FOLIO OLIO: THURSDAY #3787

One Of My Very Own

EMAIL: ralh.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

An embarrassing moment in my Barcelona game.

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I post GoT items because the internet is full of Got items.

The Starbucks cup wasn't even the only time they messed up on GoT this season.

DISCUSSION POINTS

I wonder how long it will take to weaponize drones like that. We send hundreds of thousands of them out over the battlefield to each burn six or so of the enemy. And with its last breath of life, it flies itself into the air intake of any mechanized forces.
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Do we really want everybody choosing when and to whom to apply fairness? And remember, that mechanic who fixes your car; the teacher who educates your kids; and the police - none of the signs your paycheck. Why punish them?
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I have a question for one of you computer savvy readers: How does the little button proclaiming that you are not a robot work? I would much prefer one of those to one like the above. I need it to gain access to my comments section to curtail robo-comments.
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In creating One Of My Very Own images I sometimes have a hard time getting the captions in the right place for proper reading order. The basic rule is the higher and/or farther left captions are read first, but surprisingly that is harder than you think.
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Think of this what you will.

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I try, Gentle Reader, I try.
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I remember when this was a real problem, then a company came up with a super strong board that solve the problem. And they did it in record time. They deserve every penny they received.
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This morning I took the best poop I have had in months. It was so good my neighbor came over to see what all the noise was about.

MAPS WITH VASTLY DIFFERING DEGREES OF WORTH

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Things that will sit in your lap but you are not allowed to touch: cats and strippers.

GET LEARNT

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/22/human-composting-may-soon-be-l.html
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https://boingboing.net/2019/04/20/useful-idiots-r-us.html

Well worth the time.
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https://boingboing.net/2019/04/19/trump-administration-marijuan.html

Why is it so hard for most Americans to believe that their government has lied to you about this issue. Do the research.
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This is how the inside of a Winchester 1866 works.

That is so very simple.
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I know, but it is so fucking cool.
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This is how we do it in the South...

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The "Jeopardy" buzzer

Pictured above is a practice one created by now-legendary James Holzhauer, whose current record-breaking performance is attributed in part to his buzzer skills.

On Wednesday, Holzhauer set a new record for one-day Jeopardy! winnings with a total of $131,127, surpassing a record that he set scarcely a week ago when he obliterated the previous high of $77,000 set by Roger Craig in 2010 with a total of $110,914. Since his streak began on April 4, James has amassed $697,787; he now has the first, second, third, and fourth spots on the one-day record list (after winning $89,158 and $106,181 in two other games), and is in second place in all-time regular-season Jeopardy! earnings behind Ken Jennings, who reached $2,520,700 over a still-unrivaled 74 games in 2004. James, 34, is winning more, faster than any contestant ever has.

“If you put random people up there on Jeopardy!, the most important thing would be who knows the answers,” says Jennings. “But with players that good, buzzer timing really becomes what tends to separate the winner from the non-winners.”
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A temple older than Stonehenge - way, WAY older

The Smithsonian Magazine had a fascinating report about excavations on the Turkish/Syrian border of a temple complex that dates to 9000 B.C., which would place it as about contemporary with the earliest rubble at Jericho. Gobekli Tepe has extensive construction and architecture, including circles of carved standing stones, created by people who apparently still lived as hunter-gatherers.
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-temple-older-than-stonehenge-way-way.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/
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I've asked how they get all those horses from race track to race track and now I know.

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When the railroad company was laying track all the way across America the government paid them in land. They got one square mile of land alternating from one side of the track to the other.

That looks like the arrangement if there had been a matching section across the track at the middle void.
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How many of you try to breathe quieter while walking up a hill so bystanders don't hear you fighting for your life?

You know what they say - bad things happen in hundreds.
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PEOPLE NOT LIKE US

Yes, it really did happen. Full story here:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gykmn7/legal-ethical-cannibalism-human-meat-tacos-reddit-wtf
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Joseph Wachira, comforts Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhino, moments before he passed away.

I don't use the word heartbreaking often, but that is in fact heartbreaking.
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What Happens Next?

A. The bridge collapses.
B. The truck narrowly evades the collapse.
C. The truck drives off the side of the bridge mere feet from the shore.

D. All of the above.
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D.
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If I still had the strength I would dedicate my life to doing shit like that.
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Did he or did he not clip the back of his skull?

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Never understood how lesbians are comfortable with using a pretend dick during their lovemaking.
It's like vegetarians using pretend meats.
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Standing a safe distance back is prudent...