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There are a couple different fabrications. I like one, I don't like the other but I don't remember their names. Goes to show how often I buy cottage cheese.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a controversial ban on TikTok may take effect this weekend, rejecting an appeal from the popular app’s owners that claimed the ban violated the First Amendment.

Good. I'm surprised at the number of people who take national security so nonchalantly.

Idiots.

The National Parks Service and National Archives could use your help . . . Can You Read Cursive? The National Park Service Wants To Hear From You

The only person telling me what I should and should not be eating is my doctor. I do not believe the government should be in the doctor's office whether that be reproductive health or any other health issue. I'm not against the government issuing pamphlets on healthy eating and healthy lifestyle choices, but gross generalizations need to go, as do nanny state nagging. There are likely as many reasons for being overweight as there are numbers of people. (There was a NYT article about this not too long ago.) Warning labels based on correlations should not even be considered for food. Information labels are non-judgemental and useful. The French eat white bread, and a lot of it. Their pastries are sine qua non, cheese is consumed daily. Raw milk. A healthy, positive attitude towards food, they celebrate it. And they allow enough time in the structure of their lives for full enjoyment. The break for lunch is two hours, men, women, and children. In the US you're lucky to get half an hour. They eat later, after the day's work is over and they respect the end of the work day. In a word, they eat to live, not the other way around. We can't afford that in the US. Sad.

Invasion of privacy. So glad I'm retired.

Just subscribed.

@Steve-Miller Oh, I'm so glad she left. She's way too good for Bezos. And I'm glad she's going to try and establish something independent.

Interesting, and yes, complicated. Another sobering read, albeit with a slightly hyped headline: Ozempic mania's billions in bills are coming for US taxpayers

Sickening. DEI is just another tool the right uses to mask their hate.

CA DEI is to blame

But the article states, "... Elon Musk, one of the brightest minds of his generation..."

What? Says who?

Here is a great response from a vlogger, Naughty Nana DUZ, in Canada...

I thought garbanzos were a type of chickpea and that there are other types of chickpea.
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Variety reports

OMG

A new fire has broken out in the Hollywood Hills. How horrible.

An online acquaintance in another forum lives in Altadena, their house burned this morning. Completely gone.

It's really bad.

Oh, no. Horrible news. I hope she has a full recovery. Sorry to hear of her husband's passing as well.

Just say no. I felt I couldn't; not for the longest time. Then my FB account was hacked and the only recourse available: automated account recovery, failed. To be without FB seemed unimaginable for a brief (surprisingly brief) time. It didn't take long for the hate side of my love/hate relationship to gain prominence. I look back with slight regret at what I gave that despicable company (Meta). I have a bit of frustration (anger) that I'm cut off from marketplace. It doesn't seem right that a person with no where to turn for help in recovering an account should be shut out of a high traffic marketplace. So be it. I turn to craigslist even though it's not that great. But I don't otherwise miss FB much at all.

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Not as bad as some, but the price is outrageous. Interesting choice of materials, I guess it doesn't get that cold in CO. The right decor could warm it up a bit.

A basketball hoop and chandelier in the same room? LOL.