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What was your first or one of your first albums/cassettes/CDs? Mine was James Taylor's Greatest Hits and Jim Croce's Photographs and Memories Greatest Hits. My sister was twelve when she got Rubber Soul by the Beatles. She had very advanced musical taste.

Just realized we and the forum are more interesting when we’re fighting. Contentious subjects stirred and brought to a boil tend to bring about participation. So what’s to stop a member from voicing an opinion they don’t really have if only to bring about confrontation? I wonder how many times we sternly object to a comment made by someone just trying to get things going? Who would do such a thing?

(Jul 23, 2021 09:30 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]What was your first or one of your first albums/cassettes/CDs? Mine was James Taylor's Greatest Hits and Jim Croce's Photographs and Memories Greatest Hits. My sister was twelve when she got Rubber Soul by the Beatles. She had very advanced musical taste.

My very first ones would have been something dumb -- a collection of songs from a kid's show or cinema musical themes, the soundtrack from a Disney animated movie, etc.

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(Jul 24, 2021 11:41 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]Just realized we and the forum are more interesting when we’re fighting. Contentious subjects stirred and brought to a boil tend to bring about participation. So what’s to stop a member from voicing an opinion they don’t really have if only to bring about confrontation? I wonder how many times we sternly object to a comment made by someone just trying to get things going? Who would do such a thing?

Enjoy it while still limitedly possible. Eventually even polite disagreement may have to move to the barbaric highlands of the dark web. What's offensive to a subcultural perspective or fluffy thought orientation will be shut down with respect to science discussion context, also. Some scientists may be worse about kowtowing to social media's pop-ideologies than anybody.

(Jul 24, 2021 11:41 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]Just realized we and the forum are more interesting when we’re fighting. Contentious subjects stirred and brought to a boil tend to bring about participation. So what’s to stop a member from voicing an opinion they don’t really have if only to bring about confrontation? I wonder how many times we sternly object to a comment made by someone just trying to get things going? Who would do such a thing?

Forums don't really work too well as a kind of King of the Hill standing around going "yep, mm hmm."

Is there some way of copying an image such that it isn't taken away later on and replaced by the word "img"? Perhaps it's because I hotlink. Is there some way to post images without hotlinking?

(Jul 25, 2021 07:21 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Is there some way of copying an image such that it isn't taken away later on and replaced by the word "img"? Perhaps it's because I hotlink. Is there some way to post images without hotlinking?

You'd have to upload an image and store it on a free or paid photo site and link to those on your account. As I recall, the free ones will intermittently shut down a link when limits are reached, but it supposedly won't be forever (your allotment or whatever will renew).

You can upload an image from your computer (or elsewhere?) in the form of an attachment that's stored on the forum itself, but there's a 3.91(?) MB quota to how much you can have. But I don't seem to see a button for adding an attachment anymore (only "View My Attachments"). Been a long time since I used it, so maybe my cognitive blindness is kicking in with respect to the obvious...

(Jul 25, 2021 08:08 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jul 25, 2021 07:21 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Is there some way of copying an image such that it isn't taken away later on and replaced by the word "img"? Perhaps it's because I hotlink. Is there some way to post images without hotlinking?

You'd have to upload an image and store it on a free or paid photo site and link to those on your account. As I recall, the free ones will intermittently shut down a link when limits are reached, but it supposedly won't be forever (your allotment or whatever will renew).

You can upload an image from your computer (or elsewhere?) in the form of an attachment that's stored on the forum itself, but there's a 3.91(?) MB limit to how much you can have. But I don't seem to see a button for adding an attachment anymore (only "View My Attachments"). Been a long time since I used it, so maybe my cognitive blindness is kicking in with respect to the obvious...

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(Jul 25, 2021 08:08 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jul 25, 2021 07:21 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Is there some way of copying an image such that it isn't taken away later on and replaced by the word "img"? Perhaps it's because I hotlink. Is there some way to post images without hotlinking?

You'd have to upload an image and store it on a free or paid photo site and link to those on your account. As I recall, the free ones will intermittently shut down a link when limits are reached, but it supposedly won't be forever (your allotment or whatever will renew).

You can upload an image from your computer (and elsewhere?) in the form of an attachment that's stored on the forum itself, but there's a 3.91(?) MB quota to how much you can have. But I don't seem to see a button for adding an attachment anymore (only "View My Attachments"). Been a long time since I used it, so maybe my cognitive blindness is kicking in with respect to the obvious...

Thanks CC!!

Thank you Stryder!!

Bon Voyage Chad!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...gA7TOUDeZo

"Prosecutors in Idaho on Thursday announced their intention to seek the death penalty against Chad Daybell, who is accused of killing his two stepchildren who went missing and were found dead in Idaho last year.

Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell, who is the mother of Joshua "JJ" Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17, are charged in the murder of her two children. Chad Daybell is also charged with the murder of his former wife, Tammy Daybell, 49, who died under "suspicious circumstances" in 2019.

Prosecutors Lindsay Blake and Rob Wood said they conferred with immediate family members of the victims, but that the ultimate decision to seek the death penalty rests with the state. They said the decision only applies to Chad Daybell.

"[W]e determined that the nature and magnitude of these crimes warrant the possibility of the highest possible punishment," they said in a statement.


Chad Daybell's attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment from USA TODAY on Thursday.

The prosecutors argue in the court filing that Chad Daybell's actions warrant the death penalty because they were "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel," committed for "renumeration" and showed disregard for human life. They also argued that Chad Daybell poses a continued threat to society.


The children's bodies were found in June 2020, on Chad Daybell's property, police said. Lori Vallow Daybell had been arrested in February of that year in connection with their disappearance, and Chad Daybell was arrested in June.


Authorities grew suspicious of Chad Daybell when he remarried just two weeks after his former wife's death, which was initially deemed due to natural causes. Her body was later exhumed and an autopsy was performed in December 2019.

Police first announced the children were missing in December 2019, after JJ's grandmother said she hadn't heard from him in months. Lori Vallow Daybell allegedly told police that JJ was in Arizona when they performed a welfare check. The couple fled to Hawaii at the time.

Tylee was last seen Sept. 8 in Yellowstone National Parks as photos show her with JJ, Lori Vallow Daybell and Vallow's brother, Alex Cox.

Lori Vallow Daybell is also facing charges in Arizona, where her brother allegedly killed her former husband, Charles Vallow. Her brother pled self-defense and died in 2019.

A friend of Lori Vallow Daybell told authorities that the couple believed her children had become "zombies," and alleged that they were involved in apocalyptic, cult-like religious beliefs."