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What did you learn today?
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Recently I have figured out that the majority of TB'rs are more rock and roll than myself.
^^^On that very subject, Blues, I recently looked back over the last few dozen records I’ve listened to and found that the Vast majority were based on acoustic guitars, and acoustic piano…like 70%-80%.
Obviously, I’m happy with that…. I just thought it was worthy of a look, and I was kinda surprised.
Obviously, I’m happy with that…. I just thought it was worthy of a look, and I was kinda surprised.
TIL that if one manages to navigate the labyrinthine and recursive automated menus of the USPS to a point at which one can request to speak with an actual human being, one is allowed a choice of five types of on-hold music:
Press 1 for "Contemporary"
Press 2 for "Country"
Press 3 for "Hip-Hop and R&B"
Press 4 for "Latin"
Press 5 for "World Beat"
Choose wisely, because your wait time will be... "greater than 20 minutes."
Press 1 for "Contemporary"
Press 2 for "Country"
Press 3 for "Hip-Hop and R&B"
Press 4 for "Latin"
Press 5 for "World Beat"
Choose wisely, because your wait time will be... "greater than 20 minutes."
I've never been given a choice of on-hold music. I had no idea it was even a thing. Apparently, I learned something today, too!
Yeah, that was a first, and an utter surprise to me. Among all the other cost-cuttings, slow-downs, and gutting of services, they have the decadent luxury of five kinds of music??!!
As for "Contemporary"...
I was hoping the "Contemporary" option would give me something at least vaguely rock-ish.
It did not.
I would also have accepted "P-Funk."
They could save some money that way, because for a 20 minute wait, they'd only have to pay for one or two songs.
The United States P-Funk Service...?
[Bleep] yeah!
They could save some money that way, because for a 20 minute wait, they'd only have to pay for one or two songs.
The United States P-Funk Service...?
[Bleep] yeah!
They paid for it by firing half the people that answer the phone.Yeah, that was a first, and an utter surprise to me. Among all the other cost-cuttings, slow-downs, and gutting of services, they have the decadent luxury of five kinds of music??!!
As for "Contemporary"...
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By responding to the bots' inane questions in long-winded, conversational, if somewhat baffled tones, they will immediately panic and place your call with a humanoid. Works a treat
Endangered sharks found in cat and dog food. "Din dins!"
On a side note, dogs, who, unlike kitty cats, are omnivores, do very well when eating human food. …
"It's a dog's life!"
… Of the 144 samples sequenced, 45 – roughly a third – contained shark DNA. The most frequently identified species were blue shark, silky shark and whitetip reef shark. The silky shark and the whitetip reef shark are listed as “vulnerable” in the Invalid Link Removed.
Products containing DNA of the sicklefin weasel shark, the Caribbean sharpnose shark and the sand tiger shark – all vulnerable species – were also identified.
The authors suggest the meat could be taken from shark carcasses that would be discarded after the valuable fins are removed, or could reflect a growing shark meat trade. They are calling for more accurate ingredients labelling so that people know what they are feeding to their pets and where it came from. …
Products containing DNA of the sicklefin weasel shark, the Caribbean sharpnose shark and the sand tiger shark – all vulnerable species – were also identified.
The authors suggest the meat could be taken from shark carcasses that would be discarded after the valuable fins are removed, or could reflect a growing shark meat trade. They are calling for more accurate ingredients labelling so that people know what they are feeding to their pets and where it came from. …
A somewhat novel, and mind boggling, spin here on the wiles of real life processes — how evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up. Brains may only be bit players — makes sense(s) when you think about it
"… Evolution, it seems, doesn’t come up with answers so much as generate flexible problem-solving agents that can rise to new challenges and figure things out on their own.
The urgency of understanding intelligence in biological terms has become more acute with the ‘omics’ revolution, where new techniques are amassing enormous amounts of fresh data on the genes, proteins and connections within each cell. Yet the deluge of information about cellular hardware isn’t yielding a better explanation of the intelligent flexibility we observe in living systems. Nor is it yielding sufficient practical insights, for example, in the realm of regenerative medicine. We think the real problem is not one of data, but of perspective. Intelligence is not something that happened at the tail end of evolution, but was discovered towards the beginning, long before brains came on the scene. …"
The urgency of understanding intelligence in biological terms has become more acute with the ‘omics’ revolution, where new techniques are amassing enormous amounts of fresh data on the genes, proteins and connections within each cell. Yet the deluge of information about cellular hardware isn’t yielding a better explanation of the intelligent flexibility we observe in living systems. Nor is it yielding sufficient practical insights, for example, in the realm of regenerative medicine. We think the real problem is not one of data, but of perspective. Intelligence is not something that happened at the tail end of evolution, but was discovered towards the beginning, long before brains came on the scene. …"
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The Big Lebowski has much deeper themes than most of us suspected.
To long to watch; can you reduce it to a couple of sentences with small words?
Thanks on behalf of all suffering a short attention... Squirrel!
It's just, like... that guy's opinion, man.
