Better a store you can go check stuff out in before you buy ... than looking at pictures on a screen and hoping it's what it pretends to be.

I can go to Starbucks and pay $5 for a coffee, or I can make better & get higher on at home for 25 cents.

I mean, if I went around sayin' it was a pinko site just because some trippin coder had lobbed federation at it, they'd put me away!

It's been a long time since I used R-Box. If one would suit your purposes, the appls VLC and SM Player both take playlists and have built-in, easy-to-use EQ. (My needs are EQ are modest right-now.) See VLC's 'tools' menu or SMPlayer's 'Audio/Equalizer' (once something's playing).

If you were to switch to using Pipewire for audio, the EasyEffects program has EQ in it's big-bag-o-tricks.

If I don't see on a Seattle site somewhere, I usually look at the following link to see the majority of (but far from all of) what's coming up

https://www.events12.com/seattle/

The platform that best supports my concerns is that of the US Green Party.

Unfortunately, it has far to go to represent that platform in any effective way. No possibly effective leader that I know of has ever emerged for it. (The current, so-called leader has zero presence anytime, anywhere.) If it could become at least -somewhat- sizeable, it could outreach its size in two-party deadlocks by trading deciding votes for concessions.

Hawking proposed in 2010 that BH can't collapse beyond the event horizon, that there isn't one. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/hawking-meant-black-holes

In 2014 Vaz said the boundary is outside the Schwarzschild radius. http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3823

If they're right, then there's no inside to be trapped in.

Isn't another location

"previous" and "subsequent" locations in space are memory phenomena, High-energy location changes are closer together in memory. Our "time" is a bookshelf of physical events in space, one following another. Of course they're sequential, so it was convenient to 'measure' the 'distance' between the books for purposes of prediction. But we've invented that ruler, then forgot we made it up. Many indigenous people have no 'time', and they manage.

If a one-ton boulder rolls down an Earthly hill in my direction and I don't move, what happens is not a manmade concept. Call it what you will.

Time on the other hand exists only as a useful mental tool to describe change. When I repeat the experiment of going to sleep, when I wake up it's still always now. That experiment -always- produces the same result.

If there's a 'Good Place', then there's one rule of ten that ALMOST EVERYONE ignores. Kings, popes, game hunters and every 'Christian soldier' pretends it's complicated. It's a very simple rule, with 4 words using only 16 letters. A 5-year-old can understand it. There's no escape clause. Ignore it and you'll not get there.

I'll admit to mostly checking into Bluesky for a month in January. The user count is much higher but the quality-post count lower ... unless you're into phographs of cats and mushrooms, product-promoters, and political opinions. Forget any quality posts - a 300-character limit (but unlimited photo sizes) and 60-second audio/video limit encourage superficial sheepiality.

Not a desert, but next to one, and the water prices are higher. Probably 1000 lurkers for every liker, let alone comments ... unless you're an 'name' into self-promotion. Some names deliver inside info you'll not see here.

Lemme delivers as much quality as bsky does. But you have to scroll thru more crap there.

There is A LOT of radioactive matter below the earth's surface ... constantly generating heat.

"About 50% of the Earth's internal heat originates from radioactive decay. Four radioactive isotopes are responsible for the majority of radiogenic heat because of their enrichment relative to other radioactive isotopes: uranium-238 (238U), uranium-235 (235U), thorium-232 (232Th), and potassium-40 (40K)." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget

Didn't see that in the article, sounds interesting ... where can I read more?

Newton's classical observations have stood up well.

If anything, it's quantum that has been poorly treated by generations of explaining-away. The world of the tiny must be predicted with probabilities because there is no way for us to observe it directly. It's not rolling dice ... we -have- to.

While trying out models of what it's doing boggles our minds, our limitations mean we cannot decide whether it's really deterministic. Reality isn't limited that way. (Einstein was right.)

Some astronomers recently took a clever look for whether space is quantized into a 'froth'. They studied monochrome light from stars 18 billion light years away, at redshift z=2.34. They found evidence of quantization into froth in all that time. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06016

EDIT: That should have read 'NO evidence of quantization' in 18 billion years of travel.

I'd learn to speak zombie. Doesn't take long, it's mostly throat noises. And walk like a zombie, just pretend a horse kicked you in the ass yesterday.

She puts on a good show ... does her promos ... then lambastes Californians because they didn't put out the fire with ocean water. Anyone who said 'Well, duh' to that belongs in her club ... the 'if I can talk really fast I must be smart' club.

For me, any office apps. Never worked in an office, never wanted to. None of that stuff. Even if it's free, if it gets installed with the distro, it's the first thing that gets tossed.

Lucky me, I go to sleep when I'm tired, wake up when I'm not.

Imperialism is different than taking the land outright.

Agreed. But a threat can be the beginning of a negotiation. Historically, the US wants the appearance of sovereignty to remain - even democracy if possible - just keep the right people in power.

Community.