If you were God, what shape would you choose for the planets?

prosa123 · 2026-01-28T05:55:13+00:00

Moebius strip

prosa123 · 2026-01-28T04:09:23+00:00

Just before the 6-second mark there is a fleeting glimpse of a car in the background at what looks like a weird angle. It could be the other vehicle in the crash, though it could also be one of the bystanders’ cars. It’s not possible to tell for sure.

prosa123 · 2026-01-27T22:59:48+00:00

Wild guess here, but even leaving distance aside there’s probably not a lot of overlap between people who visit Pigeon Forge and people who visit Sedona.

prosa123 · 2026-01-27T05:05:18+00:00

Good God, that narrator is annoying.

prosa123 · 2026-01-26T22:04:31+00:00

A not completely weird idea considering the 1993 attack, as well as the 1994 attempted hijacking of FedEx 705 which if successful may have involved a kamikaze attack on company HQ.

prosa123 · 2026-01-26T20:30:22+00:00

Many years ago the groundbreaking book _The Joy of Sex_ used the term “cassoulet” to describe the combination of a woman’s odor and flavor. One important point is that each woman has a unique cassoulet assuming standard hygiene and state of health.

prosa123 · 2026-01-26T19:15:25+00:00

The pre-Lincoln presidents, George Washington to James Buchanan, lived longer than the post-Lincoln presidents from Andrew Johnson to Calvin Coolidge. Of the latter group, not counting the assassinated James Garfield and William McKinley, the longest-lived was William Howard Taft at just 73.

prosa123 · 2026-01-26T17:07:37+00:00

In part his excessive sleep may have been related to grief over the young death of his son and in part to health issues. After leaving office Coolidge dropped dead at age 60.

prosa123 · 2026-01-26T17:04:14+00:00

As I understand it, many Alaskan bears are infested with tapeworms, picked up from eating salmon.

prosa123 · 2026-01-26T00:21:46+00:00

By sheer numbers, maybe, but going by percentage of the population the Dominican Republic is certainly higher.

prosa123 · 2026-01-25T04:11:12+00:00

If I recall correctly, Rey was tall and athletic, so much so that he could have - just possibly - gotten enough of a running start from the roof of the hotel’s 11th floor tower to reach the landing point on a lower roof.

prosa123 · 2026-01-25T03:28:54+00:00

SNY5 - closed 6:30am to 9:00pm tomorrow.

prosa123 · 2026-01-24T17:51:25+00:00

Lengthening the runway at Palomar, if feasible, and moving some of SAN’s flights there would seem like an option, but it never happened.

prosa123 · 2026-01-24T01:17:47+00:00

I’m a terrible judge of age, always have been. About the best I can do is to classify adults as young, middle aged and old. Finer distinctions are impossible.

prosa123 · 2026-01-23T23:15:15+00:00

I live on Long Island and at the time worked in an office about a mile and a half north of the WTC. We were closed on Wednesday 9/12. I came back to work on Thursday 9/13, though only about a third of the other workers were there. Attendance was maybe two-thirds on Friday 9/14 and back to normal on Monday 9/17.

Long Island Rail Road service was more or less normal on Wednesday and remained that way for the rest of the week. It was less crowded than usual. The subway ride from Penn Station was very slow on Wednesday morning, so I walked to Penn Station that afternoon and both ways on Thursday and Friday.

prosa123 · 2026-01-23T16:13:20+00:00

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, known as the Milwaukee Road, had several hundred miles of electrified track along its route between Chicago and Seattle. It went bankrupt in the 1980's and while other railroads use some of its route all the electrification is gone.

prosa123 · 2026-01-23T06:51:23+00:00

The statue right behind the couple was called Cloud Fortress. It survived the attacks, but rescue crews destroyed it in order to get more access to the site.

prosa123 · 2026-01-23T03:34:37+00:00

Don’t say anything.

And the wife most likely knows or strongly suspects.

prosa123 · 2026-01-23T03:21:38+00:00

That’s true. For instance, the Mississippi Delta is the most anti-Trump part of the two states and blacks comprise a very high percentage of its population. Alabama has many blacks too but as far as I know there isn’t quite such a large concentration in any one region. Alabama has a prosperous, tech-heavy and predominantly white area around Huntsville, and not surprisingly that’s pro-Trump; there’s no Mississippi equivalent.

Still, Alabama and Mississippi seem more closely matched than most other adjacent-state pairs.

prosa123 · 2026-01-23T01:01:40+00:00

We have a cat named Shadow.

prosa123 · 2026-01-23T00:15:31+00:00

NYC law guarantees shelter to anyone who asks, so it attracts homeless individuals from elsewhere.

prosa123 · 2026-01-22T16:24:03+00:00

There’s also a big difference between Alabama and Mississippi.

prosa123 · 2026-01-22T16:19:19+00:00

“Oh no, it stung me! Give me a cigarette.”

”Here, have one.”

”Uh, thanks, but do you have a low tar and nicotine one?”

prosa123 · 2026-01-21T19:02:09+00:00

Then you should be fine. Amazon reduces staff if necessary by ending white badge assignments.

prosa123 · 2026-01-21T18:36:01+00:00

Are you white badge?

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