Hereafter, Apple will probably find its penetration of this exciting new market to be deeply constrained.

So, ruthenium-106.

Major League Baseball fans will know that when a home team player comes up to bat, personal "walk-up" music is played over the stadium PA system. So what did Washington National Gerardo Parra select for his?

Um, the "Baby Shark" song.

Doo doo dodotodoo!

Unplug. Unplug. Unplug.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9611689/outrage-as-amazons-alexa-listens-to-brits-having-sex-rowing-swearing-and-sharing-medical-news/

When the dog misbehaves, the fault lays not on the animal, but on the owner who failed to train it.

https://www.boredpanda.com/parents-being-jerks/

@ sixclaws
Wtf is wrong with these people. Changing diapers on display areas and TABLES at restaurants! I am far from Mother of the year but holy crap!!!! Literally.

I’ve always been complimented by airplane passengers about how good my kid behaved on planes. We’ve been flying every year since she was 18 mo and is now 6. I mean people going out of their way to tell me how “good” she was they couldn’t believe it. I believe it wasn’t about her “being good” or me being an above average parent. It’s about preparation, snacks,
Coloring books, puzzles, toys, and tablets with headphones. THAT is why my kid didn’t take a nutty during a 5 hour flight.

I saw someone complaining about the tablet volume. I get it. They should have earphones but I guarantee that was probably better than the slow decent into a
Tantrum that happens when a kid is locked down in a seat and told to not move when there is little to do. Just sayin.

Regarding your last sentence, Feebie, I think that, IF the flight attendants give permission at certain times, passengers should not gripe about toddlers running up and down aisles - assuming they're not yelling. That's how one STOPS them from having tantrums, after all.

But it's incredible how many parents think that, even when you're NOT talking about the pressure in airplanes (which hurt babies' and children's ears), kids should be allowed to scream at any restaurant that isn't formal. The idea seems to be: "I have to put up with their screaming for seven days a week; why the hell won't YOU put up with it for an hour or two? Give me a break!"

Even if it's "only" five minutes, no, they can't do that, even at McDonald's. Why? Because if you, the parent, had a headache, you'd order them to stop immediately or else, right? So what's the difference when you don't KNOW which strangers might have a headache right now - or something worse? Same goes for letting kids run around in eateries - even when there are no waiters, you never know when some frail elderly person might walk in and get a hip broken by your kid.

Those whom the gods mean to destroy, first they drive mad.

https://twitter.com/AmyKremer/status/1155479536823406592

So I learn as I go for sure. These little people do NOT come with instruction manuals and all kids are different. There was a child on a plane that had a helmet (so their skull wasn’t developed) and was clearly having an issue with the pressure. Several people around the mom were taking turns holding the baby and walking up and down the isle to comfort them. I think people are generally reasonable and helpful in these cases but letting kids run up and down the airplane isle wouldn’t be something I would do. I just wouldn’t.

My husband and I were unable to take my daughter for dinner with us (at a restaurant of any kind) when she was 12 mo to 2 years old because she was learning to walk and would start screaming to get down and run around. She simply would not sit in a high chair.

So we’d order from our favorite fancy places or whatever “to go” and drive and pick it up and bring it back (which I can remember doing often).

No way I let my kid scream their heads is in a restaurant. There were also times where my husband would eat while I was outside with my daughter and we switched if we had to absolutely be out. The fact it was McDonalds or the French Laundry didn’t make a difference.

Just basic etiquette.

Aisle not isle

Aisle not isle ~ Feebie at July 30, 2019 8:15 AM

And here I thought you'd found a new vacation spot, Airplane Isle.

New Zealand-based lobby group “Speak Up For Women” called on the country’s Olympic committee and sports minister to “defend women’s sport,”

Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again

@conan
Yes. An isle where adults are welcome to scream and yell
Up and down the coastline without judgement. Lol

Women’s rights groups are demanding action to stop biological male athletes from competing against biological women ~ from the link by Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 30, 2019 9:04 AM

If these groups succeed, will we have to rename the Olympics the Biological Olympics?

We're being asked to upend our entire societal structure to accommodate a group estimated to number less than 1% of the population.

The latest in "Forgotten Baby Syndrome" —

The guy who left his two kids to fry in a hot car has a GoFundMe.

People have given him $62,000.

The goal is $100,000.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/jr-assistance-fund

Meanwhile, I'm sure this will revive discussion of installing expensive equipment in the back of every car to ensure it doesn't happen again — as opposed to setting a reminder on a cellphone.

opposed to setting a reminder on a cellphone

I'm pretty sure I remember my cell phone offering to give me that sort of reminder some time ago, at the beginning of the summer as I recall. I thought that a bit odd.

I'm still wondering how sleep deprived you have to be to leave your kid in the care and not notice them? and if you are that sleep deprived, should you be even driving? seems like a danger to the rest of us.

Media being lazy? no, it can't be so!

https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/30/former-federal-prosecutor-confirms-rep-john-ratcliffes-role-in-holy-land-foundation-case/

@ Kevin

One of my worst nightmares as a parent. You are sleep deprived, running late for work, forgot to brush your teeth and your kid falls asleep in a rear facing car seat.

I once got all the way to work in this scenario but I always put my purse in the back seat so that it would give me a double check - and then I saw her and sat in my car and cried for a few minutes before taking her to day care. Scary shit.

Wrote Feebie:

I once got all the way to work in this scenario but I always put my purse in the back seat so that it would give me a double check - and then I saw her and sat in my car and cried for a few minutes before taking her to day care. Scary shit.

The irony is that you might've faced legal consequences if the kid was found and rescued in time. When it's not, the parents always have "suffered enough."

This is promising. IBM is open sourcing some of their AI/machine learning (ML) tools that will help in the war on cancer.

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/07/ai-tools-for-cancer-research/

Here's the license, and it is a good one. I snipped out the boiler plate disclaimer of warranty.

Copyright 2019 IBM Research Zürich

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Ramp up the outrage machine. California governor, Gavin Newsom, just signed a law banning from the primary ballot any candidate who has not released at least five years of federal tax returns.

I believe that the answer to his question is quite simple: He wasn't driving a Porsche Carrera

https://twitter.com/iwrotesham/status/1156023138636877826

I'm just waiting for the similar law from Republicans in swing states, Conan. Trump's chances of winning California are pretty low. So losing those electoral votes isn't that big of a deal for him. But continuing this trend across the rest of the states isn't good for all of us.

Maryland already beat Newsome to it. Unless Trump releases his tax returns - and I believe that he should on principle - his name will not show up on our fall ballot.

And speaking of crazed transgender olympics, prepare for a FURTHER DESCENT into sickening madness:

Trans activist Jonathan ‘Jessica’ Yaniv: ‘I wanna have sex with girls under 18’

Been brought up before in public circles. It's time has come!

Ownership, Not Government Spending, Will Shrink Wealth Gap

Real hope: coming soon to the American West:

Judges Seated by Trump Begin to Transform ‘9th Circus’

How to deal with crazed corporations:

Dealing with Corporate Activism: Shop to It!

DANG!

Nobody understands her potato.