WTF-Beta

I'm guessing another solution may be to deflate the tires a bit.

The next move was to load up the bed of the truck with random people who were walking by to lower the truck. They packed eight people in the bed, and while it seemed strange, it did the trick.

Alright, how many of these people are illegal undocumented?

https://www.aol.com/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-got-400-231304298.html

The headline says they got a "400%" pay raise through collective bargaining.

Somewhere in the article says in 2022 a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader makes roughly $75,000 a year.

400% of $75,000 a year = $300,000 a year.

But the article does not reveal much about the actual terms in their new agreement. So I am not sure if it's really as simple as 400% * $75,000 = $300,000.

@wtg said in No Kings Day:

In LA.

Is that a prop or a public art installation?
I am impressed either way.

Hard to believe so much happened in just a few days.
Steward’s summary:

It's actually not that hard. It's based on a model called "mobile virtual network operator" - MVNO.

Meaning you strike a deal with a real mobile network operator (e.g. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile) where you sell your own branded mobile communication service using their network. Essentially you own the customer relationships, you define your service plans, you bill the customers and you collect subscriptions moneys from your customers, but do not actually own or operate a mobile network. Your customers just use the real network owned/operated by someone else (in the USA, that's Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile). Depends on the deal you strike with these real mobile network operators, your may even leverage the roaming agreements they already established with overseas operators so your customers can get service while traveling overseas.

Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Google Fi, TracFone, Mint Mobile, Walmart Family Mobile, Spectrum Mobile, Cricket Wireless, etc. are all flavors of MVNOs.

@Bernard , that’s beautiful! Just curious … how big is it?

Cork

Happy Father's Day!

I thought I have posted about this piece before but I cannot find it.

Anyway, here's the original/official music video:

Here's the one with lyrics translated to English:

And here's why I thought of posting this now - a really good, really inspiring piano cover:

Countertop trash bowl when chopping?

Lemme introduce you to this very practical product:

Lunies Over the Cabinet Plastic Trash Bag Holder for Kitchen, … 8.6"x 4.9"
Available at Amazon: https://a.co/d/eVkPq30

I use one myself. One of my best kitchen-related purchase.

The funding ...

https://nypost.com/2025/06/13/business/oracle-amazon-lockheed-martin-quietly-funding-trumps-military-parade/

Companies named in that article:

Oracle, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Coinbase and Amazon have recently donated to America250 ...

Exigir

The nonprofit has listed several other sponsors on its website, including Coca-Cola; Phorm Energy, an energy drink from Anheuser-Busch; Scott’s Miracle Gro; and Stellantis auto brands Chrysler, Jeep, Ram and Dodge.

Some companies are distancing themselves a bit:

FedEx confirmed it is sponsoring America250’s other events. A source close to the matter told The Post this does not include Saturday’s parade.

Walmart donated a whopping $500,000 to America250, but clarified those funds are not backing the parade. ... “While we are not sponsors of the Army’s parade, we are providing water for attendees.”

... the Facebook owner [Meta] confirmed it cut ties with the nonprofit in 2022.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/your-money/syracuse-merit-aid.html

Article about Syracuse U. offering deeper and deeper discounts/merit aids to prospective students who have chosen other schools, presumably because Syracuse just realized that it has trouble filling its new class for being generally way too expensive, and the international students may not be coming.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/12/vermont-floods-barre-rebuilding/

The complex dynamics of residents in small towns getting flooded and want to leave, the federal government offering to buy them out, and the town rejecting most of the buyout offers because the town cannot afford to lose the tax base and the (land for) housing stock.

And these things are increasingly happening in places that had no serious flood issues in the past.

Climate change, small town financial crises, housing crises ... all rolled into one.

@pique said in The loneliest color of paint:

Anything but black, gray, or white. … (They are not color. They are the absence of color.)

Well, spectrographically, black, gray, and white are the equal absence and degrees of equal presence of all colors.

Looking forward to the day when AI will train on mostly AI generated data.

That pianist is a YouTuber. That static stare is his trademark look.

I played a few Faziolis and consider them consistently among the best. To this day I still think the best piano I have ever played is a Fazioli. Faziolis can be very clear. The specimen shown in that unboxing video certainly sounds “very clear” to me. But I don’t think Debussy meant for Clair de Lune to be this “clear.” So I blame the pianist — use more pedal, man.

@Daniel. said in Governor Newsom's speech tonight:

I believe although consult an expert (several here) it's against our Constitution to use the military on American soil, against Americans.

I'm not talking about the National Guard. I'm talking about the Marines.

It’s the Posse Comitatus Act.

Article: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5414476/fentanyl-gen-z-drug-overdose-deaths

Statistics up to 2024 show marked improvement since the peak in 2021.

To make more of the content visible, as opposed to being blocked behind the controls.
Won’t know if that will make the controls harder to find until trying the real thing, I suppose.