A Great New Song From Nickel Creek: “Holding Pattern” (Official Music Video)

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Nickel Creek - Holding Pattern (Official Music Video)
From the new album Celebrants, out March 24.
Pre-order / pre-save the album: orcd.co

Nickel Creek is Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins
Bass: Jeff Picker

Director: Josh Goleman
Producer: Robert H. Dyar Jr
PA: Darrel Green
Engineer: Tim Reitnouer
Mix: David Boucher
Location: Layman Drug Company
Prod Co: Creative Team Studios

#nickelcreek #newmusic #americana #bluegrass #folk

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94 comments
1
Captain Ron  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:08:23am
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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:08:38am

If you have a Mac or iOS device, I just learned there’s a built-in authenticator app that works great. Here’s an explainer:

You Should Be Using Your iPhone’s Built-In Two-Factor Authentication. Here’s Why - CNET

cnet.com

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Thanos  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:13:05am

re: #2 Charles Johnson

If you have a Mac or iOS device, I just learned there’s a built-in authenticator app that works great. Here’s an explainer:

You Should Be Using Your iPhone’s Built-In Two-Factor Authentication. Here’s Why - CNET

cnet.com

I still have some things on microsoft & google, time to groom them over.

4
darthstar  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:14:13am

From Teukka downstairs:

So they can’t upgrade from an iPhone 6. Fuck them.

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Thanos  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:14:50am

Aside:
In two years we will be a 1/4 of the way through this century, seems like we’ve had a lot of sturm and drang signifying nothing so far, but on the other hand you can always say it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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ckkatz  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:15:03am

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darthstar  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:15:05am

re: #2 Charles Johnson

If you have a Mac or iOS device, I just learned there’s a built-in authenticator app that works great. Here’s an explainer:

You Should Be Using Your iPhone’s Built-In Two-Factor Authentication. Here’s Why - CNET

cnet.com

I have two MFA apps on my phone, the google authenticator and Duo…three if you count Ping from my company.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:17:21am

re: #5 Thanos

The 21st century has not been like what we were expecting, way back 100 or even 50 years ago when people imagined what the future would be.

At least here in the US.

Some other parts of the world have seen bigger changes since 2000.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:18:36am

They promised us self-driving cars, and so far all we’ve got are scary prototypes from a burn-it-all-down egotistical fool.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:19:13am

We were also promised flying cars….

… well, at least we got some drones from which to take pretty pictures.

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ckkatz  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:19:27am
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mmmirele  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:19:33am

re: #1 Captain Ron

Then he’s going to force Florida state and community colleges to accept this “Classic Learning Test” as opposed to standardized testing. If I was thinking of going to college today, Florida would be right off my list. (So would the state that I got my degrees from, Texas.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:20:12am

Robots too have been underwhelming.

But if you want to run up your credit card you can do that by talking into a small box sitting on your kitchen cabinet.

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ckkatz  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:21:33am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:27:03am

re: #14 ckkatz

Anyone who was not a dimwit knew the whole stolen-election thing was a lie.

Now to those who believed it - they wanted to believe Trump.

So we have then the next question - why do people want to believe a lie.

And now we’re back to my old soapbox, about worldviews that are failing.

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ckkatz  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:27:34am

wtf

Apparently the next bubble being stoked by the GOP outrage machine is that ‘DEI’ forces unqualified candidates onto the public.
(DEI - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion)

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:28:44am

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The 21st century has not been like what we were expecting, way back 100 or even 50 years ago when people imagined what the future would be.

At least here in the US.

Some other parts of the world have seen bigger changes since 2000.

I know what I was expecting…still waiting for a trip to one of the Off-World Colonies:

BLADE RUNNER SKYLINE in 8K (8K ULTRA HD) Upscaled with Machine Learning AI

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:31:58am

Annuity rates are creeping up again.

People are expecting the Fed to raise rates again, at least once more if not twice, this year.

This is going to crimp a lot of people if it comes to pass.

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The Squire of Logos  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:33:39am

re: #17 Dr Lizardo

I know what I was expecting…still waiting for a trip to one of the Off-World Colonies:

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One of my favorite films of all time!

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ckkatz  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:35:35am

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 18, 2023 • 11:38:41am

re: #19 The Squire of Logos

One of my favorite films of all time!

