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  • What can go wrong? Maybe another mortgage market crisis

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    Do s my Beany Babies collection count now too?
  • And Winnie the Pooh smiled

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    The called it "an operational error." I think that means somebody left the gate open.
  • UVA president resigns

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    The GOP used to believe that education should be under "local control."
  • Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

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    You can eat both the pads and the fruit…if you get fruit. I think the fruits may be pretty small in these eastern species.
  • What are you watching?

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    FUBAR with Ahhnold. Very funny. The Waterfront Finished Mobland. Great crime show. The Bear
  • Birthright citizenship

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    Jennifer Rubin did a good video with Norm Eisen and Katie Phang this afternoon to explain. I highly recommend it. (Just click "no thanks" on the first screen.) https://open.substack.com/pub/katiephang/p/new-scotus-rulings-live-w-jen-norm?r=n5ktx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
  • Xiaomil’s new model

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  • Wow

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  • Lalo S. RIP

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    wtgW
    Some iconic music. RIP Lalo. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mission-impossible-theme-live-classic-fm/vi-AA1HuZK7#details
  • LOLcritters

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    Those are great!
  • Logging and Road-Building in the National Forests

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    The idea that any of those lands will make anybody a dime on timber is laughable. It's a federal boondoggle and will cost taxpayers a ton. Google my piece "The Mismanagement of the National Forests"
  • RIP Bill Moyers

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    And a gentleman. He interviewed me on his "Listening to America" program after my first Atlantic Monthly piece came out. He was as kind, generous, and thoughtful in person as he appears on screen. And, best makeup job of my life. The Atlantic got mash notes sent for me after that broadcast. I am very sad at this news.
  • Memory choirs

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    @wtg That’s a great story. I’ve read in many places that dementia patients can sometimes sing, even when they can’t talk. The power of music lies so deeply in memory. My MIL is in memory care; they have music therapy/singalong on a regular basis. I don’t know if Mom sings or not, but she seems to enjoy it. I’m planning to go with a small group to sing at a congregation member’s memory care facility in a couple weeks. We’re practicing next week, going the following week. I restrung my guitar in anticipation of this and one other gig in July. (I’m a very rudimentary player; guitar is just meant to keep me singing in key!)
  • The computer science bubble is bursting

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    AdagioMA
    We’ll always need electricians and plumbers!
  • The kindness of strangers

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  • 10 years ago

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    @wtg Thanks for posting that, wtg. I really needed it after the NYTimes' distasteful decision to run Andrew Sullivan's diatribe against the LGBTQ community today. Why they thought publishing a litany of hyperbole and anecdotes attacking the community under the headline "How The Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way," on the anniversary of Obergefell was a good idea, I can't fathom. Other than the insatiable desire for clicks. It was the last straw for me. Coming on the heels of their couching an endorsement for Cuomo in their "non-endorsing" editorial, and the general descent of their online front page into bland, very "safe" but clickbait headlines, the sum of which leaves one completely unaware of the horrifying situation the US finds itself in, I decided to cancel my subscription.
  • Tiny nose robots

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  • How tell if a watermelon is ripe

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    wtgW
    @Bernard I pretty much do what these guidelines say to, especially the part about smelling the stem end. I buy the Dulcinea cantaloupes at Costco, which are packaged two to a bag. I try to buy a bag with melons at different stages of ripeness so I don't suddenly have more ripe fruit than I can eat in a reasonable time. https://www.southernliving.com/how-to-tell-if-cantaloupe-ripe-7693521
  • Doctor talks vaccines

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    Frankly, I don't care what RFK gets wrong. This is such a stupid non-scientific and ideological bullshit "debate."
  • AI at work

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