Chat GPT:  "I don't know.......but I don't want to tell you I don't know, so that you won't figure out that I don't know."

We already have one of those. 

Indeed we do.  And maybe more 'fun' than ChatGPT.  Less dependable in lack of knowledge, oxymoronic as that may be.

I just learned how to middle click to put desired links into new tabs...because I never found it in Settings...it's odd to click a rotor...

You see exactly what I found...FireFox need look at it, otherwise though, FireFox is fabulously error and worry free...(or maybe I need a more utile mouse?

Like envisioning a vector through one's fingertip, through the rotor's center, and into the big comfy chair's armrest...otherwise...

A click of the rotor (when not over a link) puts the mouse in auto-scroll mode - the rotor itself is already in manual scroll mode. That's not something peculiar to Firefox.

Buzz - are you implying that since Brew's comment, it's no longer a serious annoyance.

As mentioned in other discussions, the rendering of the cards (on this site) in Firefox is less than optimal; more like migraine mode, sans helicopters (or maybe 'choppers' during a particularly violent episode), so not an issue with rotors...

differentDay: Your comment puts it all back into perspective. Among the truly serious annoyances in life, accidental auto-scroll using the rotor pales in comparison. 

Brewski offers an introduction to the Tao of Mouse: "Envision a vector through one's fingertip, through the rotor's center, and into the big comfy chair's armrest."

Words to live by. 

Indeed - for me/some obscure reason, invoked a line that seemed to complement it: 'Looking at life through the eyes of a tyre hub'.

Not that I'd be entirely comfortable with that prospect, but since we're talking perspectives...

Like Buzz, his phrase "Like envisioning a vector through one's fingertip..." really resonated with me.  I would have *never* come up with that.........but its genius of a conceptualization was immediately obvious, and perfectly stated. (And here I thought I had been done with vectors long ago 😆.)

*THAT* sed............differentDay/[etc.] has come up with a multitude of conceptualizations over her time here that show great insight -- and yes, "perspective".  As someone far too left-brained (when I have one at all).........numerous comments of hers have struck pleasant yet challenging(?) chords with me - some being quite poetic.  Reminiscent of helen at times; of Jean at times -- and yet refreshingly all her own.

Interesting that you would bring up some of the more interesting personalities to have graced this little board. If I had to guess, we have had more than our fair share. Probably the result of the type of brain needed to play this evil game. 

I promise to spend more time gazing at life through a tyre hub, and I will be better for it. 

I promise to make more use of the big virtual comfy chair that I envisage will occupy my mind when it tires of dealing with the usual internal cognitive traffic. 

Apparently..........BrewCrew beat you to that comfy chair nirvana.

That party had ample supplies of cocaine.

Not usually the precursor of an aphasic phase, not that I have a nose for these things...

Okay, so the little moon's pull is so weak that its escape velocity is around 20km/h...could an athletic person beat it and get away, while a merely fit, yet adventurous person could jump but merely start themselves on a never-ending revolution?

Deimos

https://xkcd.com/681_large/

Or perhaps you're already hep.....

I think that character was voiced by Paul Lynde.

That crew is currently arming itself, with expectations.

It's like being damned to an alien demographic...which? That of the beautiful people (of course)...

Who is this Jen Zee broad? Babe sounds way too dull to know any better.

Having been born and raised in the Buffalo area, six inches of snow would slow us down to 55 on the expressway.

A desert is an unfit place for permanent human habituation...some people are still learning.

Does it possibly make sense for much rebuild to occur WHERE LESS METEOROLOGICAL HORROR frequents?

The scale of this is much larger than anything ever before, and couldn't really be predicted! It's majorly cataclysmic! I wouldn't be blaming the victims for living there. I'm poor and don't have much but I feel for them! Even though they might be wealthy and with good insurance! 

You're seriously still blaming the victims!?

Kind of like blaming Brian Thompson for getting shot in the back.

Funny thing, that. Recent poll numbers show that 40% of those in the U.S. under the age of 30 approved of Thompson's murder. Only 20% strongly disapprove. My brother spent his entire career in the health care industry (admin in a chain of hospitals) and he enthusiastically applauded his murder. My son is a physician and feels the same way. Although I find the health insurance industry in this country to be abhorrent, I don't support the notion of using murder as a means to an end. 

As for the fires in California, those losing their homes are victims of natural disasters that have been triggered by human activities -- a long list of human activities that were and are unsustainable. 

I fear we are not giving our children the same place that was given to us. 

It's the fools who don't deserve it who ruin it for the rest.

What's seen as me "blaming the victims" is me trying to look at this through the lens of FEMA and the insurance companies, and how this problem can be fiscally tackled: now, and for decades to come...if insurers see stuff like this, they'll never insure anything at all, too too risky...and in the end, it's our government who defaults as top insurer, so politicians need to round table with ecologists, meteorologists, et al. to determine where (as I said) current levels of exceedingly raised population densities pose too much financial risk...

Still victim blaming 

Insurance companies - the biggest racket of all time - and you're on their side?  We should all hate them, absolutely. 

A large cache of some AMAZING pics from the fires:

Photos: Wildfires spread in Los Angeles County | CNN

If you owned an insurance company in California, and you were asked to insure a two-million-dollar home in the Hollywood Hills, what premium would you charge?

When we own Greenland, we can always tow some icebergs on down when we run low on water, just in case.

What ever. You’re in the wrong place for that screed. 

Yea I know this is a mostly Lib board .But please let me poke the Hornet nest on occasion . WE can always agree to disagree. 

This was not a political discussion until you made it so. 

Wow.  And a post about vaccines got whacked. 

Can't wait for the politicization of nitrogen, Sirius 🌟, Akkadian cuneiforms, dark energy, and creamed spinach.

And how *dare* those peeps out West not rake their forests!

I suggest if you want to discuss the fires, maybe do it on the thread titled "fires". I mean, we do have people living there. Just a suggestion. Sending best wishes to California.

Yeah, it works!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SrMVii3I-Lg&pp=ygUOUmFraW5nIGZvcmVzdHM%3D

No, we sure don't need to be "chopping down birds".

Personal firefighters and fire hydrants:

Some California residents get extra protection from wildfires – for a price | CNN Business