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  • Contingency planning

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    @Amanda said in Contingency planning: Wtg. if I vanish for months, please drop me an email so I can rejoin the crowd, in case Yahoo has flummoxed me again. Will do!
  • Pinned threads

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    Great!
  • Old fart rant

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    That is almost enough to get you a croissant in New York
  • I feel safer now

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    jeezus When given a little power, authorities need restrictions.
  • "I've seen Donald Duck"

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  • Best egg recipes

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    The key to scrambled eggs is ricotta cheese. A little milk, some ricotta, some shredded cheese, low and slow on the stove. The perfect scrambled eggs.
  • The origin of the pork taboo

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    Very interesting, but inconclusive.
  • How much are are all these Kristi Noem commercials costing the taxpayer?

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  • The Frick Needs a New Piano -- Choices

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    I hardly think the narrow range was abusive.
  • Home Depot's secret garden

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  • Boosting Birth Rates ...

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    Hungary's ideas: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-fertility-birthrate-sexism.html It included government loans of 10 million Hungarian forints (at the time almost $35,000) to women under 40 when they married, which would be forgiven if they had at least three children. Large families would receive help buying cars and houses, and women who had at least four children would be exempt from personal income taxes for life.
  • A bit of German history

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    tRump is such a piker.
  • Lee Bollinger interview

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  • I know it's not spring everywhere...

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    It's me against the rabbits. Little bastards went after my Virginia bluebells.
  • Forbes recession tracker

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    More than two months into Donald Trump's term, with details of his “Liberation Day” regimen revealed this week, Forbes reached out to 50 top Wall Street leaders, including billionaire investors, major institutional asset managers and the nation's largest wealth advisors, to gauge their support for the president’s economic strategies. The 50 respondents, chosen for their outsized influence, reinforced the recent market tumult. Among these Wall Street heavyweights – more than half of whom supported Trump’s economic policies as he reentered the White House in January – 72% say the Trump team’s economic plan has been ineffective, and 66% did not support his economic policies. Among those who were Trump supporters as recently as a few weeks ago, more than one-third now no longer back his economic policies, and a majority of them—54%—say he is failing in the execution of his plan. https://archive.is/0Md8b
  • Greetings from SFO!

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    I am!
  • Retire to Paris, anyone?

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    Someone I follow on YouTube put out this informative video today... Link to video
  • DoD meltdown

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    Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department
  • I am totally making this. (Dandelion jelly)

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    @AndyD said in I am totally making this. (Dandelion jelly): You are both so fortunate having fruit bushes, we've never owned a garden that gave enough fruit. One mature red currant bush will make a couple of batches of jelly, probably 16 half-pint jars. If you add store bought (like the strawberries and blueberries I used), then of course you get even more. I have two red gooseberry bushes. Last year was the second year I had them and they yielded 8 half pint jars of jam and 8 half pint jars of chutney. The black currant bushes have not been nearly as prolific. A handful of berries to snack on. Hoping for better yields this year. The jostaberry, a black currant/gooseberry cross, gave up about a dozen berries last year. A real disappointment. Those preserves look nummy. I keep looking for Lidl stores but they're still only on the east coast here in the US, and I'm in the middle.
  • $250 Trump

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    Just when I thought things couldn’t get any weirder.