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Engineer - Aerospace - Flying. Progressive, Gender & Marriage Equality. Proud Pop & G-Pop. #Climate #Astronomy #History
If we don't understand our past
we won't see perils in our future.

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Was it the Haydn tune with different lyrics?

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👏👏 🇨🇵 🇬🇧 👏👏

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Casablanca was filmed as WWII raged and the 🇨🇵 singers in the Rick's bar scene were actually French refugees. Their emotions were very real as they belted out La Marseillaise to drown out the German officers singing Deutschland Uber Alles.

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I can't help but wonder if they fell like Rome, when a "Senate" lost its spine, corruption was rampant, members acted in self-interest? OK, I was really thinking of our possible futures.

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Yes, she's adorable, pampered, follows us around like a puppy. She's also a runner, gets the "zippies" 2X a day, streaking thru our 2-story house at max speed, jumping over chairs like an Olympic runner over hurdles. 😄 Her tiny feet somehow sound like a galloping horse on wood floors!

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Lawrence was a tour de force for Peter O'Toole. Its cinematography was breathtaking, its score unforgettable...the 1st two bars send me back to its premier in 1962.

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Well, I just misgendered our cat. Sorry, Gracie... Your predecessor was a male with issues, prob because his prev owner named him Winkie. 👀 Pronouns are important so I'll try to do better.

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Our cat will stare down a Racoon and not blink. But just sneeze around him and he breaks the sound barrier escaping.

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Exactly. Think FDR 👀

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But, but I 💙 them both!

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Aerospace QA was my gig, half a century ago. The Boeing I knew then was hugely respected. It really hurts to see a great company fall. 😔

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Agree. I have no desire for the frustration of knocking a little ball into the rough...or a water hazard...over and over, or taking 3-4 putts on a wicked green! 😬 But it can be fun to watch the duffers top the ball and have it go 10-20 yds 😄

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If you haven't seen it, watch Cat Ballou. Lee Marvin was awesome, got an Academy Award. I laughed my a** off. 🤣

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🎯 EXACTLY. We've an imperfect process producing a choice with huge consequences for our republic + Ukraine, NATO, Tawain... Anyone wanting to avoid the US becoming fully Fascist state has only 1 choice because the 3rd party candidates are a joke and have ZERO chance (except to be spoilers).

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Our cat gets the zoomies every day 😄

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some states are unsafe for trans people to travel through, some states are unsafe for pregnant people to travel through, some states are unsafe for gay people to travel through, we’re developing this horrific patchwork of laws as fundamental rights are upended nationally

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A *much* cheaper knockoff. 🙄

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MS does not define MaryScott, woman of a thousand faces, selfie queen, and numerologist. If there's any justice she'll get a Pulitzer for Alt Text.

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Took me a moment... gotta remember that 1

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"Class, if you want to know what Juneteenth ia all about, and why I'm not allowed to tell you in this state, just google it." 🤫

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This 1 is a masterpiece, more like an Alt Essay.

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A classic hat I'd expect to see at something like a gathering of royalty.

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I'm with you. Median is typically at or near the mean/average but not necessarily so because the distribution may be skewed.

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Just got back from DQ. Snarfed a Blizzard. 😋

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All of our cats have been rescues ✅

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Yes, lots of crazy stuff out there! For a visible pulsar at hi pulse rates it would be constantly bright. But you'd cease to exist if you got too close to the pulsar's polar axis, in the radiation cone. I think a millisec pulsar would likely emit just X-rays, so you could actually be in the dark.

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No need for a "bigger boat" then. 🤣

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OK, you may also want a couple of watchdogs. German Shedders are really good at that.

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"A very handsome dude," said his obviously proud Mama. I recommend an alarm on his BR window because some in heat will follow him home.

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Prob not as jarring as 1 of these in the early AM, rapping Beethoven's 5th near our bedroom window. 😳

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So, are they not flitting, still sitting, calling out "Nevermore?"

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🎯 An understatement! "Cousin" John Roberts is their Chief Enabler. He's a huge disappointment.

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I'd say so...😄 👏👏 Good days are a joy.

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FAILURE AS A LEADER: SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts "fiddles" while the Court burns thru its reputation, 50 yrs of prededence, and whatever respect the public still has for it.

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Uhhh, maybe not fixed. It's had sev episodes of rapid "hiccups" jumping around in the feed...(?)

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FINALLY can post again. The June 4 .bsky update broke my Android 10. I could read posts but the keyboard wasn't avail for composing. Glad they've fixed it. 👏

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Went in for an MRI and they asked me if I'd like to listen to music while the scan ran. "Yes, some classical music, please." A few moments later I was hearing "classic" rock hits. 🙄 That's in my music spectrum but <sigh>

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Translation: We're screwed. 🥵

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Being hassled by small- brained cockroaches can wear you down . 🙄 Decompress...and 🖖

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They're voracious insect vacuums. 👍

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Daughter's big-eyed rescue kitty is so adorable she almost seems to be AI but I assure you she's real.

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Now all grown up and still engaged. Here she seems to be waiting for table service. 😄

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Ms. Gracie, shortly after rescue in 2018. She's a runner, follows us around like a puppy.

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I vividly recall hateful racial oppression of 1950s-60s, major events in the civil rights struggle. Call it what it was: American Apartheid. Of course too many have no real understanding of those times. Once took clandestine photos of a KKK rally with concealed camera using Kodak hi speed B&W film.

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I can hear Champagne corks popping...🍸

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Just call her Amine... chemically accurate, sounds feminine, rolls off the tongue...and it's much easier to spell. 🤣

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Anything by Spike Jones fits that description. 🤣

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The noir is a classic, elegant look.

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