Tag: The Q Tree

Dear KMAG: 20260427 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

placeholder

noun

  • a dummy post on The Q Tree
  • other definitions we don’t care about
  • still more definitions we don’t care about

Used in a sentence

A placeholder is not the same as the command to place Holder under arrest.

Shown in a picture

Shown in a video

MUSIC!

Placeholder!

THE STUFF

Well, it looks like we have a placeholder for a nuclear clock!

Thorium. Useful stuff.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear MAGA: 20260423 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W

We have some interesting but powerful trinkets today. Gird up thy loins.

(1) How about the top 15 discoveries make *by* AI as of 7 months ago? That’s right – things that were discovered or figured out *BY* AI.

(2) Are you ready to let a white chick with blue-black hair and green eyes show you three colors that can’t physically exist as hues of real things, but that you can trick your eyes into seeing? This actually works! They’re called “impossible colors” – and you can see them.

Explanation HERE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color

(3) The 5 biggest stars in this universe, that we know about. They’re so huge, it’s almost hard to imagine.

OK, that’s it. Back to placeholders, mostly. TTYL!

W

Dear KMAG: 20260420 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

windcheater

noun

  • windproof jacket
  • windbreaker
  • thin fabric jacket designed to resist wind chill and light rain

Used in a sentence

A windcheater is the same thing as a windbreaker.

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Shown in a picture just for today (4/20) (Tree Huggers brand cannabis company merch)

Shown in a shameless video

MUSIC!

Placeholder? “[The ]Wind[ ]breaker[s]” have been multiple different bands and more – take your pick!

  • a Southern alt-rock power trio/quartet from the 80s/90s with a Tom Petty/REM sound
  • a Japanese jazz group
  • a “yacht rock” tribute band / cover band with a surprisingly strong following
  • a highly musical Japanese anime

Which is your favorite?

THE STUFF

Wanna see how a basic windbreaker is made? It’s harder than you think!

Windbreakers for buildings? It’s a thing!

There’s also a sliding model.

Gail might have something to say about this!

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear MAGA: 20260416 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W

It’s not every month where there’s a day that’s the month squared – but today is one of those days!

Enjoy some especially alphanumerical trinkets!

(1) Have you ever wanted to understand the technology inside your credit cards? RFID vs. lines of B? Here is your chance! And it’s done by Veritasium!

(2) Everything you probably didn’t know about that great TV comedy of the 1960s, F TROOP!

(3) 8000 may not seem like a magic number, but up on the mountains, it is. Above 8000 meters, you cannot rest. You must get below that altitude to live.

(4) Note that there is now a lot of FAKE mountain disaster content, where annoying and arrogant fake people like “fitness influencers” die after they do bad things like insult their superior non-white sherpas. Very strange. 2 bad white grlz die. 2 good Nepalis live!

This video doesn’t admit to false and “synthetic” content, but I verified that this is fake, with the help of Duck AI.

(5) Body cams and WGTTs. You know this can’t end well. Let this be a reminder that one less drink and one more “Yes, sir” will get you very far in life.

OK, I have a hangover just watching that.

Have a great weekend, and act responsibly. Let me recommend the ginger ale and popcorn.

W

Dear KMAG: 20260413 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

ecarlate (also écarlate)

noun

  • fine woolen cloth, usually dyed scarlet
  • luxury publisher (with accent on first “e”)
  • a color (in French)

Used in a sentence

Scarlet cloth, also known as écarlate, was a fine and expensive woolen textile common in Medieval Europe, often dyed with the red dye kermes. It was woven from the finest English wools and was considered a luxury item, particularly fashionable during the 14th and 15th centuries.

Shown in a picture (modern equivalent)

Shown in a video (metaphorically)

MUSIC!

Still stuck on scarlet and wool, amigos!