One of the greatest sci-fi films ever made, and the visual effects still hold up four decades later.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:04:57pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:11:11pm
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Acemarilllion (yes, three 'l's)  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:13:10pm

re: #16 ckkatz

Seems like they have found the new “affirmative action” boogey man.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:16:41pm

I love how all the Republicans are now saying, “We never intended to cut Social Security, how dare you say that!”

And then here comes their former vice president saying he doesn’t just want to cut it, he wants to END IT.

They’re like a malevolent version of the Keystone Kops.

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:20:55pm

Keystone Krackens

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nines09  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:27:31pm

I have a built in attitude.
No APP needed.
Fuck Elon and fuck Twitter.
If I could get back on would I?
No.
Nope.
No way.
Your milage may vary, no batteries included, buyer agrees to be periodically fucked around.
Kiss my ring.

In other views….

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Thanos  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:30:43pm

The internet of things is really the internet of crap at this point, with every single item needing connection to the cloud just to function and it shouldn’t be that way. Every IoT device should be secure, and shouldn’t need to connect to the manufacturer’s website just to perform basic functions. Everything should work remotely over your local wifi even when the internet is unplugged, and every device should be secure.

Medical devices should be doing way more than they are, you shouldn’t have to have fifteen assorted wires and tubes coming off you after an operation. [e.g. those pulse ox and ekg leads should be stick ons that are read remotely by something on the ceiling above your bed, etc.]

It’s really so underwhelming how short sighted modern vision is, it’s almost as bad as the music…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:33:47pm

re: #28 Thanos

Don’t me started on PC games that require a “persistent internet connection” to play single player.

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:38:20pm

re: #28 Thanos

Don’t get me started. Corporations are like people, in that they’re like children: short attention spans, change their minds on whimsy, only care about themselves.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:39:33pm

re: #28 Thanos

What exactly are you talking about?

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Thanos  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:41:38pm

re: #31 Belafon

What exactly are you talking about?

How underwhelming this century has been when thinking of the things we could/should have.
e.g. If Biden is so behind beating global warming, why aren’t our government agency vehicle fleets converting to electric post haste?

Right after Y2K I had the pleasure of working for a somewhat visionary director who lined out pretty much everything that’s gone on in wireless space since then, and it was easy to see and predict even then because at that point people in Finland were already buying sodas from machines with their phones. What’s frustrating are all the good things that are not here because people are so short sighted.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:42:43pm

re: #32 Thanos

Societies resist change.

It’s just what we do.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:42:54pm

re: #28 Thanos

Which IoT devices are you thinking of in particular?

As for medical devices, do you really want something that requires a working battery on the sensor and hackable Bluetooth monitoring you?

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jeffreyw  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:43:53pm

cbsnews.com

Jimmy Carter opts for hospice care at his home.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:43:59pm

re: #32 Thanos

How underwhelming this century has been when thinking of the things we could/should have.
e.g. If Biden is so behind beating global warming, why aren’t our government agency vehicle fleets converting to electric post haste?

Because he’s the president of a government that shares power between branches, one of which has Manchin in it?

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Thanos  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:46:20pm

re: #34 Belafon

Which IoT devices are you thinking of in particular?

As for medical devices, do you really want something that requires a working battery on the sensor and hackable Bluetooth monitoring you?

Yes, since they can do the same to my pacemaker and the machines it uses for transport already.

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:46:46pm

Devices should have connections to cloud for data gathering, AI/Learning, account management, etc.

Loss of ISP should not mean loss of use. The devices should still run.

All the data from the first sentence should buffer until the ISP/cloud connection is restored.

This is the rules according to me.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:49:37pm

Though, ideally, I would like a less sucky timeline, one that includes devices like smartphones and doesn’t have people attacking LGBTQ and minorities, and where I didn’t have to run just to stay in place financially.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:51:05pm

re: #38 BigPapa

Do you have an example of one?

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:51:18pm

I’m actually curious.

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ckkatz  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:52:23pm
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Thanos  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:53:05pm

re: #34 Belafon

Which IoT devices are you thinking of in particular?

As for medical devices, do you really want something that requires a working battery on the sensor and hackable Bluetooth monitoring you?

