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I feel your pain.

My younger brother had a biopsy yesterday. The doctors fear that the tumors he had removed from his head and neck may have spread to his bones.

Waiting another 5 days for the biopsy results will not be easy for any of us. Keeping him in our prayers, and adding your brother.

“Saturn’s Race” by Niven and friends. Also includes an AIDS vaccine used as a secret depopulation bomb.

We should have a Free Republic Nethack tournament for us classic 80’s Unix gamers.

> Emmanuel Goldberg

Sorry, but that was Emmanuel Goldstein, IIRC.

Are there international mercs fighting in the Ukraine on both sides? You bet.

Do they care who their allies are? Probaby not so much.

Thats what mercs do. They are just in it for the money.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

—Douglas Adams

My personal favorite concept is zinc-air fuel cells, and refueling would involve dumping your zinc oxide/hydroxide while winding a zinc chain onto a spool.

> treated for chlamydia infection...

I guess those Aussies really love their Koalas.

Canyonero - https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA

The company I work for uses Okta for all authentication. Hope it isn’t too severe. We use MFA with authorized cellphones, so I don’t know if a data breach could result in unapproved access.

That is a pretty obscure reference, but I can recognize the back of Michael Gross’s head and I know the episode and the short story like the back of my hand.

A Pail of Air? That takes me back. But I think Larry Niven’s classic ‘Wait it Out’ is much colder.

> Did you hike up?

Of course. Back then there was no other way in the winter.

I’ve climbed that mountain at least 10 times, both summer and winter, but I’ve never taken the auto road or cog wheel rail.

Let me tell you, when you cross the tree line and the 100mph artic winds tear in to you, it is unforgettable.

I’ve been on Mt. Washington before, when it was minus 35 and 100mph winds, back in the 80’s when I was young and foolish.

It kind of set a new definition for COLD!

I think ‘Lethal Weapon 2’

As the song goes in Chitty Chitty bang bang:
From the ashes of failure grow the roses of success.

> I have no clue what this is about. My eyes were falling out trying to read and keep up.

Cliff notes version. She is denouncing the Woke cancel culture in America today where doctors are being intimidated into silence on threat of cancellation while their teenaged patients are being peer-pressured into doing “Irreparable Damage” (the name of her book that has made her univerally hated by the Woke NPCs) to themselves because of Woke peer pressure.

She is trying to rally the silent majority into standing tall against the tyranny of the evil Gender Ideology leaders and resisting their absurdities that threaten our children and our Country.

> Absolutely. Netanyahu’s first responsibility is to promote the interests of Israel. He did the right thing and Trump is being too thin-skinned here.

Actually, I suspect Bibi had access to intelligence that the fix was in. He knew that it was already agreed that none of the state legislatures would stand up and decertify, and that the steal would go unchallenged. Unfortunately, he couldn’t even reveal that he knew this or he would expose Israeli intelligence sources that had to remain secret.

Sending the first ‘congratulations’ to Joe Stolen was effectively a ruse to conceal how much he actually knew about the steal.