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  • NY Phil tonight

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    89th8
    And yes I'll die on the hill that the Ossia Cadenza is MUCH better than the cheap Tocatta Cadenza.
  • University Rankings by Scientific Research Output

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    89th8
    Personally I'm impressed that @moonbat is able to capture these thread that overlap with his area of expertise (e.g., scientific research) out of left field. No pun intended.
  • How not to lower home prices

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    LuFins DadL
    You already can take a low interest loan out against your 401K for a home purchase, and the interest is paid back to you, and it happens before taxes are withdrawn. Beyond that, there are so many first time howler downpayment assistance options out there, that you would have to have to nothing in the way of a downpayment to have the downpayment be your obstacle.
  • I have a new found respect for him

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    HoraceH
    I remember him getting cucked while he was a politician, by an elderly female who called him out in some town hall. That probably stung. We talked about it here at the time.
  • The IRS doesn't fuck around

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    HoraceH
    We warned you.
  • Bill Maher gives rules of thumb for evaluating news outlets

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    jon-nycJ
    Yeah basically a return to the way it was in the 19th and early 20th century.
  • Iran's water issues

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    taiwan_girlT
    It is funny how reading something like this posting can trigger a memory. Long long long time ago, I was kind of remote location and the office had a library and one of the books that I read was "The Marsh Arabs". It focused on the people in Iraq rather than Iran, but there were probably a similar group in Iran also. I hadn't thought about that book in years. LOL During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq—long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein—Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicine and treating the sick. In this account of a nearly lost civilization, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage, and endurance of the people, and describes their impressive reed houses, the waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife, the herding of buffalo and hunting of wild boar, moments of tragedy, and moments of pure comedy in vivid, engaging detail.
  • I’m shocked - SHOCKED - there’s gambling going on in here

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    LuFins DadL
    Even the “small” gambling called Fantasy Sports completely destabilizes trust.
  • The Venezuelan Oil Thread

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    RenaudaR
    @Mik The list ought to have included Halliburton alongside SLB. Also, there are deposits of light and medium crude outside the Orinoco Belt area. Some in the Lake Maricaibo region but elsewhere as well. That wildcatter, Hamm, could make tons of money in short pay back timeframe if he could latch onto some of those reservoirs.
  • When you've lost Washington Examiner..

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  • Maybe we need a war to remind us of what matters and what doesn't.

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  • Pay the congestion fee or...

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    It's just another tax on motorists. London has an inner Congestion charge, an outer ULEZ (ultra low emission zone). We are taxed for use of the road, on buying insurance, on buying petrol/gas, now taxed for just being in certain places and for polluting certain places.
  • TSMC

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    AxtremusA
    Production in the United States resulted in approximately 2.4 times higher costs. Tariffs will fix that, right, right?
  • Classic comedic timing

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    Skilled comedian, obviously juggling well within his limits. I've seen him do his motorbike juggle, classic clowning
  • Notes on the treadmill crowd

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    jon-nycJ
    Very nice.
  • Trump rolls out health plan to major yawns

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    MikM
    It could certainly reduce routine PCP visits.
  • The Iran Nuclear Program thread

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    MikM
    Yeah, the mullahs are great guys who only want peace (as long as we all convert).
  • Kyrsten Simena news

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    89th8
    That lady was quite frisky.
  • Ein Volk, Ein Reich

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    MikM
    I guess it gives you what it thinks you can absorb.
  • WANT

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    AxtremusA
    https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ear-Wax-Removal-NEXPURE-Ear-Cleaner-with-1080P-HD-Camera-Wirless-Otoscope-with-7-Pieces-Set-for-Ear-Cleaning/5114413996