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pigfarmer

pigfarmer

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No **** Sherlock. A goof friend of mine consumed more of that crap every day than anyone I have even seen. He'd stuff two or three more sweetners in his Coke Zero' or Diet Coke or whatever - and put down half a case of them per day. He'd go to the local McDonalds daily and get four huge schooners of iced tea and dumps dozens and dozens of packages in them to the point where the store cut him off. They were handing him box after box of the stuff and finally had enough.

I warned him for years about all that and his response was always that 'they say it's safe' and my standard response was 'lab rats get cancer when they consume huge quantities of the stuff. He got kidney cancer that metastasized first to the other kidney and ultimately winding up in his brain where it killed him. He felt it was an industrial chemical spill we were very, very, very peripherally involved in in 1986. Yuh huh.

We are our own worst enemy.


Aspartame sweetener used in Diet Coke a possible carcinogen, WHO’s cancer research agency to say​


Since 1981, JECFA has said aspartame is safe to consume within accepted daily limits. For example, an adult weighing 60 kg (132 pounds) would have to drink between 12 and 36 cans of diet soda – depending on the amount of aspartame in the beverage – every day to be at risk. Its view has been widely shared by national regulators, including in the United States and Europe

Aspartame sweetener used in Diet Coke a possible carcinogen, WHO’s cancer research agency to say - sources
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
A pet of a coast guard unit that sailed on ships until the mid-20th century to catch rodents had an identification card signed with their paw prints.

More here: Sea Cats and Passports



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nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
wwkirk

wwkirk

Divine
Countess Andrée Eugénie Adrienne de Jongh (30 November 1916 – 13 October 2007), aka Dédée (not born a countess, she was made one in 1985 by the king of Belgium)

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organized the best-known network for rescuing Allied pilots. It involved some 2,000 resistance members and was able to escort 700 Allied airmen to Spain. The Line not only fed, housed, and provided civilian clothing for the pilots, but also forged Belgian and French identity cards and rail fares.

The experience of having some rescued airmen recaptured after being dropped off made her realize she needed to establish a relationship with the British Consulate. One day she appeared in the British consulate in Bilbao with a British soldier, having travelled mostly by train from Brussels to Bayonne and then on foot over the Pyrenees through the Basque Country. The British diplomats were initially skeptical of de Jongh. It seemed unlikely to them that this young woman with three soldiers in tow had travelled from German-occupied Belgium, through occupied France, and over the Pyrenees to Spain, a straight-line distance of some 500 miles! De Jongh promised to exfiltrate additional British soldiers and airmen if the British would pay the Comet Line's expenses. After three weeks of doubt, suspicion that she was a German agent, and indecision by British authorities in Spain and England, the British agreed to her terms. Except for financial assistance, de Jongh turned down all other British offers of advice and assistance. She rejected efforts by the British and the Belgian government in exile to control or direct the Comet Line.

Eventually she was arrested, and eventually sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and Mauthausen. She was interrogated 19 times by the Abwehr and twice by the Gestapo. Although she admitted being the leader of the Comet Line to protect her father who was under suspicion, the Germans did not believe that this slight, young woman was more than a minor helper in the network. Their underestimation of de Jongh's importance in the Comet Line probably saved her life.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EJfpCvr5QA
 
Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
Dejan Corovic said:
One was Iron Lady:


View: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=848616996632944&set=a.681651163329529
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Now, on a second thought, I think this might be an AI generated image. I googled for her younger images and she started wearing that famous 'iron lady' haircut only after she entered into politics, possibly in her 30s.

I googled images for "Margaret Thatcher DJ on a beach" and found nothing. As well, when Ms Thatcher was younger, she was of a stocky stature.

Margaret Thatcher when she was young - Google Search

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wwkirk

wwkirk

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Dejan Corovic said:
Now, on a second thought, I think this might be an AI generated image. I googled for her younger images and she started wearing that famous 'iron lady' haircut only after she entered into politics, possibly in her 30s.

