This is the best car review channel I've ever found. Sarah is a former Air Force engineer, and her reviews are a unique mix of technical detail and irreverent humor.

https://www.youtube.com/@SarahnTuned/videos

Happy Birthday, @Minholkin ! 🍰

Just take a look. It's in a book.

4. Many people seem to forget that the photos they are posting are public. I've seen plenty of things that don't violate the app's ToS but would sure get a closer inspection from an HR department.

5. You can't do much of anything with the free versions of these apps. By design.

6. Spammers and bots seem to like me so far. Real people? That remains to be seen.

Things I learned after my first foray into dating apps over the past week:

1. Many people post pictures with their kids' faces in full view. I probably don't have to tell this community how dangerous that is.

2. I don't understand the use of heavy AI filtering on selfies. Many look like aliens with 10 inch high foreheads. Don't you plan to meet people in person? Will they recognize you?

3. There seems to be a high prevalence of septum piercings for women in their late 20s to early 30s.

1/2

Here's another amazing choral reimagining by Eric Whitacre. This one may rip your heart out even more than the Johnny Cash version.

Hurt - Trent Reznor, arr. Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre Singers
https://youtu.be/gVlwPujkmLA

#cosomusic #cosochoral

^^cc: @Minholkin per our last

^ I would subtitle Whitacre's version:
Enjoy the Dissonance

Really, he makes this gut-wrenching. Few modem composers handle tension so skillfully.

This isn't really a cover; it's a complete reimagining. You may never think of Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence the same way again.

Watch his explanation first before you listen to the performance.

S:t Jacobs Ungdomskör - Workshop with Eric Whitacre: Enjoy the Silence
https://youtu.be/Ro8PPimKHTE

Enjoy the Silence (arr. Whitacre)
Eric Whitacre Singers
https://youtu.be/JHb2kcpwlrc

#cosomusic
#cosochoral
#cosoclassical
#musictheory

Just an observation, but #FloodTheFirehose makes the timelines a lot more like they used to in the early days. It's times like these that make me want to hang out here.

Let's do more of this on a regular basis, and not the non-stop political dunking and sulking? It's unhealthy.

I really miss having regex filters.

@Route10
just saw in your bio that you are a retired middle school principal. Bless you.

I'm a public school teacher, currently with elementary students but I taught middle and high school for quite a long time before that.

If you are calling yourself an anti-Zionist, then one of these things is true:

1. You don't think Jews deserve a homeland, even after being forcefully removed or eliminated from many other ancestral homelands.

2. You don't understand what Zionism is.

@White_Rabbit

Dr. Corey Olsen makes an interesting point about the three Elven rings I had never considered. This cuts right to our discussion the other day about the Elves and fallibility.

I'm having trouble sharing a URL with time index - Go near the end to 1:16:30.
https://www.youtube.com/live/V-QZWoNm3Bg

I know you're not a fan of the ROP show thus far, but his analysis of the trailer leading up to this point is quite interesting, and makes me look at it in a new light overall.

#Tolkien

^^ See 12:00 in the second video for a nice encapsulation of what is thoroughly explained in the first video:

The driver update from CrowdStrike was signed by Microsoft. The driver itself was fine. But the channel update file from CrowdStrike that is used as input to the driver was malformed, simply full of zeros. That crashed the driver, which was running in kernel mode, so the system had to be halted (BSOD).