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He's going to design a new can opener, that doesn't pinch your fingers??

So many American women defer to the "head of the house" for directions on who to vote for.

There is a YouTube musician who goes by the name of "asymeo" - Alexandros Symeonides. Obviously, he's Greek. But his writing is in good English, not the stilted and odd English, as the poster above uses. The interesting giveaway is the odd gaps in the typing. It appears like the sentences have been cut and pasted, and the poster forgot to take out the gaps. https://www.youtube.com/@asymeo?app=desktop

Quite possibly a Russian troll gradually trying to impose the Russian interpretation of facts, and influence opinions in favour of Russia.

Spacey, the problem is many company directors and managers simply blow every cent that ever went into their bank account, run themselves into bankruptcy, and there's nothing left to even pay fines. This is where statutory compensation funds need to be set aside to cover losses caused by poor management that creates major losses for innocent buyers.

You don't need abnormal chromosomes to appear abnormal-looking. Just pump yourself full of steroids.

There's a great deal of evidence that sea levels are much higher today than in previous epochs. I find many Biblical terms to be very imprecise and confusing. The terms "the fountains of the deep were broken up" or the "springs of the great deep burst forth" only leads to much conjecture as to where the Biblical flood originated from. If the Great Flood had originated from a meteorite impact, I would've thought that the Biblical writings would have stated as much. However the actual terms indicate the water came from within the Earths crust. There's conjecture the Great Flood originated from glaciers melting and dammed up water being released, but that fails to explain how it rained for 40 days and nights.

The very fact that a company demands full payment up front should be a red-flag warning. It means that they have inadequate funds or capital to operate and are using customers money for yet-to-be-supplied goods, to operate. This is the biggest warning you can get, when it comes to handing over money for goods or services to be supplied. At the very most, an upfront payment of 5% or 10% of the value of the purchased product or service should be more than adequate to provide comfort to both parties that the transaction can proceed. If the customer then fails to complete the transaction, the 5% or 10% down payment should be adequate to compensate the company for costs incurred in an order that is not fulfilled due to actions by the customer. If goods are manufactured by the company, in 98% of cases, those goods are resellable to other customers - unless it's a peculiarly special order that only fits one position/location. In which case, then perhaps a larger deposit would be reasonable. But a caravan from an unfulfilled order can be sold to anyone - they sell well most times, unless we're in a recession. Despite the fact that the company might have traded whilst insolvent, any penalty applied for insolvent trading does nothing to compensate those who have lost down payments on products or services that were not supplied.

The weakness of Pootin's strategies and the paucity of Russian military leadership is starting to show. As we all know, every military leader in Russia is picked only for his total allegiance to Pootin, not because of their military leadership skills, or outstanding strategic planning skills. The Ukrainians are overwhelming and capturing Russian conscripts, who are not supposed to be sent to the front, or into combat zones. I suspect the Ukrainians knew they would only encounter token resistance, or even no resistance, on their deep push into Russian territory - because they were aware that the defences in the areas they chose to attack, were manned by conscripts with little training, and even less desire to fight. The end result is the conscripts mothers are complaining to Pootin and this is not something he wants to have to deal with. Mothers in Russia have quite a bit of sway, and if the complaints from conscripts mothers grow into a din, Pootin is going to feel quite a degree of discomfort. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/16/europe/russia-putin-war-ukraine-intl-latam/index.html

It's the "projector-style" headlights that do that concentrated light blinding effect - and they don't need LED globes to do it, they do it with ordinary halogen globes. SWMBO's 2012 Camry Atara has this style of headlight, and I always ensure they're set properly for height. I wouldn't bother with LED globes in the Camry, it's got bloody good lights just with the Night Breaker halogens.

You'd have to pretty dumb to hand over $73,000 as full payment for a product from a company, with no guarantees of any kind as regards non-performance or non-supply. I hope he paid with a credit card or PayPal, so he can get it back!

No Litespeed, I don't know anyone who has had a gut biome transplant. It is apparently rarely done, and only as a last resort, when someone extremely sick, doesn't respond to two different types of antibiotics courses.

In another kick in the nuts for Pootin, it's reported that one of his highly-vaunted Tupolev strategic nuclear bombers (a Tu-22M3) has crashed not long after takeoff. The 4 man crew all ejected, and have all survived. The Russians are reporting the crash was the result of a "technical problem". I'm surprised they haven't claimed it was Ukrainian sabotage, and already have the perpetrator identified, arrested, and in jail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13747809/Fresh-humiliation-Putin-one-prized-228m-supersonic-nuclear-bombers-crashes-explodes-huge-fireball-shortly-off.html

Well, I went for a good long (1/2 hr in the dark) evening drive on the return from my block in the wheatbelt last night, and I was quite surprised by the difference in lighting with the LED globes. 1. The level of light they put out, is astonishing. I was formerly using "improved" halogen globes, which I thought were better than the original, base-level halogens - but the LED's just blow all the halogens away. The light output is so much more, that signs much further ahead reflect a lot more, and earlier, than with the halogens. The much whiter light, lights up a far bigger area, especially to the sides. This is very beneficial to night driving. 2. OME is right about the focus from the LED's, it's not the same as the filament globes. It doesn't have the sharp cutoff at the top of the beams on low beam. Despite that, no-one flashed me while I was on low beam, seemingly indicating the LED's weren't dazzling any oncoming vehicles. I purposely left the headlights on the exact same alignment level as they were with the halogens, to see the difference. I'm now going to experiment with some headlight adjustments and checking the beams against a big wall on flat ground. 3. The high beams from the LED are quite spread out, and lack penetration in the centre of the beams - something that also surprised me. It seems obvious, that to get the full benefit of the LED globes, I'm going to have to mount pencil-beam spotlights to fill in the gap in the centre of the high beams light coverage.

