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He actually lived by the sea??

Forget if it was from Monogram or Revell but as a kid, I built one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_AC-47_Spooky

the ruby-throated hummingbird is the only species of hummingbird that breeds in Massachusetts.

males have ruby colored throats while females and juveniles don't

they can flap their wings 53 times per second

in order to survive they must consume more than their own weight in nectar and insects every day!

Lucky the females and juveniles have a long pointy thing on their head. They’d starve without throats.

When you apply your brakes in the car, about 70% of the stopping power comes from the front brakes. The 30% the back brakes is mainly to provide stability and to prevent a fishtail.

If you check the box on a gun permit application that you do not use marijuana you can be charged with a felony for using and possessing a gun with a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/12/richneck-elementary-shooting-deja-taylor-guilty-plea/

If you go topless at the White House you will actually be celebrated for it.





Well for some people

Ometepe is an island formed by two volcanoes rising out of Lake Nicaragua, located in the Rivas Department of the Republic of Nicaragua. Its name derives from the Nahuatl words ome (two) and tepetl (mountain), meaning "two mountains".[1] It is the largest island in Lake Nicaragua.

The two volcanoes (known as Volcán Concepción and Volcán Maderas) are joined by a low isthmus to form one island in the shape of an hourglass, dumbbell or peanut. Ometepe has an area of 276 square kilometres (107 sq mi). It is 31 kilometres (19 mi) long and 5 to 10 kilometres (3.1 to 6.2 mi) wide.[2] The island has an economy based on livestock, agriculture, and tourism. Plantains are the major crop.

Spending $250,000 to go see a ship that sunk over 100 years ago is probably a waste of money

And no money for a releasable beacons, pinger, rescue ship, etc. I read it most likely imploded.

I hate to say it, sooner or later something similar is going to happen to a private space vehicle.

People who buy high end sports cars (Ferrari, Lamborghini etc.) spend $300,000 buying a new car, but tend to sell the car before they have to invest in $14,000 to $20,000 in a brake job.

Mind boggling, but two different techs confirmed it is a thing.

Some wealthy people set up their own LLC, or some other scheme to sell for maybe $140,000 and take the loss as a write off.

You’d ALMOST think that with all their money, the super rich would hire someone to teach them how to drive the car properly. Or, at the very least, go to a track and figure out how to drive it.

Being rich doesn’t make you smarter.

Generally I have found (in an admittedly small sample size) the richer the person, the bigger the ego. You can’t tell them much of anything.

You know,
Deep down, those Billionaires were really good people.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

They not here...

They could good or bad persons, but that isn't material, they failed to use common sense and ask some questions, they assumed high cost, for a ride, equaled high quality/safety. There were others that looked into the trip nd back out.

I prefer, fuckers, it's gender neutral.

^Cape Cod

I could use some Cape Cod fish&chips about now.

Hey Eight Track:
No, this isn’t part of the marketing for “Barbie.”

A rare pink bird called the roseate spoonbill was spotted by a birdwatcher in Green Bay, Wisconsin — the first confirmed sighting of the bird in the state in 178 years, Fox 11 News reported.

“Not many pink birds. It’s either a flamingo or a spoonbill,” Logan Lasee, naturalist and birdwatcher, told the local outlet. “While I was looking out on a mud flat, this bird was actually hanging out with a flock of geese. So I started calling people.”

The roseate spoonbill “looks like it came straight out of a Dr. Seuss book,” with pink feathers, red eyes, a partly bald head and a giant spoon-shaped bill, All About Birds describes.

“This is a really large shorebird, that’s typically seen in the very southern part of the United States, There’s breeding colonies in Texas, Louisiana and Florida. So for one to come up here, it’s very rare. There’s actually only two records now of this bird being in the state and the last one before this was 1845,” Lasee said The roseate spoonbill was once very popular in the southeast until the 1860s when they were “virtually eliminated,” according to the National Audobon Society. Now they are uncommon and considered vulnerable due to loss of habitat.

The birdwatcher said that the spoonbill is likely a child, and it’s probable the rare bird ended up in the Midwest due to recent weather events.

In 1970, one billion liters of bottled water were being sold globally. By 2017 that had rocketed to 391B.

The bottled water industry is over $300B each year. Both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo sold more water then their soft drinks lines buy 2016.

Cumulative pollution really adds up... Seriously though, I recall the requirement for installing gasoline vapor recovery equipment in Southern Kalifornia. Without that equipment several tons of gasoline went into the atmosphere every day, so while the early implementation was a PITA, it was good thing.

Beside the extra wear and tear there is a safety issue with the auto-shutdown. My diesel Silverado has that auto-shutdown "feature" I turn it off as part of the startup procedure. The diesel is easy starting, however it will hesitate and if your turning on a busy street that hesitation can ge you into a traffic accident.

Safety issues with auto-shutdown will probably get much worse as the engine wears and doesn't start as easily as when it was new.

I shut mine off whenever I remember to. Hate it. Gets too hot with the a/c off while waiting in traffic.

Rented a Jeep Cherokee on one of our trips. The damn thing would shut down within 5 seconds every time we stopped at a light. Hated it!