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Oct 30, 2022 07:19:26   #
JustJill wrote:
For once I am going to praise them!

We just moved to a new town. We had to insure our new home. We got a refund in the mail today due to overpayment. The address was wrong and the numbers were backwards. The post office did find us. Instead of the yellow sticker with the new address forwarded from our old address was a sticker that said We arw glad we found you please notify sender of your new address. I notified my insurance guy and at least he admitted he turned the numbers arounds.


I'm not sure if this is a good thing or is scary that they were tracking you.
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Oct 24, 2022 07:10:30   #
jerryc41 wrote:
If you're growing weary of hearing about Covid-19, there may be a new virus of interest. Some brilliant scientists in Boston have created a new virus that is 80% lethal. They combined features of the Wuhan and Omicron variants and produced a new virus that's immune to all vaccines.

In testing it on mice, they added human cells to the mice, "humanizing them," so we can expect a very high mortality rate in humans. They found that this man-made virus can reproduce in a host, just like a natural virus Just how good is this Boston lab's security, and how trustworthy are its employees? Will the lab keep going until they produce a virus with a 100% kill rate? Will other countries be encouraged to develop this virus now that the details have been released? These researchers have received criticism from around the world. The lab denies that it did this.

Twisting this to turn it into something political will get it sent to you-know-where, so let's try to stick to the topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTZo9ieBKY

https://www.google.com/search?q=new+boston+lab+virus&oq=new+boston+lab+virus&aqs=edge..69i57j0i546.4710j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
If you're growing weary of hearing about Covid-19,... (show quote)


Dumb F**ks
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Oct 9, 2022 07:57:04   #
usnret wrote:
Went shopping at our local HY-VEE store today. Noticed that the lemons come from Argentina, the esparagus comes from Mexico, the tomatoes are imported from Canada of all places. Makes me wonder, don't they grow these products in California and Florida anymore??


Something to be said for there being seasons for fruit and veg, when I was growing up you were happy when the season for your favorite fruits and veg came around now you can get the same fruit year-round problem is it is tasteless. I avoid that by buying at the farmers market where they sell local grown seasonal food.


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Oct 8, 2022 08:00:30   #
Dannj wrote:
(I’m looking for clarification of a news brief, not for comments on the shootings)

I read a news brief earlier today that said the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) has suspended its entire police force. My question is: Is it common in parts of the country for a school district to have its own police force? I’ve lived mostly in the Northeast and police departments are controlled by municipal governments, not by school districts. Am I missing something?


Philadelphia schools have their own police.
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Oct 8, 2022 07:59:19   #
jerryc41 wrote:
I've had this on my mind for a while, and an article from NH pushed me to post this.

Some people like to climb mountains, explore caves, and swim through flooded caves. Then they run into trouble and call for help. Up to a hundred rescuers spend several days trying to help them, with some of the rescuers dying as a result. I realize we are free to explore wherever we want, but isn't there a limit to what we can expect others to do when we run into a problem. Yes, I know that many of the rescuers are volunteers, but a volunteer who rushes from his house and never returns might regret his decision. At least his wife and kids would regret it.

If you are climbing mountains thousands of feet high with blizzard conditions, you know you are putting your life at risk. How can you expect dozens of other people to risk their lives to save you? The same goes for exploring caves and cave diving. Those activities are incredibly dangerous, and the people know that going in. In many cave diving locations, there are signs with pictures of the Grim Reaper warning divers to go no farther, yet they continue, get stuck, and die. Then volunteers have to go where no one should be going to recover the body.

What prompted me to finally post this is an article in Today's Boston Globe. The state of NH has limited resources to rescue hikers who run into problems.

...hikers venturing into the mountains with minimal precautions, especially during the pandemic, when a surge of novices had embraced the outdoors with little appreciation for its dangers. It had strained the capacity of rescuers, a hardy band of government employees and volunteers, and placed them in precarious situations time and again.