23. The numbers added together make up the total number of letters in the place name, and the last number is the number of vowels in the place name.

Sorry, I can't believe his propositions and theories, which are all tinged with the "ooohh" and "aaaaah" infotainment factors. For a start, the power required from a giant meteorite impact to generate a 500' high wave across the entire length of the Indian Ocean would be enough to throw the Earth off its planetary path for all time. As you probably know, when you throw a rock in a pond, it generates a huge splash and a big wave at the impact point. But as the wave spreads out and travels, it reduces in intensity, simply because it is spreading out. He claims "chevrons" he says he can identify on the coastal plains areas of W.A. are plain evidence of his mega-tsunami. I say BS, no-one else has come up with this theory. The "chevrons" are ill-defined and could be caused by any one of a dozen reasons - from earthquakes and faulting to the effects of strong winds over time. No-one claiming to present a truthful, serious, balanced and well-researched scientific video, inserts Hollywood-movie terror scenes into their presentation, to back up their story. He's a BS-artist, on a par with Trump.

My stepdaughters partner is quite obsessed with this Burckle Mega Tsunami theory - but it's not supported by any geologists or qualified people. Just because one obsessive YooToober produces a glitzy video full of Hollywood movie mega-terror clips, doesn't make any of it true. I reckon he's full of it, like a lot of YooToobers. The stepdaughters partner is right into conspiracies and wild theories, that can't be backed by scientific research.

A black-faced cuckoo-shrike? Quite a common bird throughout most of Australia, but quite shy. However, their beak is slightly curved, not straight. https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/black-faced-cuckoo-shrike/

The initial post just didn't have the Colgate Ring of Confidence about it, my intuition says nothing about it was genuine. Lots of internet users out there just out to phish, scam and garner information they can use elsewhere. The volume of utter crap "articles" or "infotainment" on the 'net is overwhelming, and shows just how desperate many sites and users are, to garner "clicks". You did the right thing, we need regular "de-cluttering" of the forum.

The sweetener in Coca-Cola Zero Sugar is Aspartame. Preliminary research has indicated an increased chance of acquiring dementia by drinking carbonated drinks containing artificial sweeteners, such as Aspartame. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5405737/

I don't think "hustle culture" is something that applies to most Australians. I think you must be from America, and working in a ruthless, ethically-and-morally-bankrupt, corporate environment.

Daniel Andrews would have to be the biggest spendthrift politician around - and as someone who has never held down a real job, he would've been the worst choice for Premier of Victoria that anyone could make.

The first thing the authorities can do is provide major support for teachers in the classroom. Many teachers feel unsupported when angry parents confront, abuse and even attack them, for not "teaching their kid properly". If this support was provided on a far better scale, then a lot of harrassed teachers would be more inclined to spend time with kids who are "behind the 8-ball". As it is, if a teacher is constantly abused and denigrated, and even physically attacked (by students or parents), then they're not going to put their full effort into teaching.

I noticed my handwriting skills degrading about 10 years ago, after about 15 years of solid keyboard use - so I made a point of starting to keep a handwritten diary. This has two benefits - one is, retention of handwriting skills, and two, it provides a written record of what I did, where and when, so I can look back for events or actions I need to check up on.

Trump's performances are always just rants - about the "weaponized DOJ attacks" on him - about how great, dictators like Xi Jinping and Putin are; "top of their game" Yes, that's right, but their game is total domination of the population, and suppression of dissent, and cult worship of the President. He rants on about refugees being "criminals and mental cases" - without producing a single fact backing anything he says. He always rants on about the "big, beautiful numbers" of his assembled followers - and becomes enraged, when it's obvious that Harris is garnering big crowds at her speeches. He indulges in vile and vitriolic personal abuse on a large scale, such that it would see him demoted from any company or leadership position, if he used the terms on employees or underlings. When he can't find a clever, pointed and truthful answer to something that upsets him, he resorts to vicious name-calling, like a five year old in the schoolyard. I was pleased to see Pelosi ripping him a new one in her latest outburst. The fact that Trump and so many of his supporters laughed at Pelosi's husband being attacked and seriously injured by a nutcase wielding a hammer, is pretty indicative of their total lack of empathy for anyone who is a political enemy. The world of Trump is a simplistic and nasty one where his worshippers are "good and great", and anyone who doesn't support him, is "bad", a "dog", "ugly", or worse. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-13/pelosi-slams-keating-talks-violence-on-trump/104217798