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    Great!
  • Road Grading

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    If road graders work like I think they do the front wheels tilt whenever you turn them. If you turn them full lock they tilt quite a bit it. Has to do with the steering geometry.
  • Another home question (rugs)

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    Totally agree with @steve-miller and @mik . @Mik said: FB Marketplace is a great place to find used furniture. There's nothing like scoring a deal on something you really want and that you only pay 20% or less of retail for...it's like a treasure hunt! wtg, on the other side of the acquisition curve. As someone once said to me..."You spend the first forty years of your life acquiring stuff, and the next 40 years getting rid of it." I didn't get it when they said it, but I definitely do now.
  • Happy 80th, Donald

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    Ewww. But well played.
  • 60 Minutes

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    The Oracle founder bought CBS, the largest private donor to the IDF in history. I already knew of him because he bought an entire Hawaiian island. He bought one of the neighbor islands. CBS is not news. And the attack on 60 Minutes was predictable.
  • Hobbies

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    @AndyD Interesting! That looks somewhat similar. The cool thing about the kendama is that one goal is to rotate around the device, so that each time, you catch the ball with a different part of it (big cup, small cup, bottom cup, spike). I'm really good a rotating between big cup and bottom cup, but less so at going back and forth between all four. Here are some photos. [image: 71OYgphbDzL._AC_SL1500_.jpg] [image: 61Y6KeYeUML._AC_SL1500_.jpg] [image: 81dl0jbTCZL._AC_SL1500_.jpg]
  • 85-year-old Irving Berlin protest song goes viral...

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  • Bugs and black mold

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  • 2-8A Rutland Gate

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  • Martha Gellhorn's D-Day reporting

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  • Laughter is the best medicine

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  • Scary devices

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    @RealPlayer said: Bernard — and eventually you’ll have to subscribe to continue receiving updates for $99/year. And it takes great quality video of you and sends it to who know where without any question about a warrant. What's not to like?!
  • Totally insane uber prices last night

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    @Steve-Miller said: I wonder how much of that surge pricing goes to the drivers. Google’s AI says Uber calculates the customer fare and the driver’s pay separately — one algorithm to find the maximum for what customers are willing to pa for a ride, another separate algorithm to find the minimum for what drivers are willing to accept to provide a ride. I don’t think anyone is surprised by this. Uber also invests a lot in autonomous driving technology, so all this will become moot anyway when the customers develop enough trust in cars that drive themselves.
  • I think a lot of people here can relate to this.

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    @Mary-Anna said: Oh, and the choir rehearses at a church right across the street from my house. I can walk out my front door five minutes before rehearsal and be there with time to spare. That's great!!
  • Greek Churches

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    In CA there are dozens of hamburger restaurants owned by Greeks. Interesting that they all look nearly alike with nearly identical menus even though they are each individually owned. The menus include classic hamburger fare, Mexican food and always a few Greek items. Best value available for lunch on the road. My friend grew up on an Army base in Greece and speaks the language fluently. If he ordered in Greek we always got free food!
  • Best optical illusions

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    ![alt text](image url)[image: 1780973240413-4e4e5198-628b-4f4f-bf8b-ddfafa7759f2-image-resized.jpeg] I posted this a few years ago to Facebook with the heading “Optical Illusions in Everyday Life” and the caption “Both internal circles are actually the same size.” It won me a “You win the internet today” prize.
  • The people of Albania respond to Ivanka and Jared

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  • Alan Titchmarsh's gaff

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    Holy wow, that’s spectacular. I could totally live there if I had unlimited funds and several full time gardeners for the topiary.
  • More fun with AI

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  • What are you reading?

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    @beelady That second one looks like it's right up my alley! Thanks!