No, I don't know where to find it. :-)

Just like Country Music. It turns out the #1 song on the Country Charts is generated by AI, and nobody can tell the difference.

Useless? I use Cursive daily!

Trouble is that this is believable.

I live near Cincinnati. One day I had to do some urgent business in Washington DC. On one day's notice I had to drive straight through to the DC area, arriving at 11pm (10 hour drive), be at the Chinese Embassy at 8am the next morning, transact my business, then go back home to be at work the next day. That's 500 miles in 10 hours, sleep for 6 hours, then 500 miles back. There's no EV on the planet that could make that trip in that time frame. AND Charging stations in Kentucky are few and far between, and often vandalized or not working.

That's what confuses people from outside the USA; our size. You can start in Texas, drive 14+ hours at interstate speed, and still be in Texas. I've heard of visitors saying "We have one day to sight-see. Statue of Liberty in the morning, Disney World at Lunch, then Grand Canyon at dinner time." They are astonished to learn it would take 2 days of driving just to get from NYC to Disney World.

So what works in Europe won't work here.

Moving where, in your opinion?

Comedian Kathleen Madigan talked about a USO tour she did with Louis Black in Afghanistan. She said it was like they had landed in the Bible. And not the good part where there's love and such, but the bad part where God delights in punishing people, war, famine. It appears that Taliban and decreed that Afghanistan will be reverted to world of the Bible.

If they REALLY did that it would be OK. No matter how mad they got, there's just so much damage you can do with sticks and stones. Trouble is they want the ancient world and are willing to enforce it with modern weapons.

Maybe replace all of the museum's contents with exhibitions extolling Trump's greatness? (you know, something like in N. Korea).

No, you got your head in the sand. Landlords can do whatever they want to, especially in a tight housing market. Illegal? That means you'll need a lawyer they know you cannot afford, to fight their lawyers are retainer. And the Government enforcement is either paid off with bribes, or are the landlords themselves.

> Sadly, that will probably also be the day pigs develop wings.

I'm from Cincinnati and here pigs fly on a regular basis. :-)

I said older, not elderly. Besides, I know from experience that not all of them sag. Finally, that's not what I'm interested in anyway.

What you need is a "friend with benefits". Someone you could hook up with and engage in mutual satisfaction. This is different than a one night stand. In the FWB world, you know the person and know their lifestyle. There are many fewer health risks.

And now some advice from experience. Since you appear to be a 44 year-old male, may I suggest looking into older women. Post menopausal, recently widowed or divorced ladies are LOADS of fun. You don't have to worry about babies, they usually have their own place and money, and wants to boogie. Downsides? A few. You'll get some strange looks if you go out (but less now than it was AND the point of all of this is to do something you don't go outside for anywa). You got to get over the "she's so much older" thing (remember the idea she has to be younger is mostly related to fertility). And (how to say this politely here) they tend to be old-school with personal grooming. You got to like playing on the carpet instead of a hardwood floor.

That's why, when I buy some sort of media, I have a physical copy of it somewhere that Amazon doesn't know about. MP3 file on my hard disk, vinyl record on the shelf, DVD, CD, paper book. Then it doesn't matter if Amazon loses its license to carry it, I will still have it. I can watch it as many times as I want, jump up-and-down on it, use it as a coaster, give it to my friend, all because I actually purchased it.

Sometimes I'll rent things. Some show I only want to see once or something that doesn't make sense to see again. And if you think about it, movie tickets are rentals. You rent a chair for a specific amount of time to watch TV commercials on the big movie screen :-)

We have long since left behind the idea that we do science because it is good to do science. There are only two reasons we do science. Short term profit, or to find better and more efficient ways to kill people. That's the only science government (and most companies) will fund. Discovering the secrets of the CMB in no way furthers the two goals above, so it was cancelled. Apollo was a development program for an ICBM. If you can get a man on the moon, you can drop a bomb down the Kremlin's chimney. The Hubble telescope was a spy telescope turned toward the heavens instead of the Earth.

As for the brain drain mentioned elsewhere; Let them go. Let those other countries pay for the useless research while we spend OUR money on stuff that makes MONEY or makes better war (and nothing makes a profit like a good war).

For those who are thinking of flaming me; I'm just being Machiavellian. This is not what should be, but what "IS".

I wonder if this wood would be good for making musical instruments? A lot of the sound of a violin is in the hardness of the wood and the ring structure. It is speculated that part of the special sound of a Stradivarius violin is due to the fact it was made from trees that grew very slowly so the growth rings were very tight. But even if that is not so, it could replace teak or ironwood in places like fingerboards.