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#61
Sports / Re: World Cup - 2026
Last post by zorkan - April 02, 2026, 04:08:15 PMDon't forget to buy your ticket for the final.
https://www.local10.com/sports/2026/04/01/fifa-appears-to-have-technical-difficulties-with-world-cup-ticket-sales/
About $120 per minute, unless there is extra time and penalties.
Should Haiti reach the final the average Haitian would have to have worked for 4 years.
https://www.local10.com/sports/2026/04/01/fifa-appears-to-have-technical-difficulties-with-world-cup-ticket-sales/
About $120 per minute, unless there is extra time and penalties.
Should Haiti reach the final the average Haitian would have to have worked for 4 years.
#62
Science / Artemis II
Last post by Ecurb Noselrub - April 02, 2026, 03:52:17 PMA bright spot in otherwise bleak news. Spectacular blast-off yesterday. A diverse astronaut crew with one Canadian will go farther into space than any human. We can still do great things if we put our minds to it.
#63
Pseudo-science, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Loads of Bull / Re: A skeptics guide to the ga...
Last post by zorkan - April 02, 2026, 03:04:21 PMBetween 1969-72 humans landed on the moon.
In 2026 we are going back, but not landing.
I watched the 1969 grainy pictures on TV.
Walt Disney studios did a great job!?
So I'm a bit of a moon landing skeptic, mainly based on the effects it would have had on the human body.
USA also had to win the space-race and it turned attention away from the Vietnam war.
Once a station is built on the moon, we can zoom off to Mars and start to terraform it.
How long would that take?
Anything up to 100,000 years.
Ah well, they laughed at the Wright brothers.
They also laughed at Bozo the Clown!
In 2026 we are going back, but not landing.
I watched the 1969 grainy pictures on TV.
Walt Disney studios did a great job!?
So I'm a bit of a moon landing skeptic, mainly based on the effects it would have had on the human body.
USA also had to win the space-race and it turned attention away from the Vietnam war.
Once a station is built on the moon, we can zoom off to Mars and start to terraform it.
How long would that take?
Anything up to 100,000 years.
Ah well, they laughed at the Wright brothers.
They also laughed at Bozo the Clown!
#64
Politics / Re: Re: Has anybody heard from...
Last post by Recusant - April 02, 2026, 06:17:37 AMYes, the USA elects some real wieners, but it's not as if no other country elects unqualified wackadoos. Under the current regime though, the executive branch also appoints people who have absolutely no business anywhere near the levers of power. Sure, the repulsive greasy knob "Secretary of War" Hegseth. Actually still officially the Secretary of Defense, but Trump likes war despite campaigning as committed to peace, so . . . There's also the dirtbag loon Kennedy Jr. who's made it his mission to degrade the health of the country by various means, empowered as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Some are just outright delusional and apparently that's just fine as long as they assiduously kiss the rotten toad king's arse. See for instance:
"Top Trump FEMA Official Continues to Claim He's Being Teleported By God" | Common Dreams
Some are just outright delusional and apparently that's just fine as long as they assiduously kiss the rotten toad king's arse. See for instance:
"Top Trump FEMA Official Continues to Claim He's Being Teleported By God" | Common Dreams
QuoteThe man appointed by President Donald Trump to lead America's disaster recovery will not stop talking about teleportation. It's leading many people to question whether he's fit for the job.
Even before this past week, many concerns had already been raised about Gregg Phillips, who Trump tapped as associate administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in December.
But he did have qualifications that are evidently more important to the second Trump administration: a long history of echoing the president's baseless claims about election fraud, including that millions of noncitizens illegally voted in 2016 and that an elaborate operation involving ballot stuffing "mules" helped former President Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020.
Because Phillips was a presidential appointee, Congress was not given the opportunity to scrutinize these statements or others he's made, including his description of himself as a "very vocal opponent of FEMA," the very agency he was chosen to help lead. Nor did it have the opportunity to examine accusations that he directed millions in government contracts to his own personal businesses and associates while working in the Texas and Mississippi governments.
But months into his tenure, Phillips is finally getting some attention for comments he made on multiple podcasts, in which he claimed to have been involuntarily "teleported," including to a Waffle House in Georgia.
[. . .]
Given the enormity of FEMA's responsibility, especially with the climate crisis increasing the number of billion-dollar disasters in the US in recent years, Phillips' tenuous grasp on the fabric of reality has led some to worry that the agency is in suboptimal hands.
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#65
Music / Re: Re: What is the reasoning ...
Last post by Ecurb Noselrub - April 01, 2026, 08:59:41 PMQuote from: Recusant on March 31, 2026, 01:45:19 AMI hope Harmonie stops by again and gives you an expert answer. My personal experience with woodwinds is limited to playing a bagpipe practice chanter, but I've been a musician since childhood, so I'll weigh in . . .
There is a fairly important distinction between for instance a clarinet and an oboe. The clarinet is a single-reed woodwind while the oboe is double-reed. It gives a notably different sound, and I've heard that double-reed woodwinds are more difficult to master. The fingering positions vary from woodwind to woodwind as well, but somebody who's familiar with one woodwind would generally have an advantage over a complete novice in learning how to get music out of an instrument they've never played before.
Maybe not in my case though. The bagpipe chanter doesn't have keys, unlike most woodwinds. Keys being the metal parts that are used to produce different notes.
The keys are my main inquiry. All woodwinds have complex key arrangements. I am wondering how similar they are, or if there is sufficient similarity to allow easy transfer.
Recusant, send us a video of you playing the bagpipe!
#66
Music / Re: Re: What is the reasoning ...
Last post by Dark Lightning - April 01, 2026, 04:29:17 PMI hope that they all get out of there, tbh. This was precisely the wrong hornet's nest to swing a bat at.
#67
Music / Re: Re: What is the reasoning ...
Last post by billy rubin - April 01, 2026, 04:12:17 PMi hope he stays out of it. theres no telling what our president may decide to do with the people over there.
#68
Music / Re: Re: What is the reasoning ...
Last post by Dark Lightning - April 01, 2026, 02:36:20 PMQuote from: Icarus on April 01, 2026, 04:58:39 AMI'll keep my fingers crossed for your son DL. He sure as hell does not need to be involved in the madmans ME war.
Thanks! He was deployed to Japan this time. If he had been in the Middles East, he likely would have been hurt in the attack on the tankers and drones. He used to work on tankers and now works on drones.
#69
Politics / Re: Duke of Bullshit: "The" Do...
Last post by Dark Lightning - April 01, 2026, 02:33:36 PMWhen that sorry sack of feces dies, people all over the world will be overjoyed to see him gone. I like your idea.
#70
Politics / Re: Duke of Bullshit: "The" Do...
Last post by xSilverPhinx - April 01, 2026, 01:11:38 PMDoes anybody know of a petition to rename April Fool's Day as Trump's Day? If there aren't any, we should totally start one. 