@#3 ... That's not a country you want to screw with. ...

I know a couple of Marines.

I once made the mistake of ascribing to one of them that he was a "former Marine." I was respectfully corrected. He said there is no such thing as a "former Marine. I am a Marine."

Yeah, I have heard similar things about Finland.

@#4 ... OK, there were carriage returns inserted into that long string. ...

I should have stated ...

OK, there were carriage returns inserted into that long string by the site, not me

.

More from the article ...

... Pentagon referred requests for comment to the White House, which didn't immediately return an email seeking comment. Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Authority has banned U.S. commercial flights in Venezuela airspace over "ongoing military activity" ahead of explosions in Caracas.

Smoke could be seen rising from the hangar of a military base in Caracas. Another military installation in the capital was without power.

People in various neighborhoods rushed to the streets. Some could be seen in the distance from various areas of Caracas.

"The whole ground shook. This is horrible. We heard explosions and planes," said Carmen Hidalgo, a 21-year-old office worker, her voice trembling. She was walking briskly with two relatives, returning from a birthday party. "We felt like the air was hitting us." ...

@#97 ... I think any non-spaced string over 60 characters starts to push the margins. Possibly the reason the headiness are limited. ...

imo, the headlines of submitted articles are
limited to 60 characters more to avoid
what I call keyboard diarrhea.

:)

@#97 ... I think any non-spaced string over 60 characters starts to push the margins. ...

Please see ...

(now, if only I could get polls to work here ...)

:)

OK, that seems to have triggered the page width problem here.

Note that I had to post the link, without a "h t t p s : / /" prefix during the preview stage of the submission process.

When I posted it during the entry process, the link was reduced to the usual underlined URL link.

But when posted while in Preview, and without the "h t t p s : / /" the link was not processed by the site and, instead, posted win its long form.

The oh so long form. :(

Here's the link that may have triggered issues ...

www.google.com/search?q=empirical++mail+ballot+fraud&client=firefox-b-1-e&hs=rGl9&sca_esv=931119862e0c8ef0&biw=1333&bih=606&ei=DKtYaeXbFvW6qtsP4bWZ8Ac&ved=0ahUKEwjlkfa_0-6RAxV1nWoFHeFaBn4Q4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=empirical++mail+ballot+fraud&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHGVtcGlyaWNhbCAgbWFpbCBiYWxsb3QgZnJhdWRIpVhQ1j1Y7EBwAXgAkAEAmAFroAHSAaoBAzAuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAKACAJgDAIgGAZIHAKAHWrIHALgHAMIHAMgHAIAIAA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Here's the link that may have triggered issues ...

@#5

Interesting.

The site seems to insert carriage returns for my laptop browser (currently Firefox).

I can read that string no problem here.

On to the next test ...

OK, there were carriage returns inserted into that long string.

Page width remain as expected.

Hmmmm ....

Now, let's try a long text string with no spaces ...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

OK, that seems to be OK here.

OK a usual text string ...

dsfjwefoiw
fjfwqsf;oijwqf wd;foijswf;lkjqf q;jqs;lkfjsq qlfiqs98ewurwqef n oiwqefoiuef
wqeifwoieufowqiufwoieufw[oieuf[oewqi [ouewfr[poiuwqfw[eoiur

@#92 ... Maybe your giant blockquotes? ...

I cannot say with 100% certainty.

But to my views, it seems the page-width issue started with the #75 comment.

A similar problem has occurred in the past here.

I have not a clue what triggers it.

But my current guess is that it is triggered by long, oh so long,
string of characters with no spaces in the string.

This site cannot properly parse such a string with no spaces,
so it just expands the page width.
[previous few lines shortened manually]

Apparently long strings,like the tracking strings that google places in its links.

@#86 ... But you're typing on a cloud-based system in your house :-) ...

For the sunrise/sunset no one is typng anything.

OK, let me be more specific ...

When my house is running on a generator because power s down, and the Internet is also down, I want this program to continue to work as designed.

OK, that main aspect aside, why should I want to rely upon a cloud that monitors and exploits all I ask of it?

@#84 ... Sunrise and other astronomical data from the command line ...

Here's what I wound up using (with some modifications ...)

