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Energy-saving tip number 3
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Fill containers with water and keep them inside the living space for thermal mass. This will dampen the temperature swings so your heating/cooling system will use less energy.

You can use water bottles or a plant aquarium... anything with water. You can even store it inside a buffet or dresser.

It's best to have it near the center of the living space away from exterior walls, but somewhere where it can absorb the heat of the day. The amount varies, but a good estimate is about 3-6 liters per square meter of living space.
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Should Putin be given an "off-ramp"?
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Energy saving tip number 9
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Slow down...

Drag increases as the square of speed increase, so when you drive faster, you use much more fuel than you may realize.

Driving slower can save up to 40% or more in fuel.

So...

Slow down and enjoy the scenery.
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video edited from:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil, creativecommons.org/licenses/b

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Marathon Man (1976)

A marathon runner, Babe (Dustin Hoffman) becomes unwittingly involved with Nazi war criminals.

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Reseachers document the first deer-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 virus.

arstechnica.com/?p=1837439

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Energy-saving tip number 12...
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When you cover your windows at night to keep the heat in, use thick window coverings and place a mylar blanet over them on the side facing the room to reflect the heat back into the living space.

In the morning, don't uncover the windows until the space between the window and the covering is a higher temperature than your living space is.

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Retro SciFi Movie of the Week...

The Absent Minded Professor (1961)

More well-known as a comedy/fantasy, this one actually has a pretty cool scifi narrative.

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Congratulations to Ketanji Brown Jackson for being nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States.

But I'm a little perplexed as to why we're putting another Washington elite on the Court. She was literally born in Washington DC, she's on the board of Harvard, married to a Boston Brahmin and hand-picked by Justice Breyer. Right now there's only one justice on the Court who isn't from Harvard/Yale. God forbid we put someone on the Court who graduated from a state college and actually worked as a retail clerk rather than a SCOTUS clerk.

A populist, she's not.

Although she apparently adheres to the constitutional limits on executive powers, which is reassuring.

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Here's why it is so important to choose a NIOSH-approved N95 respirator.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the US government was not prepared and didn't have enough N95 respirators in its Strategic National Stockpile for everyone in the country. They didn't even have enough for all of the healthcare workers.

NIOSH was commissioned to do a study of internationally sourced KN95 masks and others, so that healthcare workers would be able to assess the efficiency of masks they were getting from non-approved sources. It was a scaled-down version of the testing that the agency does for respirators seeking NIOSH approval, and was for emergency information only -- to be used until the supply of approved respirators was sufficient.

They found that the filtering efficiency for those KN95 masks ranged from about 30-99%, with one mask showing 0% filtration! They also found that 60% of the masks sourced internationally were counterfeit.

This is why it is so important to choose a NIOSH-approved N95 respirator (or N99, N100) from a reliable source. Otherwise you are putting yourself at risk.

NIOSH-approved N95 respirators are at least 95% efficient at removing very small particles and they NEVER have ear-loops; they always use straps that go all the way around the head.

cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirator

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The truth is...

ROC came in second in overall medals won at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

(source: olympics.com/beijing-2022/olym)

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Pictured:
Kuo Hsing-chun, she won the Gold Medal in weightlifting in 2021, as well as multiple world championships (photo credit 總統府, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil)

Sung Ching-yang, he won two Gold Medals in roller sports at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou (photo credit 阿文, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.)

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populist: n. - a believer in the rights, wisdom, and virtues of the people.
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Retro SciFi Movie of the Month...

A Taste of Armageddon (1967)

Star Trek Episode 23, February 23, 1967

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I bathe at least once a month whether I need it or not.

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Bath in the park byJean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine

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What if Ukraine wins the war?

What if Ukraine takes over control of Russia?

(image CC 4.0 per commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil)

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In the US, 5073 people died today from COVID-19.

(And mainstream news outlets didn't even mention it.)

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Who would want to block the Ambassador Bridge in Ottawa and prevent parts from reaching the auto manufacturers in Detroit just as they are switching from gas-guzzling putt-putt cars to electric vehicles?

Who would want to do that?

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Truckers protest big oil companies because of high fuel prices.

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Retro SciFi Movie of the Week...

Soylent Green (1973)

redbox.com/ondemand-movies/soy

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-R200

Rotary Cell Phone (Description and Build)
by Justine Haupt

youtube.com/watch?v=0euCWf0FpO

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Apparently, the secret service wants to see a President Nancy Pelosi in the White House.

As shown here the secret service let both the president and VP sit in a room with dozens of people from across the country and neither the president nor the VP had their masks on. Plus notice that most of the others in the room wore NIOSH-approved N95 respirators, while the mask that Harris removed was not NIOSH approved. The mask that Biden occasionally wears is also not NIOSH approved.

I mean, it's his own agency that does the testing of respirators. You'd think that someone would tell him that he is going to kill himself wearing those flimsy Chinese-made FN95 masks.

Extra caution should be taken anytime the president and VP are together, but here they threw caution to the wind.

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