Kindness and human decency weigh a tremendous amount with me, and more and more as I get older. But in politicians, and especially those who aspire to lead the country, with all the enormous complications and problems that involves, I feel intelligence (or at least the lack of stupidity) are a necessity.
And most serious lefties of my acquaintance say he is also not very bright.
I can see that, though I have to admit, the past 5 or 10 years, I've gotten quite disenchanted with using intelligence as a yardstick for anything. I still get angry when people do stupid things, so I do give intelligence some weight, but I've gotten to the point where kindness and human decency weigh a lot more to me. Unfortunately, I think we are in a time where it is easy to railroad kind people.
And just an observation about italics. If you look at the image I'm adding below, you can see that the middle comment has the italics but the ones on the left and right don't. I've never been happy with how the site doesn't italicize in the summary, so it looks like the author is saying something that they are quoting. The same problem happens in summarized posts on LGM (see here for an example).
What makes this a bit strange is that the middle one is what would be ideal, but the other two are not. Not sure if there is a fix, but just noticed it.
LOL - yes and yes. Casper, Sheridan, Gillette, Weston, Lusk, Riverton, Chugwater, Rawlins, Lander, Rock Springs, Saratoga...
All the happening places.
So much wind. Especially fun when it's snowing, you are driving a full 14-passenger van, and you have been awake for 36 hours straight. The drifts blowing across the road start looking surreal.
I’ve written here before about the one day while working an inventory job across CO, NE, SD, WY, MT...
Did you go through Casper? Was the wind blowing? (That's a trick question, for those who have not spent time in Casper.) The utilization factor at 80 meters for wind turbines near Casper is 49%. That is very likely the best in world for onshore turbines. Even the old school fossil fuel members of the Wyoming legislature are figuring out the state can derive far more revenue selling wind power to out-of-state customers than they can make burning coal.
I’ve noticed that the archive site has nothing June-December 2017. Is it lost, or did it not exist for some reason I’ve forgotten?
None of the archive is lost, except possibly a few things during the transition earlier this year. Feeding it from the Typepad export files into WordPress has to be done in chunks, and is tedious. Kudos to lj for the effort he's put in.
I have more stories about weird Front Range weather than there is room for. I'll settle for the recurring nice one in winter. When you go to bed, it's 5 °F. In the middle of the night you wake up because the Chinook is howling. When you get up in the morning it's 55.
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.
My serious (but not far) lefty mates think well of her. I don't know much about her, but her participation in this absolute clownshow so far makes me wonder about her judgement. However, I agree that lefties do deserve effective political representation, and if she turns out to be capable of it, good.
Corbyn's judgement, on the other hand, is and has always been execrable. And most serious lefties of my acquaintance say he is also not very bright.
Zack Polanski's past as a hypnotherapist, and his (disputed) claims that he could hypnotise women to have bigger breasts, are rather hard to forget when considering how serious he is capable of being.
That aside, however, our politics are in such a mess at the moment, and most of the alternatives so frightful, that a vote for the Greens could make sense under some circumstances.
I had quite a lot to say about Corbyn when he was Labour leader, little of it good.
Zarah Sultana: I know I'm older and I think I'm wiser than she is. She could do a lot of good in the future.
Zack Polanski: Rory Stewart's gotcha about debt interest didn't prove much: few could have answered it accurately (it's the other side of the coin from asking a politician if they know the price of a pint of milk). . But when it comes to economics Polanski doesn't actually seem to know what he's talking about. I may well vote Green at some point anyway.
I've written here before about the one day while working an inventory job across CO, NE, SD, WY, MT that I drove from Fort Morgan to Fort Collins and drove through sunny weather into fog, hail, sun, rain, fog, light snow, and sun again over about 35 miles of empty state highways.
Colorado: sunny weather punctuated by acts of god.
I was in Colorado in early May 2024, spending some time in Denver and more time in Estes Park, plus driving between the two. I will simply say that I experienced a very wide range of weather while I was there, sometimes during a single day.
I live in MA, where we definitely have winter, but I live pretty near the ocean, which has a mind of it’s own as far as seasonal cycles of warm and cold go.
