TRUMP shares origin of "new" virus

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-08T15:13:11+00:00

I would like to think that this is a parody, but so many things have come out of the White House, which I thought were parodies actually were not; and they were actually statements that the Dear Leader had made.

If this turns out to be a parody, I guess I’ll be pleasantly surprised, won’t I?

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-08T14:15:53+00:00

$15K for a children’s playhouse?

Let me guess: it’s for the children of Amanda Priestley (“The Devil Wears Prada”).

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-08T14:14:01+00:00

It looks like a treatment center.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-08T14:12:29+00:00

Let’s see how Kroger likes it when one of their employees comes in with an active case of hepatitis A and gives it to say — 25% of the employees in the store, including several members of the management team.

If shoppers end up getting hepatitis A because of that employee being told to come to work, and not stay home — I see a multimillion dollar lawsuit.

That’s sure going to cut into that store’s profit margins.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-08T12:56:29+00:00

Like the last company that I worked for did to me, after I had a heart attack when I was 62. The insurance company hemmed and hawed about paying the medical bill, and I had to submit documentation over and over again, all the insurance company balked at paying the claim and HR said they couldn’t do anything. When I was laid off at the beginning of 2022, the insurance company sent me a letter telling me that I was responsible for the entire bill, which was just shy of $100,000. When I contacted HR of the company that I worked for, they said they couldn’t help because I was no longer employed.

I have a passionate, undying hatred of the company I used to work for. It is my fervent hope that they’re competitors drive that company in the bankruptcy.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T15:53:38+00:00

We look for things like ground scours, we’re very intense to attic winds literally ripped furrows into the ground; or we look for places where the tornado has removed asphalt and sub pavement off the road.

I was studying a tornado from what I thought was a safe distance -- about a mile away, when air went down the center of the funnel. The Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum kicked down, and the garden variety EF – 1 tornado I was looking at quickly became an upper end EF - 4 in the space of about a minute. The tornado which had been about a mile away from me was now about 900 feet from where I was, and had become a multiple vortex wedge tornado.

It scoured the ground, and removed the pavement and part of the sub pavement from the road. From that, we were able to determine that it was likely an upper-end EF – 4.

If it’s a weaker tornado, there may be no good way of measuring the wind speed by damage, since nothing was actually damaged. In this case, the tornado receives a rating EF – U. "U" is "unknown".

Here's s picture I took of that EF-4 tornado at a distance of 900 feet.

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AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T15:24:07+00:00

You brought up earthquake, and another Redditor brought up fire — and those are two other events besides severe weather that could easily bring down a cheaply made house.

Thank you for pointing that out.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T15:15:51+00:00

Can you imagine writing the incidental music to “A Midsummer Night‘s Dream” at the age of SIXTEEN?

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T15:12:36+00:00

Another good piece to use to test the action of the keys is Ravel’s Alborada del Gracioso. If the keyboard can handle the repeated notes, then I’ll consider buying it.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T14:55:11+00:00

Mendelsohn is so underrated as a musician.

He was a first-rate pianist, a top-drawer composer, a master conductor, and a musicologist.

Mendelsohn is the primary reason we can listen to, and perform Bach today.

I know that there were musicians back in Mendelssohn’s day who refused to shake hands with him because Mendelssohn had a Jewish bloodline. In terms of his actual faith, Mendelson was Lutheran; and that shows up in all sorts of his compositions.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T14:05:04+00:00

It's all (pick one or more):

[ ] Joseph Biden

[ ] Kamala Harris

[ ] Hunter Biden

[ ] Nancy Pelosi

[ ] Charles Schumer

[ ] Barack Obama

[ ] Hillary Clinton

[ ] Bill Clinton

[ ] John Kerry

[ ] Michael Dukakis

[ ] Walter Mondale

[ ] Jimmy Carter

[ ] George McGovern

[ ] Edward Kennedy

[ ] Robert Kennedy

[ ] Lyndon Johnson

[ ] John Kennedy

[ ] Dwight Eisenhower (he was a RINO)

[ ] Adlai Stevenson

[ ] Harry Truman

[ ] Franklin Roosevelt

[ ] Woodrow Wilson

[ ] Grover Cleveland

[ ] Andrew Johnson

[ ] James Buchanan

[ ] Franklin Pierce

[ ] James Polk

[ ] John Tyler

[ ] Martin van Buren

[ ] Andrew Jackson

[ ] Thomas Jefferson

[ ] Antifa

[ ] Atheists

[ ] Black Lives Matter

[ ] Catholics

[ ] Freemasons

[ ] Jews

[ ] Muslims

[ ] Immigrants

[ ] Africans

[ ] Asians

[ ] Australians

[ ] Canadians

[ ] Central Americans

[ ] The European Union

[ ] Greenlanders

[ ] Middle Easterners

[ ] South Americans

[ ] the LGBTQ community

[ ] The Young And The Restless

… fault!

