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For the longest time using duck duck go or even google,I was able to search for websites with -.com to exclude all sites with .com ending. Today was searching: sauna effects -.com and I keep getting rafts of .com websites. Seems it no longer works. I tried various ways of using quotation marks...

An article in Reuters talks of energy use by German automakers and renewables. Mentions use of Fossil Fuels. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gas-guzzling-german-carmakers-face-uphill-struggle-go-green-2022-04-29/ The question not answered is: Is there any energy in fossils...

A few hours ago I mentioned socks in the what did you today thread. A little while ago got a spam ad for socks in my email. I have never before received email spam for socks. Are members' email locked from use or scraping by advertisers/vendors? A very suspicious co-incidence.

Spent over an hour at Lowe's looking for a lightbulb. It is good to be retired to have time for such frivolity. Of the hundreds of varieties, they had none of what I was looking for. Had hundreds of ugly, butt ugly and even uglier LEDs. Did find two 40 watt small glass Edison base ones which...

Shishaldin Volcano, Aleutians Long ago in my reckless youth I had installed seismic sensors on this and some other volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands. This one had just erupted. No inhabitants too close to it. I had a few close calls over those years. Does bring back memories. "The volcano is...

Is there a way to have an uploaded photo with the correct orientation? A search of the side found no solutions. The uploaded photo shows sideways. Even if I rotate photo "right" before uploading, it will still show up rotated to the left (flipped 180 degrees) instead of the the correct...

On my answering machine I found a message from a doctors office with which I never dealt with, or know of, to call them. A quick check on the the phone number confirmed the the name of the doctor, who is in the next town with over 38 years of claimed experience, DO, Family practice. The...

So says some researchers. " Some previous studies have suggested that coffee stiffens arteries, putting pressure on the heart and increasing the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke, with drinkers warned to cut down their consumption. But a new study of more than 8,000 people across the UK...

Got email from someone claiming to be new. I did not open it, looked at it via CntlU. I don't want to open it. Any way to find out who is it? Shows as: Early retirement news letter, Early retirement Return path is Return-Path: <6341591-570139191-100-25754-0@c148.criticalimpactinc.com>

A NY TImes opinion article discusses the cost and benefit (note singular) of the Large Hadron Collider operated by CERN. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opinion/particle-physics-large-hadron-collider.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Contributors Long ago in a thread I...

A headline is from today's Wall Street Journal: Should Patients Record Their Doctors' Visits? I am not a subscriber, so can not read the article. The headline is good enough for me. In my experience a visit to the doc involves much note taking by the nurse, doctor, sometimes docs give...

Can We Guess Your Real Age? | Playbuzz I played... according to the game I am......18 Of course they are off by 50+years. Maybe it is just my thinking that is a teenager;D Edit add: "Just like every other teenager, you are energetic, curious and fearless. So, were we close? Did we get it...

At least in Somerset PA. ------ BTW Find the solar panels in the photo of the development with all houses having solar panels. And this has been a very low snow amount winter around here. High electric bills shocking Somerset development residents | News | tribdem.com "Flyers advertising the...

BBC - Earth - Why Bill Gates is only worth $1,956 According to their calculations Bill G is worth $1956.- Based on their calculations I am worth $2357.- A snippet of: How many times have I replaced my cells? 8,346 White blood cells 5,008...

I have no ide how it effects retired or otherwise occupied women, the article claims better muscle tone fo the unsupported breasts. Professor supports an unsupported bosom Time to burn your bras again ladies ... because a 15-year study reckons women don't need them. "Medically...

By now most are aware that Apple is refusing to hack the Iphone used by San Bernardino shooters. Enter the dragon: McAfee Staff / From the minds of Ars McAfee will break iPhone crypto for FBI in 3 weeks or eat shoe on live TV He does take the...

Borrow a soon to be ex friend's I thingie and set the date to Jan 1, 1970 Take a 64-bit iOS device—iPhone 5S or newer, iPad Air or newer, iPad Mini 2 or newer, sixth generation iPod touch or newer—laboriously set its date to January 1, 1970, and reboot. Congratulations: you now have a...

Seems apple has new tricks up their sleeve. If a third party repaired/replaced the home button AND later upgrade it to IOS9, the phone will be renedred a fine looking paperweight with zero chance of recovery of anything from it. The one and only apple product I own is a ipod touch 4 gen...

In today's WJS is an article about companies urging retirees to leave their money in the companies' plans. Yeah right. Most are high overhead. Companies Urge Retiring Workers to Leave Something Behind—Their Money - WSJ

It not only blocks ads, it blocks malware diguised as ads. The linked Techdirt article discusses the relatively new nagware popping up on various sites, telling the reader(s) that the article they wish to read will only be available if the adblocker is turned off. One security researcher...

A few times questions come up about audio etc cable quality. Some pay insane amounts of $$$$ for speaker cables or for that metter ethenet cables. AssTechnica dissected a $340.- ethernet audiphile cable for edification. While nicely made, none of it has anything to do with good quality audio...

Volcano in Chile erupts for a second time | The New Daily The link contains some pretty spectacular photos. May be a good idea to skip the visit there for a while. Besides being a spectacular firework, it does put out a good bit of ash and gases. My guess it just wiped out a few years of clean...

Tough not said anywhere in the linked artilcle of Docs retiring early. Good showing of stress encountered by practitioners. Hint: the stress source it is not necessarily the patient(s). How doctors treat doctors may be medicine's secret shame | Ranjana Srivastava | Comment is free | The...

Think your commute to and from w*rk is rough? Try this: A pilot boat going out to pick up pilot from oil tanker. The pilot needs to get from the ladder on the side of ship to the pilot boat.

DW an I have donated stuff to both, and I buy stuff from both. Over the last few years I've noted significant differences of employee attitude at the two outfits. At goodwill the employees are more helpful are generally in good mood and disposition. At salvation army they are generally surly...