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Starting this thread as a place to collect things that are somewhat interesting to share but ultimately not that big a deal as to warrant individual threads.
This thread's inaugural entry:
Yellow Pig Day
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/yellow-pig-day/
Yes, it's entirely safe and not a faux pas to be completely oblivious to this.
Any day now, I expect a social media post announcing the CiC and the SecDef's testosterone levels.
I had planned exercise.
Canada gave me a good excuse to procrastinate.
May I check the air quality index again tomorrow and see what happens.
This part confuses me:
“We are not saying lung transplant is appropriate for every patient with stage IV lung cancer. We are saying that when the cancer is rigorously proven to be confined to the lungs, when standard therapies have been exhausted, and when the lungs themselves have become the life-limiting organ, transplantation may offer a new path forward.”
Doesn't "stage IV", by definition, mean that the cancer has already spread to other organs, other parts of the body?
This thread reminded me of this perk: https://about.bankofamerica.com/en/making-an-impact/arts-and-culture#museums-on-us
Because I made an extra server-level backup ("snapshot") before attempting this fix (just as an extra precaution), in the near future (after we're fairly certain everything works well), I will need to get rid of the old "snapshot" that will require server downtime. Will try to do something like this in the wee hours when people are sleeping so hopefully no one will notice.
UPDATE: All done around 1:33 AM Eastern Time.
No more sacrilegious than, say, Jackie Chan issuing a singing album. I bet no one here thinks of Jackie Chan as a singer, yet he has 20 albums out thus far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chan_discography
Jackie Chan's first publicly released singing solo:
Link to videoThe ruling: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.106.0.pdf
Reporting in popular press: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/us/politics/trump-irs-suit.html
A federal judge ruled on Monday that President Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was an improper exercise in self-dealing and barred him from claiming that the extraordinary tax protections he received were part of a legitimate settlement agreement.
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… one of my super short videos was counted as a short.
Which reminds me of another YouTube policy that I dislike: it automatically classifies an uploaded video as a “Short” if it’s one minute or shorter, with all the attendant treatments of “Shorts” such as making it “remixable”, no way for the content creator to specify that the upload be treated as “regular video.” I see that as YouTube’s attempt to inflate its “Shorts” content library against the content creators’ will. Last time I made a sub-minute video upload, I looped it twice to make it exceed “one minute” so it could escape the “Shorts” treatment.
Don't know if anyone pays any attention to YouTube "Shorts" (short videos) meant to compete with TikTok. Last time I checked (which was a few years ago), user uploaded "Shorts" were "remixable" and there was no way for the smaller independent content creators to disable that. I generally avoid YouTube Shorts and wish that there is a way to permanently suppress Shorts from being suggested to me by YouTube. 
Fake news!
Everybody knows that it's not a real Thai restaurant if it doesn't display a portrait of the King of Thailand.
No one would have guessed that Lindsey would go before Mitch. Condolences to the Graham family, and may he rest in peace.
Weekly Egg McMuffin with sausage is good for your longevity and your marriage, based on this sample of one:
Centenarians John and Jerry Carroll, who marked their 80th wedding anniversary in April and Jerry’s 100th birthday in June, go to their local McDonald’s in Tennessee every Friday and order the same menu item.
“For breakfast, we usually eat the egg McMuffin with sausage,” John, a 101-year-old World War II veteran, told local news outlet ...
I rarely use Facebook and I do not use Instagram, so there is barely anything for Meta to grab from me there.
I use Google a lot, I checked and found that me "search history" is already set to "off," in fact I have all my history-related settings set to "off" except YouTube (because I really want to be able to see what videos I have watched before so I avoid rewatching the same thing again).
A victory for the consumers. Now if this can be generalized to other sectors and product suppliers ...
FTC's statement: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/07/ftc-states-secure-settlement-deere-company-advancing-farmers-right-repair
Reporting in popular press: https://gizmodo.com/john-deeres-right-to-repair-saga-is-finally-over-for-10-years-at-least-2000783568
The FTC’s settlement requires Deere—for the next 10 years and under the supervision of the FTC and plaintiff states—to provide farmers and independent repair providers with the same equipment repair resources, including applicable software capabilities, that it currently provides to authorized Deere dealers.
The settlement resolves the FTC and states’ joint lawsuit against Deere, which alleged that Deere used unlawful practices to limit the ability of farmers and independent repair providers to perform repairs on Deere farm equipment. The settlement represents the Commission’s latest commitment to reducing the cost of living for Americans, including both farmers and downstream consumers of the products those farmers produce.
Court paper: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Deere-JointMotion-StipOrd.pdf
I am neither fan nor critic of NY Gov. Hochul, but in this instance I applaud her initiative to get rid of antiquated rules and regulations.
... despite the widespread access to email, there are more than 350 instances where the law requires documents to be transmitted via fax or the United States Postal Service.
These are just a few of the outdated and burdensome requirements flagged in a new artificial intelligence project ordered up by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The effort, called Regulatory Reset, will deploy A.I. to comb though roughly 18 million words of codified statute to find references to fees; signature or notary requirements; fax, mail, telegraph and other outdated technologies; as well as task forces, councils and mandatory reports.
More governments should be doing this.
