There have been a lot of robotic user registrations lately. 497 of 3,352 total accounts were registered in the past week. These accounts don't seem to be spamming the forum. The only effect seems to be that I'm getting a fair number of email bounces from registration confirmation emails. The email ...

Thanks for the update Xan, and for all you do to administer this forum.
Blessings.

Greetings all. Today is a truly Good Friday. A glorious day in history that changed the course of the world. Death was defeated. This article by Adam Francisco might be of interest to some. https://www.1517.org/articles/from-eden-to-easter-the-garden-the-tomb-and-the-resurrection?utm_campaign=The%20...

This is a great message from a financial advisor. I think you will enjoy the perspective: “CALMNESS: Much as many companies ascribe to "core values", Stonecrop Wealth Advisors claims five virtues that we try to live by. One of them is "calmness." Over the years, we have heard on ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Apr 05, 2025 9:11 am very pretty scenery

Beautiful!

OMAHA, Neb., April 04, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(BRK.A; BRK.B) – There are reports currently circulating on social media (including Twitter, Facebook and Tik Tok) regarding comments allegedly made by Warren E. Buffett. All such reports are false. About Berkshire Berkshire Hathaway and its subsidiarie...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 11:22 am

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 11:21 am How/why are there like 700 guest users suddenly?

Good question!

They are trying to become regulars before the tariffs fully kick in. The membership cost is increasing by 50%, from $0 to $0.

I could have been more specific. Perhaps a title like:

“Media Entropy by Someone, Sometime, Somewhere, for Some Reason - a.k.a. Temple to Garden - a.k.a. Scheise Runs Downhill But There’s Always Someone Somewhere Trying To Pump It Back Up”

Hat tip to ochotona for the inspiration.

Although I was initially intrigued by your title ... that you were going to be asking us for advice on some new media / sound system in your home ... I quickly saw it was not that at all... It was excellent! Maybe the best thing you ever put here! Thanks Vinny. Glad you enjoyed the article. ... M

Interesting Perspective: From the temple to the garden - Participating in the birth of a new media system HAMISH MCKENZIE APR 2 We are living through the most significant media disruption since the printing press, and it explains everything from why you can’t stand your neighbor to our current polit...

Don't be fooled. I hope everyone is having a marvelous day.

Hello everybody! For those who have achieved Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE)—what does life look like after reaching your goal? 💰. WONDERFUL! AND I’M GRATEFUL FOR EVERY MOMENT GOD GIVES TO ME. Are you fully retired and enjoying life? YES, YES Have you taken up a new hobby, business, or ...

yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:17 am Which DEI do you prefer?

The old one?

Or, the new one?

Disorder
Entitlement
Impunity

I might go for:

Diplomatic
Empathetic
Inspirational

Based upon my principles of:
Involve people in decisions that impact them, and, never cause someone to lose face in public.

Doesn’t anyone think that Jeffrey Goldberg “spilling the beans”, perhaps to get a big story for the Trump haters, is a national security issue, possibly helping the enemy? I do agree that Waltz inadvertently (?) adding him to the chat was a huge error. CLASSIC blaming the messenger and not the perp...

Doesn’t anyone think that Jeffrey Goldberg “spilling the beans”, perhaps to get a big story for the Trump haters, is a national security issue, possibly helping the enemy? I do agree that Waltz inadvertently (?) adding him to the chat was a huge error. CLASSIC blaming the messenger and not the perp...

Doesn’t anyone think that Jeffrey Goldberg “spilling the beans”, perhaps to get a big story for the Trump haters, is a national security issue, possibly helping the enemy? I do agree that Waltz inadvertently (?) adding him to the chat was a huge error. CLASSIC blaming the messenger and not the perp...

Doesn’t anyone think that Jeffrey Goldberg “spilling the beans”, perhaps to get a big story for the Trump haters, is a national security issue, possibly helping the enemy? I do agree that Waltz inadvertently (?) adding him to the chat was a huge error.

I’m assuming that long post was intended to refer to Walz but Waltz was used. Could that be an indication it was written by AI? Read the article and then answer your own question. Your reaction to this the same if it'd been Biden's team who had been the one involved? My signature line is the answer...

I’m assuming that long post was intended to refer to Walz but Waltz was used. Could that be an indication it was written by AI?

With all due respect, do you really enjoy listening to this stuff? What are you going to do with the information? It appears to be just prattle to inflame the uneducated. I could be wrong. I certainly do not enjoy reading about today's unfortunate realities. You can count me among your implied &quo...

With all due respect, do you really enjoy listening to this stuff? What are you going to do with the information? It appears to be just prattle to inflame the uneducated. I could be wrong.

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 8:40 am You haven’t lived until you’ve had skullding hot coffee, M

Good one!

Now I don’t have a burr under my saddle.

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 8:07 am I recently read that Scythians drank from their enemies’ skulls.

I believe Kriegsspiel once wrote that his ancestors did the same.
Maybe he’s Scythian.

Now I know why your coffee is taking so long. You must be using a pour over into a skull.

I guess the grounds are stuck on there from the natural oils. They didn’t vaccuum well. I should have mentioned that I have to use a small brush (e.g. an old toothbrush) after vacuuming the "bulk dust" to remove the "stuck on dust"; then vacuum again. I also vacuum the discharge...

Why is my coffee burr grinder grinding less and less, meaning I have to run it longer and longer to just to make 20 oz of coffee? I guess it needs maintenance but in the meantime, where are all the grounds going? I have to take off the bean holder and top grinder burr assembly and vacuum out the re...