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Comments by CharlesWT*

On “Site Experiment

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.

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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.

On “Horrifying stuff

Now, some of us have more Neanderthal DNA than others, but that miscegenation is long, long in the past.

There are far fewer men who self-identify as Neanderthal than there are women who claim that they're married to one.

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What is “American culture”?

Here are some of the basics.

"American culture is diverse, shaped by history, immigration, and regional differences, but several core tenets recur across sources like sociological studies (e.g., Hofstede's cultural dimensions), historical analyses (e.g., Tocqueville's Democracy in America), and contemporary surveys (e.g., Pew Research on American values). These are not universal—exceptions and debates exist—but they form a widely recognized foundation."
Core Tenets of American Culture

On “The South shall writhe again

I live in blue part of blue MA, and the whole giant American and/or Confederate flag flying off the back of a pickup with Eric Church or similar blasting is all over the place here.

I live in north central Texas, and I never see anything like that.

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