All of them, but let’s start with that pulse ox. The whole time I was in the hospital post surgery I had a lead running from my fingertip to the monitoring machine. Anytime I needed to hit the head it was a call to the nurse’s station and “Hey, I’m unclipping my leads so I can go pee…” and getting it tangled in my blankets, pulling it loose and having the nurse have to run it to see what’s going on etc.

We can easily print flexible circuitry, we can power things via motion, a pulse ox is at heart a light and a sensor that reads a color value. Trivial to blue tooth or wifi, trivial to make in a flexible ring that sits on your finger.

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Teukka  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:54:40pm

😟😟😟

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ckkatz  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:54:42pm
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:55:39pm

re: #44 Teukka

😟😟😟

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Sad to hear. Same age as my father….

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steve_davis  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:56:04pm

re: #3 Thanos

I still have some things on microsoft & google, time to groom them over.

i was gonna go back to apple for a macbook air, but they couldn’t bump my credit limit up 250 bucks. so fuck ‘em, went with the xps 13 plus.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:56:52pm

re: #44 Teukka

:(

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steve_davis  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:57:28pm

re: #6 ckkatz

the Wesleyans won’t do the comedies because there’s singing and dancing involved. god forbid that something David did all the time in the Old Testament be replicated in modern times.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:59:27pm

re: #44 Teukka

And I just got a ping from WaPo regarding Jimmy Carter.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 12:59:38pm

That skittish rescue we just brought home from the shelter must have once been owned by a blacksmith. As soon has we got back he made a bolt for the door.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:00:44pm

Will *all* living former presidents be invited to Jimmy Carter’s services?

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KingKenrod  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:04:13pm

re: #44 Teukka

😟😟😟

If it’s time for him to die, I’m glad he will do it after the orange bucket of shit/vomit got run out of office. Now he can have the good send-off he deserves.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:05:12pm

re: #44 Teukka

Damnit…if anyone deserved to live to 100 it’s Carter…

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:05:16pm

re: #53 KingKenrod

If it’s time for him to die, I’m glad he will do it after the orange bucket of shit/vomit got run out of office. Now he can have the good send-off he deserves.

I would’ve loved for ol’ Jimmy to outlive that fat bastard, but alas, we can’t have nice things.

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A Three Hour Tour  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:11:12pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon

Damnit…if anyone deserved to live to 100 it’s Carter…

If only to piss off Reagan-worshipping Republicans (and your aunt with THE shrine).

The way things are going, Henry Kissinger will make it to his 100th in May. There simply ain’t no justice in this world.

Still, 98’s a good, long run, and he’ll likely be eulogized as the best ex-president we ever had.

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A Three Hour Tour  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:15:21pm

re: #52 Barefoot Grin

Will *all* living former presidents be invited to Jimmy Carter’s services?

Hopefully not. This is the funeral of an actual president who served his nation, not a showcase for the Orange Boor who must be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:17:56pm
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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:23:35pm

re: #40 Belafon

Do you have an example of one?

An example of one that work right or one that works wrong? I know what works right, it’s what I support.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:25:25pm

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:27:24pm

re: #60 Eventual Carrion

A masterpiece.

(chef’s kiss)

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:30:48pm
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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:36:48pm

re: #59 BigPapa

An example of one that work right or one that works wrong? I know what works right, it’s what I support.

I’m mainly wondering about one that isn’t working properly.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:37:54pm

re: #12 mmmirele

Then he’s going to force Florida state and community colleges to accept this “Classic Learning Test” as opposed to standardized testing. If I was thinking of going to college today, Florida would be right off my list. (So would the state that I got my degrees from, Texas.)

It seems that the idea is that the test would be an alternative to the standard tests; so individual students, if the parents so demanded, could take the “Classic Learning Test” instead of the traditional tests and submit the results to in-state colleges. Out-of-state public universities would not likely accept these results in lieu of standard ones. Indeed, at least in the past, different schools would require students all take a particular test (either ACT or SAT) to be considered for admission.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:46:44pm
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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:47:48pm

re: #64 Belafon

I’m mainly wondering about one that isn’t working properly.

With the Bigs, in this example, Alexa: there is a common misconception that it doesn’t work without the internet. That’s not true but there’s a huge caveat. It works without the internet but only has some functions if you set it up properly ahead of time, which requires you to be somewhat techy.

If you do not set it up for ‘no internet’ ahead of time then all voice commands bounce off their cloud servers instead of having simpler commands stay local.

