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William

Here's hoping but I don't trust the polls.

Sashiko

This is pretty fantastic.

@wtg My favorite fast food place is Wendy's but we don't have one nearby. When I go to Tilton--20 minutes down the highway--for the big box stores, there's one there.

Once-in-a-while I'll get a McDonald's 2 cheeseburger meal but not for the quality of the food, for nostalgic reasons. Fond memories attached to my first visit to a McDonald's when I was in high school.

So why did they name it "McRib"? R-i-b as in rib? False advertising. I never knew it wasn't rib because I'm not terribly interested in meat. I don't know where most cuts of meat come from. Like I said above, I've never been interested in having one and I thought it really was rib.

@ShiroKuro It's probably ok on modern mechanical clocks. But it could have dire consequences for antique chiming clocks.

Sensibility

Oh no. I hope Mr. SK gets over it quickly with no long term effects. Hoping you don't get it as well.

It reminds me I need to make an appointment tomorrow for this year's covid vaccine. Got my flu shot last week and felt sluggish for 3 or 4 days afterwards.

@Daniel It's no secret that she's taken tens of millions of dollars from AIPAC. She must have just forgot she hadn't been running for the Knesset.

@Daniel There's a ton of links, but here's one to the Guardian...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/01/abdul-el-sayed-haley-stevens-michigan-senate

WTF!? With friends like that who needs enemies. WTAF? She has ended her career in Democratic politics seemingly overnight. I don't think it will hurt El-Sayed and knowing now who she is, it's a good thing she'll be banned from the party.

Since all of mine except two are antique wind-ups they simply need to be stopped and re-started an hour later. They cannot go backward.

vinyl

So now the question is: If it's not pork rib, what is it? Perhaps I don't want to know.

I always thought it was a rib sandwich. That's what it says it is. I've never had one.

An interesting article at The Guardian today.

‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds?

In the UK, there was a 787% increase between 1998 and 2018, with the rise greater for women than men, and the single biggest jump among adults; credible American stats have shown an increase across the whole population of 175% between 2011 and 2022, with the largest rise occurring among 26- to 34 year-olds (in both countries, childhood rates have also leapt up).
“Some of them, I think, are being wrongly influenced by social media to believe that they’re autistic, because it’s a possible way to explain your difficulties,” she tells me. “And then we have a subgroup of people who used to be called neurotic, who have all sorts of mental issues, including anxiety. And a kind of hypersensitivity.”

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I speak to Baron-Cohen – who is in his rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge – via Zoom. “The term ‘autism’ is too much of a sledgehammer,” he says. “It’s being used to cover too many things. So … I want to see subgroups.

@Daniel I did not know he was that handsome in his younger years.

The villa? OK, but I don't like the setting.

We don't have vote-by-mail nor early voting nor absentee voting (except for a handful of special reasons).

Fourteen, but a few will not be started up so probably around 12.