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The things you learn.
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No fries or drinks?
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet
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Why Florida Oranges Had The Worst Harvest Since World War II | Big Business
8 May 2022
Florida oranges had their worst crop in 70 years. They're facing a deadly disease called citrus greening, spread in the body of the invasive Asian citrus psyllid. Today, nearly every citrus grove in Florida is infected with the disease. If an orange tree were to remain untreated, the disease would block its ability to get nutrients and kill it within a few years. But Florida's growers have figured out a way to keep growing edible oranges, even on infected trees. They've implemented a slew of horticultural techniques developed with scientists at the University of Florida, from pink clay to reflective mulch. But they still haven't found a long-term cure. We went to central Florida to see how growers and scientists are keeping the big business of oranges alive.
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Happy Mount St Helens Day!
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I remember, was nearly life on the web*, with scientists on the small plane inspecting the summit when the mountain blew its top.
* or what went as the early bbs access back in the days of our greatgrandparents
* or what went as the early bbs access back in the days of our greatgrandparents
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It's an awesome site! We've been there twice since it erupted. There was a difference in about eight years of the growth of both the landscape and the mountain.
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Just wait until that guy gets a load of Evel Knievel.Arvinder Singh Walia @ArvinderSinghw1 wrote: ABC does a great disservice to show such a clip.Youngsters of impressionable age unmindful of the dangers,the unhinged in an act of derring do might just imitate the stunt couples betrothal act and cause themselves harm, the statutory warning notwithstanding.
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Marvel Studios @MarvelStudios wrote: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, an Original series from Marvel Studios, starts streaming August 17 on @DisneyPlus. #SheHulk
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‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli released from federal prison and into New York halfway house
PUBLISHED WED, MAY 18 20221:26 PM EDTUPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Notorious “Pharma bro” fraudster Martin Shkreli was released from a federal prison in Pennsylvania on Wednesday and into a U.S. Bureau of Prisons halfway house at an undisclosed location in New York to complete the rest of his criminal sentence, his lawyer said.
- Martin Shkreli was released from a federal prison in Pennsylvania and into a Bureau of Prisons halfway house in New York to complete the rest of his criminal sentence for securities fraud.
Shkreli was dubbed the “Pharma bro” for smugly defending hiking the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim by more than 4,000% overnight in 2015.
Shkreli’s release was noted in a Twitter post by a friend, who apparently picked him up from prison.
In a throwback to the days when Shkreli was one of the most prominent trolls on Twitter, a friend of his tweeted a photo of them together smiling in a car after his release, with the caption: “Picked up this guy hitchhiking. Says he’s famous.”
His friend was wearing a t-shirt featuring a photo of Shkreli smirking during testimony before Congress, with the words, “Free Shkreli” underneath it.
“Getting out of real prison is easier than getting out of Twitter prison,” Shkreli wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday, referring to his ban from Twitter, which dates to his harassment of a female journalist in 2017.
Shkreli, a 39-year-old New York City resident who was convicted of securities fraud in 2017, previously was due to be released from the Allenwood low-security federal correctional institution on Sept. 14.
Shkreli was sentenced to 7 years in prison in March 2018. His release slightly more than four years after that sentencing reflects the credit he received for good behavior in prison, and for completing education and rehabilitation programs while locked up.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/worl ... -yoon.htmlMillions of South Koreans Could Soon Get Younger (on Paper)
South Korea has three ways of calculating age, often adding a year or two to the international standard. The incoming president wants to change that.
Here’s how the three ways of counting age work.
Under the first, and most widely used, method — often simply called “Korean age” — people are considered a year old at birth, and they add a year to their age every Jan. 1. This applies even to an infant born on, say, Dec. 31, who would be considered 2 years old the very next day. In other words, the birth year, not the date of birth, determines someone’s age. This method is the one most commonly recognized in social situations.
The second is the one the rest of the world uses: starting the count from zero at birth and adding a year on every birthday. Since 1962, that system has been used in South Korea for most legal and official purposes, such as for medical procedures.
The third, and least common, method is known as “year age.” Like the international system, it starts from zero at birth, but it adds a year of age every Jan. 1 — so that baby born on Dec. 31 would turn 1, not 2, the following day. This method applies to laws such as the Military Service Act — which sets the age of compulsory conscription — and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which decides when children begin school.
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Lost with TFB1.0 the coverage of the collapse of the Dunlap lake dam in 2018. I found this footage of the locals preparing to get it back.
https://lakedunlap.org/
March 2021:
March 2022:
https://lakedunlap.org/
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Random rant. I had a very long day. Can't say what caused it other than an unsupported and unwitnessed statement that freaked people. Sigh. Finished working about 10 pm. Then there was a big noise like an explosion & loss of electricity and internet. So pissed off. I was enjoying catching up on fogbow when it happened. I'm down to 30% power on my phone. Fogbow is my safe place. I hope power is restored soon.
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Me, too.
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Pitchbot calls it.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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We live in BFE Virginia, at the end of our 2-lane road off another 2-lane road there’s a little country store that sells gas, milk, beer and lottery tickets. Tonight the guy whose family has owned that little store since 1800 called some of his buddies together and they all played music under a little tent in the parking lot at the store. We don’t have any near by actual “neighborhoods”, but there are lots of folks around and when something cool happen, which isn’t very often they all turn out for it. So that was very cool! They had a hell of a fiddle player!
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace