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Just a reminder: Socialism (gov't control of means of production) has been a failure since at least 1620. The Mayflower Pilgrims made a covenant with God to work the fields and share alike for the common good. They starved for the next several years. Eventually, Governor Bradford said the hell with...

But it's really great shit, Mrs. Presky!

It's not hard to ignore if the entire premise is flagrantly unconstitutional.

You did the right thing with the kitty.

I have way too many sad kitty stories, so we won't go there.

Newton wins again . . . .

The county coroner here--a Republican, like all county-level elected officials except for the minority Commissioner--has said that he expects deaths to increase in two weeks, because mortality lags increases in case diagnoses, and diagnoses and rates of positive tests are heading up. That article is...

Whoever did this is really good at it.

Restaurants pose far greater risks for contracting covid than big-box stores, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who ever did time in food service and has general familiarity with current pandemic conditions. Restaurants have people breathing without masks in an enclosed space, and the wor...

One of my favorite park warnings in the Cascades was Do Not Molest the Elk.

Seemed sound advice to me!

The other one was Rain Is Not an Emergency.

lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:41 pm I... don't even know what to say...

Here's hoping this never comes true!

On the bright side, if it's on that channel, it's almost certainly not true.

It's a shame. That thing was amazing. They don't mention any plans to build a new one. I doubt that they will replace it with anything directly similar. Technology and technique has moved on. These days, the preferred approach seems to be to build networks and arrays of smaller radio-telescopes, an...

It's a shame. That thing was amazing. They don't mention any plans to build a new one.

The Whiteboard and Doc's forum are among the best things on the web. Aside from all the tremendous mad genius stuff, Doc does a great job of keeping it a space where people with obviously different political views can discuss and joke about the interests they have in common.

Bad things do happen in Philadelphia. I mean, some of those people put Cheez-Wiz on steak sandwiches, fergodssake! But there was no rampant election fraud. All sides were watching. Hard. The vote counting was livestreamed. The New York Times contacted the top election officials in all 50 states. Obv...

First one was the best. Might steal some.

Disappointed he stopped at ONE elephant joke, though.

A lot of my furniture and some of my kitchen gear originally was my great-grandmother's. My dad said that his mom's family never threw away a single damned thing in 60 years--except his antique marbles and baseball cards.

My dad got hold of a Mosin Nagant in the late 60s or early 70s, intending to use it for a deer rifle. It turned out not to be satisfactory, maybe because he had some modifications made that he said decades later were ill advised, but I don't know about the details of that. I know he had a handle wel...

I haven't heard about the lockdown protesters wearing masks. Around here, they were very pointedly not wearing masks. Myself, I have not attended any rallies or protests or dancing in the streets, much as I'd like to. Because I believe in epidemiology, and the epidemic is getting worse, fast, worldw...

Dave wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:37 pmBut, take heart - no matter how painful and turbulent things are right now, they're nowhere near as bad as the futures portrayed in those movies.

I'm afraid, Dave.

Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.

Did that a few weeks ago. Thanks!

Good to see you, GM!