[sigh of relief] Sixty light years IS enough to dilute the huge blast of high-energy radiation. And they don't really expect Betelgeuse to go supernova for 10,000 years or more.
Widespread but largely unverifiable reports of desertions and mutinies of Russian troops on the Ukraine front. Plausible, but no more than that, IMO. ----Alan
We got some more muck out of the swimming pool, and shortly after that there was just the slightest sprinkle of rain. I checked the (lawn/flowerbeds) sprinklers; the one I repaired yesterday is OK, and there are two or maybe three others that need a bit of work. ---Alan
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[sigh of relief] Sixty light years IS enough to dilute the huge blast of high-energy radiation. And they don't really expect Betelgeuse to go supernova for 10,000 years or more.
DeleteTime to hit the sack. So far no obvious major offensive in Ukraine. Ukrainian probing, shaping, and psyops actions continue.
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Widespread but largely unverifiable reports of desertions and mutinies of Russian troops on the Ukraine front. Plausible, but no more than that, IMO.
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Robert Reich: Five things the US debt-ceiling deal suggests about the future. [Click]
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Why did ammonoids disappear at the end of the cretaceous while nautiloids survived? [Click]
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The [US] Murder Rate Is Suddenly Falling [Click]
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Newsom threatens kidnapping charges [against DeSantis] after Florida dumps migrants at church [Click]
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P.S.: I have not been a fan of Gov. Newsom, but he does some things I strongly approve of; this is certainly one of them.
Michael Popok: Jack Smith gets mountain of evidence against Trump [Click]
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There are no more witnesses to testify before the grand jury; the only thing they have to do this week is to decide on an indictment.
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Ten-day weather forecast here for clouds, temperatures in the 80's F, 5-10 mph winds.
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Institutional Revolutionary Party loses governorship of the State of Mexico [Click] Gee.
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The winner is from the Morena Party-- "La Morena" is the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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Wolverine observed in California for only the second time in the past 100 years [Click]
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We got some more muck out of the swimming pool, and shortly after that there was just the slightest sprinkle of rain. I checked the (lawn/flowerbeds) sprinklers; the one I repaired yesterday is OK, and there are two or maybe three others that need a bit of work.
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Texas sheriff recommends criminal charges in DeSantis’ migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard. [Click]
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A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry. [Click] “New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain.”
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