storage (SSD) chip in an iPhone 17 Pro: Link to video That's pretty amazing DIY!!

Feels a bit narcissistic in there I bet.

Unfortunately this is a situation where the broad question is not ‘do we aggressively pursue AI’, it’s do we aggressively pursue AI too, or just let China do it’. The later likely results in a global technological panopticon - a perfection of power which renders its exercise unnecessary, to paraphrase Foucault. I wish it were otherwise.

@Rontuner said in Happy Thanksgiving - What's your story?: Had a multi-national Thanksgiving celebration hosted by our daughter, her husband and friends from a beach community in the Dominican Republic. Maybe 25 people up in a house in the hills overlooking the ocean. A little yoga, some guitar music, some pool time, some sun, a little rain and a mix of local foods prepared by a chef. Delightful time meeting their beach family! Got any pics to share???

@Steve-Miller It made my day.

More animal antics. A raccoon broke into a liquor store in Virginia.... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/drunk-raccoon-virginia-liquor-store