Random Thoughts or Whatever

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^^^ PS: Though some prefer to not purchase tickets and yet cannot await "high quality" streaming availability, and so these resort to "cam captured rips". For instance, this one...

John Wick Chapter 4 2023 V2 1080p HDTS x264 AAC

...up and "around" for only a handful of days, has already been DL'd at least 2,500 times and as of this writing has another 2,400+ DL'ing. Taking into account that only a fraction of DL'ers stick around to 'seed' anything they've DL'd, my guess is that this -- just this example & there are other cam rips as well -- has been "grabbed" 8,000 - 10,000 times + another 2,400 to 5,000 to follow. For a camera bootleg rip.

The people LOVE this John Wick Series, and from what I have read, this, the fourth installment, is (for John Wick) high art.

PS: Has K. Reeves become the Eastwood of the 21st century? And "Wick" its "Dirty Harry"?

 

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Value of retired men’s hobby club weather balloon shot down by US over Lake Huron: $12

Value of Reaper drone brought down by collision with Russian aircraft over Black Sea: $30 million

Schadenfreude Value: Priceless

 

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In 1959 Eisenhower invited Nikita Khrushchev to DC. When told he would be staying at Camp David, Khrushchev replied: “What kind of a camp is it? A place where they put people they don’t trust?”

 

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In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev visited London and was taken to the Victoria & Albert Museum. He asked his guide: “Who was this Albert and what was his job?” The guide said, “He didn’t have a job. He was the Queen’s consort.” Khrushchev replied: “Yes, but what did he do during the daytime?”

 

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Alabama is installing “bulletproof” whiteboards in classrooms in an effect to protect students and teachers from mass shooters.

https://www.rawstory.com/school-shooting/

 

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The ten largest deposit accounts at SVB held $13.3 billion combined.

 

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In 2021, the Blackstone Group purchased thousands of San Diego’s affordable housing units then proceeded to raise the rent for many units by between 43-64% in just two years.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/lo...rdable-housing-hiking-up-rent-prices/3195265/

 

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8.5% of France’s working age adults are on general strike owing to the pension reforms.

The US equivalent would be 18,000,000 persons.

To date, the largest US strike was when 400,000 United Mine Workers of America walked off the job in 1946.

 

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Child labor will fix this: When the original New York Subway was built in 1900, it took less than five years to build 28 stations. The Second Avenue Subway took 12 years to build 3 stations, 5 years longer than originally planned. Down the hole, kids!

 

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8: the number of public toilets in the US per 100,000 people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/public-restrooms-bathrooms-us-city.html

 

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The frequent chant of Cuban women during Fidel Castro’s speeches, which would often go on for four hours, was: “Fidel, be brief today, we have babies to feed.”

 

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What does plutonium taste like? A sweet-and-sour metallic candy, according to Don Mastick, a chemist at Los Alamos who got some on his face during a botched experiment at the New Mexico nuclear lab. The scientist had his stomach pumped and his breath tested as slightly radioactive for the remainder of his life. Mastick’s urine and feces tested positive for many years. He died at 87.

 

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The total weight of all non-human mammals on the planet is less than 10% of just humans.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ght-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys

 

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In the 1950s there were three cars for every 10 Americans. Through 2022, there were 9 cars for every 10 Americans.

 

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One in five solar panels installed worldwide last year was mounted on a roof in China.

 

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Scientists at the University of Manchester proposed that Mars-based structures should be made from a potato-based compound that is “twice as strong as regular concrete” that is made by mixing “extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and a pinch of salt.”

 

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI:

“I prep for survival. My problem is that when my friends get drunk they talk about the ways the world will end. I try not to think about it too much, but I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israel Defense Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”

 

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