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No stocks for now.  I'm not one to try to catch a falling knife.

Not sure what I'd buy anyway.  Stocks are ridiculously expensive, even after the "dip".

The dip wasn't cheap either.  I drive by a grocery store these days and my wallet's $100 lighter.  If I actually go inside and buy anything....

Another bad day in the market.  At this rate I'll be able to retire sometime around the year 2092.

@Sakura bacon makes everything taste better. 

I have not tried bacon donuts.  I have tried Irish boxty - sort of a potato croquette or pancake - fried in bacon fat.  That was yum.

Yes.   

62 here.  I don't want to hear it! 

Yes.  And once it finds a weakness it will exploit it fully.  This happened at the Oroville dam in northern California about a decade ago too.  The water flowing down the main spillway found a crack and tore a big hole in concrete of the spillway.  Flowing water is an extremely powerful force.

@Ayame I will take the 5th on that.  All I will say is I am dangerous in the kitchen.  

@Sakura I'll remember that for next time.  I will not blame you if you decide to reconsider however.  I'll admit that things did go well... this time.  <knock on wood>

Bean dip works too.  

At least this year is better than last year.  Last year (for me) started with high winds, power outages, a brushfire that took out half the city, and JPL shut down.  That was just the first 2 weeks of January!  This year it's already February and I still have power and nothing has burned down or blown away.  I'll take what I can get.

@Sakura if they can do the vacuuming, the dishes, and the laundry them maybe we can work out some kind of deal.  Maybe something along the lines of all the electricity they can eat as long as they don’t try to take over the world?  

@Kari  I agree.  On the one hand AIs are just more sophisticated programs.  On the other, I don't like how people seem far too willing to give them way too much control over their lives.  On the gripping hand, they remind me too much of Niven's Watchmakers.  Someday they will destroy civilization.   

@Zariel.. I just watched Margin Call this weekend (ty Sakura) It's a Wall Street drama. 

I, Robot (Will Smith) is an action-packed hollyweird version of Asimov's collection of stories on robot / AI integration into human society.  It's pretty good if you haven't read the book and like action movies.

Close enough.  I give it a year.  By the end of 2027 both Robobus and Optimus will be here and the AI and housing bubbles will have popped.

Trump isn't Camacho, but I'd say we're already there on that front.

You might want to reconsider that Venus plan.  True, it is warmer than here on Earth.  Thanks to a runaway greenhouse effect the surface temps are around 465C/870F.  That's actually hotter than Mercury.  Hot enough to melt lead in fact.

No sun either.  (Not that you would need it with those temps.)  The atmosphere is 100% clouds 100% of the time, and so thick that no sunlight reaches the surface.  The clouds are made of sulfuric acid btw.   

Overall not recommended.

Haha.. correct.  The rehearsal is about testing out the ground equipment - pipes, valves, computers, etc. - and launch procedures to make sure everything works as intended and the vehicle can be operated safely to liftoff before putting humans on it.  That of course does involve pumping fuel into (and out of) the vehicle, as well as running a countdown and simulating various problem scenarios.  Often it includes finding actual unexpected issues that will have to be understood and solved before the actual launch can proceed.

Hopefully the unusually cold weather won't cause problems or delays.

I know the feeling.  Welcome back!

My brother who lives in Wisconsin is always trying to get me to retire to that state.  I tell him that it isn't happening unless I can come up with a plan where I don't have to leave the house from December to April.

I am the people too.  The cafeteria at work occasionally offers raspberry cheescake.  So much yum.

Not sure about affecting everything but basically nobody was getting tracking data for anything beyond LEO (Low Earth Orbit) for about 3 days.  For me personally it was a lot of overtime hours, most of them with management asking "is it fixed yet?" every 5 minutes. 

Hopefully it's all good now.  The fix is tested and deployed and the data recovery is done for the users for which the data is critical.  Still a lot of work to be done next week but it can be done during normal business hours.  I'm looking forward to some dedicated game time this weekend. 

DSN => Deep Space Network.  Sorry, I live in an acronym sea and sometimes forget that normal people don’t have a clue what I’m talking about.  

I was gonna guess Bill the Cat.  "Chicken butt" was my second choice. 

Back when I was going to school* I had plenty of time.  I was always playing games or watching TV.  But the games were boring because I had no money for new ones and the TV was... well, back then we only had 3 channels and neither TiVo nor the internet had been invented yet.

Then I got a job.  I had plenty of money.. or at least enough that I could buy small stuff that I wanted, like games or books.  But the books piled up unread and the games went unplayed because I had to work all day and was too tired when I got home from work to do anything but eat, sleep, and get up the next day to do it all over again.

Too much time and no money, or money but no time to enjoy it.  Somebody really needs to work on that problem.
 

*Yes, we had schools back then.  The books were paper and not a computer in sight, but we had teachers and classrooms and all that shit.

if you say so then I guess it must be true! 

Cool.. thanks.  Where did you find that link?  I swear I searched everywhere.

(Which probably means it was in a perfectly obvious place.    )

Kind of a pain to use though.  Thousands of "if this is the problem click here" links that weren't the problem.  Had to dig a bit to get to a free text box where I could just state the problem.

Congrats on surviving the encounter.    

I'm a bit of a non-talker myself.  I can sit quietly all day and just think.  In conversations I often take a while to respond because I think about .. everything before I start speaking.  It takes a certain amount of patience to deal with me conversationally.  I also tend to let people who want to talk talk until they're done talking.  When dealing with new people I tend to ask basic questions to build up a picture of someone before I start on the real conversation.

That said, once I know someone and especially on topics I'm interested in it is sometimes hard to get me to stop talking.   

I know nothing about this person so I'm not saying that's what's going on here.  Just maybe an angle or two to consider.