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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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    Mother of all data breaches.

    https://gizmodo.com/mother-of-all-breaches-exposes-773-million-emails-21-m-1831833456 Get ready, here it comes.
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    Anyone using Xylitol or Erythritol?

    I admit, I use Xylitol in small amounts. I often bake pies and went added refined sugar free some time ago but for some reason I like coffee (2 cups a day) lightly sweetened, a teaspoon of bakers sugar is what I used to use. Nowadays I just use the same amount of Xylitol. I've never had the...
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    Preserving film of nuke tests

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nuclear-explosions-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-film-preservation/ The last exchange: ""As majestic and fearsome as those photos appear, they don't come close?" "Not even close to what you see in real life," Spriggs said."" Anyone see a test? (not that...
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    Long OP - The Electric Transportation Device AKA the E-Motorcycle

    Warning, this is a long OP; it isn't a data thing that can be dissected through statistics but IMO contrasts electric motorcycles against motorcycles. It's all just opinion here, no links, no references, no studies. The post is long, the question are at the end in bold...
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    Boeing Dreamliner hauls ass very fast

    https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/travel/boeing-787-dreamliner-breaks-speed-record-thanks-to-powerful-jet-stream-1.827893 801 mph. Rather fast compared to the usual cruising speed in the 500+ mph range. Benefits of the jetstream. No wonder they call it that. No doubt there were a few...
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