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A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, why the long face?
Horse says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Bartender says, solution is simple. I have a marvelous Amontillado in my cellar—
#humor

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Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
TRAVIS: Right. [They go down some steps into a tunnel. Travis looks around.]
SERVALAN: Travis!
TRAVIS: Huh?
SERVALAN: It's this way. [They walk through wet tunnels, there are loud breathing sounds in the background.]
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Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely
starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said,
with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.
Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of the small, black and white African penguin are left globally,
according to scientists,
and the species was listed as critically endangered last year by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Two of the most important breedi…

Study says African penguins starved en masse off South Africa
Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.

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Eidgenössische Ämter dürfen US-Hyperscaler wie AWS, Google oder Microsoft laut der Datenschutzkonferenz nur noch eingeschränkt nutzen.

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Spent the morning deal with the US Gov't - sheesh.
We had to update our SAM registration - most people have never had to deal with the US Gov't's procurement system and dueling systems of regulations (FARs vs DFARs), not to mention its decades obsolete industrial and product classification codes. What a mess!!! What a massive burden for a small company!! (And, of course, the Feds update things in disruptive ways.)
Then I had to deal with renewing my passport and ha…

I'm working with household legislators to enact a Dad Congestion Pricing scheme. We charge a kid $0.25 for every "hey dad?". A white paper produced by the Dept of Annoyance shows that a modest fee structure could bring the rate of "hey dad?"s down to a rate of around one or two per minute, while not being so burdensome as to hinder kids from saying things like "hey dad? the microwave is on fire."

Tying housing costs to homelessness rates, researchers have identified inflection points:
🔸When rents in a community exceed about a third of the median income, homelessness escalates.
🔸“As the share of low-income households with severe rent burdens grows, so does their risk of homelessness,”
said Thomas Byrne of Boston College, an author of the study.
Gregg Colburn, a housing expert at the University of Washington, found that
Seattle and San Francisco, with so…

Trump Says ‘Housing First’ Failed the Homeless. Here’s What the Evidence Says.
The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents consider overly permissive.