Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Two Out of Three Fruitcakes Ain't Bad

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Long Cool Fruitcake In A Christmas Bag - The Hollies

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Where Have All the Fruitcakes Gone...
Gone to trash cans every one...

The Kingston Trio
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🎶 "MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the fruitcake out in the rain"

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Fruit 66

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Here Comes the Fruitcake Again - Eurythmics

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Mega-CNC Router Carves Styrofoam Into a Full-Size Flying Delorean - When you own an enormous CNC router, you’ve got to find projects that justify it. ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/12/23/mega-cnc-router-carves-styrofoam-into-a-full-size-flying-delorean/ #expandedpolystyrenefoam #industrialrobot #dronehacks #quadcopter #styrofoam #cnchacks #delorean #router #abb #cnc #eps

Essay by #MashaGessen
'In the shadow of the Holocaust'

'Chayut took this feeling into the I.D.F., which posted him to the occupied West Bank. One day he was putting up property-confiscation notices. A group of children was playing nearby. Chayut flashed what he considered a kind and non-threatening smile at a little girl. The rest of the children scampered off, but the girl froze, terrified, until she, too, ran away. Later, when Chayut published a book about the transformation this encounter precipitated, he wrote that he wasn’t sure why it was this girl: “After all, there was also the shackled kid in the Jeep and the girl whose family home we had broken into late at night to remove her mother and aunt. And there were plenty of children, hundreds of them, screaming and crying as we rummaged through their rooms and their things. And there was the child from Jenin whose wall we blasted with an explosive charge that blew a hole just a few centimeters from his head. Miraculously, he was uninjured, but I’m sure his hearing and his mind were badly impaired.” But in the eyes of that girl, on that day, Chayut saw a reflection of annihilatory evil, the kind that he had been taught existed, but only between 1933 and 1945, and only where the Nazis ruled. Chayut called his book “The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust.”'

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust

TIL while making “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”, Mars Incorporated, the company that owns M&Ms, refused to give director Steven Spielberg permission to use the candy in the movie. As a result, Spielberg used Reese’s Pieces. Sales for Reese’s Pieces jumped by 85% following the film’s release in 1982.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-reason-why-et-eats-reeces-pieces/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/18peb2d/til_while_making_et_the_extraterrestrial_mars/

INTRUSIVE: Paxton hunting down children seeking out-of-Texas gender-affirming care https://occupydemocrats.com/2023/12/23/intrusive-paxton-hunting-down-children-seeking-out-of-texas-gender-affirming-care/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

That a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more relevant than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 4917

Having been in a few parking lots over the last couple of days...

I pondered how is it that they take up so much land, have so much access to the open sky, and one of the worse aspects are made out of asphalt - which is a dark substance made with one of the byproducts of oil, and significantly contributes to heat islands.

How is it that our electric companies are not building supports and installing solar panels over them.

Benefits:
Shading vehicles.
Generate electricity.
Reduce heat island.

The Post and the Journal are both running articles about Elon Musk's battle against the woke mind virus. What a time to be alive.

Journal definitely wins the prize for better illustration.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-woke-mind-virus-41576aa6

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/23/grok-ai-elon-musk-x-woke-bias/

That forecast carbon intensity spike there, centred on noon Christmas Day, is millions of people with electric ovens running at the same time, necessitating the despatch of less clean generators. https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk

Rishi ‘Ebenezer’ Sunak sleeps blissfully on - cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/dec/23/rishi-ebenezer-sunak-sleeps-blissfully-on-cartoon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A bit of a different meal prep; My family would eat Christmas dinner leftovers until Epiphany and I intend to carry on the tradition https://www.diningandcooking.com/1112952/a-bit-of-a-different-meal-prep-my-family-would-eat-christmas-dinner-leftovers-until-epiphany-and-i-intend-to-carry-on-the-tradition/

#MealPrep #MealPrepTips #MealPrepping #MealPreppingTips

I cannot believe how poor the penetration is for this story. It feels like I’m manually telling everyone I know, and they’re each hearing it for the first time.

The free rapid tests that Shoppers Drug Mart has been distributing are duds! They throw a false negative at everything but the highest viral loads!! A negative result from one of these is basically zero information!!! Do not rely on them!!!!

Tell your friends, save lives.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10183219/covid-test-supplier-canada/

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