https://twitter.com/iaponomarenko/status/1509856093459128325?s=21

@George-K Wasnt there a helium shortage a couple of years ago?

@Klaus said in Germany: "Thou shalt not say 'Z'": @Renauda said in Germany: "Thou shalt not say 'Z'": @Axtremus said in Germany: "Thou shalt not say 'Z'": What “Z” symbol are they talking about? It’s short for the Russian word Засранец (Zasranyets). Look it up. Not quite. The "Z" has been used as a pro-war symbol to represent support for the invasion despite the ambiguity of its meaning.[16][17] On Instagram, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) posted on 3 March that the "Z" symbol is an abbreviation of the phrase "for victory" (Russian: за победу, romanized: za pobedu), while the "V" symbol stands for "Our strength is in truth" (Russian: сила в правде, romanized: sila v pravde) and "The task will be completed" (Russian: задача будет выполнена, romanized: zadacha budet vypolnena).[18][19][20] The MoD later suggested alternative meanings for "Z", including "For peace" (Russian: за мир, romanized: za mir), "For truth" (Russian: за правду, romanized: za pravdu), and the letter Z inside the English words demilitarization and denazification, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has asserted to be the purpose of the invasion.[21][22] Another interpretation for "Z" is the Russian word for west (Russian: запад, romanized: zapad), to designate the Western Military District or west-bound infantry, or more generally to underline the Kremlin's imperial ambitions, with the "V" symbol similarly standing for the word for east (Russian: восток, romanized: vostok).[23][24][25] This term was used in the joint 2021 Zapad exercise [ru; uk; pl] between Belarus and Russia before the invasion.[citation needed] Thank you for the exegesis however you didn’t look up how zasranyets translates into English. I’m sticking to Z = Засранец or its plural, Засранцы. I doubt that there’s a Ukrainian out there who would not agree with my take on this subject. Look it up. Or Ask your wife, if I recall correctly she’s Russian.

@Copper said in Even if it's just $1.: It will cost $20 to collect the $1. That's true. It's been said that it costs $10 to process a check. it probably takes at least half that to create the invoice.

From the headline, I thought they were talking about Rachel.

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@Klaus said in Looking at Laptop Computers...: I'll consider a Thinkpad with Ubuntu next time, I think there's a new release of Ubuntu this week.

@Mik yup. Comes out pretty good.

@xenon said in The most reclusive humans in the world: Would they think of themselves as reclusive? They probably have more direct human contact than the vast majority of us. Good point. Not easy to come up with a measure for reclusiveness that different cultures will agree with.

@Klaus I sent that to my friend who replied... Stultis aprilensis

@Mik said in I like black coffee and bitter beers.: @Doctor-Phibes said in I like black coffee and bitter beers.: It's almond juice. It's similar to what you get if you milk a male cow. Please do not elaborate. I am not the least bit curious as to how exactly you know this. I hang around with the boys at Panera. They told me about this guy's sister...

@taiwan_girl I'm more surprised that the pilot was able to land the aircraft with an open canopy like that.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Wait, what?!: @Jolly said in Wait, what?!: You don't have a clue how productive or non-productive my land is. No, but I know how big they grew their farm out to, and it's unlikely for others to yield more. Entirely possible you do, though, that is correct. My point is that they didn't shill their pamphlets because their farm was a failure. They reluctantly got into pamphleteering because the local demand was bananas. Others wanted the same results. Truth is, it's fair, even when amended. Quality of soil can vary. But show me an organic farmer using heritage seeds grow 300+ bushels of corn per acre. I'll wait. Check out their early stuff, man. The way they did it, yields were higher, and it was a closed loop, and a much less fragile schedule to be on. Like I said, it wasn't all "learn how to grow avocados hydroponically on your apartment balcony" to start with. There's organic farming, and Organic Farming. I live not too far from Louisiana Delta Plantation. It's not as big as it used to be...When I was a kid, you could saddle a horse at Vick and ride almost to Jonesville, that's around 30 miles and never get off the farm. Past owners have included Prudential Insurance and a Chicago group that included Oprah. The last time it was sold, a couple if years ago, it was still about 90,000 acres. I don't see how organic methods could be used on big tract farms like that.

@George-K said in Be careful what safari adventure you choose.: Cute until she goes all Sigfried and Roy. Yeah! Still a wild animal.

@89th said in The News: Sure could work on the audio level of that clip, too. Funny though, he could do nearly every corporate profit media news org. Potato recording. Hey, works!

Ouch!!! Wonder about the backside story. Must have had some sort of conflict with the store owner.

I remember reading about a lady from Illinois - small town, and she was the office manager. Managed to steal a ton of money. EDIT: Here it is "The extent of the fraud was staggering. Rita Crundwell had first opened the fictional account in 1990, meaning that she had successfully stolen from the city for 22 years before being arrested. In those two decades she stole over $53 million from a city of less than 16,000 people. Dixon, Illinois— known for being the boyhood home of President Ronald Reagan—has now gained the distinction of being the victim of the largest municipal fraud to date." Dixon Illinois Fraud

That's the one!

I don't know. It seems like the patients undergoing to more dangerous procedures would tend to be older and sicker to begin with. I'm a little surprised that anyone dies from cataract surgery.