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Read somewhere that 3% of the population protesting is the threshold beyond which authoritarian governments cannot prevail.
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Think back: Trump stopped bipartisan immigration reform -- for THIS.
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Latest is plan to disband FEMA after 2025 hurricane season, making states apply to WH for $$. Oh, the possibilities for corruption, grift, transactions!!
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I've had posts pulled by Facebook. Some quite innocuous, some calling a local govt or agents to account. I assume a detractor reported me. Meta now is going for super intelligence, I assume trained w data of FB users. Review your privacy settings!!
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At least Chinese soldiers stopped their tank rather than roll over protester in THEIR square. :/
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Adam Kinzinger says ~ because Trump using Title 10, not Insurrection Act, Nat'l Guard is military & can't be deployed against civilians(?)
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The memories of these children will not be a blessing to Israel.
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Putin probably thinks Russia (& Canada?) will "win" as climate changes, but it will be a pyrrhic victory as globe disintegrates. As bad as war, America's meltdown, & looming pandemics are, our failure to act on climate is biggest threat long term. 280 => 430 ppm CO2. 1.5 C. No do-overs soon.
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The man he doth project -- staff probably running things from the Project 2025 playbook. Or else he's trying to divert from big beautiful bill, tariffs & economy, Gaza and other abominations.
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Burrowing in, they call it?
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Memories of dead Gazans will not be a blessing for Israel.
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During COVID, (masked) hospital worker monitored CO2: highest in elevators. Started using stairs AMAP. Though also stuffy, he figured fewer users, stair climbers feel healthy when they climb. Patient/waiting rooms had
acceptable CO2.
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Google Corsi-Rosenthal air filter box if you or yours are vulnerable to smoke. Inexpensive, easy-build, they are effective against 250 micron particulate matter.
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Yesterday, evacuation planes had to turn around because of smoke in n Manitoba. Did the 700 wouldbe evacuees get out?
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Joe Biden won't be needing French drains around HIS grave.
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I was just thinking that. :(
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A decade ago, an engineering student (Asian) told me stories of Chinese TAs helping Chinese students. Always the Chinese, never Indian or other nationalities. Made me wonder.
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Years ago drove past bloated dead raccoons on two gate posts. Is that a "country thing"? A nasty part of some feud? Can't imagine coming home to THAT!
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This white mom of intl adoptees shocked when ~6 police cars w emergency lights pulled over young brown son (citizen) for headlight out. 3 passengers were white: let him go. Now w/ Trump & ICE, parents like me worry!
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As with USMCA, NAFTA by another name, Trump seeks to remake NORAD into Golden Dome -- but without Canada's perch in Arctic, his will be a Tin Dome at best.
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I'll never forget the first baby dragonfly I ever collected. That sucker crawled OUT of the jar of formalin that had proved lethal for everything else!
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So unusual that I remember the veterinarian and the pediatrician who brought books into room when confronted with new species (bird) and new life history (intl adoptee). Respect. Then there are MDs who pin everything on obesity or mother's coldness or ___.
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1984?
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No limits to Trump interference?? In MI, ordering coal mine not to close, considering pardon of men convicted of plotting to kidnap Gov Whitmer. WTH?
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In one of his sci classes at community college, my engineer's classmates included HS, college, & U students. Major universities in state gave credit to all but the HS students -- until I wrote Governor. I suspect status quo resumed over the years? Not pretty, and we are lucky to be rel well off.
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Sons attended community college, a charter HS, escaping unpleasant social env of local HS & earning assoc degrees, credits toward English & engineering degrees, saving us $. Perhaps only shot poorer fellow students had for post secondary edu. Academics don't like, of course: snootiness > empathy.
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DOD: paint it orange.
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Pfft.
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W.W.J.D.?
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Meanwhile,
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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They doth project too much.
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It may take time, but there will be backlash to suppression of speech, to genocide by Israel...
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Post WW2 was era of technological fixes in response to a broken Great Lakes -- salmon introduction, lampricides, genetic manipulation (splake)...
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For a while there, Tanner insisted that the salmon were introduced to create a fishery, not to address alewife. Sounds like alewife back in story?
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And parks pay for themselves...
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Better him than the innocent grandchildren.
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Trump may sell US land to Saudis et al(?)
Saudis already bought US land and scarce water rights to raise alfalfa for their horses;
+ parched forecast for Middle East;
+ emoluments;
+ Trump willingness to sell public lands in US;
+ Arab investments...
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Even WORSE than Trump betrayal of ally Canada? :(
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Remember the "sub" that Musk offered for rescue of boys trapped in Thai cave? Divers declined. Musk called them "pedos".
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'Drawdown and surge" is a particularly harmful type of wake. When a ship passes through a channel in the ice, energy from change in velocity and water level (Bernoulli's Principle) is felt along the shore, breaking ice, etc. :(
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Customs duty? Tariff?
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What's on the menu? Please, not cats and dogs?
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Citizen of Peru as well as U.S.
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A degree in mathematics?
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Read "Why the Allies Won" by Richard Overy. It's not long, I promise.
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Similar? Anglers don't usually appreciate loss of opportunities over the years, but scientists found they could quantify by charting the distance travelled to fish (Alberta).
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What color is crypto?
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I've watched Canadians and Americans negotiate, and although one can't generalize, Carney and Trump are stereotypical reps of their two countries' styles. (I remember Cdns and Americans mean exact opposite when they "table" a proposal -- one proposes to act, the other to ditch the proposal.)
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Interesting. On the Great Lakes, scientists happily take whatever data sets available to them -- and these include a daily temperature reading of Lake Erie by a historical OH hatchery, but more frequently, betting contests on date a car will fall through ice (WI, ON).