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The Solar System Drawn Amazingly to Scale Across 7 Miles of Nevadaโ€™s Black Rock Desert Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh set out to create something you've never seen before -- our solar systemย drawn to actual scale. Forget what you've seen in books, or on web sites. To depict things acc...

The Solar System Drawn Amazingly to Scale Across 7 Miles of Nevadaโ€™s Black Rock Desert

16.10.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Parents say Kansas teacher fired for showing 'dignity' to student with special needs Parents packed the Blue Valley School Board meeting telling leaders its their policy not that veteran teacher that failed a student.

Interview: "We Can't Say Anything About It Being A Video Game Console" - Meet The Sales Genius Who Helped Launch The NES www.timeextension.com/features/int...

16.10.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Parents say Kansas teacher fired for showing 'dignity' to student with special needs Parents packed the Blue Valley School Board meeting telling leaders its their policy not that veteran teacher that failed a student.

School board votes to fire longtime Blue Valley teacher

16.10.2025 02:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Parents say Kansas teacher fired for showing 'dignity' to student with special needs Parents packed the Blue Valley School Board meeting telling leaders its their policy not that veteran teacher that failed a student.

School board votes to fire longtime Blue Valley teacher

16.10.2025 00:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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West Virginia is the last state with greyhound racing; new federal bill would end it โ€ข West Virginia Watch A bill in Congress would ban greyhound racing nationwide, outlawing the countryโ€™s last two remaining greyhound racetracks in West Virginia.

Not our racetrack, apparently. westvirginiawatch.com/2025/10/14/w...

15.10.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I actually wondered at one point if something like would make Google Assistant profitable. Walmart pays them to have functionality to put items in their Walmart shopping cart while driving. (Right now I just tell Google Assistant to put something on a Keep list and transfer it later.)

14.10.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

These were both names given at birth.

14.10.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Random memory: In high school I had a friend named Tiger and in college I had a friend named Lion.

14.10.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is a bit dramatic of a headline given the news.

14.10.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I'll have to listen closely on the audiobooks Iisten to (half of which are British)

14.10.2025 04:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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State College man allegedly held at Mo-Valley ICE Center despite vacated murder conviction Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam was taken into federal immigration custody Friday, immediately after being released from a Pennsylvania state prison, where he served 4

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14.10.2025 03:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same.

14.10.2025 02:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think this is right. That's What It Is has definitely entered our lexicon but with a slightly different tone/meaning. bsky.app/profile/fyod...

14.10.2025 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was thinking that maybe it might have an effect at least when it comes to buy-outs, but even there... if you don't give your coach a $50m buyout you are one great season away from losing your coach to an otherwise lateral program that will.

14.10.2025 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Has "That's what it is" replaced "It is what it is"? I'm hearing that string of words more frequently.

14.10.2025 02:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Hello, music industry? It's comics. We need to talk."

14.10.2025 01:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 342    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Theory I am testing out in my head: When both sides are at their best, the blue coalition is better positioned to win. When both sides are at their worst, the red coalition is.

Definitionally, though, neither side can represent "Real America".

14.10.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On the one hand, there's really not a lot in the way of verification here. On the other hand, maybe having our daughter's adoption papers in the car is not the worst idea. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

14.10.2025 01:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(People who know me suggested I was misremembering old prices, stuck in 2010.)

The best you can say for it is that so many people were lying it was fair to accuse me of the same, but there was huge pushback to any suggestion that prices were going up fast until it became undeniable.

14.10.2025 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Walmart screencap thing was based on a contention that milk had gone from $2.00 a gallon to $2.70 a gallon over a short period of time. I was accused of right-wing misinformation. This happened pretty much any time I talked about prices where people who didn't know me could here.

14.10.2025 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Corelary: if you give them 8 yards on the first gothey are likely to keep getting first downs.

14.10.2025 01:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't disagree with your overall point but people absolutely were mocked and accused of lying about price increases.

At one point I had screen captures of my purchase history at Walmart.

14.10.2025 00:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I definitely think there is something out there for "if you like early Zelda you will like this"

13.10.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump now deporting restaurants this has to stop.

13.10.2025 14:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've been circling them for a couple of reasons: (1) Emulations (not that I would ever) and (2) if my daughter is playing the Switch.

Not sure you can really build a market off that.

13.10.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A relatively inexpensive portable console could probably play like 80% of the games we play on the switch, but its use is limited because (a) you want to play that other 20% so (b) you already own a switch. So what's the point?

13.10.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Horrible. My wife was just complaining to me today that a hand-crocheted toy that her mom had sent for our 5-year-old son had disappeared on shipment.

12.10.2025 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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With de minimis gone, UPS halts money-back guarantee on US imports The carrier's suspension of its โ€œService Guaranteeโ€ on Oct. 2 stems from increased risks of delays after the trade tool's elimination.

With de minimis gone, UPS halts money-back guarantee on US imports

12.10.2025 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction UPS has seen "a significant increase" in the number of shipments that require formal customs clearance since new import rules have taken effect.

UPS Customers Told Their US-Bound Packages Are Marked for Destruction - Business Insider

12.10.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exclusive | Paramount facing competition for Warner Bros. Discovery as Comcast could emerge as suitor Paramount Skydance is particularly worried about a possible Comcast bid because WBDโ€™s deal-savvy CEO David Zaslav already has a strategic relationship with Comcast.

Comcast makes all the sense share.google/YmU6u9MBWI6K...

11.10.2025 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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