The Hall of Fire

The US reneged on its promises of helping Ukraine and now everyone and their dog are going to call our bluff, and keep escalating until we have no choice but to put American boots on the ground somewhere.

In this election, it's the choice between a vaccine and a virus. A vaccine has side effects and it doesn't help everyone, but getting sick is so much worse, the choice should be obvious but somehow isn't. Someone posted a screenshot that is supposedly trump posting on truth social how he used to pla...

Oh dear. I spoke with my mom today and she told me 'all the signs are there' for the end of the world as we know it/WWIII. We're all doomed. :help: My son said (joking) that it must be the apocalypse. Earthquake in NYC yesterday, eclipse on Monday, and today the Oakland baseball team won a game. Bu...

Ah, but what is normal? Like beauty, it is in the eyes of the beholder. Normal is what's under the tall part of the bell curve. It denotes neither greatness nor abject failure. Biden is normal for a leader of a democratic society. Trump is way under the thin tail to the right. For a fascist dictato...

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Passover lasts for 8 days, so last year the Seder was on April 5, and Easter on April 9, the Sunday of the Passover week. AFAIK they only diverge during the Jewish leap years. Jewish calendar is lunar/solar while the Gregorian calendar is solar only. Unlike the Islamic calendar, which is lunar only,...

1. It probably wasn't. Note the dipping of bread, which is not eaten at Passover. However, most years Easter falls on a. Sunday during the Passover week. But, Easter always falls around the equinox, while Passover is always in the month of Nissan. This year is a leap year by Jewish calendar, meaning...

This hawk couldn't care less about the half-dozen hikers who stopped to look at it. My husband's jacket is in the shot as a reference for distance.
And here it is a bit closer.

Reportedly, the first thing Dali's pilot did as soon as the power cut out on the ship the first time was to call the bridge on his cell and warn them that the ship may hit the bridge. It took 2 minutes to relay the order to shut down the traffic, and 90 seconds later the disaster occurred. Whatever ...

Russia have captured a man they believe to be involved. He's from Tajikistan, but Russian media is variously blaming Ukraine and the United States. Julia Davis of The Daily Beast reports that she has seen video of Russian soldiers cutting off the man's ear and forcing him to eat it. The knife suppo...

Dune but make it Southern.

Alatar wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:42 pm
Is that Android only? I can't find it on iOS

I'm using it on Android. Possibly it doesn't have an iOS version.

I've noticed lately that several interesting apps are only on Android. It's a reversal from the previous decade when developers focused on iOS first. Of course that works for me.

Basically this

I have to question how dire the hunger situation in Gaza really is if Palenstinian activists are mocking the MREs that the United States has been airdropping. As was recently mentioned in another thread, MREs may not be the most palatable meals, but they are indeed what U.S. servicemembers survive ...

Rose, that's a lot of snow! At least it looks pretty?

I initially thought back to 1999, when Putin blew up Moscow apartment buildings and blamed Chechens to drum up support for the war in Chechnya. But times have changed, he doesn't care if the population supports his war. Currently, Russia blames Islamic militants from Ingushetia. Although Medvedev we...

Just about the only puzzle game I play these days is nonograms on the Katana app. Most nonogram apps have a limited number of puzzles, but Katana allows users to upload content so it's pretty much limitless. And just as I was hitting the limit of my interest, I noticed it has an Adventurers Guild, w...

That's an amazing photo, narya! I only ever saw a fox once, when one crossed my trail. I did see one yesterday, at the San Francisco Zoo. It seems a new trend to showcase local animals and not just focus on the exotics. For example, here are two grizzlies lining up expectantly. A minute later, the k...

What Dave said. ChatGPT is a text generator. The text doesn't have to be correct. It should only be used if you already know the answer but don't want the bother of typing it. However. Both Microsoft and Google now have LLM built into their search engines, and that can get you much better results, b...