Due to the increasing risk to national security on the unchecked advancing state of modern digital capabilities, i hereby will be enacting the "National Silicon Act" of 2026, which will require registration and approval of all purchases of non-embedded digital assets, reporting and registration of all currently owned digital assets, and immediately ban the purchase or possession of digital resources which exceed safety thresholds, as determined by the newly founded "National Silicon Enforcement Agency" of the great united states.

My pool is hot. I've got a guy who plays in a band on the weekends, I'll find a link to his album, who makes a living taking care of my pool. If I go salt - he is out of a job. I'm just being a good American and not outsourcing my pool care. 

But I agree, texters are way worse than impaired drivers. 

You mean people will do it for you? lol.

I don't like having anyone do anything for me.  When we had ours,  we did it all ourselves. It was an above ground, its gone now. I am still surprised the grass grew back after so many years of it being there. Took it down late fall. The next spring, grass.. 

Cant tell you how big it was. 20' perhaps? I donno. But it was so big ( how big was it! ) i had to cut it in strips to get it out to the front for big trash day.  It came to us in a hugs box, so had a hand truck and one of the kids helped push, but getting it out.. nope.

So looks like china is going to be part of the 'restarted' moon race here soon.

Once we have 2 or 3 nations physically planting flags here in the near future ( and perhaps some non-nations, corporate instead, due to perceived profits ), i wonder how its going to turn out for 'territory claims' . Aside from the coming destruction since we cant stop destroying things,  this could be a political mess.   Anywhere humans go, its a mess, but this will effect things on earth too as we will have conflicting clams "well, you cant claim this, its ours, f-off".

Hell, we cant even agree on the time there... 

I mean, I lived in Ohio. I had a 20' round Entex above ground with a salt system and I took care of it - it was kind of awesome. The high water line was somewhere between my belly button and my ribs. Now I'm just below my mouth at the deep water line, and my neighbor has a "California Diving Pool" that is 8' deep. It is a different dynamic out here in the west. But I loved having my little dog-bowl of a pool and a above ground hot tub in Ohio. I'd open it up in a snow - and the snow would melt in a bubble above the pool and rain down water on you. That obviously does not happen out here. 

Pluto is a planet. 

Then so are Charon and Ceres.

Fine with me.  Any large object that orbits the Sun and has been rounded by its own gravity is a planet.  Disqualifying a planet "because it's small" is poophead thinking.

I agree, if its an independent orbit, it gets to be a planet, and none of this dwarf planet nonsense.  While its true that at some point there has to be a line, else every asteroid in the belt = planet.. which is sort of silly.  BUT Pluto falls away on the side of 'planet'. 

And i get their excuse for dwarf, but i totally disagree with it being a factor. 

Wed Aug 26 2026 09:08:38 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Then so are Charon and Ceres.

Fine with me.  Any large object that orbits the Sun and has been rounded by its own gravity is a planet.  Disqualifying a planet "because it's small" is poophead thinking.

I might have mentioned it before, but its still funny.

A while ago i picked up a tiny E-ink MP3 player ( my first step to ditching the OLED phone totally.. ). I really like the thing, even has a headphone jack. lol..  On the back "Digital Mp3 Player"   lol of course its digital. 

"go paperless, we beg you, you can always switch back at any time ( with a huge painful process )"

No. Ill pass.