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  • Clipping the Aneurysm

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    MikM
    Butt puckering adventure. Wow.
  • Not ready for prime time

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  • White Death

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    taiwan_girlT
    Quite an interesting story.
  • The Hu

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    MikM
    I watched a couple of their other videos. Interesting sound, consistent style. It would be better if they all had subtitles.
  • The Narrowing

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    taiwan_girlT
    College age population is dropping. It is only going to get worse for colleges and what they will do. EDIT: Maybe not, at least based on the graphic below. [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fchienluocsong.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FUSA_population-pyramid_2010-to-2050.png&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=dfb04a86f196854f6abedd5ad85d3f50d2521e6aceab6b16c43a7f423ad9a1e7&ipo=images]
  • Don't touch the mulch...

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    taiwan_girlT
    @Jolly said in Don't touch the mulch...: The problem is how you get a nut like this out of your neighborhood? Well, he's gone now and I doubt he will be back.
  • 96 Years, Same Menu.

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  • There's law, and then there's "Trump Law"

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    jon-nycJ
    That article was beneath him. For a sitting AG to claim executive privilege is very different than a private citizen who, some years earlier, spent a few months as a consultant in the west wing. Also there’s no way Bannon would be in club fed had he shown up and claimed privilege. He just blew congress right off. Recall his case went in front of Roberts who was fine with him having three hots and a cot at federal expense for a few months.
  • CMS releases negotiated price list

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    jon-nycJ
    @Jolly said in CMS releases negotiated price list: Yeah, but... How many new drugs does the developing world need? Let's take something like erythromycin...For years erythromycin was dirt cheap, especially when compared with zithromax. Erythromycin had the disadvantage of more frequent and more total doses, but both antibiotics were killing essentially the same bugs. There are multiple drugs like that out there and I suspect physicians in those countries often choose the cheapest drug that is effective. Mostly for diseases we can’t now cure. Gene therapies for sickle cell anemia are in trials now. Africa is the largest market by patient count. US by dollar volume. I think it's going to be very interesting when the patents run out on the first-generation biologicals. Depends on which. Plasma products, for example, are very different as there are actual diseconomies of scale. (To get a marginal new plasma donor generally costs more than your existing donors). So the economics are very different. (By the way, gene therapies are considered biologics by the FDA so they’ll stay relevant for the foreseeable future)
  • 2024 Michael Brown riots in Ferguson, traumatic brain injury to black cop

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    HoraceH
    You can certainly call him a coward or an opportunist, but the blame for the narrative rests on the entire political tribe that embraces it, against all available facts, for their own tribal rhetorical gain. At the cost of psychological abuse of every black person who believes the narrative.
  • The Harris Tactic

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    JollyJ
    What a mealy-mouthed twat...
  • 55 years ago today

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    CopperC
    No, I was home. I think maybe it was better to be home wishing you were there than there wishing you were home. Of course we were spinning the album as soon as it came out.
  • Smart.

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    JollyJ
    Cherry-picked. Ya got two hours and that's what you have? Ptooey...
  • Really? I have to start the thread about Walz’s DUI?

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    George KG
    He lied about that too... When Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz first ran for Congress in 2006, his campaign repeatedly made false statements about the details of his 1995 arrest for drunk and reckless driving. According to court and police records connected to the incident, Walz admitted in court that he had been drinking when he was pulled over for driving 96 mph in a 55 mph zone in Nebraska. Walz was then transported by a state trooper to a local hospital for a blood test, showing he had a blood alcohol level of .128, well above the state’s legal limit of 0.1 at the time. But in 2006, his campaign repeatedly told the press that he had not been drinking that night, claiming that his failed field sobriety test was due to a misunderstanding related to hearing loss from his time in the National Guard. The campaign also claimed that Walz was allowed to drive himself to jail that night. None of that was true. Sez....CNN
  • Thieves With Calculators

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  • This is a real problem for Jon

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    JollyJ
    She had knees?
  • Meanwhile, in Illinois

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    JollyJ
    Watch some of the guy's stuff. If not this one, perhaps another make or model. I think I can hook you...
  • Anyone ever been to Auschwitz?

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    NunataxN
    Not Auschwitz, but have visited Birkenau and can relate to the impressions described above. Very recently visited the exceptionally well preserved Breendonk camp in our country. We were actually planning to visit the Dossin Barracks the same day, but decided against it on our way out of the Breendonk camp. Neither of us was in the mood for more of that horror…
  • European Courtyard Block Housing - Good for US Cities?

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    NunataxN
    I don’t know a lot about this. We live in the suburbs since we just don’t like living in a busy city centre. We live near Ghent, where young people do live in such buildings a lot. But in a city like Ghent I suspect these kinds of houses/apartments are probably the most affordable, which is the deciding factor for young families. Not sure it has much to do with being isolated from the street noise here. We’re currently building a new house and are temporarily renting a place. We very nearly rented an apartment in such a courtyard block in Ghent. That was until the lady started telling us about the numerous great activities that were organised in the courtyard during the summer! Community BBQs! Concerts! Kubb championships! I’m pretty sure the noise in the streets is nothing compared to the courtyard noise in the summer, so she lost us there…
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    jon-nycJ
    Weird.