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Dear sociopathic fascist moron, I'm too worn out by discussing yesterday's tragedy in Minneapolis (at another forum) to go into detail on this but what the AF are your ICE goons doing there?

My post refers to some general categories, in answer to the OP question. I'm not going to flood the page with architectural videos or the Waldstein sonata or all the John Oliver clips. Life is short.

It's unfortunate that he seems like one of those children like Damian in "The Omen." He's liable to push you off a balcony while you're changing a lightbulb. I've noticed the Dutch are fairly immigrant friendly. If I could handle hot weather and bring my extended family, you would be calling me "neighbor."

Mostly music I'm trying to convert to a piano arrangement, or piano pieces I foolishly think I might be able to learn. ( A lot of such "watching," the video portion is unnecessary for me. I just go to YT because it's free and no signup required.) Also, home renovation/repair instruction videos, or bits about structural engineering and architecture. Occasionally will watch a news clip (where video footage matters enough) or a John Oliver clip - his show goes up on YT a week or so after its HBO release. Minnie Driver clips are okay, provided they don't remind me of that dreadful puddle of treacle she was in with David Duchovny's dead wife's transplanted heart. She's adorable but... just no. And of course the usual porn involving albino gorillas and St Bernards on unicycles. (Just checking to see if anyone is still awake after the first two paragraphs)

Given the frequency of Turnip's saber rattling, I would also suggest the alternate spelling: Bored of Peace. Dear Mr. Mucilini, So now you are erasing the 4th Amendment? Are you aiming for a Constitution that fits on a single sheet, one side? Or maybe a Post-It note? AP NewsImmigrants often don't open the door to ICE, but that may...It has become common knowledge in immigrant communities across the U.S. to not open the door for federal immigration agents unless they show a warrant signed by a judge.

LOL. Brilliant. And how amazing that the 47th is able to always wrap himself in the glory of others. I guess that's the magic that happens when you courageously overcome bone spurs. I'm hoping the Mark Carney virus is highly contagious.

I wondered if you were thinking in that context. I find it hard to read the current military mood. While it's true that Turnip has gotten some support from the rank and file, there's also been some alienation over some of his talk about fighting NATO, and over recent actions violating Geneva convention. (I've heard Air Force guys around here refer to him as Pres. Bone Spurs, so the level of respect is not all it could be) All soldiers do take an oath to defend the Constitution, so there's a question there as to how far they can watch it get crumpled up.

Not sure our right to arm bears will help us. 25A, maybe. Pens are mightier than the peashooters the 2A allows us. Also, what @exchemist said - SCROTUS hasn't herded all its cats in single file behind Mucilini yet.

I had noticed (as per the article in The Conversation) that conspiracy theorists like to believe that they're somehow superior to experts, that they are privy to special knowledge due to an unusual degree of insight and intuition. Thinking of that well-known American narcissist who is always telling his followers how his "gut" is amazing and he prefers to listen to that over, y'know, a buncha pencil-necked eggheads. The 7 second zero G theory is perfect for the MAGAnids who like to both hate "elites" and really be part of one.

Better safe than sorry. When out, I will be carrying pitons and climbing rope with me that day, so I can secure myself to the ground if needed. Hopefully that patch of ground won't detach itself in seven seconds. Backup: fire extinguisher to whip out and provide downward thrust if needed. I'm still working on hurricane ties, shear transfer ties and angle iron struts for the house and soft encasement for glassware and ceramics. Still undecided on the old chimney - would it help the anchoring or just wreak more destruction as it resettles? Don't get me started on the litter boxes and commodes - I can only handle so much. (Cling wrap right before the event, maybe?) Also, and please don't mock me with your stifling scientific orthodoxy, but there are many mule deer in the wild area next to our block. If they happen to be leaping when the grav cuts out....I mean, those guys could get pretty far up there in seven seconds on leg thrust....will the G resume full strength right away or slowly turn on like with a dimmer switch? If the former, they will come down on us like 150-250 pound meat bombs. I know some might find this laughable, but they laughed at Fermi and Einstein and that guy with the bongo drums right up until they climbed into the Enola Gay and destroyed Bankok. Or Korea. Or wherever it was - it was someplace where people wore bathrobes all day.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/us-military-trump-greenland/685677/?gift=43H6YzEv1tnFbOn4MRsWYla2FHXUNgrTIgaQRWVp2do&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share (excerpts) The United States is a global superpower, and its military trains for war in every domain. During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to surprises. One case we never considered, however, was how to betray and attack our own allies. We did not ask what to do if the president becomes a threatening megalomaniac who tells one of our oldest friends, Norway, that because the Nobel Committee in Oslo refuses to give him a trophy, he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of Peace” and can instead turn his mind toward planning to wage war against NATO. As my colleague Anne Applebaum wrote today, Donald Trump’s threatening message to the Norwegian prime minister should, in any responsible democracy, force the rest of the U.S. political system to act to control him. The president is talking about an invasion that would require “citizens of a treaty ally,” as she put it, “to become American against their will,” all because he “now genuinely lives in a different reality.” And yet neither Congress nor the sycophants in the White House seem willing to stop him. The U.S. military is obligated by law, and by every tradition of American decency, to refuse to follow illegal orders. But what about orders that may not be illegal but are clearly immoral and illogical? The president, for example, can order the Pentagon to plan for an invasion of Greenland; such an order would be little more than a direction to organize one more war game. (The military, as it sometimes does during war games, might not even use real place names, but rather use maps that look a lot like the North Atlantic as it organizes an invasion of “Verdegrun” or something.) But after years of experience with American military officers, I believe that even these hypothetical instructions will sound utterly perverse to men and women who have served with the Danes and other NATO allies. Denmark not only was our ally during the world wars of the 20th century, but also, as my colleague Isaac Stanley-Becker has written, joined our fight against the Taliban after 9/11 and suffered significant casualties for a small nation. Their soldiers bled and died on the same battlefields as Americans...

