I lived in NYC for over 50 years and never had a cannoli. That didn't bother me until I moved. I recently had my first cannoli in PA. I bought two small ones from Giant supermarket, The inside of the shell had chocolate coating and the package said vanilla cream, but the ingredients said cheese, so ...

Good article about the health risks of wood burning. https://undark.org/2022/03/02/wood-burning-stoves-raise-new-health-concerns/ I just skimmed through it so far, but the source seems good. When I stayed with a friend for a while in NJ, I smelled smoke every other day, and not from someone smoking....

I had an ant issue once, where they entered through a crack on the balcony, crossed the dinette, kitchen, and living room, and made a trail down the public hallway towards a neighbor who was on the Board of Directors. I put ant poison in the hole, caulked it up, and placed ant traps along the route ...

Unpopular opinion: pour a ton of money into genetic research to make people smarter, share the technology with the world, wait a generation, then we could stop spending so much money and killing so many people because even if another country takes over it won't be so bad.

I just got good results from blood tests that I ordered. Direct-to-consumer tests, without having a doctor except one who ordered the tests, which isn't legal in the previous state I lived in. First time in probably over 15 years that I had a blood test. I have a gene that raises my bad cholesterol ...

Wow, glad the forum is back. I thought you finally had enough. The list of defunct forums I frequented has been growing since the 1980s.

All of us suck at this though, right? But you can reply anyway. I have a college educated friend who asked me what a detector is when I said I got a radon detector. Was I supposed to respond as if she meant "what's radon"? I don't know her super well. I tried to cover all bases but not sure if I was...

Roger Mexico wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 27, 2023 2:10 am

Suspect in mass shooting in Maine

Found dead in dumpster

I guess I can endorse this wallet, for $15.

I kept finding affordable wallets that I liked (the looks of) on Temu, super cheep. I avoided them. I figured the leather ones would have a super thin layer that would wear quickly, or else they would be made of smelly, harmful chemicals.