...prompting New Hampshire officials to take a defiant stand against irresponsible hiking that has rippled through the mountaineering world from the Cascades to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The sign below is located in caves throughout the world, warning divers to go no farther.
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I don't know, sounds like a challenge to me.
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Oct 2, 2022 12:59:30   #
photon-collector wrote:
Don't worry. Soon, those ads will be replaced with the Medicare Advantage Plan crap. Can't hardly wait to see Joe Namath again! Not.


They run all year now.
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Oct 2, 2022 07:28:29   #
alberio wrote:
Am I the only one that's sick and tired of Camp Lejeune?


No. Scumbag lawyers!
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Oct 1, 2022 07:20:38   #
OnDSnap wrote:
Turn off auto update


You don't need to shut it down, just pause it for 7 days.
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Sep 18, 2022 10:52:27   #
NJFrank wrote:
Ah thanks for pointing that out. Now that you brought it up, it is screaming at me. The good news, it’s an easy fix.


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Sep 18, 2022 10:30:16   #
NJFrank wrote:
Thanks for your comment. Can you please elaborate. The sky is part of the original shot. It was not a sky replacement


The upper right of the house the sky is two different colors of blue with a fairly sharp and straight delineation and the sky around the trellis is uniformly gray not matching the blues of the sky above the house.
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Sep 18, 2022 07:53:24   #
NJFrank wrote:
All components of this composite are from what i have photographed in my area. Some of them have been used in different composite.


Frank, the sky needs work, otherwise nice job.
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Sep 15, 2022 07:02:37   #
jerryc41 wrote:
I'm surprised to see all the outrage online about non-white actors playing parts that have been played by white actors in the past. Looking at it from the other side...

https://www.facebook.com/james.bickham.12/videos/526363662590638


Why the outrage? These are fictional characters, they can be anything you want, you shouldn't "read can't" historical figures "Washington played by a non-white or King played by a white" would be stupid and offensive and putting different races in a fictional situation that is inappropriate " white guy as Zulu warrior, any race other than Chinese in 10th century China, any race other than white in 10th century England would all be inaccurate and annoying".
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Sep 13, 2022 06:52:55   #
jerryc41 wrote:
When I was younger, we spoke about someone's mother, not someone's mom. "Mom" was what you called your own mother. Now, "mom" is all you hear. Is it an attempt to become more familiar with people? Sound more folksy? I don't like it, and I'm starting a campaign to get "Mother" back into our lives. I'm starting a GoFundMe page, and I'll post the link later. Thanks for your support. (Yes, I am kidding about the GoFundMe page. Unfortunately, I had to actually say that I was kidding.)

The same applies to "dad," of course, but people tend to ignore fathers. They're either at work or fishing/golfing/gambling/drinking.
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When I was young we always referred to our friend's parents as Mom or Dad although quite often they were like Mom and Dad to us too, when speaking to them though they were always Mr. or Mrs.. As to gofundme I'm glad you were kidding.
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Sep 9, 2022 07:06:30   #
bobbyjohn wrote:
Yesterday, I was flipping through the TV channels, and stopped at an MLB game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres (in San Diego). Do my eyes deceive me? Has to be the ugliest MLB uniform I have ever seen...even out-did the striped Houston Astros uniform of the past. San Diego presented a combination of mint green on one sleeve and putrid pink on the other sleeve. Add in a touch of yellow trim, a mint green hat, the San Diego words in the same obnoxious colors in a hideous font, numbers in pink, and players name in an unreadable yellow against white. Also, check out the catcher with pink chest protector, shin guards, and mask. What were they thinking?
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Very metro.
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Sep 6, 2022 08:22:59   #
Manglesphoto wrote:
I can't see ethanol production affecting Sweet corn prices
I believe they just use field corn for ethanol !!
Have you checked the prices of Bananas or white vinegar?


Maybe not affecting sweet corn but field corn aka cow corn is removing feed for cattle that feeds us and if they are planting field corn instead of sweet corn then it does affect the price of sweet corn through reduced supply.
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