Random Thoughts or Whatever

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“The young make love, the old make obscene gestures.”

- Paris, 1968

 

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Moody’s has downgraded Israel’s credit rating.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...7d50000?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

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Jeremy David Hanson, a 34-year-old Californian, was sentenced to a year in federal prison after threatened to bomb and shoot the editors of the Merriam-Webster dictionary over its definition of “female.” Hansen called them Marxists who should be killed.

nb: Just wait until he hears the Marxist view of "The Family Unit".

 

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America’s billionaires are nearly one-third richer than they were before the pandemic hit.

 

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“I am then proud to announce we are investing nearly $300 million to repair nine critical bridges across America.”

Nine whole bridges? Impressive!

PS: There are at least 42,951 structurally deficient bridges in the US.

 

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TRUTH:

Iowa just passed a child labor bill that allows 14-year-olds to work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds to work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds to serve alcohol.

 

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A woman named Usim escaped North Korea, but was sold to a human trafficker in China. She left that relationship (and her 2-year-old son) by crossing into South Korea and eventually getting to the US, where she requested asylum. ICE deported her.

 

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Black people in America tend to live longer lives in communities where there are black doctors.

JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2803898

 

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In Pakistan and Egypt 50 cents out of every dollar of government revenue goes to interest payments on their international debt.

 

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Musk is slapping so many labels on accounts these days that he’ll probably have to hire Tipper Gore.

 

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“Alameda is unauditable… we are only able to ballpark what its balances are, let alone something like a comprehensive transaction history. We sometimes find $50 million of assets lying around that we lost track of; such is life.”

- Sam Bankman-Fried

 

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In Hawaii, an elderly woman at a low-income housing project for seniors was sent an eviction notice over a debt of 50 cents. Another resident was sent a similar letter for owing $37.

 

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Day Two of the Cuban Missile Crisis:

“I guess this shows why the Big of Pigs was right…if we’d done it right.”

PS: At the time of the Cuban Missile crisis, the US nuclear arsenal totaled around 5,000 warheads. The Soviets’ about 300, none of which was ICBM. ("The Abyss" by Max Hastings)

 

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The EPA has approved a plan to allow the world’s largest Chevron refinery (Pascagoula, Mississippi) to convert plastic waste into fuel, even though EPA’s own review found that the production poses a cancer risk that is 250,000 times greater than the EPA itself has deemed unreasonable.

 

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Third week of April 2023:

Thailand crushed its all-time heat record with a temperature of 114F. While Hunan, China has sweltered under 22 consecutive days at 95F.

 

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Despite a winter of record storms, rains and snowfall, more than 1,800 residents of California’s San Joaquin Valley continue to depend on state-funded water deliveries. Some of their wells went dry last year, while others have been coping with dry wells for as long as three years.

 

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Nearly two-thirds of the homes in Norway now have heat pumps, the highest percentage in the world.

 

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PFAS (perfluorinated compounds), known as “forever” chemicals, were first produced on an industrial scale for use in uranium separation operations during the Manhattan Project.

 

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If your town doesn’t have a toxic fire burning, does it really exist?

 

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Trivia:

Rickey Henderson, the greatest all-round player in the history of baseball (prove me wrong) was named after the teen idol of suburban America…Ricky Nelson.