so I’ve been falling the oil and gas market for over 60 years. My dad worked in the industry. I graduated college in the middle of an oil embargo that led to rationing. I have owned oil and gas stocks for that for 60 year period, although I’ve been steadily decreasing the position for the last 15 years. Here is my prediction. Sometime within the next 18 months or so , you’ll start seeing the term “oil glut “ in headlines with sharply lower prices. This stuff is incredibly cyclical…

Uptick in registration requests recently, at least five or six a day.

I guess the variation of each costco is likely here too. The London one always seems to have lots of small cafe and shop owners buying (eg.) vast amounts of bottled water and coke cans and paying hundreds of pounds, in cash. They then charge double/triple in their cafe. And gallons of cooking oil, large plastic bottles for frying the all day English breakfast. I must try the Costco close to us now, near Newcastle, and compare.

Something seemed a little too slick about the site. There are interesting discussions on reddit about these kinds of operations. Apparently some of them may be total scams, and others aren't entirely truthful about the story. And there is a separate shipping fee to get your bottles. Not sure about tariffs, but I'm guessing yes. Bottom line: Caveat emptor.

My mother has an Apple Watch, earlier model. The main reason we got is for fall detection. And it seems to work pretty for that. (She fell once recently but thankfully was fine) I don’t think she uses it for much else health-wise, beyond sort of making a note of how much movement she gets. I personally do not want a “wearable” of any kind. I already work very hard to keep my phone notifications to a bare minimum, the last thing I want is a notification I can feel on my physical body! If I’m worried about heart rate etc., I'd rather have a designated device.

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 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.

OTOH, maybe you should just eat your cheese...and ice cream.... https://www.npr.org/2026/07/13/nx-s1-5884664/zeke-emanuel-optimize-health-long-life

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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.

Link to video This is too funny! Most expensive gems. 1, 2, 3. More like: here's random few expensive gems. Looks like a rock to me and not in a good way. This is why I post this video. Jade. It's valued above emeralds. Many variables but Jade is most valued green stone. Of course it has to be the quality shown here. Look at it! Isn't that incredible?! Pink diamonds. What is he on about? Not close to true. This is a talking point the Argyle mine, Australia put out recently after their mine ran out. The jade shown here ("It looks like Jade but it's jade" * snort * ) has a value in the stratosphere. It's always been that way.

@CHAS said: Stranger @chas @steve-miller @all Try Eva Cassidy's rendition Live at Blues Alley if you haven't. It's my favorite recording of W S. Correction, No. It was not performed there. It was studio recorded for an album and the compilation album Songbird is the easy place to find it. Whoa. At this point I'll link to it. Link to video Back to scheduled program.

@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.

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Very exciting!