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    Copper
    wrote on 1 Sept 2024, 23:49 last edited by
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    Where is New Zealand on that map?

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      jon-nyc
      wrote on 2 Sept 2024, 00:43 last edited by
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      Good question. And although Australia is on the map, it has no number next to it.

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        jon-nyc
        wrote on 3 Sept 2024, 11:15 last edited by
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          jon-nyc
          wrote on 4 Sept 2024, 18:48 last edited by
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            Mik
            wrote on 5 Sept 2024, 19:00 last edited by
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            Meet the Ulas! Thye family that walks on all fours.

            https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/family-that-walk-on-all-fours-have-undone-the-last-three-million-years-of-evolution/ar-AA1q1G3c?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=3b1ae552ddfb48b1b9a29fe6f5bd22f6&ei=17

            "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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              5 Sept 2024, 19:00

              Meet the Ulas! Thye family that walks on all fours.

              https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/family-that-walk-on-all-fours-have-undone-the-last-three-million-years-of-evolution/ar-AA1q1G3c?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=3b1ae552ddfb48b1b9a29fe6f5bd22f6&ei=17

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              taiwan_girl
              wrote on 6 Sept 2024, 00:40 last edited by
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              @Mik That was interesting. I think it is brain damage. I cannot imagine that is more comfortable for them. From the documentatry, it does not seem like there is a physical problem with their back which forces them to do that.

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                mark
                wrote on 8 Sept 2024, 18:03 last edited by
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                Godzilla-Shaped Harp
                Bratislava, Slovakia

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                  mark
                  wrote on 8 Sept 2024, 19:20 last edited by
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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on 9 Sept 2024, 07:10 last edited by
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                    A farmhouse in 1889.

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                    Today it’s 84th and Broadway, Manhattan.

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                      George K
                      wrote on 10 Sept 2024, 01:13 last edited by
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                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        jon-nyc
                        wrote on 11 Sept 2024, 17:25 last edited by
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                          jon-nyc
                          wrote on 13 Sept 2024, 01:54 last edited by
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                          I had no idea. And I’ve even been there.

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                            Mik
                            wrote on 13 Sept 2024, 02:13 last edited by Mik
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                            I didn’t either. Very interesting. I did notice the airport was busier than passenger traffic would be.

                            "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                              taiwan_girl
                              wrote on 13 Sept 2024, 02:20 last edited by
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                              I know that with Russia airspace not available, a lot of Europe airlines have cut back on flights to Asia because of the added costs because they have to fly longer. Probably effects the Anchorage airport also.

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                                jon-nyc
                                wrote on 13 Sept 2024, 02:51 last edited by
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                                  13 Sept 2024, 01:54

                                  I had no idea. And I’ve even been there.

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                                  Renauda
                                  wrote on 13 Sept 2024, 04:33 last edited by Renauda
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                                  @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                  I had no idea. And I’ve even been there.

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                                  Polar route does make a big difference. During the 90’s we ran weekly drilling, workover and service crew change charter flights out of Calgary and over the Pole into Surgut in Western Siberia. Flight time was 10.5 hours direct. The normal scheduled route was Calgary - Frankfurt - Moscow - Surgut which at minimum totalled 22 hours flight time excluding stopovers and (inevitable) flight delays between Moscow and Surgut or Nizhnevartovsk.

                                  Elbows up!

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                                    George K
                                    wrote on 14 Sept 2024, 13:29 last edited by
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                                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                      Copper
                                      wrote on 15 Sept 2024, 19:08 last edited by Copper
                                      #1907

                                      I bought one of these today. The old one was about 20 years old, very old for a lawn tractor.

                                      Now they come with a hose attachment that blows water on the blades to clean out the blade housing. I had never seen that before, a great idea.

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                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 01:16 last edited by
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                                        I don’t think I knew this.

                                        Seems odd. He seems like the most anodyne president we’ve had in my lifetime. Maybe anger at the Nixon pardon?

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                                          jon-nyc
                                          wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 11:12 last edited by
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