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Knuckledragger Posted November 1 Author Report Share Posted November 1 Y'all know the phrase "Not the flex you think it is?" None of these are Photoshopped. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted November 1 Report Share Posted November 1 https://www.threads.net/@sweet_leaf718/post/DB1_WWXvHWS?xmt=AQGzH5NI0wJUVXlNe4T2gWaljR6duNzcYknXVMWJLXRCyw 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted November 1 Author Report Share Posted November 1 Obligatory. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted November 2 Author Report Share Posted November 2 Valencia, Spain has experienced some biblical flooding and mudslides. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpedo Posted November 2 Report Share Posted November 2 I wasn't expecting any coverage in the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted November 2 Report Share Posted November 2 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Torpedo said: I wasn't expecting any coverage in the US. Trending on Reddit, search for "Valencia" Also NPR Spain flooding: Photos show the devastation in Valencia : The Picture Show https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2024/10/30/g-s1-30937/valencia-spain-flooding-photos Flood devastation in Valencia, Spain, can be seen from space https://www.npr.org/2024/11/02/nx-s1-5176508/spain-valencia-chiva-flood-map Edited November 2 by Grahame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpedo Posted November 2 Report Share Posted November 2 All this happened last Tuesday. Looks like it becomes interesting or remarkable when the deaths account is over 200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Craig Sawyers Posted November 4 Report Share Posted November 4 On 11/2/2024 at 10:05 PM, Torpedo said: All this happened last Tuesday. Looks like it becomes interesting or remarkable when the deaths account is over 200. It hit the UK news within hours. A year's rain in 8 hours; absolutely nothing can prepare a population for that, even if forecast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted November 4 Report Share Posted November 4 6 hours ago, robm321 said: I was surprised recently to find that the average pooch can recognise over 150 human words. It has the vocabulary of a toddler. Police and search and rescue dogs get up to 250 words and up. A record breaking border terrier got up to over 1000 recognized words. Cats on the other hand rely on their chimp to recognise what their vocabulary of meows, chirps and grunts mean. Basically feed me, cuddle me, play with me. Then once those options are exhausted, sleep for 18 hours a day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted November 4 Author Report Share Posted November 4 I put this image in my Slow Forum folder last June and I haven't the foggiest idea as to why. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted November 4 Report Share Posted November 4 Could it have been the corgi? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted November 4 Author Report Share Posted November 4 5 hours ago, Voltron said: Could it have been the corgi? It was 100% the corgi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted November 5 Report Share Posted November 5 Gives me so much anxiety... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted November 5 Report Share Posted November 5 10 minutes ago, mikeymad said: Gives me so much anxiety... Anxiety intensifies 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted November 5 Report Share Posted November 5 (edited) 17 hours ago, Knuckledragger said: 4 hours ago, Grahame said: Anxiety intensifies And that, gentle folks, is precisely why I invested in a lid for my deck. Our monster 5.4kg cat could have endless fun precisely as above! Edited November 5 by Craig Sawyers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Knuckledragger Posted November 6 Author Report Share Posted November 6 Catchy tune! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Craig Sawyers Posted November 12 Report Share Posted November 12 "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." Carl Sagan 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted November 12 Report Share Posted November 12 And Earth imaged by Cassini during its mission to Saturn 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Craig Sawyers Posted November 14 Report Share Posted November 14 The densest planet in the solar system - here; the Earth. Kind of figures - there are lot of dense people living here. Least dense planet in the solar system - Saturn. It is less dense than water. So if you had a bucket of water large enough (and that would be vey large indeed!) Saturn would float. Factoids of the day over and done. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted November 15 Report Share Posted November 15 Microsoft, as part of the latest security update, sneaked in a link to Copilot, shoving a link on the bottom ribbon. What is Copilot? Well it is an Generative AI thing, that they have named Prometheus. I knew that I remembered something about Prometheus. Well he was one of the Greek Titan gods. And he bestowed fire for humanity - which I guess what was in Microsoft's mind, intelligence being a metaphor for fire. What they entirely missed is the Zeus was so pissed off with Prometheus that he had him chained to a rock. Each day, an eagle would come and eat his liver. Overnight the liver would grow back, only to be eaten again. So Prometheus was sentenced to permanent agony and torment. I guess the marketing team at Microsoft failed to spot the problem inherent in the name! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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