This is a flaw, for us. Not for Amazon, who wants to use us to keep learning. When you optimize the system for local control I suspect it lowers the amount of learning they receive. They could buffer all that data but I suspect that costs more in memory and processing.. which is stupid cheap. But Alexa is hemorrhaging cash. That’s getting outside of my expertise.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:50:38pm

For those of you still watching the war in Ukraine, I think this is something you might find interesting, from Adam Silverman’s post over at Balloon Juice:

There was a question in last night’s comments by Anonymous at Work:

I figured that much but aside from a drop in daily artillery fire, it’s not stopping RU generals from launching human wave attacks UA forces and pushing them back in spots. I’m a worrier, so I am worried that UA’s window to have enough forces left to mount a decent offensive is closing.
Am I wrong?

Yes, you are wrong. Part of the Russian way of war is to use its enormous ability to mobilize bodies and throw them at their enemy. Basically generate a ton of mass and use that quantity to just bury the adversary. The problem with that is you have to have a lot of other stuff going right for it to work. I just so happened to have been emailing one of my former bosses about this the other day. Here’s the part of his response that is relevant:

What separates us from most others is our NCO Corps, corporals with 3 to 4 years of service, sergeants with 5 to 6 years, SSG with 7 to 8 years and on up the line. These personnel train soldiers in the training base as well as in units. The russians have NONE of this, the Ukrainians have some of it and are gaining more as time passes. So, the key isn’t how many men can be thrown in the field but how many well trained and equipped men can be in the fight. Institutionally the russians lost this war before they crossed the L/D and they have no way to recover.

This former boss, a retired Green Beret, was cross trained as an ORSA (military statistician) and assigned to Personnel Command for a broadening assignment. Everything I know about personnel management and force generation I learned from him. I know a lot and it’s still a drop compared to him. Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s re-invasion may not be quick. And it may not be pretty. And it is surely far from over. But I think my former boss has the right take. Even more so when you consider that more and more NATO weaponry, munitions, ordnance, and material will be coming online just as more and more of the Ukrainian NCO Corps comes back from training in Britain and Poland and the US and a few other EU and NATO member states. The Ukrainians may have to stack the Russians like cordwood, and Crimea is going to be an exceedingly hard nut to crack and will likely be the last theater of this war, but overall the Russians invaded with a poorly trained, poorly equipped, poorly led military in pursuit of an objective that was much more delusional that it was strategic.

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 1:52:27pm

While I’m working on a project, checking LGF, and having a convo here and on FB, I’m listening to MSNBC on Peacock.

The Dominion lawsuit is dominating this loop. The receipts are many and they’re going to keep coming. I’m wondering why Fox didn’t try to settle, or if they did and Dominion said ‘LOL you’re fucked.’

BTW, Peacock’s UI is horrible.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:04:00pm

re: #68 Belafon

For those of you still watching the war in Ukraine, I think this is something you might find interesting, from Adam Silverman’s post over at Balloon Juice:

Russia has repeated one of the classic military blunders: betting everything on a quick, decisive war. There was no planning at all for a long-term slough, everything was bet on a decapitation strike on Kyiv that knocked the leadership out virtually overnight and allowed Putin to install a puppet government that would rubber stamp the subsequent annexation. That mindset has left them permanently handicapped in comparison to Ukraine in terms of training and reequipping their troops. Vlad’s simply left at this point with little choice besides human wave attack after human wave attack in the hope that he grinds down Ukraine’s resources and forces Zelensky to sue for peace on Russia’s terms.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:04:41pm

re: #44 Teukka

Damn, I was really hoping Jimmy would make 100.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:08:09pm

This just isn’t pissing me off. It’s really making me more contemptuous of asshole right wing Xtians who want to stick their blue noses where they don’t belong.

Florida doctors refuse abortion for woman whose baby is expected to live less than 2 hours

washingtonpost.com

A pregnant Florida woman has been denied an abortion, despite having been told by medical experts her baby will survive “only 20 minutes to a couple of hours,” the Washington Post reported today.

“The baby was no longer buoyed in ample amniotic fluid, Deborah’s doctor gently told her. The kidneys were not developing properly, failing to produce the liquid that protects the fetus and promotes the development of vital organs. She didn’t think the baby would survive without a transplant, and she urged Deborah to follow up quickly with a specialist in maternal fetal medicine.”

