The Off Topic Topic

[Savonarola]

I believe it was the song played at the launch of two of the GOP presidential candidates - so yeah fair to say it's trending.

According to Billboard it's the number 2 song in the United States (behind Jung Kook's Seven.)  The song had been obscure (it hadn't even charted on the Hot 100 last week), but activists complained about the songs lyrics and some of the imagery in the video.  CMT (Country Music Television) pulled the video and all the Americans old enough to remember the PMRC (Parent's Music Resource Center) know what happened next.  In music, there's no such thing as bad controversy.

Maybe this will be the start of a trend, Vigilante Country; it could be this generation's Gangsta Rap.  It's too bad our studio gangsters are either dead or too old to be menacing they could have had beefs with the studio vigilantes instead of with each other.

[Valmy]

Oh such sad news - Sinead O'Connor RIP

An absolutely incredible talent

What? That's nuts.

RIP

[crazy canuck]

Seems to have been natural causes.  She blew my mind back when we were both in our mid twenties.  That voice.  That powerful lovely voice.

[Josephus]

All the young ones hang on tiktok, could we get someone to do a recruiting drive there? There's bound to be dozens of potential recruits that want to join a dying forum with a bunch of grumpy old Wealthy men...

FYP post for likely better results.

I'm not wealthy. :-(. Old, grumpy, yes. Not wealthy.

[Hamilcar]

So what do we all think about the claimed room temperature superconductor?

[Tamas]

So what do we all think about the claimed room temperature superconductor?

Isn't this something announced every second year at least?

[Hamilcar]

So what do we all think about the claimed room temperature superconductor?

Isn't this something announced every second year at least?

Yes but the scientists in the know said something to the effect of "it's not obviously wrong" which is just about the highest praise these people are capable of.

[DGuller]

So what do we all think about the claimed room temperature superconductor?

Is that claim from the guy currently investigated for faking data, or from some other guy?

[Hamilcar]

So what do we all think about the claimed room temperature superconductor?

Is that claim from the guy currently investigated for faking data, or from some other guy?

Different guy who so far hasn't been accused either of faking data or harassing women (as far as I know).

[grumbler]

So what do we all think about the claimed room temperature superconductor?

Is that claim from the guy currently investigated for faking data, or from some other guy?

Other guys, in Korea.  "Room temperature" is a bit of a misnomer, though - they are talking hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit.

[Hamilcar]

APPARENTLY there is major drama between the authors. This is based on the reports of an anon Twitter account taking the English translation of a Korean-language presentation translated live by Korean football fans.

[mongers]

First post in 7.5 hours on languish!   

[mongers]

First post in 7.5 hours on languish!   

What is it they say about the empty barrel?

[Josquius]

Read an article the other day about Ukraine.
A poor old woman lamenting how the Russians had blown up the house she and her husband had lived in since the 90s. They'd built it themselves she says. She mixed concrete and he laid bricks.

Fuck the russists, poor woman, etc...

But double poor woman. Wow that husband gave her the shit job.

[HVC]

Loading mortar into a mixer is easier then lugging around bricks