I remember my sister and her friend getting up really early to watch Diana’s wedding.

The quintessential American sport.

When the last one passes I will watch my very first episode of Star Trek in homage. Or maybe not.

@Mik said: @Mark said: I see a growing threat and actual actions taken by a group of religious wack jobs tearing down the separation of "church" and state and flat out ignoring the constitution to be more of a threat to modern civilization then any of the made up "threats" created by the far right. I wholly agree. +100

Magnificent.

The BBC article linked to this World in Data article. Bunch of interesting charts re energy generation sources. https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix

Off topic but this is an interesting video with a history of "England" and why English pronunciation and spelling are difficult. Link to video

The media gaslighted by the right? No! I can't believe it.

Oh, I'm just being obnoxious. Forgive me. They say you don't talk about politics and religion in polite company. Really? Lol.

Toured the Obama center museum last week. First impression going through? Realizing how much we've lost in such a short time. Second impression? Politics CAN be more than Fear, Lies, Grift and Cruelty.

@Daniel said: That's fine. But what about the other things generated? I believe these things might include toxic waste water, toxic air, and noise pollution. The thing I linked to would simply replace the heating coil in otherwise typical water heating tanks. No reason to expect "toxic waste water, toxic air, and noise pollution." The concept is quite simple: bitcoin mining generates heat (do it in server farms and you have to find ways to dissipate all that heat), you also need heat to heat your water. So just do the bitcoin mining in your hot water tank so the heat generated from bitcoin mining is used to heat your water (as oppose to dissipated into the environment as done by most server farms today).

Great story!

@bernard foot tapping techno jazz, love it, super lead singer though I'm going to have to find the lyrics @steve-miller I think Jackson is even more of a poet than a musician tbh

I just made 3 boiled eggs by following Google AI to the letter. Yeah.

@kluurs doh! I bought that book on Kindle last year! I just haven't read it yet. And there's no audio version.

@DougG said: “old movies” That's why I used scare quotes in the thread title! Oh wait, you said "talkies" ...

@adagiom You are living the life! Many thanks for sharing!

Daniel said: @bernard I do a routine of things that are thebself care you're saying. And yes I avoid toxic people. I didn't used to have toxic people in my life. It took a lot of inner conflict and struggle and frankly financial resource but I achieved it. Of course I meant to say"did have" toxic people in my life.

Crocodile tears.

I love Barbara Kingsolver. I haven’t read anything by her in ages. The last book I read by her was Animal Vegetable Mineral. I also loved The Poisonwood Bible (both gardener related). Bean Trees, Prodigal Summer and Animal Dreams are the others Ive read, all when we lived in Idaho in the 90’s! But she’s written tons more. I will definitely check this latest one out. I’ve been using Steve’s new Kindle. I didn’t think I’d like it, but it’s really nice to read from. I may have to get my own the next time they are on sale.