No, you have five fingers

As long as we are going that far, maybe we should stick to a system that if already in use

Some genres have more commonality than others. Blues songs often have a similar 12-bar structure, for instance. Not all Blues songs, of course, but there are some songs you can listen to and quickly identify it as Blues based on the structure. This structure exists to improvise on top of. Jazz has a lot of improvisation built into it too.

I also think genres in the past were based on which radio stations they were played on, back when radio was the main way to hear new music. “Pop” music simply meant “popular”, was meant to be more broadly acessible, and was played on Top 40 stations. Whatever counts as “pop” changes with the times. Now, while the distinctions still exist, I don’t think most young people get their music from the radio anymore, so the genres ar not to rigidly defined.

What I think it comes down to is that bands identify themselves based on whatever they listened to, and what influenced them. So the best way to know what genre a band plays is to ask them.

We can go further, you can rate them from 0x00 to 0x1F

It can be very useful to know how to count to 4 this way, especially as a signal to other drivers regarding your level of displeasure

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Anyone who fails the “Peter Griffin in a Fez” test needs to get one. And double up on the card and book.

Because it doesn’t matter where you were born, or what the facts are. ICE is targeting people who they believe don’t belong here, based on how they look and sound. Having the card on your person is no guarantee, but maybe it will work if they are in a good mood.

It’s sad that this is what it has come to in America, of all places, but here we are.

The main advantage is that it’s a redundant form of citizenship ID. ICE can always say it is fake and confiscate it, but then you have your passport book waiting at home for your lawyer to take to the detention center to get you out (once they find out where they took you).

It is very much a children’s museum, so there will be a lot of kids there. They have actual museum displays also with a lot of gaming history and old toys.

If you are a group of adults you might be able to do all the interesting stuff in a few hours. But if there are any kids at all in your group you should spend the whole day. As fun as playing the old video games was, I got a bigger kick out of watching my kids play them

This is, at least, trying to solve an actual problem. It remains to be seen whether the solution is more cost effective (and durable) as bifocals. As a human of a certain age myself, I would welcome being able to see without having to tilt my head awkwardly.

But something tells me this tech is not self-contained, and requires an always-on connection to some cloud resource which is guzzling electricity and water. No thanks! Bifocals are cheaper.

FYI, if you are taking a pilgrimage there from the Northeast you should stop in Rochester, NY along the way, the children’s museum there has a permanent Pinball exhibit

https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibit/pinball-playfields/

They also have a smaller video game exhibit, with a functioning TRON machine…

For a C64 emulator, sure, but we can do better now.

Yes, this would be awesome, but for the love of all that is holy can it please not be BASIC?

I sold all of my Apple stock because they wanted to make a phone and I thought that would end poorly, so I should take my profits while I could.

He should dispatch one Guard member for every ICE officer, each with orders to follow and observe at a respectable distance, with their body cams on. Let ICE know we are all watching.

What do you call it when Richard Nixon uses up the last of the toothpaste?

Col-gate

Maybe they can become New New England

Whenever anyone says “meteorologist”, I hear “Meaty Urologist”, which is something different entirely

Ugh, that one didn’t land well

Or is it building the infrastructure to accommodate them the issue?

It’s this, but that’s only part of the story.

Datacenter companies are very efficient at building new ones now, once they have all the proper permits and can start building it can go from an empty lot to fully functional in a year or two. Maybe longer for the huge hyperscalar ones.

Once they are online, their power demand is comparable to a small city, coming online all at once. But the local utility never had this demand in its plan, so they have to build more capacity to service it, and building a new power plant takes much longer. In the meantime, the demand will outstrip their capacity and the utility will have to buy more power on the open market. This drives up costs for all their customers unless the utility is allowed to charge these customers (whose existence has blown up all their capacity planning) more.

As a side note, they often get advantages and tax breaks because they promise to bring jobs to the area. And the initial construction jobs usually are significant. But once the place is built, it’s ongoing operations only requires a few dozen positions, many of them low-tech and outsourced like site security. The higher-tech jobs (like the network engineering) is often not on-site anyway. A shopping plaza would generate more jobs than a datacenter.