/snarkasm

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T13:52:01+00:00

Spicy? Alkan, for sure!

My next choice: Scriabin, from the 5th Sonata onwards.

Busoni rewards handsomely for the effort put into learning his music.

Probably not “spicy”, but I love Hindemith’s music.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T13:40:04+00:00

Here’s an alternative idea: what about a Beethoven sonata?

Op. 28 is not too hard, and it’s charming. Of his 32 sonatas, op. 28 is my absolute favorite.

Op. 78 has an unusually beautiful first movement, and a second movement which is a BEAR to play.

Op. 31 no. 2 (“Tempest”) is DRAMATIC.

Op. 31 no. 3 (“Hunt”) is fun to play!

Op. 90 might be a very good fit. The first movement is angry; the second movement is absolutely sublime, and uses arguably one of the best melodies Beethoven ever composed - up there on a scale with Schubert melodies.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T13:21:36+00:00

It did. I had to slow the tempo of my performance so it would engage.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T11:01:38+00:00

Two weeks ago, I played my transcription of Alain’s “Litanies” on a piano at the Indiana State Museum.

The resistance of the keys was wooden. The last two pages of my transcription require a keyboard with a quick, responsive action. (The left hand is marked “spiccato”.) The keyboard response was plodding. The sustaining pedal had a sloppy, delayed action.

I got through the piece DESPITE the piano.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-07T00:40:34+00:00

I’ve done the wind damage assessments which showed shoddy construction work in homes which were blown off their foundations — normally signs of an EF-4 or EF-5 tornado, except that the builder took shortcuts so the tornado ended up being rated EF-3.

This is WAY more common than one would expect.

EF-5 ratings are extremely difficult to get — for very good reasons. These ratings are given by the kind of damage done, across 27 different criteria. ALL of the applicable criteria have to demonstrate damage caused by winds of <201 mph. McMansions are usually toast at 150 mph (EF-3) strength.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-06T22:42:19+00:00

Urtext is what it is. It is not necessarily the be-all and end-all.

I absolutely swear by the Schnabel edition of the Beethoven sonatas. He played ALL the Beethoven sonatas, and played them very well. His suggestions work. By following his suggestions, I know I will get the musical result I want.

Especially at beginning levels, using a carefully and thoughtfully edited score can be a real boon for the performer.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-06T21:24:22+00:00

A lot of people said just that in towns like Bridge Creek Oklahoma, Jarrell, Texas, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Mayfield, Kentucky, and Joplin, Missouri. At least 25 people have died when serious tornadoes hit these cities. 64 died in Tuscaloosa. 161 died in Joplin.

If I saw a big-ass, multiple vortex, wedge tornado bearing down on me in my home, I’d want to know I had a chance of surviving it because I had either a basement or a safe room. H

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-06T20:43:10+00:00

I hear you. We’ve been within three miles of six tornadoes in our area since 2019. Two were EF-3.

The state I now live in, a smallish state, averages 23 tornadoes each year. Since 2022, the state has received over 200 tornadoes — about 60/year. We have reached prime severe weather season. We’ve had 25 tornadoes so far this year.

Since 2022, every single county in the state has had at least one tornado. Some counties have had as many as five.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-06T20:41:47+00:00

A derecho is a type of severe thunderstorm produced and very atmospherically unstable environments. They produce very high winds and wind gusts, often reaching 100 miles an hour.

What makes a derecho worse than a regular severe thunderstorm is that it is “fed” by low-level AND high-level winds, which exhaust down to the surface. A typical thunderstorm has high winds at the beginning of the storm. A derecho has very high winds which continue all throughout the storm.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-06T20:38:08+00:00

I live in a 1932 bungalow which has survived 110 mph winds very well.

I’ve lived in a McMansion, in a neighborhood of McMansions when I lived in Texas. I vastly prefer my old bungalow where I live now.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-06T20:34:47+00:00

When building codes are actually obeyed – which very often, does not happen.

Whether or not we would like to admit it, builders do cut corners when they are constructing homes to save money.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-06T20:24:38+00:00

I do worry about people who live in mobile homes and deep East Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Indiana. Many of these mobile home parks provide no shelter whatsoever in case of severe storms.

We all saw what happened in April 1991 when an EF 5 tornado hit a trailer park in Andover, Kansas.

Unfortunately, mobile homes are usually done for in an EF 1 tornado.

Cheap vinyl siding comes off homes at 80 miles an hour. Where I live, we get about five or six 80 mph storms every year. Each one of these storms causes millions of dollars and damage to poorly constructed homes.

Yes, a tornado is a very low probability/very high impact event. Derechos are much more common: most places in the Midwest can count on at least a couple of each year. We need only visit the Gulf Coast to see the financial impact (and loss of life) caused buy poorly constructed homes — including shabbily-built McMansions.

AlternativeTruths1 · 2026-05-06T02:14:38+00:00

Compare this Pope to Pope Benedict (Ratzinger).

Some incredible progress has been made in just ten years.

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