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News report from 1981 about the Internet - rickgrimes
[quote]A news report from 1981 about the Internet and receiving an entire newspaper through the phone line.[/quote] [link=(https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=tVS5O026ZcjwiXC4&v=X84muuaySVQ&feature=youtu.be)]LINK[/link]...
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Splunk acquisition: Someone turned $22k into $10M in a day - rickgrimes
[quote]Someone turned $22k into $10M in a day… Splunk was trading at ~$120, they bought $127 call options that expire tomorrow. Cisco announced the acquisition and now it’s trading at $145; quick 45,650% return in a day. A real dumb play if it is insider trading.[/quote] [quote]Want to see...
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A 'beer sommelier' explains how pouring a beer the wrong way can give you a stomach ache - rickgrimes
[quote]How do you pour a beer? Turns out this popular pouring method — that results in little to no foam — is completely wrong. And can actually cause stomach issues! Max Bakker, a Master Cicerone (think a sommelier for beer) and High-End Educator at Anheuser-Busch InBev shows the correct techniq...
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Elon Musk says Twitter (X) will start charging a monthly fee for all users of the platform - rickgrimes
[quote]Elon Musk discussed his plans for Twitter, now called X, on Monday during a livestreamed conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Among other things, Musk said the social network is "moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system" in order to combat "vast...
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The Rich and Famous Love This Banker, Even If She’s a Little Mean to Them - rickgrimes
[quote]When Martha Stewart signed a deal for her nascent housewares business with Kmart in 1987, she heard from a banker named Jane Heller. “Everyone who comes with me gets to be rich,” Heller said.   “Well, I want to be rich,” Stewart told her. She’s been a client ever since.  Heller is the to...
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Texas power prices soar 20,000% as brutal heat wave sets off emergency - rickgrimes
[quote]Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave that forced the state's grid operator to issue an emergency alert. By 8:20 pm local time Wednesday, spot electricity prices had topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from that morning, accor...
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How Private Is This Community Off the Coast of Connecticut? No Comment - rickgrimes
[quote]A summer colony dating back to the late 1800s, Fishers Island is an exclusive enclave where generations of old-money families gather to sail and golf. Over the years, Fishers Island residents have included members of the du Pont family—the name still populates the island’s annual phone book—a...
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There’s a New GMC Canyon AT4 Stuck on a Colorado Hiking Trail at 14,000 Feet - rickgrimes
[quote]A 2023 GMC Canyon AT4 has been stranded near the top of Colorado's Rocky Mountains for days now—maybe even more than a week. The first attempt to recover the off-road pickup truck was reportedly unsuccessful, leaving authorities to resort to extreme measures that one imagines the driver will ...
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Googler Living On $194K In Orange County, CA | Gen Z Money - rickgrimes
[quote]Ethan Nguonly, 22, lives in Orange County, California and earns around $194,000 a year as a software engineer for Google. He owns two homes and has over $115,000 invested. This is a Gen Z episode of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which profiles people across the globe and details ...
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FULL VIDEO: Climate Protesters Shut Down BURNING MAN, Rangers Ram Through Blockade - rickgrimes
[quote]August 27 2023 Black Rock Desert, NEVADA - "30 seconds, send your leader to my vehicle, let's talk, get off the fricken road" - Tribal Ranger announced on the highway leading to #BurningMan festival where climate activists blocked the road. About 37 seconds later a ranger RAMMED through blocka...
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re: New baby on the way - Whooping Cough vaccine - rickgrimes
[quote]Plenty of validity to this but our authorities have done incalculable damage to this argument over the last 4 years.[/quote] MRNA vaccines are different than the regular vaccines that kids have been safely getting for decades now. I think people who conflate the two are doing it to score pol...
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Kid crashing bike into trash cans set to the tune of Phil Collins' 'In the air tonight' - rickgrimes
[link=(https://youtube.com/shorts/vkLU0J4Vw8E?si=8hjHus6KCLtkuEjA)]LINK[/link] :lol: You can't just watch it once......
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WYDI: First Tesla Cybertrucks on their way to the dealerships - rickgrimes
[img]https://preview.redd.it/cybertruck-in-the-flesh-v0-c02z9rjinqkb1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3cc1e8422f25936c9674cabc74c362e931274f26[/img] [img]https://preview.redd.it/cybertruck-in-the-flesh-v0-x0l0orjinqkb1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=acac5ab40b6d1cd371e08b00f85c236396...
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If Eugene Levy and Gavin Newsom had a baby, it would be Doug Burgum - rickgrimes
That's all I have to say about that debate....
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re: Turning 40 sucks: Do these Vuity eye drops work if you don't want to get reading glasses? - rickgrimes
[quote]I have no clue, but the cataract surgery was life changing. Game changer for me. One eye was bad and had both done with the multi focus lens. UNBELIEVABLE[/quote] How old were you when you had to get cataract / lens replacement surgery?...
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re: Turning 40 sucks: Do these Vuity eye drops work if you don't want to get reading glasses? - rickgrimes
[quote]Just a heads up but I was 45 and my vision went from prefect to needing readers in a matter of about 3-4 weeks. It comes on pretty quick. [/quote] This! It seemingly happened overnight over a period of just a month for me. :lol:...
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re: Turning 40 sucks: Do these Vuity eye drops work if you don't want to get reading glasses? - rickgrimes
[quote] Or pay for LASIK if you’re eyes can benefit from it.[/quote] I already had Lasik done many years ago. My distant vision is fine. It is the upclose stuff that I have problem with, which comes from aging (presybyopia), and Lasik can't fix that....
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Turning 40 sucks: Do these Vuity eye drops work if you don't want to get reading glasses? - rickgrimes
Man turning 40 is a game changer. Random body aches. Takes so much longer to recover from an injury. But those are topics for another day. My problem right now is my eyes are rapidly losing its auto focus abilities. I'm unable to focus or read things up close. I'll be looking at the TV, and then ...
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Bad pool builder is in over his head with legal trouble - rickgrimes
[quote]Brandon Heitmann claims he's a millionaire contractor, [b]internet personality[/b], and pool builder who has made a fortune after growing "from mowing lawns for $20 to $1 million projects." [/quote] [link=(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lOs3VIVopMQ&feature=youtu.be)]LINK[/link] This guy lo...
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Tipton County sheriff warns thieves about coming to his county - rickgrimes
[quote]We have seen a rash of liquor store break-ins in Memphis, but the crime is crossing county lines, and the Tipton County sheriff says it will not be tolerated.[/quote] [link=(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1tCGnw4Nv6Q&feature=youtu.be)]LINK[/link]...
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