WTF-Beta

@Mark said:

not too bad.

I'll say! That was beautiful, Mark. Very nice.

The MSM just doesn't have the credibility or legitamacy it did in the past.

No, they don't. Nor does Tucker Carlson, he has spread as much disinformation and hate as anyone on the far right. I don't know about Candace Owens.

The idea is to swap out a group of powered devices all at once — hence the nickname — turning some things off and replacing them with lower-power alternatives to keep the spacecraft warm enough to continue gathering science data.

"... replacing them with lower-power alternatives...." Sounds odd to talk of replacing equipment on a machine that's 15 billion miles away. They must be alternatives that were built in to the original build?

We need more more more of this...

Sen. Jon Ossoff, yesterday at his Georgia reelection rally...

“I don’t know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. Don’t worry – no one showed up. The stadium was empty. But JD came to UGA to attack the pope two days after Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ.

“Did you hear what the president said two weeks ago? Quote: ‘It’s not possible,’ the president said, ‘for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid or Medicare.’

“He said, ‘We can only afford to fund war.’ Because draft-dodging Donald loves sending other people’s children to war. Instead? A war no one voted for and no one can explain. And the daily, the hourly lying to the American public about why we’re at war, whether we’ve won, what’s been agreed to, not to mention the insane genocidal threat.

“On day 10 of the war, the president said, quote: ‘The war is very complete.’ That was day 10. Then, day 11: ‘Going to be finished pretty quickly.’ Day 12: ‘We won.’ Day 21: ‘Getting very close.’ Day 32: ‘Leaving very soon.’ Day 40: ‘Total and complete victory.’ Yesterday, day 49, Trump said Iran had opened the strait – except this morning the strait was closed, and it looks like Iran hit a cargo ship.

“Donald Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ. The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice, while he and his family rake in billions from foreign princes, while he plunders our healthcare to cut taxes for the rich.”

“Meanwhile, rent, power, groceries and healthcare have all hit all-time highs this year. While you pay more for everything, the first family’s wealth is growing by billions of dollars – because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

“How much do you guys know about Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband? He’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 billion, did you know that? And now he’s leading American diplomacy in the Middle East, apparently, while at the very same time asking princes and sheikhs across the Arab world to give him billions more.”

“Can you imagine, like a normal, sitting US ambassador just hitting up Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for billions of dollars? But he’s a Trump, a royal, a princeling. The rules are for us, not for them. And it’s not just Jared getting in on the action.

“Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights.”

@ShiroKuro said:

Have you tried recording yourself and listening to the story you’re telling, or trying to find the story you should be telling, but aren’t?

Wouldn't you know! Some time after I posted yesterday, I went into the kitchen and was humming the piece. My humming became a bit more vocal and it just gravitated towards wanting to be an operatic tenor singing a serenade! I think that's the germ I need for this piece. An aria! Chopin loved bel canto opera.

I'm now on the 3rd and final op post Nocturne by Chopin in class: Nocturne No. 21 in C Minor, KK IVb/8.

It's a challenge because it's very repetitive, the first half page is almost all I chord alternating with V7. I can't find the climax of the piece--I'm not even sure there is one! It's almost a meditative piece. In this regard, it's just as hard as any of the others, but in a different way.

@ShiroKuro From watching the videos, it doesn't look like she has really large hands, but not small either.

Yeah, you definitely would not want to hold tension in your hand for the duration of the arpeggios.

Pretty piece of music. Very nicely played, I thought.

I will need to see if there is something similar around here. I plan to live here till the end--hopefully. But being alone with birds that need daily care, I want to ensure someone(s) are alerted if something goes awry.

I listened to her Mozart d minor fantasy and was surprised by the interpretation. But I like it quite a lot; I think it's very convincing.

We had a thunder storm pass through last night... it's only April! But it did, indeed, smell so calming and reassuring.

I would not exclude Yamaha from your search. I've been told humidity is an issue in much of Japan, and that Yamaha considers humidity when building their pianos (maybe all piano manufacturers do, I don't know).

Seems like some very useful tips here.

Great monologue ...

That's great news!

A recent Fox News poll found that seven in 10 voters believe their tax burden is too high, largely because the wealthy aren’t paying enough,

Not just that, but because wages are way too low.

Seems strange to me the article didn't mention the other items in the big ugly bill, like cuts to medicaid, medicare, SNAP, etc. to cover the cost of big tax breaks for the wealthy.

I hope it has become clearer to the average non-politically involved person that the modus operandi of the gop--their overall mindset--is not one that looks out for the average citizen. It is not one that takes into account the changes that have occurred in the past 100 years, but is one that tries to sell a pipe dream about the 'good old days'. Everything that man in the oval office and his administration and the gop have done the past year and a quarter has made life much worse for average Americans, and many people across the globe.

Vote them out!

I was hearing the owl across the lawn this evening. Glad it's around. The bears have awakened. Woke up to find a garbage bag half way up the field with garbage strewn about the other day. Took care of it pronto. Many birds are visiting the seed table, crows, blue jays, chickadees, evening grosbeaks, cardinals, titmouses, juntos, mourning doves, woodpeckers. A big grey squirrel and some red squirrels and chipmunks come to feast on the peanuts. The turkeys were up in the field last week playing the mating game. I suspect we'll start hearing peepers at the bottom of the hill very soon.

That's cool!

Over the weekend I tuned in, more than once, to the YT channel, Richard McVeigh | Beauty In Sound. He played all the Hymns from a newly published Hymnal (741 hymns), on organ, for 28 straight hours with a few 10 minute breaks. It was broken into 3 live streams because apparently there's a 12-hour limit on single streams. It was pretty awesome. I like listening to the music of hymns, especially on organ. He did it as a fundraiser for his crowdfunding of a new semi-public music performance space. I especially enjoyed the overnight session, which ended up in the 2nd video. It was quiet, peaceful, and lovely. This is the 2nd video, the 1st and 3rd are easy to find.

He's such a vomit inducing pos.