Ax is right, there will be more of these. A lot of that will come from the fact that thorough testing has become rather a lost art. Things get tested, but in most cases not rigorously. Back when dinosaurs did the programming, we were dedicated to trying very hard to break whatever we coded. That doesn't happen very much anymore. You see a lot of this in online systems where if you color outside the lines at all you're screwed. It doesn't recover or catch it.

I suppose that makes it good for something

I mentioned this to a coworker a few minutes ago and he realized he has to renew his passport as well, and he's going to be traveling in the summer. So thank you @jon-nyc you're saving us all!

It is everywhere. Janet was in grocery wholesaling for 10 plus years. Not a good industry for nice people. The competition is fierce and the players venal.

@Bernard said: It appears the fear(?) is that one won't develop their own voice if they listen to others, but I don't believe that would happen unless one is passive at the piano. Artists, for instance, spend time copying the masters... the masters were very good at what they did, why not check it out? I agree with both of those points that I bolded here.

@daniel knows me well. I caved and bought two different kinds. Will report on what happens....

Wow!

@Axtremus

@Daniel said: Not really. English spelling is difficult I think due to the variety of its various origins. No, it's due to the English being rather unsystematic and undisciplined when it comes to spelling. (Or just behind the times as it was developed when most people haven't learnt to think logically when it comes to creating a writing system.) The Malay language, for example, absorbed many foreign words too, yet its spelling is quite systematic and easy.

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He has a diminishing number of cultists. And his base in general has turned on him. They believed in his "America First" campaign. They are furious. Also he's virtually lost independents with an approval rating in the 20's.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/27/pentagon-fighter-jets-are-being-delivered-without-radar/ Short version: American F-35 fighter jets have to fly without the advanced radar designed for them. Instead, they fly with deadweights in place of the radar subsystems (presumably to maintain balance). Why? Because China messed with the supply of a specific rare metal, Gallium, that is required to build the advanced radar meant for the F-35s.