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May 27,2021
Facebook Now Banning Anyone Who Says Virus Wasn’t Created In Wuhan Lab - The Babylon Bee
Mark Zuckerberg, may he live forever, announced the change from his royal throne today to a group of reporters gathered in his royal throne room.
This total reversal is one of the more amusing events of the Spring.
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May 27,2021
Apple Watch Series 3 owners who update their devices to a new version of watchOS are prompted to unpair and re-pair the Apple Watch from the iPhone during the update process because of storage space constraints.
It just works! You can walk into a store and buy one new today, btw.
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May 27,2021
U.S. Won’t Rejoin Open Skies Treaty With Russia - WSJ
The Biden administration has decided not to rejoin the Open Skies agreement with Russia after concluding that Russian violations of the deal and failure to take action to return to compliance undermined the pact
Well, well, well…
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May 27,2021
The Proxy Coup at Exxon - WSJ Opinion
Liberals in wealthy countries including the U.S. want to ban the internal-combustion engine. But Nigeria’s poor won’t be buying Teslas.
Neither will America’s poor and middle class.
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May 27,2021
Dr. Fauci Gets In Heated Debate With Seventeen Previous Versions Of Himself - The Babylon Bee
“The virus was created in a lab!” present-day Fauci said indignantly, causing past Fauci to wag his finger and shake his head emphatically.
“No, no, no, that’s a deranged conspiracy theory!” past Fauci said. “It’s practically alt-right! Didn’t you check Snopes? Anyway, at least we can agree we should wear double masks forever.”
“No, masks aren’t necessary anymore!” said current Fauci. “We just wear them for political theater.”
“That’s insulting! They’re absolutely not theater!” said early May Fauci.
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May 27,2021
New Amazon Bond Film Will Feature 007 Assassinating Small Business Owners - The Babylon Bee
The franchise will also do away with “Q,” from whom Bond usually gets all his cool gadgets. Instead, he will order his spy tools on Amazon Prime to be delivered by drone, in scenes that will feature heavy product placement for Amazon’s new Prime Plus service.
An excellent article from start to finish.
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May 26,2021
The Virus Lab Theory’s New Credibility - WSJ Opinion
The public-health clerisy also set boundaries for allowable discussion. On Feb. 19, 2020, the Lancet published a statement by scientists condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”
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May 26,2021
Democrats Are the Anticrime Party - WSJ Opinion
I couldn’t find a pull quote for this article. It is so off-base as to be laughable.
The Trump Administration was no saint, but to attempt to conflate the massive uptick in violent crime in US cities in 2020 with Trump’s behavior is like comparing apples and Abrams tanks.
Kudos to Paul and the Opinion pages for continuing to print third party op-eds that they don’t agree with in the interest of furthering conversation.
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May 26,2021
These Apple App Store privacy labels are super useful.
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May 25,2021
Ban Cryptocurrency to Fight Ransomware - WSJ
It is no coincidence that ransomware attacks exploded with the emergence of cryptocurrency.
I agree with this idea.
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May 25,2021
I understand the necessity of check holds.
But when a customer you’ve personally known for 2 years brings you a check from a national business, what are the real odds of it being fraudulent?
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May 24,2021
The Leatherman Free series is amazing.
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Catholic Husband
May 24,2021Kill the Golden Calf - Catholic Husband
When you strip away the rhetoric and the one-liners, we can actually find a great deal of common ground. We can take opportunities to work together, to give a little, and to agree to a compromise that takes us both closer to where we want to be.
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May 23,2021
Old faithful.
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May 22,2021
Maybe we should go on vacation to Robot City. Looks friendly enough!
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May 22,2021
Rebellion in the Faculty Lounge - WSJ
The academic world has become increasingly disconnected from the applied world
Understatement of the millennium.
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May 21,2021
Saw my first firefly of the season this evening.
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Reading
May 20,2021
Currently reading: Redefining Anxiety: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and How to Get Your Life Back by Dr. John Delony 📚
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May 20,2021
Overheard while wife dictates notes,
”His knee has been acting up recently. It has been that way ever since he fell out of a deer stand…”
That’s rural medicine for you.
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May 20,2021
This is an incredible ad.
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May 20,2021
House Passes Bill Funding Security Enhancements at Capitol by One Vote - WSJ
The families of the late Reps. Ron Wright (R., Texas) and Alcee L. Hastings (D., Fla.) would get $348,000 in death gratuities if the bill became law. Neither congressman died in connection with Jan. 6, but such payments are customary to the families of Congress members who died in office.
Why are the taxpayers acting like a life insurance company for a certain class of federal officials who die in office?
I’ve never heard of such a thing. But that price tag…
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May 20,2021
Footage of journalists frantically evacuating was quickly broadcast on Imperial channels around the galaxy to garner sympathy for the reporters and turn the public against the rebels.
Callous.
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May 19,2021
Whenever possible, I try to buy direct from companies and not resort to the default of buying at Amazon or Walmart.
I ordered a case from Otterbox 12 days ago. The last time the shipment was scanned was at my local post office 8 days ago. It’s lost, it’s never getting delivered.
I called to get them to issue a refund, and they told me to wait another 9 days, because it just might show up.
Nothing turns a customer off faster than condescension.
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Reading
Book Review: Agent Sonya 📚
May 19,2021Ben Macintyre is one of my most read, and favorite, authors. He writes about WWII and Cold War era espionage, subjects that I find fascinating. I learned about his latest book in the pages of The Wall Street Journal.
I must confess, I did not enjoy this book. It took me months to read it, but only because I found the first 200 pages dull. Agent Sonya follows the path of the Soviet Union’s most prodigious female spy and her 25-year career. It starts with her youth and follows her all the way until her death.
I think what I found so boring about this book was its singular subject. Characters came in and out of her life, but the whole narrative focused on a single person’s life. Macintyre’s other works have main and supporting characters, but always weaves together the different plot lines into a unified story. It’s easier to be engaged.
That being said, when he finally moved the story into 1939, the book became much more fascinating, and I read through the remaining pages quickly.
Would I recommend: NO
ISBN: 978-0593136300
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May 19,2021
What an exciting, whirlwind day.