I manage a charity FB page requiring admin approval. Amazing how many spammers try to get in

I lived in France and never noticed I was doing it wrong.

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.

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“The Last International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) Problem AI Could Not Solve” Link to video

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!

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.

@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.

Very exciting!

@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.

That looks great! @AndyD said: Dates from 1860-70 Wow!

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.

To each his own.

Do the grandchildren visit?

Looks useful for some applications.

We’ve had some good weather here too. Today’s high is 83.

Saw this ad from Meta for the first time this morning on TV. It's been out for a while, was posted on Faceypage by Zuck a few months ago. https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/1344461651205053/ TechCrunch had a story about this ad and some others. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/meta-launched-a-new-ai-optimism-ad-set-to-a-song-about-human-extinction/

MrsTuner has been using it for a number of years since she has sensitive skin that gets dried out by anything harsh.. No long-term negatives to report.

Wow. That's an impressive figure. I met old Japanese people in Hawaii occasionally including women, men, and couples. They were fascinating. The were so gentle.

Saw a picture of the real Pete this morning. He is wearing a red majorette-like uniform with knee high white boots. Of course I can not find that now.