THE STUFF

Yeah, this clickbait video may have been produced by AI. Yeah, this may be kinda bogus in so many ways (let me know in the comments). AND YET – it strikes me as a needed warning that we’ve got some work to do. What do you think?

Sack cloth and ashes. Useful stuff.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear MAGA: 20260409 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W

Hot, fresh trinkets – and 4 out of 5 are heavy on the XX! ENJOY!!!

(1) Chip Babe Anastasia is back, looking far less AI than usual. This time INTEL is getting the love!

(2) Speaking of love, the story on Robert Palmer’s video for Addicted To Love is pretty amazing. Check it out!

(3) Want to see some REAL hacking? No tense music. No babes urging on the geek. No race to get it done in under 60 seconds before the alarms go off and the security guards with machine guns burst into the room.

Just some dude who knows programming, ordering a cheap Chinese router on Temu, and abusing it, as it was surely designed to be abused.

(4) This is absolutely hilarious! A massive victory for free speech, thanks to a mellow black stoner in Ohio. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! Brett Cooper (yes, Brett the girl) tells the story.

(5) Let’s finish with a comic/magician who acts as her own eye-candy distraction. Good times!

Have a great weekend!

W

Dear KMAG: 20260406 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

gridelin

noun / adjective

  • violet-grey (color)
  •  color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet
  • color that is a mixture of white and red; grey-violet
  • having such a color

Used in a sentence

Gridelin is a dark purplish red that is bluer and paler than pansy purple, redder, lighter, and stronger than raisin, and bluer, lighter, and stronger than Bokhara; it is also called gris-de-lin, which is “flax gray” in French.

Shown in a picture

Shown in a video – sorta

MUSIC!

Here you go – the AI hair-metal praise band Placeholder AI Worship!

“AI Worship… the music is fake but the worship is real.”

THE STUFF

The following AI representation of Roger Penrose – which is surprisingly easy to understand – is actually a really great explainer of his thinking, on an important topic that approaches the spiritual.

I was very pleased to see how well the AI sticks to Penrose’s perspective (I have some of his books). I suspect that the AI was highly trained on his thinking and publications.

Penrose is a British mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, born in 1931, who has made huge contributions to all three fields.

The question – what is mathematics?

(Non-Spoiler – My view is close to his, but is more Judaeo-Christian, and doesn’t speculate toward quantum processes as necessary for consciousness.)

https://youtu.be/NVeW932Tuvk

Math. Useful stuff. With G_d’s missing signature all over it!

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

A Discussion Concerning the Future of This Site

First of all, don’t worry. This site is not going anywhere. At least, not immediately.

That said, there will need to be changes.

As you noticed we were recently unable to “like” posts. I was able to work around that problem by using an old version of the commenting software, but the longer we do that, the more of a security problem that old version becomes. At some point, we may be forced to either “abandon likes” or “abandon the commenting software” – and go back to vanilla WordPress commenting.

While I don’t want to abandon our commenting system, that software may actually be the source of another security problem – and if so, then we may be forced to abandon it anyway – and soon.

You see, something has introduced a security problem, which I tolerated for a long time, but ultimately complained about to our hosting site (because it could be something else at their end, up to and including government or agency access to and control of our site). The complaint is generating a certain amount of discomfort, vague and apparently nonsensical answers – and (perhaps connected) a mention of the fact that we are very close to our storage limits. You can see how that works. “Leverage.”

And it gets worse. Way worse. The hosting company may have figuratively handed the keys to the site to certain black hats. I kid you not. I’m basically SMDH.

Add in the fact that I will be very busy in April and May. I have a lot of work to do, other than dealing with the site.

SO – a lot of things are coming to a head at once. Excitement! Here are some possibilities….

  • I may need to pay more for more space (have to look at the numbers)
  • I may need to move the site, where move could be many, many things, including a completely new site
  • I may need to abandon or move some of the data and images
  • I may need to remove “likes”
  • I may need to move back to vanilla WordPress

I will probably have a good idea how to proceed by June or July. Until then, I am asking the following, particularly of authors….

