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Damn, I let em.com go by accident way back in the early 90's.

> but not before unshackling a prison full of reprobates and racists to rejoin the site by un-suspending their accounts.

Let me fix that for you:

> but not before unshackling a prison full of [people we disagree with] to rejoin the site by un-suspending their accounts.

I just discovered the amazing Ultorg (https://www.ultorg.com/), the commercial version of some serious research done at MIT.

It's easily the most powerful database explorer/reporting system ever built.

(No connection with the author except enthusiasm over what he's built.)

No, it's available in generic form.

The phrase "conspiracy theorist" was invented specifically by the CIA at the time to discredit Warren Commission doubters.

Very simple. It would greatly discredit the CIA if their obvious involvement were revealed, even at this great distance.

Or the letter in Oswald's handwriting (no name on it) to James Jesus Angleton (head of CIA wetworks), released in the past couple of years, asking him for clarification on what he was expected to do while in Dallas.

The guy was simply a patsy.

Where does it say or even imply "rolling out new features to all users at once"?

Gatto is a true prophet. See his writings at

https://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

(though his site is having some problems, it looks like).

Can't some HN folks just get together and send you $100 each so you can buy a great laptop? Happy to on my part...

Even if it's true? ;-)

Oh, this'll go well, in the state that can barely keep the power on, requiring millions of new electric cars to charge from same grid.

You're right in that I'm being lazy and shouldn't have commented without backup data. There's plenty of data out there, but why try to collect if the HN readership's thinking is so mainstream that they'll reject any such attempts out of hand?

Just assembled this audible.com list for a friend. These are all in the thriller/action genre. I can put one of these on for 10 hours while driving to our CT place and not even notice the trip.

Jack Reacher series by Lee Child

Gray Man series by Mark Greaney

Orphan X (Evan Smoak) series by Gregg Hurwitz

Gibson Vaughn series by Matthew FitzSimmons

“The Eiger Sanction” by Trevanian

Jonathan Ransom series by Christopher Reich

Simon Riske series by Christopher Reich

Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills

Any other by Christopher Reich

Tim Rackley series by Gregg Hurwitz

Any other Gregg Hurwitz books like “The Tower” (pretty brutal), “Tell No Lies”, “The Survivor”

“Armored” by Mark Greaney — the book (17-hour version), not the shortened pre-version

Anything else by Greaney, including the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan series

The Dewey Andreas series by Ben Coes

Peter Ash series by Nick Petrie

Case Lee series by Vince Milan

Nick Lawrence series by Brian Shea

“Darkness Falls” by Kyle Mills

Delta Force Novels by Dalton Fury

“City of Windows” by Robert Pobi

Anything by Michael Connelly (the author of the Harry Bosch series)

It can't be contingent on something necessary within itself. Within means being part of the contingency.

There's clearly something going on, where the mass of flyover country is waking up to the reality that their overlords are abusing them massively.

I don't think we're that far from civil war at this point.

A good rebuttal.

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-wet-market-theory-re-...

Are you kidding? With the incredible censorship exercised by the social media giants, you think we have unfettered voices?

And you're holding down Option when choosing "Scaled" in the monitor prefs to see all the options?

Use standard Retina (double res, 1920x1080, 60Hz) on my LG 32" 4K displays. Perfect.

This was abundantly clear when, e.g., every Trump tweet had the first (always highly negative) replies from a couple of crazy doctor brothers (twins?).

Which goes to underline Musk's point that the board doesn't have the interests of shareholders in mind.

Clearly, the cabal is not interested in losing control of the public narrative.

Several of the absolute best journalists working today, some of whom were more or less canceled elsewhere (e.g., Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Alex Berenson), are featured there, and are making serious money -- enough to hire whole crews to help in their reporting.

I'm happy to pay $50/year to support these independent voices.

So they are a proven-successful platform, and that attracts other writers.

And they're totally interlocked.

I think it Just Wasn't Done.

Growing up as a 'white bread' kid in the 60's and 70's, I had never had a farm fresh egg, nor local hand-made bacon.

So you can imagine my delight when, exactly 40 years ago today on our honeymoon, we stayed with some friends of my parents on the Maine coast (Brooklin, in Penobscot Bay, on a little inlet called Herrick's Bay -- just visited there again last week) and they provided fresh local eggs and bacon for our breakfasts. It was truly ambrosial!

(Of course, being in the first days of our honeymoon, in a romantic little converted boathouse out over the water might also have had something to do with it.)

But I can attest that fresh eggs are night and day compared to store bought.

(Of course, we're spoiled now, getting our eggs from friends who raise free-range chickens, so fresh eggs are just table stakes.)

I think it was just a somewhat tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that he was a don, who don't marry.

Sure, let's whitewash the current administration's total failure and rebrand as a success.

The Master of Hestviken (The Axe quadrilogy) by Sigrid Unset. Life-changing-ly good. (There's always Kristen Lavrandatter as well.)

The Soldier of a Great War by Mark Helprin. Amazing meditation on life & beauty.

The Cornerstone and The World is Not Enough by Zoe Oldenbourg. Even though they're translated from the French, you'll never read anything like it, in terms of conveying the life and struggles of a Crusade-era Norman knight. I finished it utterly exhausted and humbled, astounded at how great a man's life could be.

Any of P G Wodehouse's major works (ignore his incunabula, anything before 1915, though early Psmith is still amusing), if you want some laughter to lighten the pains of life.

The Jeeves & Wooster series, of course, but also any of the Blandings Castle series. And the glorious Golf Omnibus. (Always used to think of golf as utterly boring, but PGW can make it hilarious.)

See https://wodehouse.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_books_by_P._G._Wod....