I googled images for "Margaret Thatcher DJ on a beach" and found nothing. As well, when Ms Thatcher was younger, she was of a stocky stature.

Margaret Thatcher when she was young - Google Search

www.google.com
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pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I was really in to the Age of Fighting Sail for a while, read through all the Horatio Hornblower models. One of my favorite series is Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen. Like most lengthy series it gets carried away but the first few books are written with quite a lot or realistic detail. The crew of a dilapidated WW1 era US four stack destroyer finds itself somewhere else and despite their modern weapons are forced to relearn a lot of ancient techniques that are described in this article. Apparently as late as the early 20th century there was still thought given to boarding ships with cutlasses and pistols, except in that case it would have been 1911 .45s and m1917 Navy cutlasses. Cool, except for the utter lack of medical attention afterwards ........

Having some trouble posting the images, a lot easier just following the link. Decent general explanation of stuff and things about piracy and that era. A lot different than Captain Philips, eh?

The Truth About Pirate Weapons
 
AD1184

AD1184

Celestial
Dejan Corovic said:
Now, on a second thought, I think this might be an AI generated image. I googled for her younger images and she started wearing that famous 'iron lady' haircut only after she entered into politics, possibly in her 30s.

I googled images for "Margaret Thatcher DJ on a beach" and found nothing. As well, when Ms Thatcher was younger, she was of a stocky stature.

Margaret Thatcher when she was young - Google Search

www.google.com
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I was going to say. They did not have wireless Bluetooth headphones in Thatcher's day (as she is depicted to be wearing around her neck). The construction of the 'turntables' makes no sense when examined closely. Where are the tone arms, for example? And the platters are too small. The one on our left looks as if it has some sort of cover over the platter anyway, as if it is a CD player. DJing with two turntables is not something that Thatcher would ever have done. There are two people in the background who have identical pairs of wired headphones on. What exactly are they supposed to be listening to, and with what equipment? Also, at the beach? The picture has too many clichés of modern electronic dance music culture to be plausible, as well as the dodgy elements that are the hallmark of the current state of AI-generated imagery.
 
Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
AD1184 said:
I was going to say. They did not have wireless Bluetooth headphones in Thatcher's day (as she is depicted to be wearing around her neck). The construction of the 'turntables' makes no sense when examined closely. Where are the tone arms, for example? And the platters are too small. The one on our left looks as if it has some sort of cover over the platter anyway, as if it is a CD player. DJing with two turntables is not something that Thatcher would ever have done. There are two people in the background who have identical pairs of wired headphones on. What exactly are they supposed to be listening to, and with what equipment? Also, at the beach? The picture has too many clichés of modern electronic dance music culture to be plausible, as well as the dodgy elements that are the hallmark of the current state of AI-generated imagery.
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Never mind AI, as an art piece, its quite funny twist and I like it for that.

But, it is certainly a sign of what is coming. We might end up being overtaken not just by fake news, but fake history as well.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
nivek said:

View: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1679845705400356866


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very pretty .... jet fuel .......

I used to work with the facilities manager of the local airport. A series of McMansions were approved right near the end of the runway. The facility manager told me the new homeowners all had to sign statements acknowledging that they're not suing anyone over stuff falling off planes, cause all sorts of stuff apparently does - including fuel. Imagine that, you're floating in the pool and now your tasty beverage is spiked with hundred octane low lead.
 
Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

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pigfarmer said:
very pretty .... jet fuel .......

I used to work with the facilities manager of the local airport. A series of McMansions were approved right near the end of the runway. The facility manager told me the new homeowners all had to sign statements acknowledging that they're not suing anyone over stuff falling off planes, cause all sorts of stuff apparently does - including fuel. Imagine that, you're floating in the pool and now your tasty beverage is spiked with hundred octane low lead.
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I have a friend in south London, who lives just under a flight path of passenger planes that land at Heathrow airport.
He told me that large rivets and bolt regularly fall onto his house and garden. I heard that same thing from many other people living in that area.
 
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