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His point seems to be things have changed over 60 years. A 25 to 30 year old doesn't share all the cultural touchstones of my generation. Go figure.

Maybe he should play assisted living facilities.

Live Aid was indeed spectacular.

That looks interesting. America has always, in my lifetime anyway, been a pendulum swinging back and forth. Our problem is we keep swinging in ever wider arcs. I consider myself a center right conservative - Buckley, not Trump. Unfortunately, when you use the word conservative you are immediately lumped in with MAGA, which movement is adding $1.8T to the debt every year. That's not conservative.

So much for Mingle. they want $15 a month and a credit card to really see anything.

Interesting. There's one in Cincinnati. I just wonder how really open they are.

No problem. I like tofu.

How's Ron doing with the Mediterranean diet?

@ShiroKuro said in Breakfast Cereals:

@pique said in Breakfast Cereals:

I started making my own muesli because the premade stuff is so ridiculously expensive.

This is another frustrating thing. It seems like the less sugar something has in it , the more expensive it is.

Quality costs. Sugar and refined flour are cheap.

That sounds delicious, Chas. Sick an egg in anything and I'll probably like it.

Trying this next week just for a little variety.

Just now eating the last perfect peach of 2025. Damn I hate to see sweet corn and peach season end.

That's my breakfast almost every day. - Alpen no sugar added Muesli and fruit. Right now it's 6 ounces of blackberries which are cheap and giant right now. Available at Kroger.

This is my Congressman, Greg Landsman. Ohio is one of the states piloting this. While I do not fully trust him yet I have seen a lot of good signs. If what he says is true about the incentives for the tech company, it's a bad thing.

Gemini is what I use most often. It’s very good at simplifying complex technical issues. It even knows a lot more about Epic than Epic would like it to.

Good observation.

This kind of thing could be huge for keeping seniors in their homes.

@Piano-Dad said in The Greatest Movie Villain of all Time:

@Mik said in The Greatest Movie Villain of all Time:

Mightg be fun to go together if that's possible. The Sphere is pretty cool.

I will let you know what our plans are when I know them. My wife may be the only one who goes out for the birth because we don't want to impose on them while they are already very stressed. She plans to stay out there and help out for a few weeks afterward. I would not be staying in any event. Work calls back in Virginia.

If we're all out there at the same time we should indeed get together for something. Sphere, dinner, something.

We went to the Darren Aronovsky video that inaugurated the Sphere. Pretty impressive, even if I thought that narrative of the film was preachy preachy and shallow.

Yeah, that film descended into preachiness when it could have been the coolest sci-fi ever. But the Sphere is cool. My daughter's company did a lot of the exhibits in the lobby.

We have a domed theater like that here in the Museum Center, formerly Union Terminal, but about a tenth the size.

I think it is able to consider more factors and ask better questions without them being hard-coded than a simple rules-based software, and yes, the stuff I have seen produces a better explanation in plain language. Whether these improvements materialize in this case remains to be seen.

@Axtremus said in The Greatest Movie Villain of all Time:

@Mik said in The Greatest Movie Villain of all Time:

We're considering seeing Wizard of Oz at the Sphere at Christmas this year.

Would that be the Ariana Grande version?
The first or second movie?
(In any case, I like the first one, and plan to see the second one whenever it comes out.)

No, you're thinking of Wicked. This is the original movie.

I liked the first Wicked movie too, although I thought they really did very little of any significance with all the possibilities of cinema that was not done with the limitations of the stage version. It didn't tell the story any better or improve the musical numbers.

Mightg be fun to go together if that's possible. The Sphere is pretty cool.