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    Massive Manhunt for armed 18 Yr Old Woman - fear of school tragedies

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/woman-sought-denver-area-schools-lockout-following-serious-threat-n995256 https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/16/jefferson-county-schools-lockout/ "The FBI and authorities in Colorado were seeking a woman said to be "infatuated" with the Columbine High...
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    Beware the Nissan Rouge and auto braking

    https://www.motor1.com/news/344528/nhtsa-nissan-rogue-unintended-braking/ Yeah, don't tailgate and all that. As we all know though, it isn't a perfect world and traveling down a divided road and having a car go into emergency braking for no reason is a real danger even if you maintain...
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    U2 plane photos- more lost than we'll ever build

    https://www.foxnews.com/science/declassified-u2-spy-plane-images-reveal-ancient-sites Stunning pictures and the reality of so much lost to purposeful destruction. We've lost so much more than we'll ever build, imo.
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    Getting rid of Weeds. (No, not by selling it)

    Like some of you I won't use the weed killer sold in stores and prefer to make my own. I happen to use a mild type (if there is such a thing) of vinegar, salt and dawn. It works ok but this year with good rain the bright sunny days it's hard to keep up and doubling up on the spraying barely...
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    Should CA lower the blood alcohol level for DUI?

    In the news, cutting the current level by nearly 50%. https://abc7.com/amp/dui-law-ca-considers-tougher-standards-for-drivers-who-drink-/5233317/ "...proposed a bill in California's State Assembly called Liam's Law. It would impose a stricter legal alcohol limit on drivers, from .08 to...
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    Destruction of satellite dangerous to space travel -NASA

    https://amp.businessinsider.com/nasa-space-junk-india-destroying-missile-threaten-international-space-station-terrible-thing-2019-4 India destroyed one of it's satelittes using a missile. It seems things didn't go as planned? Someone forgot the "what can possibly go wrong?" discussion. Hoping...
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    The moments the dinos died.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/science/2019/03/fossils-found-from-day-dinosaurs-died-chicxulub-tanis-cretaceous-extinction Amazing.
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    Wow. WOW Air collapses and cancels all flights

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/28/icelandic-airline-wow-air-collapses-and-cancels-all-flights.html PSA Part: If you have tickets on WOW probably good to check on alternatives, Icelandic Air is offering discounted fares to some WOW ticket holders. I never flew on that airline but they did offer...
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    300 MPH in the standing mile. Ford GT

    https://www.powernationtv.com/post/2500-hp-ford-gt-hits-300-4-breaks-new-standing-mile-record In the standing 10 feet it went faster than anything I've been in.:laughing At least they checked the oil first (rag in static image of video) How many here have gone 200? How much past that? (cars...
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    Are "wings" the next big thing on motorcycles?

    https://newatlas.com/aprilia-rsv4-1100-factory/58984/#gallery All I want to know is does it come with oxygen above 14,000 feet?
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    FB stored 100s of millions of passwords in plain text

    https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275837/facebook-plain-text-password-storage-hundreds-millions-users https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/technology/personaltech/facebook-passwords.html Take your pick of references. "Facebook stored passwords for hundreds of millions of users in plain text...
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    Burger King Subscription for coffee

    BK has announced a subscription coffee deal ($5 per month or 17 cents per day) As part of their subscription they are upgrading their coffee and adding other so called "upscale" coffee drinks. Maybe not worth a drive but if it's on your route and the improved coffee tastes passable... Ok, you...
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    As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-costs.html Now, according to State officials, we have another crisis, with no place to send our "recycling" it either gets incinerated or covered up in landfills. Take a look at the cozy contracts the recycling/waste management...
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    This could only happen on BARF

    Where is everybody? Remodeling My Kitchen. Are you trying to Bring back the extinct? I don't know, I hate the 70s look, why, how long do you think you will live? Beats me, Suicide is sometimes incomprehensible, other times it isn't. Do you wear a watch? Change the subject, Let's talk Allergies...
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    Bring back the extinct?

    https://qz.com/1566083/we-shouldnt-bring-back-extinct-animals-like-the-woolly-mammoth/ Who knows, after human beings are extinct maybe something will bring back humans.:laughing As soon as scientists figure out how to do it it will happen in some form. People keep lions, elephants and monkeys...
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