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  • Jimmy Carter - Home Hospice Care

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @George-K said in Jimmy Carter - Home Hospice Care: @jon-nyc said in Jimmy Carter - Home Hospice Care: To think of a president living more than 4 decades after leaving office. Trump will do that, albeit in some people's heads. I'd say there's also a fair-to-middling chance that after being convicted he will ascend into heaven and sit on the right hand of the Father for eternity. And if you think you've got it bad, imagine having Donald Trump sit on your hand for eternity - or even just for 5 minutes.
  • No transgenders in chess?

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @LuFins-Dad said in No transgenders in chess?: The stories don’t explain why… Why there’s a separate women’s tournament and why the 4 time champion and highest ranking woman in the world is ranked 75th in the combined rankings and wouldn’t even qualify for the top tournaments. That's an interesting topic. It's not impossible for women to compete with men - Judit Polgar was rated 8th in the world at one point, and had a rating over 2700 - super-grandmaster level. However, she's really the only one who's managed it. Hou Yifan was ranked 75th, but has beaten some strong male players over the years. To be fair to her, she also had a life out of chess, she was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford while she was playing professionally, and you can't really crack the top tier without dedicating your entire working life to chess.
  • Hay Trump Fans!

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    LuFins DadL
    If Tesla had been a student of the Donald, he would have been stealing Edison’s stuff, not the other way around…
  • Careful shopping on Amazon

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @89th said in Careful shopping on Amazon: Reminds me of the recent "Prime Day". If you used camelcamelcamel.com (yes a real website) it was clear some of the things I was looking at were not deals at all, but price increases. Yep, quite familiar. You can get tons of crap at nearly half off if you're willing to wait.
  • A Friend Suggestion

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    MikM
    Maybe he’s an anesthesiologist.
  • What’s your next move w/ black?

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    jon-nycJ
    Rxe1 seems to be a good move. You’d get the queen.
  • What Smells to Mosquitos Like?

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    89th8
    There are reasons... I get eaten alive whereas my wife doesn't get touched. Not fair, I always have thought it was because of me (or males, in general?) having a higher body temperature and/or sweat.
  • Big Ben returns to the sidelines!

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    jon-nycJ
    How’d you like to be head coach with him as your ‘assistant’?
  • US Seizes Iranian Oil from Tanker

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    MikM
    That’s one way to refill the Strategic Reserve.
  • Wildlife in my town

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    George KG
    [image: 1692584391020-image.jpeg] Closeup... [image: 1692584427612-image-resized.jpeg]
  • A Letter to Graves

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    Doctor PhibesD
    He's probably been reading the George W Bush guide to making memorable aphorisms
  • Might as well dig up the remains...

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    CopperC
    Among the reasons to have this memorial are a need to heal, a need to come together as a nation and as a people. Please don’t use this monument to do exactly the opposite.
  • I'm getting this for Aqua for Christmas

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    Aqua LetiferA
    Be much appreciated as I'm running a bit low.
  • Happy Birthday, Boris!

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    JollyJ
    Happy birthday, handsome lad!
  • Hillary Clinton on Donald Trump in 2016 - Psychic?

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    CopperC
    Somehow she omitted this video, the two are sold together as a pair Link to video If you want to see Ms. Clinton's advice, skip ahead to 20 seconds
  • Sex and drugs and rock n roll is very good indeed

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  • No Sale

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    George KG
    @Mik said in No Sale: I don't think so, but maybe. We're still down a few percent from the high. [image: 1692555316614-screenshot-2023-08-20-at-1.14.59-pm-resized.png]
  • The Doom Loop

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    CopperC
    Enforce the laws. Doom loop problem solved.
  • Special Counsel Appointed for Hunter Biden

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    jon-nycJ
    Interesting sentence about how one motivation for becoming special counsel is the requirement that he publish a report - which allows him to answer his critics.
  • Bicyclist killed

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    MikM
    Skokie.