Ever seen that movie "Kate and Leopold"? Good movie, good date movie, and I think somehow an elevator played a critical role, though I forgot how. Gotta revisit and rewatch. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0035423/

Words of wisdom right there. I will say this...my wife has excellent intuition. That sounds kind of sexist maybe, the whole "women's intuition" thing, but I believe it. Once we had car trouble, and she comes right out without looking at anything and is like, "I think it's the alternator." Understand, the car was doing something totally unrelated, like a clutch issue or something. I don't recall the exact symptom or problem, but her proposed problem had seemingly nothing at all to do with what the vehicle was showing. I wish I could recall what exactly it was, but when I got into fixing things, somehow she had been right. In the oddest way, something crazy like the clutch line broke loose and was wrapped around the alternator. That's not what happened, but I think you see my point. Somehow, without knowing, she still knew. I've learned to try to listen better even when it doesn't make sense to me.

I need you to talk to my wife. :)

Since this is now an a/c debate thing...suppose the inside temp is 80, my wife feels that setting the thermostat low, at say 70, cools things faster than setting it at say 75. I explain that a thermostat is nothing but an on/off switch, like a light switch on the wall, and is either on (and the ac runs) or it is off (and the ac does not). Setting it at 70, or 60, or 32 makes no difference in how fast the house cools...the ac will be switched on (and run) until meeting the set temp. She still says setting it lower means cooling faster. I believe she feels a lower set temp means blowing colder air.

I'm with you on the hmm? regarding evolution. The theory, when boiled down, simply says: (1) Have good genes so you can survive to adulthood, (2) breed and pass on those good genes, and (3) occasionally have a random genetic mutation that either helps or hurts #1 and #2. I sometimes wonder, how do evolutionists explain homosexuality? Evolution would literally weed out the same-sex attraction gene (assuming it's genetic, I don't know) and thereby weed out homosexuality Not trying to pick culture wars here, just (a) don't know how evolutionists reconcile that, and (b) illustrate evolutionary theory seems to have limits and that there are likely other things going on.

Regarding lack of leadership, see my little school color story somewhere in this thread.

Some time back, a new school was being built in the town I was living in. The principal didn't want to decide on colors. So he got up a "color committee." They met and debated ad nauseum. Everyone has a favorite color and apparently designing decor stuff is a real passion to people (and they're all experts too because they picked out the couch at home and it looks good). They met a lot. In the end, they reached a "decision." The decision was to go with FOUR color THEMES, navy, aqua, maroon, and the ever popular mauve. Each quadrant had its own color, I guess so you knew where you were? Over time, the colored student chairs moved and migrated to all points N, S, E, W. Today it looks like colored sprinkles on ice cream. I'm not a big fan of committees. If only the principal would have made a decision.

Not sure this has anything to do with bitcoin wars, we have no principal, but seems bike sheddy.

I'm way biased, but seriously though...

Would you rather talk and watch about the future of the most revolutionary economic development, technology and asset in 500 years, or whether XYZ Corp. is gonna meet earnings this quarter?

That's what I was saying in another reply. Kind of surprising to read these words. Still, he wrote great stuff. He knew people, maybe didn't understand economics.

I love Steinbeck, so earthy and real. Odd thing is, his political leanings really contradict this quote. He had some pretty socialist/leftist/collectivist leanings. This quote above is much more like something Ayn Rand would write and is awesome. I still love Steinbeck's writings though (and Rand's). Also, your post reminded me of the "Life's Little Instruction Book". Number 379 said about the same thing.

It's been several years since I've eaten there, but they have the best fast food burger in my opinion. Something about how they smash the burger down thin I think.

It takes a real loser to be good at it. :)

On May 5, 2018, Buffet called bitcoin "rat poison squared." If he'd put $1000 in BTC and $1000 in his own company BRK-A, he'd have $9457 or $1837 respectively. Bitcoin would have given him 5+ times more... nostr note: https://njump.me/nevent1qqst2nanns5mrvka2r6qd97r57mjqdvlzfss7sj85gnkztgjdua6pkqpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qgsqqk7ymequlj6cpacu444w3yy6jajksce6fa4f834hl4dlaug7rgsrqsqqqqqpcgp79r

correction to the fetlock joint:

Holler at me when the Preakness past performances come out. :)

Whenever something happens that is a fluid situation, like a plane crash or shooting, X generally gives the story fastest. Gotta be very careful of rumors and plain wrong info, but I've found that generally the story comes out there first.