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Good article on Louisiana's recent educational successes.

Sure is... Mudbug Madness Festival

What did Jesus mean by "the gates of hell"?

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last but feelings come and go. And in fact, whatever people say, the state called ‘being in love’ usually does not last.

If the old fairy-tale ending ‘They lived happily ever after’ is taken to mean ‘They felt for the next fifty years exactly as they felt the day before they were married,’ then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true, and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that excitement for even five years? What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, your friendships? But, of course, ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love.

Love in this second sense — love as distinct from ‘being in love’ — is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be ‘in love’ with someone else. ‘Being in love’ first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. it is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.”

-C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity

Techradar review of Majority Naga 60 sound bar.

I am not aware of his books causing any stampedes to Home Depot so you are probably correct.

"Interior Race Theory", Your home is likely racist if you are white.

"If you thought Marxist-derived CRT was only related to the behavior, attitudes, and actions of white people against people of color, you were sorely mistaken. Turns out, the interiors of the homes of white people are likely "racist" as well. The solution? "Decolonization" of interior spaces. No, really."

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Once I used #4 it's all I will use.

My house came with a KitchenAid under counter ice maker. I replaced two drain pumps. The third time the drain pump failed, I took it out and took the top off. Two spikes from the top protrude into the reservoir. When the water in the reservoir gets high enough the water bridges the two spikes completing the circuit and causing the drain pump to run emptying the reservoir. My spikes were slimy due to not having a water filter on the water supply. I cleaned the spikes and it started working again. Now, in addition to the normal cleaning, I pour some vinegar down the ice melt hole to get it into the reservoir to clean the spikes.