Further testing brought no better news. The baby was diagnosed with a deadly condition “incompatible with life” called Potter syndrome. But when the grief-stricken couple decided that terminating the pregnancy was their only choice under the circumstances, the situation worsened.

Read the rest of the story in the Post and remember that this is what FUCKING LINDSAY GRAHAM AND THE REPUBLICANS WANTS TO FORCE ON EVERY WOMAN!

And they justify this by saying that The Big G just might provide a miracle…or they will spread the Frank Luntz line that the mother wants to kill her baby after it’s born.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:11:44pm

re: #72 Joe Bacon

And these are just the stories that get written about.

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:15:41pm

re: #67 BigPapa

Part of the problem with the huge corporations and their tech in your home as per my opinion. They are not focused on selling you hardware and software to make great tech and automation: they are focused on putting tech inside your home so it’s easier for you to buy stuff and for them to sell you stuff.

Alexa has been losing lots of cash. I recall laughing about the Dot costing $15 years ago. I didn’t believe the were concerned about making $ off that hardware transaction: they wanted that Trojan Horse tech in your home so you could order shit off Amazon with voice. It has never materialized. Will it? Well, Amazon will sell you WiFi gear and routers (Eero) and cameras (Ring and Blink). I don’t believe they’re trying to get rich off these platforms even though maybe they’re learning the hard lesson of Alexa. The point is to own the tech space from your mouth and fingers to their servers to ensure you’re connected. They’re learning a ton of data now.

I don’t think they’re 100% Machiavellian or 100% altruistic. The question is where that balance is. That’s not the question I’m trying to answer. The one I am is why doesn’t tech move faster in getting it’s shit together and increasing ease of use and inter-platform functionality?

Because everybody (corporation) thinks their own way of doing things is better than everybody else’s. Or they want that control to maximize their profits. Likely, both. Only later do they realize they should reach out to other corps or 3rd parties to make tech to get their stuff talking with others more easily for lesser cost (Zigbee, WiFi Alliance, now Apple is pushing Matter).

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:19:17pm

re: #72 Joe Bacon

And they justify this by saying that The Big G just might provide a miracle…or they will spread the Frank Luntz line that the mother wants to kill her baby after it’s born.

Usually what I hear instead is some variation of “It’s [his] will,” that forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy to term knowing that the result will be an excruciatingly short life and horrible demise is required because their deity requires a blood sacrifice to be appeased and denying it to him is an unforgivable sin.

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:20:11pm

re: #63 Charles Johnson

I would vote for a pangolin before 99.9% of GQP parasites.

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TarHellion  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:22:05pm

Say what you will about Tiger Woods as a human being. But playing in his first tournament since July, he is tied for the best round of the day (still playing) at 5-under. He his 4-under overall and tied for 18th place.

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(((Archangel1)))  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:22:35pm

Dear lizards, please help me settle a bet: Which AI generated tree image is better?

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:22:36pm

I hereby declare that pangolins are the cutest of all scaled creatures.

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TarHellion  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:24:51pm

re: #78 (((Archangel1)))

Top left

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BigPapa  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:25:55pm

re: #78 (((Archangel1)))

Hard choice.

Lower right.
Top Left.
Lower Left.
Top right is 4th.

1 & 2 could have gone either way, both wonderful.

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The Squire of Logos  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:26:38pm

re: #78 (((Archangel1)))

Dear lizards, please help me settle a bet: Which AI generated tree image is better?

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Lower right corner.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:31:57pm

re: #74 BigPapa

Because everybody (corporation) thinks their own way of doing things is better than everybody else’s. Or they want that control to maximize their profits. Likely, both. Only later do they realize they should reach out to other corps or 3rd parties to make tech to get their stuff talking with others more easily for lesser cost (Zigbee, WiFi Alliance, now Apple is pushing Matter).

It’s probably because the industry is littered with cautionary tales. Like how IBM dominated the home computer market so decisively that “PC” became a catch-all term, but then lost it all after copy-cats ate up their market shares and their efforts to force new standards fell flat. Or how the massive joint effort among tech companies to develop what we know as cloud computing fell flat because putting together something that worked well across the spectrum of standards was damn near impossible.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:32:22pm

re: #78 (((Archangel1)))

I like the top left one.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:34:42pm

re: #16 ckkatz

wtf

Apparently the next bubble being stoked by the GOP outrage machine is that ‘DEI’ forces unqualified candidates onto the public.
(DEI - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion)

“Just had a commercial airline pilot tell me…” = “I’m making shit up.”

