jimnotgym

Yeah I buy scrap paintings! It takes a long time, and there are a few in process at a time, so I don't need to source many. I'll buy almost anything that is an original oil painting. Most cost £5-10 and are semi-pro level, with horrible yellow varnish on them, making them look rubbish. Cleaned up they can be pretty things. I have a pair of what looked like Scottish landscapes, but researching the framers stamp they turned out to be Canadian, and in a charity shop in the UK! What a thrill. £25 is my highest price to date, which the seller wanted for the old gilded frame. I got the decent quality late Victorian/ early Edwardian en plein air landscape in the frame for nothing! It was so dirty you could barely see it. Looks very different with the filth and old varnish removed.

They end up on my wall. I figured that I would rather have originals that were not quite to my taste than prints of Pre-Raphaelite masters that are a shadow of the real thing. I still have plenty of wall space. When I run out of room I'll move some on. I can scarcely lose out financially! I plan to get in with some dealers for their junk later on.

Learning to remove varnish is a fun thing. It would be very easy to ruin the painting, but fingers crossed it has not happened yet! Each painting is a whole new challenge, with different varnishes and paints.

My next victim has some tiny holes that need patching, which will be a whole new avenue! A never ending hobby

Oh, this might be my opportunity to tell HN about one of my nerdy recent hobbies, one that would terrify professionals! In fact one that professionals say is impossible for non professionals (which might be what attracted me to it).

I restore paintings as a hobby! It is not easy to get into. Watch Julian Baumgartner on YouTube. He carefully never tells you what glue, resin or solvent he is using. The appreciation this has given me for the paintings is phenomenal. I have been mostly restricted to removing varnish to date. AMA. I have lived the opportunities for research it has given me. I work on scrap paintings from charity shops or fb marketplace, if that scares you less.

They have only threatened to do that, yes

Shouldn't they be airgapped? Shouldn't society insist they are?

Why don't we just have a pause, while we think about the consequences? Stop release of the latest generation of models while society develops to a level where we can deal with it?

You can buy farm land for that price yes. But you can't build on it

Where do you think she will end up if the Venezuelan army don't like her direction? 6 feet under the jungle I expect. Playing both sides

Remotely? That is just making him feel like he is in control. She says yes to everything he says, and then keeps doing the corruption

This wasn't a discussion over whether panels were sufficient to push a truck. It was a discussion if the tractor unit or the trailer was the best place to electrify

Not necessarily true though... building houses for the council requires builders too

ICE have jurisdiction over elections now?

Small developers struggle to get hold of land though. You have to be in the know to get hold of building land

Hence Andy Burnham's threat to build council houses again. It is a good threat, get on with building the houses before we reduce the demand

Moreover, prime building land never gets put on the open market. People know people and approach them directly. Why would you give that kind of advantage up to a software company?

I understand they are already doing decent business since the advent of the magic weight loss pen

Justify your assertion and let people disprove it

I suppose the trailer has a lot of space for solar panels on top, which the tractor does not. But those could be connected to the tractor rather than the trailer. Of course

The EU Council is made up of delegates elected from member states. The EU Parliament is directly elected.

Just because countries keep electing people with variations of the same policies doesn't make it unelected.

I wonder if part of the problem is impatience? Trying to conquer whole countries at the same time? Britain didn't take India in one go. It got concessions to trade from a port, then took over the port. Consolidated its power, then took the the next one. You need a bunch of powerful locals to see how they are better off with you there.

How would a future president ever be motivated to give power back to Congress I wonder? A coup by congress?

So you are saying the military is competent, but the civil administration is not? You might have his the nail on the head

It is not under US control though. The new president is simply playing each side

Swaping the dictator for one of your choosing is a relatively smart, yet immoral strategy. It is pretty clear to me that the current regime made a deal with the US to topple the old one. It is low cost but very short term. The new leader is as corrupt as the old one, and is simply playing both sides. The US does not posess Venezuela.

Which requires troops in the ground, a large civil administration, and a way of making some ofthe existing powers in the civilian population feel like they are better off under you

Without airplanes and powered ships too. A much bigger feat than the modern US vs Afghanistan.

Well Spain had most of south America, some of the carribean and the Philippines. The Dutch had the Spice Islands, half a world away. Portugal had Brazil, Azores, a bit of India and a base in China.

France had most of continental Europe, with distances that were much greater comparitively, considering they only had horses and sail boats. They also had big interests in the Indian ocean, Madagascar for instance, and the Caribbean.

The reason corporations buy ms is exactly what you have in quotes above. Active Directory

I love it when you see people with a tether on their airpods to prevent loss. My headphones have a special tether which means they will never need a battery replacement, or indeed a battery

I have a product idea. The headphones could be passive and a wire run from them to the device that wants to make noise through them?

Does that matter much if you only drive around town at 30mph?