OK, I have been trying to create a poll here on this topic.

My efforts were not successful. Quite the contrary, they were frustrating.

At first i had thought that there might be a problem with the security I have installed in my browser (Firefox).

So I went over to my desktop and tried using Microsoft's Edge browser, for which I have nothing but the default install loaded.

In both Firefox and Edge, I was able to create and preview a survey.

But in neither could I save that survey.

There was no explicit error message, but there was a vague comment that I had to link the poll to an entry.

Yet the drop-down menu to allow me to do so did not work in either browser.

So, if I may ask, do polls work here?

If not, why are they on the menu?

More from the article ...

... It's unclear when Trump underwent his latest physical exam, but U.S. presidents typically have an annual wellness check at the beginning of January. Trump had two exams in 2025 -- in October and April.

"The White House Doctors have just reported that I am in 'PERFECT HEALTH,' and that I 'ACED' (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the third straight time, my Cognitive Examination, something which no other President, or previous Vice President, was willing to take," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post early Friday.

"P.S., I strongly believe that anyone running for President, or Vice President, should be mandatorily forced to take a strong, meaningful, and proven Cognitive Examination. Our great Country cannot be run by 'STUPID' or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE!" ...

@45

In some respects, I am currently thinking that Mayor Mamdani is going to be held under a microscope.

imo, that is A Good Thing for elected officials.

But, that also may just give MAGA a reason to deflect away from Pres Trump's multiple continuing failures, and try to distract away from him being held under a similar microscope..

It is gonna be an interesting time until November ...

@#8 ... Anyone who thinks this is a viable option is ...wrong. ...

Two questions:

1) what, specifically, is the "this" of which your comment speaks?

2) why is anyone who might think that is wrong?

thx.

@#77 ... You disagree that losing hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots in a plane crash could happen or that it could be a disaster if it did?

...

I will ask again, why are those ballots on a plane?

Unless and until your alias answers that simple question, the current position your alias is taking seems to be quite moot.

(and, I have to ask, what has happened to the page width of this thread?)

@#79 ... Until states that run universal mail-in ballots are forced to do closer analysis from a recount that includes accuracy and validity, all you've got is opinions....

All your alias has had so far is unsubstantiated assertions and whimsical imaginations of ~what might happen.~

And zero evidence.

@#75 ... There are professionals who study voter fraud and anomalies, down to the granular level. Those professionals can't find what Bill opines yet he soldiers on. ...

From the first link in your comment ...

@377 ... You disagree that losing hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots in a plane crash could happen or that it could be a disaster if it did?
You understand we're voting for the President of the United States and not your local PTA. ...

For starters, please explain why those ballots are on a plane.

@#76 ... I just Google sunrise and sunset times. ...

Yeah, that works in some use cases.

But if you want a non-cloud-based system in your house, that doesn't work.

@#10 ... NBC News placed an order for a T1 phone in August, paying the $100 deposit for the purposes of tracking the $499 phone's development. ...

Kudos.

And this ...

@#6 ...

To that end, I found this, fwiw ...

@#41 ... He started his day on Friday morning like an everyday New Yorker himself, greeting commuters on a packed W train as he rode from Astoria, Queens to City Hall. ...

Wow, the subway, and not a limousine?

The times seem to be changing.

More from the article...

...The fire in Crans-Montana was likely caused by sparklers placed on bottles of champagne that came "too close to the ceiling", Swiss officials told a news conference on Friday.

An investigation into the fire will focus on the materials used at the site, the bar's fire safety measures, its capacity and the number of people inside at the time, Valais Attorney General Beatrice Pilloud said.

Swiss authorities have said it could take days if not weeks to identify the victims of the fire, which killed 40 people and injured another 119. Officials said 113 of the injured had been identified, with authorities still working to identify the other six.

In the meantime, families and friends have been taking to social media to appeal for information about their loved ones who were at the bar that night. ...

@$4 ... n other news, a second tv would have set him back about $100 at www.walmart.com. ...

The link you posted doesn't work here.

But I will say, I bought this TV from Walmart...

@#11 ... Far too woke!...

How do you know that?

@#6 ... Not really. I just saw a Reddit post that said there had been 590,000 pre-orders. ...

thx for that follow-up.

