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  • Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints

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  • Plane crash in India

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    The Brit walked away from the crash, bit dazed & bruised, but amazing survival when you've seen the fully fuelled plane blow up.
  • FEMA to be phased out?

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    RontunerR
    It all makes some sense if you set the "MAGA" time machine to the Guilded age or Antebellum America. The monied elete are all that matters, everyone else is considered disposable. We got a hint with senator Ernst's "We are all going to die" quote. It could be the Republican answer to almost any issue. Losing heath insurance? . Gun control? Workplace/public safety? Food, drug and water safety? Disaster relief? ...and the list goes on and on...
  • Fulbright Scholarship board resigns

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  • Manly men shooting ...

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    Jesus.
  • More heads roll

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    RontunerR
    Hoping much of the pretend policing types doing the illegal kidnapping also find themselves behind bars...
  • Meanwhile, on a Maine island

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    I've read of other people seeking out heirloom varieties of apples. One gentleman in West Virginia has located nearly one hundred by exploring old, abandoned farmstead in the state. I was glad to read that they have successfully grafted specimens of that apple. Given the gnarly appearance of that tree, it would be uncertain if it would survive for much more time. The article did seem to suggest that the variety is not extinct in France. We had an apple tree on the family farm that sprouted as a volunteer from a place we piled vegetable scrapes. It was a yellow apple and made some of the best-tasting applesauce. My father tried to propagate it by grafting, but with now success. Eventually, that tree died so its apples are lost, except in memory. Big Al
  • The loneliest color of paint

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    AxtremusA
    @pique said in The loneliest color of paint: Anything but black, gray, or white. … (They are not color. They are the absence of color.) Well, spectrographically, black, gray, and white are the equal absence and degrees of equal presence of all colors.
  • RIP Brian Wilson

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    I’m the 60s/70s The Beach Boys music I heard playing on the radio seemed kind of bubbly and fun but ignorable. I listened to a couple of tracks from Pet Sounds today, and yes, there’s interesting stuff in there, especially the vocal harmonies.
  • So this happened yesterday

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    I think I must have died in a car accident in a past life. I am the most nervous driver alive--when someone else is driving. Now, put me in my drag racing machine on the West Side Highway, and watch out! (I used to drive my 72 Chevelle with the slant six in the city back in the 80s)
  • Can someone identify these opening chords?

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    I have yet to successfully find something using those music identifiers, but probably that's because I'm always looking for something too obscure.
  • The DOGE 100

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  • Trump-Xi dynamics

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    Just another day in the TACO truck.
  • U.S. drug deaths among young people

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  • Apple at WWDC

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    AxtremusA
    To make more of the content visible, as opposed to being blocked behind the controls. Won’t know if that will make the controls harder to find until trying the real thing, I suppose.
  • Is martial law next?

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    More lack of planning by the administration. This deployment is all for show….another TrumPotemkin village…. https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/national-guard-california-photos-20368334.php
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  • Bill Atkinson died

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  • When you didn't do the reading for class

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    Bills are thousands of pages. I don't think anyone actually reads them.
  • Joann is closing

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    @Nina said in Joann is closing: I'm not sure if the change has to do with the rise of cheap clothing, fast fashion, or just lack of time. All the above, I suspect. And more... I wonder if it's still taught in high school? When I was in high school girls and boys could take home-ec class where sewing and cooking were taught. There was shop, which boys and girls could take that taught basic woodworking and metalworking. We even had drafting classes. In elementary school we were taught how to write cursive. Having experienced these classes growing up it makes me sad to think that some young people don't have the opportunity. I made Christmas stockings for my siblings and a neck tie (70s bright colors) for myself. It was fun and extended school learning beyond the boundaries of solitary studying.