@sonhouse said
@spruce112358
Historians are ALREADY putting Trump at the bottom of the list and there have been some dozies already, Harding comes to mind but at least he didn't try to overthrow the idea of peaceful transfer of power, among the rest of Trumps so called 'accomplishments'

He'll be remembered all right .... future historians will refer to him as "America's Caligula."

Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize physics.

@fartacus said
Ya but it looks like someone picking their nose so it's a salute, no doubt, but you put your right forefinger into your nose.

Got it. I see people saluting all the time. Even in trains and buses.

@fartacus said
I'm sure we can find an officer's uniform around here somewhere.

General sound good?

You basically just get driven around and you pretend to know what you're doing. Easy job.

Yeah, that's me, pretend to know what the plan is. Are people supposed to salute me as I pass out? err, ... pass by.

@fartacus said
No but we will seperate everyone into like minded battalions. Shirts and Skins kinda thing ya know?

I don't like my mind. What battalion do I fit into? I'll take the other one, thank you.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
A hippo avatar is on the way.

You hippo-chondriac, you !

@fartacus said
Free costume of your choice. Well pay for it if we can find it. You have to provide your own weapons though.

Bologna sandwiches twice a day and all the chocolates you can eat. (We found an old warehouse full of old chocolates from before COVID) Still good if you ask me.

Hmm, chocolate, very tempting. Is circum-schism a requirement to join ?

@divegeester said
Probably either locked up or died under a hail of FBI bullets.

His minders may have pulled him off the site; he wasn't fulfilling his quota of likes!

@suzianne said
Who?

Can't say as I miss him.

@metalbrain wasn’t getting any traction here with his incessant America bashing and conspiracy theories. I expect he’s moved over to twitter; since Musk took it over, twitter has stopped self-policing stupidity and started actively promoting it. Musk may be a tech genius, but politically he’s is a dope. Muskovites fall for @metalbrain’s type of posts.

https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-anonymous-accounts-social-media-2024-election-8a6b0f8d727734200902d96a59b84bf7

@sonhouse


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@david-burton said
I see everyone as a breed of dog Pondy is obviously a german shepherd/doberman cross, Drew a Polish greyhound/Corgi cross,Gravedigger a Mutt crossbreed mongrell,Torrun A Beautiful Valhund Stees is a Labrador Retriever(for the golf balls) Suzie A catahoula leopard dog/coonhound cross...not to be messed with,Rusty St Johns water hound (Tea Totall),The Duke is obviously a S ...[text shortened]... a Shih Tzu (not sure about the spelling).Oh and me Obviously A Dachshund (german Translation please.

Dachshund: Weasel hunter.

@suzianne said

If you were on the train you'd see the "headlights" go forward like they do on a car, because to you, it seems you are stationary and the universe is going past you at "c".

This is the magic of "relativity".

No. If you are on a train going at c and you turn on the headlights, no light from the train's headlights going in the same direction as the train can go faster than the train is already going, because the speed of light is not cumulative.

@congruent said
Just seen an interesting take, in Russian sounds something like Korchni the "o" normally silent. Depending on whether you are German, French, Swiss etc the name can be spelt differently.

How do you spell 'Korchnoi'? The questions rears its ugly head from time to time on chess forums and blogs. At first, it seems a very straightforward matter: you just transcribe the lett ...[text shortened]... diately hear, from their intonation and other clues, that the speaker is in fact not Russian at all.

On top of that, Korchnoi hasn't been a Russian citizen for quite some time now,

Just to be pedantic, he hasn't been a Swiss citizen for quite some time as well.

@ketchuplover


For those who want to follow the event, here is a link:

https://candidates2024.fide.com/


Personally, I'm routing for Caruana. A fine field of candidates, including Nakamura. But where is Wesley So?

@mchill said
One of the crowning achievements in the US was the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (signed by a Republican - Nixon) which has saved many iconic species like the whooping crane, the bald eagle, and the red-cockaded woodpecker.

I agree, though Nixon wasn't very popular, he had some notable achievements. Could you see today's MAGA crowd backing an Endangered Species Act? - - NOT!

Apparently they see themselves as an endangered species. 'You will not replace us!'

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