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Military should only be used for external threats, slightly more than half of Americans say-
Following are edited excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
Survey finds 58% backing restricting armed forces to external threats amid Trump depl…
@DrVenture- you may not be familiar with Ron Owens ("rono") who started this post. He is one of MFO's very earliest members, and in earlier years posted quite frequently.
rono has always been a guiding light on MFO regarding the proper place for go…
And this, from the BBC:
Chinese car making giant BYD says the UK has become its biggest market outside China, after its sales there surged by 880% in September compared to a year earlier.
The company says it sold 11,271 cars in the UK last month, w…
I remember that well. We had bought some 14.5% Municipals out of Utah to finance a large power plant installation over at the Four Corners where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. I figured that we could trust the Mormons on that one.
We…
I understand that China is highly complicit in the ongoing use of coal as an energy source for electricity generation. But it is also true that they are indisputably the world leaders in research, production, and installation of clean energy generat…
You have to separate China's internal domestic economy from their long-term manufacturing, military, and technical research sectors. Those sectors are where we are going to be in serious trouble, as they move ahead rapidly and we regress to a coal-p…
And this, from a DuckDuckGo search.
The info sources shown are: Healthline, and the Cleveland Clinic.
Treatment for Yellow Jacket Stings
Immediate Care for Local Reactions
For most people, yellow jacket stings cause localized symptoms. Here are s…
Sounds right.
One more thing that we haven't mentioned- yellowjackets, unlike many other species, can sting multiple times and don't die from doing that. Only female yellowjackets have stingers, and they use them to defend their nests.
Roger on that. Don't get the very cheap ones- they're inclined to choke up and burn out. As Observant1 suggested, the Aurora AU1210MA at Amazon should be a good choice.
We got our unit at Costco, but that was some years ago. If you use Costco take …
Like I said- Hard to keep up these days... this just now from the San Francisco Chronicle:
Donald Trump is sending all of the roughly 300 California National Guard troops that remain federalized in Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., after a judge blocke…
" a couple riding in the back of a limo talking about stocks is interrupted by the limo driver - who turns out also to be an avid trader."
"This time is different".
Right.
We too have had unusual problems this year with yellowjackets at our weekend place in Guerneville, north of San Francisco. Having done a little reading on that, I found that yellowjackets tend to become very intrusive at this time of year, because t…
@DrVenture- yes. I was about to mention that- you want to be very careful after a few stings because sometimes people develop a serious allergy after that.
When I was a kid my brother and I, on vacation out in the country, disturbed a yellowjacket …
"Lies that, when repeated daily to an audience with limited capacity, become alternative facts.
It takes a village. We have 1 such villager on these boards."
FullyDeluded1000% comes to mind...
@hank- Which sort of takes us back to my original question- if a great number of gamblers investors are all doing that at the same time, won't that have a significant distortion effect on the markets?
If you think too much about this it can drive you nuts. OK, so above I asked about the accuracy of AI answers, and the response, from some type of AI, was "not so good".
The thing is, how do we know what the accuracy is of the answer that I receive…