No clear-cut Baez Index checkoffs (yet) and this was a new one that JB might want to add: I really feel that "outside the Universe" deserves some points. And "wait billions of years then we'll see" combined with "I lack Moses-type skills" should rack up some serious points.

That was all it was. Well known public figure, head of large government agency, AI unable to provide the correct image. Later searches apparently fixed the problem. I will bring up the screenshot issue with my Lenovo tablet if I can't get it resolved - will do that on the feedback forum later. Thanks.

Do Grok or God? For Peru's mist under Avon air, a fat Saratoga mama got a Rastafarian ova, red nuts, I'm sure, Prof.

Uh, you needed to click the link and observe the photo my search provided. That was what was amusing. I am sorry you took the post seriously and that the humorous error was not visible for you. Also, please feel free to consider that some devices may have trouble loading screenshots on this website - I'm not the first to have this problem. And that is why I posted a link instead. ETA - that search was finally fixed, so you can't see the error now. The photo was originally of someone who looked like Garrison Keillor. Let's move on, shall we?

Thanks. Gladiator, eh? Were you not entertained? Staying on topic... Eh, did sea gladiator's rot aid algaes? Did he?

Ha! "That's one very small step for a man, one giant leap of illogic for all magakind."

Cory Doctorow, on the AI bubble and reverse centaurs. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur Also, John Scalzi, "When the Moon Hits Your Eye," a funny and clever satirical look at our present times, using a delightfully silly premise of an astronomical anomaly involving the moon. Scalzi fans will not be disappointed. Nor would anyone just discovering Scalzi, imo.

So, today posed a fairly unchallenging query to the Google AI. See if you can spot the failure.... https://www.google.com/search?q=Director+of+HHS&oq=Director+of+HHS&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTEyNzUyajBqNKgCALACAQ&client=tablet-android-lenovo&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&zx=1768756415716&no_sw_cr=1#cobssid=c

Reginald LaNiger and his friend Emma Damme like to watch documentaries about ancient Rome... Men oil lats - Saturnalia predictability: a day til I bat cider pail an' rut as stallion, Em.

UHT goat milk might also be good if there are any digestive issues not resolved by the fermentation. It has the A2 casein, which some find easier to handle. (A2 beta-casein is what is found in human milk)

I thought the characterization of bloodworms as " very disagreeable worms in that they are ill-tempered and easily provoked," could be attributing more emotional complexity to that species than is really there. (If we were talking badgers, then maybe those would be useful descriptors) An interesting look at biochemistry that incorporates transition metal into tooth enamel.

And the fact that he was appointed by He Who Republicans Deify (Ronnie R) is icing on the cake. Or extra olives on the pizza. (OT, but I am of that school of culinary thought which holds that you can never have too many olives)

https://wapo.st/4qjwsxj Trump Cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says“The Cabinet secretaries and ostensibly, the president of the United States, are not honoring the First Amendment,” U.S. District Judge William Young declared. A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were “breathtaking” constitutional violations by senior Trump administration officials and called the president an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to “toe the line absolutely.” In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief, U.S. District Judge William Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a “fearful approach” to freedom of speech that would seek to “exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.” Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan, leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s detentions of pro-Palestinian students last year. The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism.