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  1. 8 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Minor distracting point; .999 pure silver is not a 'coin' intended for circulation, it is bullion, intended to be held. Coinage needs to wear well, .999 silver is too soft, and wear properties are improved by alloying. This is even more true for gold.

    Yes,, the highest purity commonly meant for circulation is Sterling (11 parts out of 12 is silver).


  2. 1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    I think I bought a “MyPillow” before he got, or was exposed as, weird.  They aren't really that good of pillows, at least not the go on a chair type.  The “sack” holding the memory gel broke after about 6 months of use.  Ruined a pair of jeans.  It might not have been a “MyPillow” it might have been some other “as seen on TV” pillow.

    I thought that the original “MyPillow” had small pieces of foam, not the gel?


  3. 3 hours ago, mlooney said:

    I don't think I ever saw a Dr. Pulaski episode.  I am not sure if that's a good thing or not.

     

    8 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    McCoy had obvious unstated affection for Spock, in spite of the hyperbole. Pulaski was just dismissive and cold, IIRC. To be fair, it was not just toward Data, she did not have connection with anyone.

    Diana Muldaur, who played Pulaski, had also played Dr. Miranda Jones in the TOS episode “Is There Truth In No Beauty?” Her character there was highly antagonistic towards Spock, jealously so, and explicitly eschewed relationships with humans because she was a strong telepath and the unstructured minds of non-telepaths were literally painful for her to be near (she could not turn her sense off and tune out the thoughts of others).


  4. 13 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    True.

    Another STtNG note: Dr. Pulaski, The replacement for Dr. Crusher, did not treat Data as a person, she saw him as a machine. She was also notoriously unpopular with the viewers, for over all lacking personality.

    The producers were allegedly trying to make her more like McCoy, who often criticized/mocked Spock for his emotional detachment, and so were trying to have Pulaski be likewise critical of Data’s poor handling of emotional/social nuances.


  5. 20 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    Is this another one? Or a rehash of old news? Because it sounds really similar to something from a year or three ago... but then, a new instance probably would sound rather similar.

    There have been lawyers using AI inappropriately since LLMs became popular, but this is the first one specifically related to Mike Lindell.


  6. 2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Some people can't be happy unless the world is about to end. 

    When we muddle through this apocalypse, they will find another doomsday scenario on which to hang their hopes. 

    It’s like they think that the only way they will get to heaven is by being Raptured, and they won’t get there by dying.


  7. I’m worried about the people who believe the Prophecy of the Popes, because the only one remaining on the list is the final one, who is supposed to preside over the annihilation of Rome. Believers may decide that this means that the Apocalypse is nigh.


  8. 42 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    Sounds nasty. Be careful you don't catch Cybertruck or Swasticar.

    About half of the electric cars around here are Teslas, but the majority of those were from back before Musk took his hard right turn. I think that half of them are owned by current or former Tesla employees and their families.

    There are plenty of Nissan Leafs, Chevrolet Volt/Bolts, and even a few Mustang Mach-E’s and F-150 Lightnings around here. Maybe one car in five is electric, it seems.


  9. 11 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Do you live near a coast? Just curious.

    The ones I've been posting are .999 or .9999 fine silver. Very pure.

    I live about six miles from the Fremont, California Tesla factory. We don’t have hurricanes here, but this is earthquake country. I got the solar panels because with the subsidies, it’s actually cheaper in the long run than paying the utility company—my loan payment on the solar/battery system is $160/month, which is comparable to what I was paying for electricity.

    As for the coins, yeah I get that the bullion ones are super-high purity, but I was responding to Darth Fluffy’s suggestion about buying up old silver US dimes and quarters from pre-1960. Silver coins made for general circulation as legal tender at face value are usually 90-92.5% silver by weight.


  10. 3 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Anyone who buys into the "Prepper" market is, IMHO, a bit off to begin with.

    I have about 60 days worth of storable food and water for my entire household hanging around, and that is the majority of my disaster prep. I also have about a cord of firewood as well as solar panels and a battery for my house.

    4 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Buy US silver dimes. They are not pure silver, but they are purer than anyone else's, and they hold up.

    Most silver coins are sterling (11 parts out of 12 is silver, with the rest mostly copper), but US silver coins were 90% silver.