How ProPublica figured it out.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-umar-kremlev-reporting
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The bride's parents didn't fund this wedding -
Probably bots and spammersUptick in registration requests recently, at least five or six a day.
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Adopt a Tuscan Olive TreeSomething 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.
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How Costco became a 'third place'They have some pretty cool products in the UK. The deli platters look way more interesting than ours.
https://services.costco.co.uk/deli/
And look at this Hot Buy!
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Gas pricesGas prices going up quickly around here. I bought gas at Costco for $4.39 early in the week and it's up to $4.89 today, up 20 cents since yesterday.
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How Costco became a 'third place'the crush of the unwashed hoards
We go to a warehouse that is five minutes from our house, but there are a couple of others within 15 minutes or so that we go to occasionally because they do carry different products than our store does. Each warehouse has its own personality.
The one in the town where rich people live is our least favorite. The members and the employees all seem to have the same sour attitude and it's pretty unpleasant to shop there. People fight over parking spaces and the employees look haggard and are rude to customers.
There's another one in a middle class suburb where there are a lot of Indians and Pakistanis, and where we can get a wider variety of the food products from those countries. It's insanely busy but everyone is really nice.
The third one is in an area that is multi-ethnic, with lots of Southeast Asians and that is near a suburb that has a large Jewish population. They have the best selection of foods I'm not likely to see anywhere else. The place is crazy busy, too, and has the feeling of a market. But in a fun way.
Bottom line: The rich people are entitled snobs and make everyone else miserable.
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Parsing health gizmosEric Topol does a deep dive on the new improved Apple Watch.
On September 9th, Apple announced it was revamping its Apple Watch Health Sensing System, rolling out a Readiness score (0 to 10), and increasing the frequency of heart rate variability (HRV) outputs 24-fold. This can be viewed as upping its competition with various other consumer wearable sensors. These “readiness scores” as a composite of multiple metrics, with heart rate variability (HRV) being front and center for most. The majority of Americans are now using wearable sensors, which equates to well over 100 million adults. HRV and Readiness scores are increasingly being marketed as a measurement of autonomic nervous system health, a digital marker for future disease, a clock for biological age, and a holistic metric to promote healthspan and even longevity. (Apple also introduced a new longevity tab and “Health Age”.) None of this has been proven. In this edition of Ground Truths I am going to review what we know about heart rate variability and readiness scores.
My takeaway: No Apple Watch or other wearable for me. And I'll still eat my ice cream.
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Adopt a Tuscan Olive TreeNever heard of it, but I poked around and see there are a bunch of places that are doing the same thing.
I wonder if you have to pay a tariff on the oil they send you!
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If you go to France..@Mik Made me think of Retro Bistro!
Apparently I follow all the rules re eating steak frites, despite not being raised in France....
