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  • Speaking of geezers

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    Tom-KT
    I heard one song-in a light tenor. His voice (one of the greatest ever) broke a bit. Here's a song from EARLY Fleetwood Mac that mentions McCartney's voice: Link to video I bought this album when it came out.
  • I just had my first penny shortage cash surcharge…

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    LuFins DadL
    Their system punished me for using the legal tender of the land! And is trying to force me to use Credit Cards m, which is against my religion!
  • Nope

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    taiwan_girlT
    @Mik
  • Parental Brag: Dean’s List Edition

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    taiwan_girlT
    That is awesome @jon-nyc !! While I am sure that some of it is due to himself, you and his mother are also doing soemthing right!!!
  • I heard that Bruce Springsteen song about Minneapolis today

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    HoraceH
    Jon loves Alex Preti, and Jon would look down his nose at Alex Preti, if Alex Preti were alive.
  • Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks

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    AxtremusA
    Link to video
  • Gas price check

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    RenaudaR
    @NobodySock said: @Renauda said: @AndyD Will your light crude oil run generators, or oil heating systems? Or does it have to be mixed with heavy crude first. No it has to be refined first - although the light crude produced in some Western Siberian fields could run a diesel engine once the parafins are removed. Light crudes produced in North America are used primarily for aviation fuel, motor oils and petrochemical production. For AC, What do we know as to the reason why certain types of oil are found in the ground in different geographies? Is it simply a matter of what kind of dinosaurs died in these locations? I’m sure there’s more to it but what do you know? I was a rig hand, Jim, not a petroleum geologist
  • Dov’e Riccardo?

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    One can accept the reason advertised as to why they shut this down to only allow you to go back to generations of relationships to acquire this citizenship while his and mine are three. The advertised claim is that most of these people who acquired the citizenship, never intended to move and live in Italy anyways, and while this may be true, I sense that the timing of this edict was more intended to stop what they foresee as a huge influx of Americans desiring to get out of the USA while getting is good. And my theory goes against my grain in that I abhor statements made by US citizens of anything oppressive that occurs globally and channeling it into some conspiracy, only meant for Americans, take Covid, for example. If one recalls, the first country to take a major hit once Covid was released to the world was in fact Italy. reason number 3537 that Trump has no business handling the reigns of power in the United States as he played along with this conspiracy, so as to downplay his incompetence and handling it when it first hit our shores. He let Maga run the ball with that one and kept patting them on the head, encouraging them. And it was then that I started having a huge distaste for these people and realized how truly selfish they all are in that they defied at every turn any type of quarantine restrictions placed upon them as an assault on their free will
  • My recent health/fitness hiccup

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    taiwan_girlT
    @jon-nyc wow! I had no idea. Sending positive thoughts to you!!!
  • On the war and the markets

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  • The Expanse Novels

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    bachophileB
    geek note, tiamat is the mesopotamian sea god, from the enuma elish.
  • Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

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    Doctor PhibesD
    Nobody knows more about things being age-appropriate than the head of the Republicans.
  • The New Rapper-Prime Minister of Nepal Balendra Shah

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    taiwan_girlT
    Well, US had had an former actor, Ukraine a former comedian, etc.
  • Kash Patel’s emails hacked by Iranian group

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    jon-nycJ
    Ken Wbite said ‘his face looks like he bet on a fart and lost’.
  • The Tradwife Trend

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    MikM
    TLDW
  • TSA nightmares

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    jon-nycJ
    Far less so than I was expecting. A couple people cutting in line with sob stories. People were pretty calm though. Partly I think because it was expected (that changed my outlook considerably) and partly (I speculate) there was a little bit of ‘we’re all in this moment together’ spirit like you see during a big weather event or tragedy of some kind, though I don’t want to exaggerate that too much. The most stressful part was when the line was snaking through the front atrium. It didn’t look like a line, it looked like a crowd. The only thing that made it a line was everyone knowing who was in front of them and who was behind.
  • New words added to the OED, 1900 edition

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    Hydroplane???? Boat????
  • ChatGPT

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    AxtremusA
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo OpenAI has shut down Sora, its video generation service. Since the platform's launch, Sora made $1.4m in global net in-app revenues, compared to $1.9bn over the same period for ChatGPT, ... ... it was "a resource black hole" with "limited monetisation". "The platform struggled to prevent the creation of non-consensual imagery and realistic misinformation, not to mention major copyright infringement," ...
  • Jury holds Meta and YouTube liable for ‘social media addiction’

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    taiwan_girlT
    @Doctor-Phibes said: If TNCR is wrong, I don't wanna be right. I can't believe I just wrote that. 555
  • On my drive home tonight...

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    HoraceH
    That's a point.