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NYT:

Trump Says in Interview That He Will Accept Election Results

Really?? That’s unexpected.

In an interview with two Times reporters, President Trump blamed the G.O.P.’s losses on the fact that he was not on the ballot

Not unexpected…

and said he was willing to work with Democrats.

But this sure is!

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/politics/trump-midterm-election-results.html

Wow. I went to bed early. I was hopeful, but not that hopeful. I’m literally just trying to catch up with all the news (it’s 5am here). Are the results as good as they seem?!
Wow!!

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OMG! I think a lot of people (including my mother!) kind of try to do something in return to scammers, and I’ve done that thing where you just respond to every question with a different question back at them until they hang up. (It’s kind of funny tbh!)

So this is a good reminder that just hanging up is probably best! Yikes!

I think turnout is good here too. They had a sign at early voting yesterday that there were 17,500 early voters as of 10/31. Given the population here that seems pretty high to me.

@DougG said:

I think the problem is the length of the day changes gradually, but we change the clocks all at once.

This is an excellent point.

we should change the clocks by 10 minutes each month, six adds and six subtracts.

Ummm....

I voted early in-person yesterday.

Now we wait…

@Jodi OMG you have my sympathies! That sometimes happens to me to, something wakes me up and then my brain kicks in and is wide awake and just going at a clip. There's no return to sleep at that point!

@RealPlayer thank you!

I used one of the OTC test kits on myself this morning. Negative.

This is my day four or five, depending on how we interpret MR SK's condition, since exposure, so in a way it's a little bit too early to test for a symptom-less person, but I have to teach today. I'll wear a mask of course, but if the result had been positive, I would have moved my classes to Zoom.

I will test again of course.

I still haven't decided what to do about my conference trip. I feel really trapped between professional obligations and moral/health obligations....

And I feel like almost no one else in my position would choose to not go to the conference.

I also feel like, if I don't go, I will stay negative and Mr SK will be fine, and I'll regret not going. But if I do go, I'll get sick and Mr SK will be worse and then I'll blame myself for having made the decision to go.

Georgia

@realplayer as @wtg already mentioned, the vaccines don’t offer protection from ever getting sick. While they do increase the chance of avoiding it completely, the important thing is that they offer protection from severe illness. So we’re happy with that, and very happy to have had our vaccines early enough that they should be in full effect. But not so far back that their efficacy is waning.

So Mr SK doesn’t seem to be getting worse. It’s like his symptoms got to the point where they are and now he’s just in a holding pattern. He’s on day four of active symptoms. My main concern at this point is that his cough not develop into something worse.

Well and the other concern is that neither of us have ever had Covid before. So although my understanding is that current variants are much less severe than earlier ones, it’s still uncharted territory for us.

Which brings me to @andyd ’s comment about herd immunity. My understanding of the term is that it means that there’s so much immunity that the disease no longer circulates. Like polio.

So there’s no herd immunity for Covid, the flu or the common cold. And it may be impossible for humans to achieve herd immunity for these viruses because they mutate so much.

I could be wrong about this, but that’s how I always thought herd immunity was defined.

@jon-nyc said:

Yeah few people seem to know that we went off of DST in the 70s and reversed ourselves within a year.

You know, I don’t know if I knew that.

Of course for southern states it wouldn’t matter too much. But in the north, especially on the western edge of time zones, it would be a big deal.

Yeah it would be so awful. I don’t get how people do not realize this.

@jon-nyc said:

I still don’t get all the fuss this issue brings.

Oh for the record, I don't either! I was just laughing at how many clocks we have.

Also FTR, I really don't want them to do away with DST, move to permanent standard time or DST. I love the late, late summer evenings when it's light until practically 9:30pm, and I would hate for it to be super dark in the mornings all winter long.

I get that changing the time comes with some issues, but I prefer it to the alternatives (as I understand them).

Sashimi

@RealPlayer said:

too clean, sterile side.

Yep, I think that's what I'm hearing and of course @adagiom 's comments.

@AdagioM said:

It would be interesting to ask your uni tuner if he tunes the Fazioli.

I know that he doesn't any more, because he is fully retired, but I don't know if he used to. I also don't know how long they've had the Fazioli, but for some reason I think it's somewhat recent.
Anyway, I'll ask the next time he's here.

@rontuner are you semi-retired now or still keeping a full schedule? (my memory is semi-retired?)

How many pianos do you think you see, or used to see, a month?

@Mik said:

If he's not feeling terrible now he's not likely to.

this is encouraging, thank you!!

I am also hoping not to get it...
I talked to my colleague and he's ok with me joining him in the car to our conference (presuming I'm not actually sick).

We'll see how it goes.

@Jodi thank you!!

Yes, I’m glad we got vaxxed on schedule this year !

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