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@ShiroKuro His left hand is controlling the sustain pedal. The second video shows and explains the controls available to the person pumping.

I don't know if pumping faster speeds it up but it sort of seems that it does.

He has a great video in which he explains the player mechanism... super cool...

He's still alive!

https://apnews.com/article/oldest-tortoise-death-hoax-jonathan-22e2960833b112c3b873e1ce4b089c20

@AdagioM

Very cool!

I love the space he's in.

She will not escape accountability and remains legally obligated to appear before our Committee under oath,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top House Oversight Democrat, said in a statement.

“She must answer for her mishandling of the Epstein files and the special treatment she has given Ghislaine Maxwell. If they think we are moving on because they were fired, they are gravely mistaken.”

After yesterday's desperation (attempting to intimidate SCOTUS and a looney tunes speech), he needed a distraction asap. I read that it's been in the works, but I don't think the timing is an accident.

Poor Bondi, a useful patsy while it lasted, now out on her patootie like anyone who sucks up to Trump. I hope she is held accountable for some of her lawlessness.

Perhaps they have something to teach us?

I've never been a fan of Mr. McCartney's music (nor the Beetles, in large measure, for that matter). If I ever have to listen to Band On The Run again it would only be because I've been strapped in a chair and forced to do so under threat of torture.

Don't get me wrong re: The Beetles. There are some pieces that I like, but I've always thought they were over rated.

Went out to do Easter dinner shopping this afternoon and filled the car with gas. $4.69 for 'plus'.

@Mik said:

But this no kings thing is just dumb. It's a tantrum just like the Dems refusal to fund legitimate government agencies.

What legitimate government agencies are the Democrats refusing to fund?

@Mik said:

He has a lot of flaws but lack of love of country is not one of them.

Trump's love of Trump trumps his love of country. He only cares about this country if it can serve him; his actions are ignoble. It's hard to understand how--for over a decade in public life--his vile, demeaning statements and actions, lawlessness, self aggrandizement, and self enrichment, not to mention trampling the US Constitution, are somehow trumped by his love of country. Hitler loved Germany.

Trump is kicking decades of hell down the road. He is doing nothing to help American citizens. His national debt increase, gutting of essential services, alienation of allies, ignoring the climate crisis, stomping out medical research, installing a clown car cabinet, etc. etc. It's going to be a long, hard road to recovery when that asswipe is finally gone.

@Daniel I second a general strike. We just have to be careful not to do something that Trump can use as an excuse for martial law or some other 'emergency' action.

@Rontuner said:

I disagree with John Pavlovitz on this one,

Thinking about the event I was reminded about something I read by John Pavlovitz recently on how they are most important for those protesting, not so much about making any change to the minds on the other side.

Trump is more unpopular than ever before (36% approval from Reuters, and 68% disapprove of the illegal war in Iran being waged by two war criminals), special elections continue to wipe the floor with republicans by large margins (mostly). Things are changing. As Daniel posted, even The Villages had what looks like a huge turnout yesterday. The mere fact that the turnout for No Kings has grown is also a good indication that things are changing.

The fact that Trump hunkers down and sinks ever lower and lower (and there is no low too low for him when it comes to the Constitution) is quite possibly one indication of how cornered he sees himself regarding his games with Netanyahu. He knows he's in a pickle. Look at how many times times his story has changed. It's so utterly transparent. The whole thing was built on a pack of lies and everyone knows it. Look at the infighting now taking place in maga world. Some of the pictures coming out of CPAC this week are pathetic.

I think I know what John Pavlovitz is getting at: We aren't seeing mass demonstrations affecting politics very much. I got back from the march yesterday to discover that 3 House Democrats voted for the DHS funding bill put up by little Mikey, and that 8 were absent! That news was a bit deflating. Why bother if our elected reps are just going to ignore us? Well, they can't ignore us forever. These marches, in my mind, are as much about sending a message to fence-sitting (or worse: Fetterman) Democrats as much as it is a show of solidarity against the christian nationalist white supremacist program of 2025. Also, there are a number of vulnerable gop congress critters up for re-election this fall. I believe this No Kings momentum can help get people out to vote.

@Daniel The turnout at The Villages looks large...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWb3BPQkY8L/

It was 17 F here yesterday morning, 21 F in the valley where I attended a rally. Didn't want to get out of bed, to be honest, but I did and I'm glad I did. I don't think there were quite as many as at the first rally (I missed the 2nd one), but it was a good turnout anyway, considering a town of 5,000. We marched from the armory to the town square where there were speakers and music.

Robert Mueller.

My last car, the one that was totalled late last summer, was a 2014 Hyundai Accent. I liked it a lot. It was old enough to not have ridiculous and annoying features.

My current car is a Hyundai Elentra and I like it a lot as well. For a '25 model, it's not terribly laden with intrusive software. I love the auto headlight dimming feature, but I hate that in the middle of a sunny day, if I drive into the shade of a few trees for a few seconds, it beeps and flashes "You're headlights are off". I haven't figured out how to turn that off yet. Another bad feature is that the only interface to the stereo is Bluetooth. Period.

What CHAS said. There is no low that's too low for the republicans.

Considering where CBS is now, good riddance.