The northern part of the Front Range urban corridor -- from 20 miles south of Denver to 20 miles north of Fort Collins, and 25 miles east onto the plains -- is a strange little area for weather. At the north end of that is the Cheyenne Ridge, a 2,000 ft high east-west barrier. At the south is the Palmer Divide, a 2,500 ft high east-west barrier. Plus the mountains to the west, of course. Among the weird things that happen is the Denver Cyclone. Broadly speaking, some or all of that area is protected from the worst of the regional weather.
The area was a traditional site for winter camps for Native American tribes, avoiding the much more severe weather in the mountains or more than 20 miles out onto the plains.
also… you might not need ‘!important’ on ObWi’s WP theme.
CharlesWT:
Would adding the following style setting to the head work?
I suspect you're both on the right track, and that adding a bit of CSS for a:visited in the "Additional CSS" section of the site customization would do the job. And that !important wouldn't be necessary.
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.
also... you might not need '!important' on ObWi's WP theme.
simply adding the style:
a:visited {color:red;}
in the Firefox debugger was enough to change the visited link colors here.
it wasn't enough on my WP site; but we're using different WP themes and so i probably have something in my CSS taking priority. i needed !important to make it work.
On other websites, "clicked links" have a color change, with the same browser. So perhaps there's a super-sekrit browser setting for "change those colors NO MATTER WHAT the server wants", but I haven't found it yet.
But then again, I still haven't found the "click this button on the browser to make this webserver crash and burn", so maybe it's my own fault.
On “It’s Your Party, you can cry if…”
Kindness and human decency weigh a tremendous amount with me, and more and more as I get older. But in politicians, and especially those who aspire to lead the country, with all the enormous complications and problems that involves, I feel intelligence (or at least the lack of stupidity) are a necessity.
"
And most serious lefties of my acquaintance say he is also not very bright.
I can see that, though I have to admit, the past 5 or 10 years, I've gotten quite disenchanted with using intelligence as a yardstick for anything. I still get angry when people do stupid things, so I do give intelligence some weight, but I've gotten to the point where kindness and human decency weigh a lot more to me. Unfortunately, I think we are in a time where it is easy to railroad kind people.
On “Site Experiment”
And just an observation about italics. If you look at the image I'm adding below, you can see that the middle comment has the italics but the ones on the left and right don't. I've never been happy with how the site doesn't italicize in the summary, so it looks like the author is saying something that they are quoting. The same problem happens in summarized posts on LGM (see here for an example).
What makes this a bit strange is that the middle one is what would be ideal, but the other two are not. Not sure if there is a fix, but just noticed it.
"
This looks really nice, thank you! I've added a link to the page at the top, next to About our mascot.
On “Open Thread”
Pro bono, thanks, I must have skipped over that chunk of the file. The archive was out of sight, out of mind, so thanks for noting that.
"
Did you go through Casper? Was the wind blowing?
LOL - yes and yes. Casper, Sheridan, Gillette, Weston, Lusk, Riverton, Chugwater, Rawlins, Lander, Rock Springs, Saratoga...
All the happening places.
So much wind. Especially fun when it's snowing, you are driving a full 14-passenger van, and you have been awake for 36 hours straight. The drifts blowing across the road start looking surreal.
I don't miss it.
"
I’ve written here before about the one day while working an inventory job across CO, NE, SD, WY, MT...
Did you go through Casper? Was the wind blowing? (That's a trick question, for those who have not spent time in Casper.) The utilization factor at 80 meters for wind turbines near Casper is 49%. That is very likely the best in world for onshore turbines. Even the old school fossil fuel members of the Wyoming legislature are figuring out the state can derive far more revenue selling wind power to out-of-state customers than they can make burning coal.
"
Colorado: sunny weather punctuated by acts of god.
Front Range Colorado summer mornings are glorious. The afternoons are a total crap shoot.
"
I’ve noticed that the archive site has nothing June-December 2017. Is it lost, or did it not exist for some reason I’ve forgotten?
None of the archive is lost, except possibly a few things during the transition earlier this year. Feeding it from the Typepad export files into WordPress has to be done in chunks, and is tedious. Kudos to lj for the effort he's put in.
"
I have more stories about weird Front Range weather than there is room for. I'll settle for the recurring nice one in winter. When you go to bed, it's 5 °F. In the middle of the night you wake up because the Chinook is howling. When you get up in the morning it's 55.
"
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.
On “It’s Your Party, you can cry if…”
She could do a lot of good in the future.
