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I just heard that last week Arecibo telescope got destroyed by broken cables for a second time in a few months, and was decommissioned. Sad... I had visited there about 20 years ago.. ;-(

It doesn't hurt to take a hard look at yourself from time to time, and this should help get you started. During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the director what the criterion was that defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub." "Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup." "No," said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a room with or without a view?"

American Airlines is planning customer tours of the Boeing 737 Max and calls with its pilots in the coming weeks to boost the public’s confidence in the plane after two fatal crashes. The jets were grounded worldwide more than a year and a half ago after the two crashes — Lion Air Flight 610 in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March 2019. All 346 people on board the flights were killed. Following repeated setbacks, the Federal Aviation Administration is at the tail-end of its recertification process for the jets though it has not signed off on the planes officially. “The FAA continues to follow a thorough process, not a prescribed timeline,…

After World War II, a new international monetary system called Bretton Woods was created. Bretton Woods established three main things: (1) the U.S. dollar was to be an international reserve currency, (2) the U.S. dollar would be backed by gold at a price of $35 per ounce, and (3) any country could exchange dollars for gold. Countries running trade surpluses with the US sought to exchange their dollars for gold, and this rapidly shrunk US gold reserves. This then led to the so called Nixon shock - President Richard Nixon effectively ending the Bretton Woods system in 1971. The world economy entered a new era: the US Dollar became t…

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I'm sure there must be some sort of drug behind this music. I assume it's Russian.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/nasa-moon-announcement-today-news-water-lunar-surface-wet-b1346311.html looks like there's more water than we expected on the moon, and hopefully that'll be useful for future astronauts!

This funerary stele presents under a long inscription in Aramaic a figurative scene with a priest seated at the banquet. The cult of the moon god, Sîn in Akkadian, is already well established in the Aleppo region of Syria. In the long dedication the deceased takes stock of his life and says his desire for a beautiful death and to enjoy the rest in the Hereafter without its remains being desecrated. Material used basalt Location Room 302, Sully Wing, Louvre Palace, 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris, Metropolis of Greater Paris, Île-de-France, Metropolitan France, France Co…

I just had the hardest time finding RC Cola in Fred Meyer's.....I swear they were hiding it from shoppers. (Don't tell anyone that I also love RC Cola. 😉 )

UK reports 12,872 new coronavirus cases, biggest one-day increase on record.

Right wing president cracking down on left leaning protesters, happened because of increasing taxes on the middle class. Their wages are stagnant and the rich are killing it, so when the government increased once more the public transportation. It evolved into mass civil unrest from college aged students. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/03/chilean-police-throw-boy-16-off-bridge-during-protests

They would enter orders and then cancel them before they executed. A process called "spoofing"...... this would effect the pricing of the gold and silver which they would then profit on. Steal BILLIONS for decades.... get a fine in the millions...... = cost of doing business

I have just one word of advice for you: “Plastics,” said the parent’s comfortable friend to Benjamin Braddock. Plastics—the new growth field in 1967, the year The Graduate movie came out—just as computers and then the internet would be to succeeding generations. Plastics—a graduate could make a killing in it. But Ben didn’t want any career advice just then. Just out of college, with no goals at all, the only thing he knew is that he wanted no part of the phony monied world that had been his upbringing. He lolled around aimless at his folks’ upper crust home that year and ended up in an affair with his mom’s socialite friend—her idea, not his. “Mrs. Robinson, are you …

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I figured I would be the one to start with my current pie: https://m1.finance/6kKyu2gmpkAH After the next "crash" I will lower my % of gold / stocks.... so far the fed is pumping in money so it is hard to tell when this game will change. If you don't have an M1 Finance account you can use this link to get your first $10: https://m1.finance/M6u9h3dISyGH This is not financial advice as I am not a financial professional. This is just me sharing my current allocation. Trade at your own risk. Never invest money you aren't willing to lose.

"We expect the daily death rate in the United States, because of seasonality and declining vigilance of the public, to reach nearly 3000 a day in December," the institute, which bills itself as an independent research centre, said in an update of its periodic forecasts. https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/us-coronavirus-deaths-projected-to-more-than-double-to-410-000-by-year-s-end-20200905-p55smq.html The maximum number of new cases recorded in one day in the US was 78k. Yesterday we had 52k new cases. That's 2/3 of the record!

Some of the recent topics here have touched upon the political systems of communism and socialism. I found a good write-up on those topics here. Later we can discuss its source, accuracy, any critiques, etc.: ---------------------------------- Socialism: a social system advocating State ownership and control of the means of production that communists view as an intermediate stage between capitalism and communism; Communism: a social system advocating the absence of classes, the common ownership of the means of production and subsistence, and the equitable distribution of economic goods. GREEK mythology tells of a Greek deity named Cronus, during whose reign…

When Anderson Cooper interviewed Jakob Blake’s dad, the latter answered a question with ‘Some people like Brussel sprouts.’ Anderson was flummoxed over this answer and when he pressed the dad, the dad explained that he hated Brussel sprouts—which also flummoxed Anderson. This only registers because about two weeks ago on my blog, someone answered with a similar reply about food choices. This only registers because @The Librarian(that old hen) has at times thrown in a complete non-sequitor about “I love pizza” or ‘I love tacos.’ Am I looking at a new evolution in memes and language? When the old hen does it, I think she is being snarky about those who …

COVID-19 India Updates: As many as 78,761 new cases were added Sunday, the most any country has ever reported in one day, while 971 deaths were reported on Monday, pushing the Asian country past Mexico for the third-highest number of deaths worldwide. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-india-is-becoming-the-worlds-new-virus-epicenter-2287928

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