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So about GreenlandInside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.From Atlantic:
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We had an earthquake!2.9-magnitude earthquake recorded in Lake Michigan near Illinois-Wisconsin border, officials say
No tsunami warning for the lake....
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Retro TVHow did you find this site?
One of those daily news/interesting stuff newsletters. I don't subscribe to the newsletter anymore but happened to check their site a few days ago and this was one of the sites they featured on that day.
RetroTv is a major rabbit hole....I just showed it to Mr wtg. I think he may surface in a couple of days...
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2026 iPhone Photography Awards -
Flexible work hoursThe freedom to choose your work hours has been a game changer for many white-collar workers. Now, it has quietly become an option for some blue-collar workers as well.
With U.S. manufacturers struggling to staff up, a handful are opening the doors to people who may not be seeking a traditional career in the industry or even a 40-hour workweek.
It's a change that manufacturers including Stanley Black & Decker and Georgia-Pacific are embracing. And it has also taken hold in rural northwest Georgia.
Ruth Ransom calls it the best thing she has ever heard.
"I wasn't interested in working full time," says the 68-year-old grandmother, who considered herself retired when she learned of the opportunity to pick up shifts at the Roper Corp., a kitchen appliance plant owned by GE Appliances. "I was just wanting to work part time, maybe two days a week somewhere. You know, just to get out of the house."
Today, Ransom is part of a pool of more than 900 workers who sign up for shifts via an app. Not only do workers make their own schedules, deciding how many four-hour shifts to pick up each week, but they also choose what kind of work they want to do. Assembly line jobs are fast-paced and physically demanding, so Ransom often opts for quality control, which she finds less taxing.
"It's your choice," she says. "I love it."
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/08/nx-s1-5876084/manufacturing-flexible-part-time-work
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Catnip lotionA homegrown catnip lotion has proven “just as effective as Deet” as a mosquito repellant in trials carried out in Uganda.
Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is a common herb from the mint family. The chemical in the plant that causes feline euphoria – nepetalactone – also has insect-repelling properties but this has not previously been commercialised.
New tools are vital in the fight against malaria, the disease spread by mosquitoes that infects about 282 million people a year and killed 610,000 in 2024 – the majority of them young children in African countries. There are concerns about rising resistance to insecticides, as well as the frontline drugs used to treat the disease.
In a study presented at the Society for Experimental Biology conference in Florence on Tuesday, a team working between Uganda and Wales found mosquitoes seeking a blood meal were less likely to land on people wearing lotions made from catnip.
Dr Simon Scofield, a senior lecturer at Cardiff University, said: “We found that a 6% catnip oil was just as effective as Deet, and the 2% catnip oil was only marginally less effective than that.
“Deet is out of the price bracket for most rural Ugandan subsistence farmers, so buying commercially available mosquito repellents is just not practicable.
“We wanted to make a repellent, which is highly efficacious, but also allows local people to be involved in the production cycle so that it costs a minimal amount of money,” he said.
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Most repeated attempt at humor on the internet today.Man, I'm feeling left out. Mitch is burning up the phone lines but he hasn't called me yet. Thune, Barasso, Scott Jennings...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/mitch-mcconnell-health-senate-gop.html
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Midtown Manhattan buildingI thought they are just converting the building from office to residential and that they are modifying structure to do the conversion. I missed that they are adding stories to it.
The Fire Department of New York said it received reports of bricks falling at around 8 a.m. from the 37-story tower. Officials found two columns had buckled on the 21st and 22nd floors and that floors were sagging between the 21st and 26th floors.
The office-to-residential conversion has been billed as the largest in the city’s history, according to Gensler, the architectural firm leading the project. The planned complex with more than 1,600 units includes adding more than a dozen stories atop the building’s original tower while also redesigning an adjoining tower.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/nyc-high-rise-unstable-columns-evacuations.html
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Midtown Manhattan buildingMidtown Manhattan buildings evacuated after beams found buckling at high-rise construction site
At least 9 buildings have been evacuated in Midtown, including a school and a hotel.
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Retro TVSomebody spent a lot of time to put this together. Probably worth buying them a cup of coffee....
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New excitement in the neighborhood, July 3rd edition -
Vermont town bans influencersAs hordes of photographers began descending on a small, rural community to capture its vibrant autumnal colours, local residents have been fighting back – and winning.
To enter the town of Pomfret, located in the US state of Vermont, is to be instantly struck by its bucolic beauty. From the north, Howe Hill Road winds downhill in a series of gentle curves, each sweep revealing verdant farm fields dotted with sheep, or swaths of forest in which the red and orange autumn leaves cling to boughs. At one home, a tree heavy with apples bends over a meticulously maintained stone wall, its slate top filled with decaying fruit.
But come early autumn, more than half of the cars driving through this 900-person town will sport out-of-state license plates, coming to abrupt stops on a road with a 45-mile-per-hour speed limit, blocking one of two lanes. The reason? To take a picture of a farm's silo against a backdrop of autumn leaves.
With a mere handful of businesses – a general mercantile store, an art centre with a gallery and a theatre and a few pick-your-own apple or pumpkin farms – Pomfret is generally a quiet, unassuming place. But in autumn as "leaf-peepers" from around the world descend on the region's rolling hills and fetching small towns to witness its kaleidoscopic foliage, that all changes.
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What does he have to give them in return?Trump Wants a New Air Force One in His Presidential Library. It’s Not a Done Deal.
He would like the $400 million luxury 747 to eventually be the centerpiece of his Miami presidential library but his plans face obstacles
