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@jon-nyc @shirokuro We'll agree to disagree.

@jon-nyc It's a big deal because it involves time and humans are fascinated with time (chronos). We invented it.

Our time signal of course comes from an atomic clock today.

The error rate could not be lower.

But time has no actual starting moment nor ending moment.

It's a human construct so it makes sense humans are fascinated with it.

I've said this before but I spent 7 years studying horology intensively and collecting mechanical wristwatches.

It was a great experience.

My stove just freaked me out. It said 5 a.m. Changing it is in not on my to do list for today.

I think I'll follow the elections and let it go until tomorrow.

Link to video

Please no ad hominems.

Please don't watch the video if you don't think the narrator is credible.

Or ad hominems and don't watch the video.

It's not for me to decide.

I'm only telling you what I would prefer.

In any case it looks like the state and its client state are getting ready to drop a nuclear bomb.

This information can be verified with countless sources.

I found out my dead Amana washer has about 15 electronic parts that can fail AND all of its electronic parts are proprietary. It's a $650 retail machine with a market price of $450. It would cost $200- $300 to fix it.

I will have it removed from my house, from where it sits, taken to an appliance graveyard. Nevermind the exigencies nvolved. I don't care.

And one with WiFi? When hell freezes over.

@shirokuro I'm sorry. I hope Mr. SK gets well soon. I hope you don't get sick.

@realplayer Efficacy of the vaccines has never been shown with data, actually. The head of Pfizer flat out admitted this in a speech to the EU a long time ago and nothing has changed.

People want to stone me in the public square when I say this but oh well.

This technology is radically different than what people think of as- "a vaccine".

Also, it can have debilitating, and even deady, side effects.

I choose not to get Covid "vaccinations".

I regret having ever done it, personally.

I wonder what the polls are showing. Yeah, I know I could Google AI it. I also wonder how much money Israel put into this one (not to be blunt). I also wonder if the outcome will be legitimate.

He's an extraordinary candidate.

She's no longer a candidate, nor even a Democrat, but she seems like she's on hallucinogenic drugs.

@bernard You wrote-

"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."

That's my favorite too and you've just made me realize why I still eat it (although I'm swearing it off). It's comfort food for me. Except its current engineered version is having the opposite effect on my body. It makes me physically uncomfortable and even sick.

Well how many time do you have to touch a hot burner to know it will burn
you? I think I've finally reached my limit.

I'll achieve 50g protein today- I got up, couldn't focus on eating, went to my appointment, got home, stated making protein drinks. I've made the 3rd one with 10g this time. I have to take a break. I can't drink it now.

I ate a variety of food yesterday. Today had to concentrate on protein.

@wtg I would note that, though all of us here happened to be relatively blessed, and not to get all serious about a topic in the mystery meat genre, but I don't think of this as a "1st world country." Mass poverty, mass dug addiction, mass food insecurity, mass homelessness, mass incarceration (to put it gently), mass poisoning of the food supply chain, 3rd rate "healthcare system," abridgent of the freedom of speech, abridgent of the entire First Amendment, abridgent of the Fourth Amendment, mass surveillance, and inflation moving at the speed of a runaway train are not giving me the impression of a "First World."

Just food (sic) for thought.

@jon-nyc said:

Apparently it is pork.

Yeah, probably containing parts of the animal most people wouldn't be willing to eat if they were aware of what which parts they were eating, let alone how the animals were raised, let alone the unsanitary conditions in which they are slaughtered, let alone the different ways the meat is processed.

Man I need to draw a line in the sand.

I'm force feeding himself isolated protein. I made it to 20g yesterday. It should be 50- 70g or more (for me it should probably be 70+). I'm on my way to 40. My goal is to make it to 60g today.

@Mik said:

Anyone who really thought they were getting ribs is an idiot. All you have to do is look at the piece of meat. That shape of pork is not found anywhere in nature.

Even if you don't get that, anything that starts with"Mc" is not natural. that suit is a perfect candidate for my dismissal under my patented Dumbass Doctrine.

Yeah, I agree. It's a frivolous lawsuit.

@Bernard said:

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.

+1

Every time I eat McDonald's I regret it.

I ordered a 1/4 lb. w/ cheese, a plain sundae, and a large vanilla shake.

My theory (more like a rationalisation) was that I could use the calories.

I gave my code, then opened the bag (dumb).

I found both "ice cream" products and a small beef patty with cheese on it.

Is this a hard job?

The meat smelled rotten. I threw it away.

The "ice cream" triggered my lactose intolerant.

It's sort of an allergic reaction (it might actually be one).

I spent 20 minutes blowing my nose and coughing up mucus.

I get hungry at night and I order it. Nothing else that's open has a $.49 delivery fee and arrived in 20 minutes.

Nothing else that's open isn't garbage too.

I keep telling myself to stop pointing myself and paying a lot of money for the privilege.

It's a behavioral pattern.

I need to quit doing it.

I was at the dentist hygienist. The screen in the waiting room said they we're hiring various positions.

It listed benefits. One of them was- "4% retirement.
matching".

I'm pretty sure I read it correctly.

What do you think this is?

Do you think it's that employee contributes $ to a retirement account, and the employer matches 4% annually?

I don't know if I'm understanding this correctly, but it doesn't seem like much of a benefit.

@shirokuro I'm glad you had the experience. All of these related topics remind me of the audiophile community. Very subject and somewhat ethereal judgement calls. I've never heard one. I haven't seen one. It's not likely I will hear one. Good for you.

I'll be a killjoy. They explode the way old steam engines exploded. No warning. Explosion. You're incenerated.

The general public seems to be in the dark about the fact EV's explode like bombs.

It's not a bad production run. It's not one issue or another. It's the nature of the beast.

The media can take its shilling and shove it up its ass.

Hahaha!

McDonald's used to be good. They were all good. Now they're all disgusting.

@shirokuro You never wind a mechanical watch backwards, either. I don't even do that with my quartz Casio analog.

@ShiroKuro said:

The Persistence of Memory (often mistaken as "The Persistence of Time") is held at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
If you are thinking of a similarly named masterpiece by Salvador Dalí, here is where his most famous time-related works are located:
• The Persistence of Memory (1931) – Featuring the iconic melting clocks, this painting is housed at MoMA in New York City.
• The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–1954) – Dalí's later reinterpretation of the original work is held at The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
If you meant a different piece of art or a specific collection, let me know! Are you planning a visit to see it, or looking for historical details about the painting?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disintegration_of_the_Persistence_of_Memory

This one is at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg. I've seen it. I'd like to see it again.

@DougG said:

two, just my car and the microwave.

Don’t like to brag, but I’ve already fixed the clock in the car…

The clock in the car can go on its merry way. I can't bring myself to care.

I haven't changed my stove. I need to do that.

@Bernard said:

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

I like to listen to a fine mechanical watch by putting it to my ear.

I might be able to tolerate a flip clock but I doubt it.

That's why I had to hide my digital watch.

I can't make it stop beeping on the hour.

I can't stand hearing it.