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Comments by CharlesWT*

On “How are you sleeping?

None of the acting-out behavior, the normal REM “paralysis” seems to be working just fine.

A couple of times, I've woken and been completely paralyzed. But recovered in less than a minute.

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I had a friend who, even as a young adult, would sometimes act out his dreams. Once, he tried to stuff his wife behind the headboard of the bed. A few years ago, in the late stages of Parkinson’s, he died after a fall.

On “Open Thread

Here's a Facebook post with some very nice art. And some photorealistic transformations in the comments.

Rakshy Tarik Kamal - Artist Kate Lewis

On “Site Experiment

When I've hit Enter or pressed <Ctrl> + Enter, the comment is posted.

But Enter works now, <Ctrl> + Enter doesn't do anything.

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Here's more. :)

stylesheet.css

main.min.css

Question: How do you insert line breaks into a comment without causing it to post?

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If the code in cwp.css is working correctly, these errors may not be significant. Functionally, they may not matter.

/* Original (Incorrect) */
padding: 6px; 6px; 8px; 6px;

/* Corrected */
padding: 6px 6px 8px 6px;

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/* Original (Incorrect) */
//  max-width: 40px;
//  max-height: 42px;

/* Corrected */
/*  max-width: 40px; */
/*  max-height: 42px; */

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/* Original (Incorrect) */
vertical-align: text;

/* Corrected */
vertical-align: text-bottom;

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/* Original (Incorrect) */
width: 100%
font-size: 18px;

/* Corrected */
width: 100%;
font-size: 18px;

On “Open Thread

In 1971-72, I was on the southwest coast of Iceland. There were gale-force winds several times. But everything that could blow away had already blown away. We'd get snowstorms immediately followed by rainstorms. Once the temperature got to a record high of 59°F.

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Would adding the following style setting to the head work? Or are the comments isolated from the overall webpage?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Page</title>
<style>
 a:visited {
  color: purple;
 }
</style>
But then you may not be able to change the headers for the site.

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The rock/bushes/edging is very much typical of the Front Range Colorado urban corridor; was the AI guessing, or did it have some location information?

It does use general and specific information from outside the images it processes. And it just flat-out guesses a lot.

I gave it a Monet painting to interpret. The result was startling. I thought there was no possible way it could create the result just from the image of the painting I gave it.

I asked for and got an explanation. Here's the interpretation and explanation.

Monet's Japanese bridge.

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It's about that time of year...

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I wish it were summer...

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First snow...

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The true measure of taxes is government spending. The portion not covered by taxes will still come out of our pockets.

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Here's a sympathetic Karen Bass interview. At least, I'm more sympathetic to her than I was before watching the interview.

"Matt Welch visits Getty House for a one-on-one with Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass on the fires, ICE, Trump/Mamdani, Angela Davis/Cuba, and a whole lotta disagreement about the relationship between property rights & building new stuff."

Even the Mayor Says L.A. Isn’t Well Governed

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I’m well aware that not everyone here thinks kindly of James Carville, but I’m betting that nonetheless few will disagree with the extract above.

I disagree with all of it.

On “Shabana burns the cakes

The UK's foreign-born population was 4.2% in 1951, 8.3% in 2001, and 16% in 2021.

Foreign-born population of the United Kingdom

London's foreign-born population is 41%.

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AI everywhere. :)

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There was a ten-year period during the Blair government England had more immigration than during the previous thousand years.

On “Your quest begins now!

The wrinkle is that he preferred associating with a known pedophile than with Donald Trump. That’s not exactly flattering.

To be perdatic, Epstein wasn't a pedophile. His thing was underage teenage females, not preteen females.

On “People and poliltics

Unintended post.

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