I found this in my travels ...

@#3

VP Vance seems to be quite mercurial.

How many different names has he used?

How many different religions has he followed?

OK, for the former ...

@#4

Got a link?

More from the cited article ...

... "That's a Christmas miracle" the 13-year-old girl wasn't killed, Judd said. "Jason shot her twice and intended to kill her."

The girl, who was shot in the face but is expected to survive, had the strength to speak to investigators.

"She said, I begged him, don't shoot me, don't shoot me, don't shoot me, and he shot me anyway," according to Judd. ...

More from the cited article ...

... A Florida man fatally shot his wife, critically wounded his stepdaughter and then killed himself after the parents argued over changing the channel from "Monday Night Football," authorities said.

Jason Kenney, 47, had been watching his favorite team, the San Francisco 49ers, beat the Indianapolis Colts when his 38-year-old wife, Crystal Kenney, "told him that she did not want to watch football" anymore, according to a statement from the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Jason Kenney had "been drinking during the evening" in Lakeland, and at about 11 p.m., with the game well in hand for San Francisco, "an argument began when Crystal Kenney suggested they watch something else on television and the argument got really heated," Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters.

Crystal Kenney told her son, 12, to go to a neighbor to call 911, and as the boy was "leaving the house, he hears a gunshot," Grady added.

Responding deputies found Crystal Kenney's body and her critically wounded 13-year-old daughter, officials said. Deputies also found the couple's baby girl asleep in her crib, unharmed. ...

@#9

Got a link?

imo, brilliant move.

Curious that Sec Hegseth did not go after and kill those survivors.

A tacit admission that he knows of his possible crimes for the second attack on survivors clinging to the wreckage back in September?

And why he still refuses to release that video?

More from the article ...

... He said three people died and others survived by abandoning the bombed vessels, citing information from Colombia's navy.

Petro posted, "Notice to all governments in the area. It seems this is the exact zone where the boaters who jumped from vessels that were bombed fell. It is known that three people died, the rest survived because they jumped into the sea. Information obtained by our naval force, which is ready to collaborate." ...

@#7 ... I don't see either of the words "tested" or "positive" in the cited article. ...

The reason why I noted that is that if those words did actually describe the person in question, well that changes things. Significantly.

imo, this scenario would go from some who had measles and did not know they may be infecting others, toward someone who knew they had measles and then, with that knowledge, apparently went on to infect others.

@#2 ... Cool, now do 3IAtlas. ...

OK ...

Another Pres Trump grifting project?

How much money has Trump, Inc taken in the $100 deposits so far?

@#73 ... Keep prodding... the trans deflection can't be far away... ...

To be honest, I'm working on a Bourne shell script that calculates the sunrise and sunset times for my location. (I need that to control the lights here.)

I found a python script on wikipedia that seems to work, and am integrating that into my needs.

In order to accomplish that, I need to run commands in the script like ...

...
SunRiseUTCSecs=$( bc -e "${SunRiseUTCTmp} / 1" -e quit )
SunRise=$( date -j -r ${SunRiseUTCSecs} +%H:%M )
...

Yeah, fun. :)

I saw on the evening NYC TV news here...

Shortly after his inauguration, Mayor Mamdani has been mingling among the people of NYC ...

@#65 ... instead of seeing my point that is a legitimate question ...

Now posing it as a question instead of a scenario that has occurred, or is likely to occur?

Why the retreat from your alias' apparent earlier opinions?

@#64 ... You're choosing to not see my point. ...

There is a difference between "choosing not to see" and "disagreeing with something that looks irrational."

@#64 ... I think I explained my concern being more and more states going this route. ...

No, your alias has expressed an unsubstantiated made-up concern.

Explaining such a concern requires a rational presentation.

I've not yet seen any manner of a rational presentation here your alias' comments.

@#63 ... Those would likely be absentee ballots. Not much can do about that. ...

Absentee ballots that were mailed in from overseas, usually from our Service Members.

So, does your alias also want to deny their right to vote?

@#59 ... This thread is scrapping the bottom. ...

Why?

My view is that your alias has endeavored to drag this thread down with unsubstianted assertions.

So is your alias' comment I quoted above more of a victory lap?