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[1968] Sears Wish Book Shortwave Portables
  • My Dad bought one and took it with us on family camping trips.

    I still remember the weird and eerie warbles, chirps and harmonics; creepier than many camp fire ghost stories, under the right conditions.

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    Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza War, Survey Finds
  • The Document Cloud data from this survey of roughly 1100 Americans, was unreadable on mobile.

    “Cable news” is such an amorphous term, with plenty of crossover (“Get your NBC News on our app, or Roku and stay connected…”) that I’d like to see their definitions before commenting further.

    One data point I found depressing? People who get their news via print only, were least prevalent; less than those who said they avoided news in any form.

  • Net neutrality is about to make a comeback
  • “And regulating an industry which is on the cusp of working with our government and the states to bring internet everywhere finally could really jeopardize that critical and bipartisan goal by creating regulatory overhang, disincentivizing investment.” said Jonathan Spalter, president and CEO of broadband industry group USTelecom.

    WTF bullshit is he spouting? Hate to break it to ya bud, the internet was conceived and executed…by the government. Or did you forget DARPA? On the cusp,,,ppphht.

    And the rest of that word salad? Regulatory overhang? Disincentivizing? It’s all doublespeak for “padding shareholders pockets”.

  • Weird Image Behavior

    Memmy now opens an off centered (placed out of frame, in the upper right of the screen), tiny, version of any image I open.

    I have to pull every image over to the left and down, see it fully.

    Help?

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    Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer.
    www.vice.com Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer.

    The sudden extinction of giant apes is an "enigma in paleontology," one scientist said, but new research proposes an answer to why they disappeared.

    Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer.

    Some 330,000 years ago, giant apes the size of elephants roamed the forests of southern China. Their massive teeth—once sold as a "dragon tooth" by a Hong Kong apothecary—gnawed tough leaves and devoured fruit. Then suddenly, while other primates were thriving, these supersized orangutan-like creatures vanished with almost no trace.

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    King Kong & Climate Change
    www.vice.com Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer.

    The sudden extinction of giant apes is an "enigma in paleontology," one scientist said, but new research proposes an answer to why they disappeared.

    Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer.

    Some 330,000 years ago, giant apes the size of elephants roamed the forests of southern China. Their massive teeth—once sold as a "dragon tooth" by a Hong Kong apothecary—gnawed tough leaves and devoured fruit. Then suddenly, while other primates were thriving, these supersized orangutan-like creatures vanished with almost no trace.

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    Houston, we have problem
    coastal.climatecentral.org Sea level rise and coastal flood risk maps -- a global screening tool by Climate Central

    Interactive global map showing areas threatened by sea level rise and coastal flooding.

    Sea level rise and coastal flood risk maps -- a global screening tool by Climate Central

    Linked, an interactive world map that shows different coastal flooding scenarios, over time. Six years from now, parts of Texas will be migrating inland.

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    I Lived in Texas for 35 Years. Here’s Why Alex Garland’s “Civil War” Makes Perfect Sense
    www.vice.com I Lived in Texas for 35 Years. Here’s Why Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ Makes Perfect Sense

    The politics and populations of Texas and California are more closely aligned than you could possibly imagine.

    I Lived in Texas for 35 Years. Here’s Why Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ Makes Perfect Sense
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    Ajit Pai Elected To Public Television Board Of Trustees

    > Pai, who chaired the FCC from 2017 to 2021, during the Donald Trump administration and was often derided online mostly for undoing the net neutrality rules, is now a partner at Searchlight Capital Partners, a global investment firm.

    >”America’s Public Television Stations are honored and delighted to welcome Ajit Pai to the APTS board,” said APTS president and CEO Patrick Butler.

    Fox in the henhouse, again.

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    Kissinger’s Central Role in Carpet Bombing Cambodia
    www.washingtonpost.com Henry Kissinger’s central role in the U.S. carpet bombing of Cambodia

    From 1969 to 1973, Kissinger directed the carpet bombing of Cambodia that would later draw accusations that he was a “war criminal.”

    Non PW link: https://archive.ph/ssklS

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    How do I fix post titles?

    After update they’re too big, and bold, readable from five feet away.

    They also limit the visible posts from 8 or more before, to four or five now.

    How do I fix this?

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