All of Russia's Porsches Were Bricked By a Mysterious Satellite Outage Hundreds of Porsches across Russia went dark due to factory security systems going offline, leading to speculation whether the failure was intentional.

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Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

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I take it that everyone has given up on this platform? Everyone I just checked hasn't posted for a few months, except for Patrick DeWind

So changing from the Dept f Defense means we let other military have bases in our country?

Was it linseed oil rags that caused the problem at your parent's house?

That is both a funny review, and one that does not make me want to even try to read it

Are you saying it means something else to other people?

U.S. and China Agree to Temporarily Slash Tariffs in Bid to Defuse Trade War

So to even get China to the table, Trump had to ease off: "the Trump administration ultimately backed off, for now, from the steepest tariffs" Girt article for you to read: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...

I just watched Meet the Press, and heard Democrats and Republicans Not Answer the Questions, in some very long statements that only pushed some viewpoint

Democratic Penguins Republic - Trade War (Official Music Video) YouTube video by demonflyingfox

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I am still on Facebook, as there are friends there not on here.
But this answer from FB Purity tells a lot of why I love that program, and prefer to use my desktop where I _can use_ it to cut down on the nonsense.

The Careless People Won A controversial new book about Facebook serves as a field guide for the DOGE era.

Free gift article from The Atlantic.
I just finished reading 'Careless People", a well written book about an appalling, self-centered mindset. FB is not about connecting people, it is about analyzing your data to sell ads to make a few people rich www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Opinion | There Is a Liberal Answer to the Trump-Musk Wrecking Ball (Gift Article) Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will work only if Democrats confront where their approach has failed.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

There are several reasons why my life is fuzzy, but here is one:

Are you going to try it?

A Very Conservative Journalist, Jennifer Rubin, quits the Washington Post, and starts (with a few others) a news site where they do not have Bezos editing, or tossing, the news:

is this your view?

Yup. In the meantime, local tv stations are reminding people of the monument to Jimmy Carter, put up to honor his being at college up here to study nuclear physics while he was in the Navy's nuclear submarine program.

Zenni sent me an ad for their Year of the Snake glasses line.
Considering this Inauguration year, it seems appropriate.

I wanted to watch the local weather forcast, but I am so annoyed at all those 'commentators' speculating about the car bombings, non-stop!

7 years off of cable! and avoiding most cable news on the internet, as most of what they do is just endless speculation, not news.....🙂

I like the Rose Parade more than any other, and always try to watch it. They at least focus on the parade - the horses and the marching bands, more than 'commentary'. Even if I had to get on Roku, and watch it on a sports channel today!

AEthelmearc has a page here!
If this is real, could someone correct the spelling?
"is considered the Official prrsence of this group here. "

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It is New Year's Eve. I hope that in the coming year I can finish more projects than I start.

This is the only place I have even seen a reference to it, much less something that enabled me to read it.

A large chicken on your shoulder? A happy, large chicken? I had to stop and try to visualize that.

I put my phone on battery saver, finally, to turn off most of the apps that keep trying to 'help' me.

What is it with all the flowers today? Just curious

agreed. absolutely. Never wanted any, and as for the 'take care of you' - I have seen far too many 'kids' take their parents for everything they could whine or steal away.