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@catpostingbot Thanks for a god chuckle! 😆

@iankenway Very true. And watch out for the coming year. 2020 elections in USA will be a major battleground.

@_lunawinters I think knowing that other people see and feel in a similar way could help. There are many bad things and large issues confronting us all at all levels. Local, regional, national, worldwide. Hope for better times.

@soum My opinion is that keeping visits short and treading carefully, leaving before my attention span gets too fragmented could help. But yeah, it can be a very negative place there.

@mugunthan Half of the Brazilian people are also railing about one of their Supreme Court decisions this week. Not much one can do, actually.

@_lunawinters That is good advice. I visited FB this morning and see that my fellow Brazilians there could take the same advice as well - the local Supreme Court made a decision that pissed off many people, right along the very divided political lines at the moment. An ex-president that had been condemned for corruption, has been freed, pending higher level appeals and a number of other pending cases against him. I visited, I saw, I made no comments and left.

@artisticphilosopher Thank you -- That anwers my question on "how did they get that" just now. 😜

The Economist has a good post on the favourite food of Portugal.

https://www.1843magazine.com/food/world-in-a-dish/why-bacalhau-will-always-taste-like-home

MS Edge used to support ePub ebook reading, but that is being removed. So you will need a dedicated eBook reader app.

I mentioned BlueFire which I like and use in iOS and Windows 10, but just found a good page with some other interesting apps.

Calibre, the first one in the list, is quite nice but a bit more complex for a new user, or someone who only wants to read. (BlueFire would work well for that, and it does access DropBox accounts to load ebooks too).

Various good options here: https://beebom.com/best-epub-reader-windows/

https://writingcooperative.com/handwritten-letters-2a7e0d51eb8c

There are also many people looking for penpals, some of them in snail mail, handwritten form in the pen pals sub-Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/penpals/

Like handwritten letters, how about finding a penpal overseas?

https://www.thepencompany.com/blog/letter-writing/find-a-pen-pal/

@freemo I remember visiting and reading on a site where everyone did hand written letters to their penpals. Did a search now and found a page with some possibilities for you.

https://www.thepencompany.com/blog/letter-writing/find-a-pen-pal/

Need a good eBook reader app for Windows? They also have iOS and Android versions. Free and CAN handle Adobe DRM protected ebooks (most public library ebook loans are locked that way).

http://www.bluefirereader.com/bluefire-reader.html

Some great vintage bikes and families on tour photos.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/giocattolibareggi/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10153066237851830

One of the great 1950's Science episodes of Disneyland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MppUNGnxZxw

@667knots You are very welcome. Beware that there are Red Necks, Trolls in some other servers (instances in Mastodon), you might see rabid right wing posts in the "Federated' feed that includes everyone. Best to ignore them.

@pschwede Having you seen this other episode, same vintage?

The German scientists were the most advanced in rocketry at the time of WWII, and became prized targets when Allies invaded Germany in '45.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFXza9RH7-E