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Yeah, there have been amazing changes in 80 years.
Now imagine how primitive our phones will look, 80 years from today. You had to hold them in your hands!
This is why I insist on living another 300 or 400 more years. The next 300 years is going to be SO INTERESTING.
Now imagine how primitive our phones will look, 80 years from today. You had to hold them in your hands!
This is why I insist on living another 300 or 400 more years. The next 300 years is going to be SO INTERESTING.
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You may be making assumptions that we (humans) will be around in 3-400 years. We don't have a good track record.Foggy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:41 am Yeah, there have been amazing changes in 80 years.
Now imagine how primitive our phones will look, 80 years from today. You had to hold them in your hands!
This is why I insist on living another 300 or 400 more years. The next 300 years is going to be SO INTERESTING.
What was that line by George Carlin?: "Save the Earth? The Earth ain't going nowhere; we are! -- The Earth is going to shake us off like a bad case of the fleas."
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What was the name of that series? After Earth? It will take millions of years for some things we have left behind to finally disappear completely, but a few million years is nothing compared to the time the Earth has left. We will, in the end, just be a minor irritant in the life span of this planet.
It's ourselves we are destroying.
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The series on The History Channel was called Life After People.
It's ourselves we are destroying.
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The series on The History Channel was called Life After People.
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Maybe a race of super-apes running things wasn't such a great idea after all. ![Shrug :shrug:](./images/smilies/shrug.gif)
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RNC loses complaint claiming Gmail spam filter is biased against Republicans
FEC found "no reason to believe" that Google used spam filter to help Democrats.
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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has rejected a Republican National Committee (RNC) complaint claiming that Google violated US law by using Gmail's spam filter on Republican campaign emails. Republicans had claimed Gmail's spam filtering amounted to "illegal in-kind contributions made by Google to Biden For President and other Democrat candidates."
But an FEC decision last week, which Google provided to Ars today, said the commission found "no reason to believe" that Google made prohibited in-kind corporate contributions. The FEC, an independent agency of the US government, also found no evidence that the Biden for President campaign committee knowingly accepted illegal in-kind contributions in the form of spam filtering preference.
The FEC told Google in a letter that it has "closed its file in this matter" and that documents related to the case will be placed on the public record within 30 days.
"The Commission's bipartisan decision to dismiss this complaint reaffirms that Gmail does not filter emails for political purposes," Google said in a statement. "We'll continue to invest in our Gmail industry-leading spam filters because, as the FEC notes, they're important to protecting people's inboxes from receiving unwanted, unsolicited, or dangerous messages."
FEC: Study cited by Republicans doesn’t prove bias
Republicans made their case in a joint complaint filed in April by the RNC, National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). "By overwhelmingly and disproportionately suppressing emails from Republican candidates, including President Trump and others, Google used its corporate resources to provide a massive service to their Democrat opponents by denying Republican candidates the same ability to communicate with voters," the complaint said.
The RNC complaint cited a North Carolina State University study that found "Gmail marks a significantly higher percentage (67.6 percent) of emails from the right as spam compared to the emails from left (just 8.2 percent)."
But the FEC decision said that "the NCSU Study does not make any findings as to the reasons why Google's spam filter appears to treat Republican and Democratic campaign emails differently." The FEC also described several limitations in the study:
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My niece and her husband named the baby girl Quinn Elizabeth [last_name].
They would not believe me when I told them the little girl will be furious when she reaches middle school and the teasing starts.
They would not believe me when I told them the little girl will be furious when she reaches middle school and the teasing starts.
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I think Quinn is a pretty name, we have a Quinnie in the family. But yep, she will be picked on for it!
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... and the people responsible will be right at hand to suffer for it.
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Why will she be teased for being named Quinn?
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Its the first and middle names together that are the problem - sounds too much like Queen Elizabeth
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Unless they call her by both names I doubt more than a handful of people will even know what it is.Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:39 pmIts the first and middle names together that are the problem - sounds too much like Queen Elizabeth
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We never used middle names in school.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:41 pmUnless they call her by both names I doubt more than a handful of people will even know what it is.Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:39 pmIts the first and middle names together that are the problem - sounds too much like Queen Elizabeth
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You’ll have make sure she knows this song.
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Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:02 pm You’ll have make sure she knows this song.
https: //youtu.be/K13hH0pJx5s
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I made "Bloody Mary's" for predinner drinks tonight.
Unfortunately, I picked up the wrong jar from the refrigerator.
I used Hot English Mustard instead of Horseradish.
Trust me, you don't wanna do what I did.
It was AWFUL.
Unfortunately, I picked up the wrong jar from the refrigerator.
I used Hot English Mustard instead of Horseradish.
Trust me, you don't wanna do what I did.
It was AWFUL.
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I posted a couple weeks ago that my Mister (who is a retired primary care physician) got a call from his sister that she had had a positive pap smear. This morning they did surgery and found that it has metastasized pretty much everywhere. My heart is breaking for him right now. He and his sister have always been very close. Please beam positive energy to them both; this is going to be very bad.
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My heart breaks for all of you. It's a tough road.MsDaisy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:07 am I posted a couple weeks ago that my Mister (who is a retired primary care physician) got a call from his sister that she had had a positive pap smear. This morning they did surgery and found that it has metastasized pretty much everywhere. My heart is breaking for him right now. He and his sister have always been very close. Please beam positive energy to them both; this is going to be very bad.![]()
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Which reminds me, has anyone heard from Sequoia lately?
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MsDaisy, I'm so sorry to hear about your husband's sister.
For those who don't know (it was a long time ago), MrDaisy took my boys fishing on their pond (they have 30 acres in BFE and a house built before the Civil War). We visited several times. He cooked hot dogs on the grill for them. They swam in the pool and played with the dogs, and I don't know how much they remember, but my memory is crystal clear, and I adore that guy. He's a wonderful, wonderful man.
Anyway, once again, I am helpless to influence events, which is the worst. All I can do is send love, and hugs, and more love.![❤️](//cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@latest/assets/svg/2764.svg)
For those who don't know (it was a long time ago), MrDaisy took my boys fishing on their pond (they have 30 acres in BFE and a house built before the Civil War). We visited several times. He cooked hot dogs on the grill for them. They swam in the pool and played with the dogs, and I don't know how much they remember, but my memory is crystal clear, and I adore that guy. He's a wonderful, wonderful man.
Anyway, once again, I am helpless to influence events, which is the worst. All I can do is send love, and hugs, and more love.
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Thank you all for the love and good wishes. The bad thing is that his sister is in London and we’re in Virginia, thank goodness for FaceTime! We were already planning a trip to London next month before this news and then all of us were going to go on a big trip from there to Australia & Japan but just getting to London is all that’s on the list now. We’ve already been to Australia once before chasing down his family history and I lived in Japan for 3 years so no great loss there.
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I'm so sorry for this awful news. ![Big Hug :bighug:](./images/smilies/bighug.gif)
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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-births ... d=96765124
The number of births in the United States increased in 2021 for the first time in seven years, reversing trends that continued during the pandemic, according to new federal data.
A report published early Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics showed there were 3,664,292 babies born in 2021, which is a 1% increase from 2020.
The figure marks the first increase seen since 2014. Between 2014 and 2019, births were declining by an average of 1% per year, and there was a decline of 4% from 2019 to 2020.
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Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:16 amTiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:25 am![]()
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