My serious (but not far) lefty mates think well of her. I don't know much about her, but her participation in this absolute clownshow so far makes me wonder about her judgement. However, I agree that lefties do deserve effective political representation, and if she turns out to be capable of it, good.
Corbyn's judgement, on the other hand, is and has always been execrable. And most serious lefties of my acquaintance say he is also not very bright.
Zack Polanski's past as a hypnotherapist, and his (disputed) claims that he could hypnotise women to have bigger breasts, are rather hard to forget when considering how serious he is capable of being.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/zack-polanski-deputy-green-party-hypnotherapy-womens-breasts-5HjcmXc_2/
That aside, however, our politics are in such a mess at the moment, and most of the alternatives so frightful, that a vote for the Greens could make sense under some circumstances.
On “Open Thread”
I've noticed that the archive site has nothing June-December 2017. Is it lost, or did it not exist for some reason I've forgotten?
"
It's said about Iceland: If you don't like the weather, just wait 15 minutes.
On “It’s Your Party, you can cry if…”
I had quite a lot to say about Corbyn when he was Labour leader, little of it good.
Zarah Sultana: I know I'm older and I think I'm wiser than she is. She could do a lot of good in the future.
Zack Polanski: Rory Stewart's gotcha about debt interest didn't prove much: few could have answered it accurately (it's the other side of the coin from asking a politician if they know the price of a pint of milk). . But when it comes to economics Polanski doesn't actually seem to know what he's talking about. I may well vote Green at some point anyway.
On “Open Thread”
I've written here before about the one day while working an inventory job across CO, NE, SD, WY, MT that I drove from Fort Morgan to Fort Collins and drove through sunny weather into fog, hail, sun, rain, fog, light snow, and sun again over about 35 miles of empty state highways.
Colorado: sunny weather punctuated by acts of god.
"
I was in Colorado in early May 2024, spending some time in Denver and more time in Estes Park, plus driving between the two. I will simply say that I experienced a very wide range of weather while I was there, sometimes during a single day.
"
I live in MA, where we definitely have winter, but I live pretty near the ocean, which has a mind of it’s own as far as seasonal cycles of warm and cold go.
The northern part of the Front Range urban corridor -- from 20 miles south of Denver to 20 miles north of Fort Collins, and 25 miles east onto the plains -- is a strange little area for weather. At the north end of that is the Cheyenne Ridge, a 2,000 ft high east-west barrier. At the south is the Palmer Divide, a 2,500 ft high east-west barrier. Plus the mountains to the west, of course. Among the weird things that happen is the Denver Cyclone. Broadly speaking, some or all of that area is protected from the worst of the regional weather.
The area was a traditional site for winter camps for Native American tribes, avoiding the much more severe weather in the mountains or more than 20 miles out onto the plains.
"
cleek:
also… you might not need ‘!important’ on ObWi’s WP theme.
CharlesWT:
Would adding the following style setting to the head work?
I suspect you're both on the right track, and that adding a bit of CSS for a:visited in the "Additional CSS" section of the site customization would do the job. And that !important wouldn't be necessary.
"
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.
"
also... you might not need '!important' on ObWi's WP theme.
simply adding the style:
a:visited {color:red;}
in the Firefox debugger was enough to change the visited link colors here.
it wasn't enough on my WP site; but we're using different WP themes and so i probably have something in my CSS taking priority. i needed !important to make it work.
"
Pseudo-class. Sounds like me when I have to wear a suit and tie.
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it recommends altering the ‘visited’ pseudo-class (one colon, not two as with a pseudo-element)
Yes, pseudo-class. My mistake.
"
On other websites, "clicked links" have a color change, with the same browser. So perhaps there's a super-sekrit browser setting for "change those colors NO MATTER WHAT the server wants", but I haven't found it yet.
But then again, I still haven't found the "click this button on the browser to make this webserver crash and burn", so maybe it's my own fault.
"
the CSS it recommends uses both pseudo elements and the !important modifier.
it recommends altering the 'visited' pseudo-class (one colon, not two as with a pseudo-element)
a:visited {color: purple !important; text-decoration: underline !important;}I oppose both of those on general principle because they exist outside the JavaScript document model so cannot be modified by the user.
"make it easy for the user to modify the DOM" is a requirement that no front-end developer will ever encounter.
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