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  • What are Cucamelons?

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    ShiroKuroS
    Interesting. Never heard for this before.
  • Welcome to Chicago!

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    ShiroKuroS
    @wtg said in Welcome to Chicago!: "He did crap the bed today," Scott Jennings, a Republican political strategist, told CNN after Trump's appearance at the conference. "The only question is if he's going to roll around in it or get up and change the sheets." Normally I don’t like such crass comments. But this time, it’s very apt.
  • In our front yard

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    wtgW
    We're heading down to the North Michigan Ave part of the world in a little while. Hopefully it'll be early enough and far away enough that we won't run into any traffic issues. Looks like all the closed streets are well south, down in your neck of the woods.
  • Prisoner swap - Whelan, Gershkovich, and others

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    Weird response.
  • Salads

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    Strawberry Mac sounds good and it reminds me of a watermelon salad that I had at a friend's house. I've made several variations on it. The original recipe is chunks of watermelon, slivered onions, chunked feta cheese, sprigs of mint, and an oil and vinegar dressing. The proportions of each are totally up to the cook. I'm on the fence about the cheese, so I usually leave it out. I'm not wild about mint, so I swap it for dill or cilantro, but basil would also work. I season the oil and vinegar dressing with salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and powdered garlic. (I prefer fresh garlic most of the time and I'm sure it would be amazing in this dish, but it would also make the recipe all about the garlic. The powdered garlic stays in the background better, IMHO. Also the salt, ground black and cayenne peppers, and ground garlic seem to help the vinaigrette emulsify.) I'm sure this would also be good made with other melons or a medley of them. This salad is great the first day and arguably better on the second, after the flavors have blended, although this may be more true of my non-cheese version. It doesn't seem like feta would be happy in watermelon juice for very long. A
  • Welcoming Vance to Reno

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    That is hilarious! Thank you, Doug.
  • The 10 most consequential words on modern economics

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    A very surprising source.
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  • For the horsey crowd

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    wtgW
    I wondered about how you get those things on a horse. YouTube to the rescue. Link to video
  • Secret Netflix codes

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    ShiroKuroS
    Speaking of algorithms, what I really want is the ability to search, and specify what not to see, particularly on Amazon, esp since the minus sign thing seems not to work anymore.
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  • Atomic crazy

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    RontunerR
    How can anyone be surprised?
  • Supreme Court deliberations leaked

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  • 100,000 dominoes

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  • FranDan

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  • Search engines and Reddit

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  • AI is a lot of work

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    wtgW
    @Mik Very cool! I didn't know you are still consulting. Medical issues are one area where I think AI can be valuable. I've been following Eric Topol's blog on Substack. He's had some interesting stuff on AI. And a whole bunch of other medicine and science topics. https://erictopol.substack.com/
  • It's about my age

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    wtgW
    @Jodi said in It's about my age: Such a pretty color. I thought so, too! It's a happy color and it made me smile when I saw it.
  • Contractor - "thought we'd seen it all"

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    Oh my....
  • Deadly reactions to acne meds

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    ShiroKuroS
    How awful, esp because the victims are so young