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William Lewis  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:36:14pm

re: #78 (((Archangel1)))

Dear lizards, please help me settle a bet: Which AI generated tree image is better?

[Embedded content]

What is your definition of better?

The background of the upper left is best to me & the tree of the lower right is best to me.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:37:17pm

re: #52 Barefoot Grin

Will *all* living former presidents be invited to Jimmy Carter’s services?

All but one.

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IngisKahn  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:39:54pm

re: #78 (((Archangel1)))

All but top left have impossible branches

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:43:08pm

re: #87 Ace Rothstein

All but one.

that one wasn’t a real president…

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A Three Hour Tour  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:44:47pm

re: #85 Ace Rothstein

“Just had a commercial airline pilot tell me…” = “I’m making shit up.”

Did he have tears in his eyes and call JesseKellyDC “sir?”

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:47:05pm

re: #90 A Three Hour Tour

Did he have tears in his eyes and call JesseKellyDC “sir?”

Nah, he heard it in a hipster coffee shop.

//

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dat_said  Feb 18, 2023 • 2:50:00pm

re: #43 Thanos

All of them, but let’s start with that pulse ox. The whole time I was in the hospital post surgery I had a lead running from my fingertip to the monitoring machine. Anytime I needed to hit the head it was a call to the nurse’s station and “Hey, I’m unclipping my leads so I can go pee…” and getting it tangled in my blankets, pulling it loose and having the nurse have to run it to see what’s going on etc.

We can easily print flexible circuitry, we can power things via motion, a pulse ox is at heart a light and a sensor that reads a color value. Trivial to blue tooth or wifi, trivial to make in a flexible ring that sits on your finger.

Ooh Ooh Ooh…. Something I can pretend to be an authority on. I have decades of experience, mostly in cardiac resynchronization (CRT-D) and implantable defibs (ICD) but also vagus nerve stim (VNS), spinal cord stim (SCS), deep brain stim (DBS), and a little time on cranial nerve stim for migraine (which doesn’t have an acronym yet). And, you can tell how much an expert I am by my rampant use of acronyms.

Generally the biggest challenge for new technology in the med world is cost followed by a whole bunch of inertia. So, your idea on the pulse oximeter is an excellent one with direct benefits to the patient and indirect benefit to the nursing staff. Unfortunately you’re going to have to make a case of why it’s beneficial to replace something that is approved for use and costs $5 to make with something that costs, at least initially, 10x to make and likely millions of dollars for the approval process and also has more points of failure you need to account for in your hazard analysis. Plus, reimbursement won’t change for something with the same functionality.

I’ve seen a lot of proposals over the years and it’s often costs and reimbursement that kills the idea. Apple Watches should work as a substitute for ECG, right? Actually no, as they don’t match the standard. Could use them on patients where it’s not as critical but there’s no reimbursement for that and no one will pay the costs for additional monitoring without showing benefit. There are wearable sensor patches available and approved that are real good at monitoring heart rate and activity and respiration, battery powered that last a month, have memory and Bluetooth and could easily be used in a hospital setting to free patients from ECG wires but not going to happen any time soon for a number of reasons but mainly because ECG patches cost less than a dollar. Could use ballistograms (tubes of water under the mattress - saw a demo at a Missouri nursing home where a grad student made one using $20 worth of material from Radio Shack - obviously a long time ago) to remotely monitor heart and respiration in nursing homes to a remarkably accurate level. No reimbursement and nobody was willing to foot the bill for staff to monitor. The place also used a Wii to monitor gait and a little garage door sensor to monitor bathroom usage. All those sensors resulted in a lot of papers on detecting everything from apnea and bradycardia to balance issue changes (falls), urinary infections and dementia but no traction whatsoever because of cost and reimbursement (and, in this case, concern over privacy and big brother).

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:03:13pm

re: #78 (((Archangel1)))

Dear lizards, please help me settle a bet: Which AI generated tree image is better?

[Embedded content]

I like D

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Amory Blaine  Feb 18, 2023 • 3:39:15pm

re: #12 mmmirele

If I was looking to kill 3 days in the sun, Florida would not be on my list.


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