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  • Knock, knock

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    ShiroKuroS
    here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=863030820136543
  • This topic is deleted!

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  • Adopt a Tuscan Olive Tree

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    So you have no ownership and you're subsidizing someone else's farm. If that's what's happening.
  • Piano recording: Last Song by Alexis Ffrench

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    ShiroKuroS
    @Bernard thank you!!!
  • The bride's parents didn't fund this wedding

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    If I wonder if it all explains Trump's absence from his son's wedding?
  • August birthstones

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    Here. I'll do it. Link to video QED
  • Petition to stop the Paramount/Warner merger

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    Also, I read the link. Impressive. The only thing I found to note is- 'you can sign anonymously'. Well no, not really. Oh, one more Ellison story. He's on tape saying everyone should be video recorded at all times in all places in all homes in all rooms... He said people will behave if they know they are being watched this way. Here's the part that's even more bizarre- (quoting) "Nobody will see it without a court order".
  • Gas prices

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    @dougg Interesting. Good news. @andyd Speaking of diesel it crossed the 6 USD mark now moving toward 7 USD.
  • Probably bots and spammers

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    MikM
    I manage a charity FB page requiring admin approval. Amazing how many spammers try to get in
  • If you go to France..

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    I lived in France and never noticed I was doing it wrong.
  • Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs

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    wtgW
    wtg said: Yea, this is a statin that I had never heard of, pitavastatin. And this is the generic, not a brand name. Not sure why it costs more than other statins. Mr wtg tried several of the others (simvastatin, atorvastatin) many years ago and couldn't deal with the side effects. The cardiologist said this one seems to have fewer side effects and he thought it was worth a try. After three months on the lowest dose of pitavastatin, Mr wtg's total cholesterol is down to 135. His LDL dropped to 79 from a high of 122. The original goal was to get his LDL down below 70, but when we talked to the cardiologist a few days ago after the lipid panel came back, he said the most recently issued guideline (for someone like Mr wtg who has had a stroke already) is an LDL of 55. Talk about moving the goalposts! This statin has been way more effective with no side effects for Mr wtg. The max dose is 4 mg; he's increasing from 1 mg to 2. Hopefully that will do the trick.
  • Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

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    AndyDA
    Bit of colour still with an Iceland poppy and rose suddenly showing again. Apples and pairs are amazing this year:[image: 11632.jpg] [image: 11633.jpg] [image: 11634.jpg] [image: 11636.jpg] [image: 11637.jpg] [image: 11663.jpg]
  • Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YouTube picks

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    AxtremusA
    “The Last International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) Problem AI Could Not Solve” Link to video
  • Brooks Falls Salmon Cam

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    I love the Brooks Falls Bears and when I taught grade 1/2 we would vote in Fat Bear Week. I even have a board game called Katmai which features the bears of Brooks Falls!
  • Harry takes his act home...where...

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    Link to video Lilibet's surrogate found in a Colorado. Harry has in fact not proven his paternity. Can he? I saw this coming before the marriage ceremony. What a dumpster fire.
  • "The man who called BS on AI"

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    @bernard I'd like to know one instance in the history of English when a time ago two words that have nothing to do with each other were harnessed to each other to form a "term", and noting nothing of it modulated by the population but imposed down from the top of society, e.g. "workforce housing" that are still extant in English. I'll wait.
  • Roman road builders

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    Very exciting!
  • Solving the food waste problem

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    @adagiom That’s a great way to incentivize people to recycle. ASSUMING that they really do recycle everything. It seems though that most plastic ends up in a landfill even though you put it in the blue bin.
  • Piano buzz

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    That looks great! @AndyD said: Dates from 1860-70 Wow!
  • Here kitty, kitty

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    Tangent. This reminds me of Queen Victoria. History records the relationship Queen Victoria had with John Brown as consisting of everything involved in a marriage except any formal wedding. She wrote it down in a letter to an aristocrat after John Brown passed. She lamented the fact that she had two experience grief a second time. This letter was discovered in thr family's library by random chance, many years after she was was interred with Albert at Frogmore, famously with mementos of her relationships with both men. Also, I'm reminded of the only historical record of the assassination of Ludwig II. An artist somehow found his body soon after the fact. His drawing gave history a forensic analysis of the crime. Source: Daniel. Excuse me for interrupting.