  • Please refrain from uploading new images for posts, or at least keep it minimal. In particular, don’t upload duplicate images. We need to conserve space to buy time.
  • Please refrain from uploading large amounts of text data in spoilers. Links are better.
  • Tweet URLs and YouTube URLs are great, because most of the data is loaded from elsewhere, and not stored on our site.
  • I have a few non-placeholder posts for the next 2 weeks, but after that, I’m just leaving them as placeholders until July, at which time there should be a solution.
  • Please think about what is important for you on this site. Is discussion of current events more important than retaining old posts? Think about how you want to use this site going forward for the next few years (as we approach our 10th anniversary in late 2028).

As Wheatie used to say, we WILL get through this, but the times will be interesting.

I will try to keep people informed about what is going on. However, you will be seeing less of me commenting on the site, as I begin working on the site, and trying to solve the security and space issues, as well as doing all the work I need to at home.

If you need me, especially after next week, please use PMTW to get my attention, and please let me know if a simple public comment in response is OK (because that is easier) – otherwise I will respond on Gab by private message.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

W

Dear MAGA: 20260402 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W

Fresh Thursday Trinkets! Come and GET ‘EM!

(1) Remember the Titan? More reality about the supposed “recovery of presumed remains” from the Merry Mortician.

(2) OK, after that, a little comedy is in order. Especially for you Gen X folks!

(3) Do you remember how Steve explained atoms, where electrons “orbited” the nucleus in “orbitals” that weren’t really like planetary orbits, but rather more like something else?

Here is a very intuitive, and very non-mathematical explanation of “something else” – by that guy who likes to understand these things at a gut level.

HINT/TLDR: Take a vibrating string, distort it into three dimensions, where one end becomes a point at the center, and the other end becomes infinity in all directions. Interesting things happen, but they make sense.

(4) Wanna see something enjoyable? Watch Ilhan Omar and Margaret Brennan mutually annihilate after Scott Bessent drops delayed-action bombs on Brennan’s show!

(5) Remember how Hussein the Disastrous, a.k.a. “Globama”, had his “Furies” – Susan Rice, Avril Haines, and Lisa Monaco – who caused all sorts of wicked trouble in this world? Here is the real story on the Fates and the Furies of Greek mythology.

Speaking of Avril, that month is now well underway. Have a great weekend!

W

Dear KMAG: 20260330 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

kalpis

noun

  • a water jar
  • a type of Ancient Greek water jug
  • a hydria having a rounded shoulder and a small back handle

Used in a sentence, or even a paragraph

The kalpis is a variant form of the more common hydria, a vessel used for carrying water. Often awarded as prizes in competitions and dedicated in sanctuaries, these valuable objects also served as cinerary urns and ballot boxes. Decorative appliqués or statuettes were usually cast separately and soldered or riveted to the exterior.

Shown in a picture

Shown in another picture

Shown – almost – in a video

MUSIC!

I love this cover (thanks, Cthulhu!) of the old Queen song way too much! Not only do these harmonic gals remind me of the “sireens” in the Coen brothers movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” – they remind me of various young ladies I hung out with during my misspent youth. Happy, loud, and guaranteed to make my mother’s eye start twitching!

A toast to good-hearted floozies everywhere! Say a prayer for them! And for the boys who can’t resist their charms!

Can’t pass up the comparison!

floozy/floozie (Cambridge definition)
noun
a woman who has a lot of sexual relationships, or who wears clothes that attract sexual attention in a way that is too obvious

THE STUFF

From musical floozies to mathematical fairies, when AI’s psychotic bullshit starts rampaging through the interwebs like a bad kaiju, we’ve got you covered!

Chicks. Math. Music. History. Useful stuff. Wait – didn’t the Greeks have some deal about this?

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

PS – an extra carbon-not-silicon[e] musical treat discovered by YouTube!