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  1. Tinker Grey

    Donald Trump fraud verdict: $364 million penalty in New York civil case

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-fraud-verdict-engoron-244024861f0df886543c157c9fc5b3e4 NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge imposed a $364 million penalty Friday on Donald Trump, his companies and some executives, ruling that they engaged in a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with...
  2. Tinker Grey

    Colorado kicks Trump Off Ballot for 2024

    https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/colorado-trump-14th-amendment-12-19-23/index.html
  3. Tinker Grey

    Andre Braugher, star of ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Homicide: Life On The Street,’ dies at age 61

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/12/entertainment/andre-braugher-obit/index.html This is sad. I enjoyed his work. both serious and comedic.
  4. Tinker Grey

    Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and Nobel winner, dies at 100

    https://news.yahoo.com/news/henry-kissinger-american-diplomat-nobel-014412893.html
  5. Tinker Grey

    New World's hottest pepper

    https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206450553/worlds-hottest-pepper-guinness-record-pepper-x I have hot sauce made from this pepper. It's amazingly hot. You can find it here: The Last Dab: Xperience | Hot Ones Hot Sauce | HEATONIST The burn doesn't last too long, so recovery is fast.
  6. Tinker Grey

    Matthew Perry dead at 54

    https://www.npr.org/2023/10/28/1209291002/matthew-perry-dead-friends Actor Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing on the hit TV show Friends, has died, according to multiple media outlets. He was 54 years old. Perry was found dead of an apparent drowning at his Los Angeles home on...
  7. Tinker Grey

    Jimmy Buffet has died

    He was 76. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/entertainment/jimmy-buffett-death/index.html
  8. Tinker Grey

    Math videos and other click bait (e.g., 6÷2(1+2) )

    So I ran across a video (didn't watch) asserting that calculator's lie (literally, the videographer's words). What you find out there in the wild is those that assert PEMDAS before everything else; AND others why PEMDAS is wrong. (Parens, Exponents, Mulitplication, Division, Addition...
  9. Tinker Grey

    Rosalynn Carter turns 96

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rosalynn-carter-96-birthday-jimmy-carter_n_64df897ae4b0f4cf3ed74e4a May Jimmy and Rosalynn have a few more years.
  10. Tinker Grey

    Good cop story

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-carolina-officer-rescues-woman-help-me-traffic-stop-north-myrtle-beach/
  11. Tinker Grey

    Jeff Beck dies, age 78

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-beck-guitarist-obit_n_63bf33ece4b0cbfd55ef27c1 One of my favorite covers ever: Beck with Seal covering Dylan's Like a rolling stone
  12. Tinker Grey

    Another quiz: Difficult Person Test (Hey, it's science-y)

    https://www.idrlabs.com/difficult-person/35-45-60-40-15-20-35/result.php I'm just now taking this, so we'll see. ETA: I'd say the questions are reasonably written, but it's one of those things that if you have to ask "am I a difficult person", you probably are.
  13. Tinker Grey

    Pelé died yesterday

    https://apnews.com/article/pele-obituary-213a93033c7efa629dad27e27b9f67e4?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_04 He was one of the greatest. “Pelé changed everything. He transformed football into art, entertainment,” Neymar, a fellow Brazilian soccer player, said on...
  14. Tinker Grey

    Fusion breakthrough?

    I'll believe it when someone else replicates it, but still... https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nuclear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html
  15. Tinker Grey

    Minimizing sticky threads

    They don't seem to stay minimized (rolled up) from session to session. Is there a timer? I don't see a pattern except maybe the elapsing of time. Could we make minimizing sticky threads permanent until the user chooses to maximize them again? (Or we could just delete stickies that are 8 years...
  16. Tinker Grey

    Alerts

    I liked the old system automatically clearing alerts after you clicked the drop down. It's a nuisance to have to click "mark read" to make the alerts go away.
  17. Tinker Grey

    Ignored Members

    I've noted that if an ignored member is the last one to post in a thread with new posts, that member's post is not hidden. It was hidden in the previous CF format.
  18. Tinker Grey

    What are you currently drinking?

    I'm actually currently drinking the 10. Ah. Here it is.
  19. Tinker Grey

    Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91

    Russian media: Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91 Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. The Central Clinical...
  20. Tinker Grey

    Bill Russell gone at 88

    Two greats in one day: The Unparalleled Legacy of Bill Russell Then, the president’s tone became serious as he began to describe how Russell’s lanky 6-foot-10 frame would often prompt onlookers to ask if he was a basketball player. “No,” Obama said from the podium, paraphrasing Russell’s...