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  • The Swiss Army knife of words

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    wtgW
    Here are the posts with the instructions: https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/180/possible-issue-with-edit-screen?_=1723587587075 More discussion: https://well-temperedforum.groupee.net/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9130004433/m/3473961997?r=3473961997#3473961997
  • Neffy, an EpiPen alternative

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    aaaccckkk! My epipens are too old. Thanks for the info.
  • Preventing heart disease

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    I think I have mentioned before, but I have genetic high cholesterol (unmedicated, it's in the 300's). Several years ago, my lipidologist put me on an injectable med called Repatha. It's an every two week shot you self-administer (kind of like an EpiPen). That, in combination with a low dose statin, has my total cholesterol in the 90's, and my LDL at 21.
  • Blasphemers on Pogo Sticks

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    ShiroKuroS
    I loved Monty Python!!
  • Trump/Vance policy proposals (formerly Interest rate policy)

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    Big_AlB
    No evidence of a coherent economic policy in these proposals. A Trump/Vance administration sounds like a recipe for economic chaos. Big Al
  • Two per minute

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    AdagioMA
    I haven’t listened (can’t stand to) but I’ve read it had to do with compression algorithm X was using. But then wouldn’t Elon’s speech sound the same?
  • Insider election shenanigans

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  • Reformed Jan. 6 Protestor

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    She’s facing death threats? Good grief.
  • Crab Invasion - wrecking Venetian ecosystem and culinary scene

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  • McCartney gives a piano lesson

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    ShiroKuroS
    Ax, thank you! I completely forgot the organ! (apologies to Bach and organists everywhere!)
  • Private equity and employee ownership

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    Getting back to the 60 Minutes piece a bit...it focused on distressed companies that are acquired by private equity groups who try to turn them around. What Stavros is doing is sharing the profits with employees if the company becomes successful. He's also trying to get other investment groups to do the same. Not just the investors making money, but also saving jobs and improving the economic lives of the people in the company...
  • Starting seeds indoors

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    I never invested in real grow lights and simply used my fluorescent, and later LED, shop lights to grow orchids in the basement. Those did OK, but the orchids are all long gone because I got tired of taking care of them. Shop lights that don't have bulbs with the proper spectrum don't work very well; the seedlings are usually pretty spindly. When I've looked at what a decent setup would cost, I haven't wanted to spend that much money. I just buy the veggie seedlings I need from a nursery or direct sow seeds into the garden.
  • Happy birthday, Mik!!

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    Seems you had a cool time. That is what refrigerators do best.
  • I have a colorblind friend

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  • Holy shit, he did it.

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    AxtremusA
    Biden interview on why he dropped out of the Presidential race: Link to video
  • Campaign upheaval

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  • Tornado!

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    @wtg said in Tornado!: Frozen pipes aren't an issue if you shut off the water supply, and even better, drain the syst I thought about doing that one time when we were away, and at this point I don't remember the details, but I decided I didn't want to do that. I think it was because of the water heater? Although now we have a new water heater... @wtg said in Tornado!: for you, is a non-functioning sump pump really a disaster? Probably not, but when you're not at home, you don't know what you don't know. And we had some water problems in our last house, so we're a little gun shy, as it were. The other thing motivator for getting some kind of generator is just being without electricity for an extended time (when you'e home), and of course worrying about the indoor climate for the piano. But I will probably drag my feet so much that we do nothing for a good long while!
  • Acceptance speech and on to the campaign trail

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    What started as a press conference on future presidential debates quickly spiraled into Donald Trump venting about media coverage of his rival and insisting that his rally crowds — especially in South Carolina — are bigger. "I have hundreds of thousands of people," Trump declared at his lectern Aug. 8. "In South Carolina, I had 88,000 people. But as the former president stood before reporters, he fumed. "Nobody's had crowds like I have, and you know that. And when she gets 1,000 people and everybody starts jumping. You know that if I had 1,000 people (you) would say, people would say, 'That's the end of his campaign,' " he said. That's when he claimed he draws hundreds of thousands of people, including an 88,000-person rally in South Carolina. But the rally Trump appeared to be referencing wasn't a rally at all. It was a football game. The former president seemed to be mentioning his Nov. 25 appearance at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia for the state's biggest college football spectacle of the year: the Clemson-South Carolina football matchup. The game was not a Trump campaign rally. It's a college duel that takes place every year. His appearance was brief. Trump walked onto the field, standing at the 25-yard-line with Gov. Henry McMaster. Loud cheers greeted him along with scattered boos. Trump waved to fans and the student section. He made no remarks. He just smiled and waved. Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina lawmaker who is now a well-known political commentator on CNN, ripped into Trump for his claim. "Donald Trump is lying. In South Carolina he did not have 88,000 people," Sellers wrote on social media. "He showed up to a Carolina-Clemson game. Hell, I was there!!" https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/trump-88000-sc-rally-fact-check-not-true/article_44834f04-55b7-11ef-b33d-4345fa6aa03d.html
  • Chess is a tough game

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  • Building ancient pyramids

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    I thought they put the top rocks up there first.