Yeah… But it came at the price of a few actually being injured or dying, so you have to decide how many you’d trade in exchange for going back to before today’s safety standards.
It’s a problem for me… I did love being able to play outdoors unsupervised, ride my bike many miles without a helmet, and other stuff like that….
But I had a friend who broke his ribs, and a little neighbor boy was run over by a schoolbus and died. It was even sadder cos he was an identical twin.
I myself was thrown backward off a carousel sort of swing…. I don’t know what to call it… But I didn’t get seriously injured.
Falling off didn’t cause the worst of the see-saw injuries I remember. I remember a boy standing next to it, preparing to get on, when someone at the other end pushed down; the end by the boy came up and caught him right under the chin. I don’t remember much of the aftermath, but there was blood..
Not particulary good (and again, there seems to have been a crackdown of the posting of cartoons / open in a new window/ unmute the volume / you can’t get full screen either).
“The Shooting of Dan McGoo”
I’ve never seen it but I’ve seen a zillion (give or take) short video clips where he speaks to an elderly Jamaican woman in a wheelchair, in what we’re meant to beieve is an amazingly accurate Jamaican patois…
But everybody in the comments is saying “Noooo!” or “Boooo!”
It usually opens a pop-up saying “Are these results useful?” Sometimes I take the time to tell them what I think.
Like…. “I wanted informationaboutthe image I searched.
Who’s in it, who took it, where and when…. but I don’t get any.
I really don’t care who uses it as a profile picture, nor do I need to see what some algorithm thinks are similar pictures. And I can’t read Chinese or Russian.”
I wasn’t really talking about this particular search, which worked ok in Lens, except that they’ve allowed results from Art America.com, which as Steve notes, pushes shower curtains and towels with whatever image you post.
I used to use Firefox on my laptop, and had both Bing and Google to try searches with.
…
For now, I only have an Android tablet, and an Android phone.
I don’t care for mobile Firefox, so i use a different android browser, which I like better, and Google search, which I prefer to Bing and which stores my bookmarks and many of my non critical passwords and other info.
I’d have to add a separate app for Bing, to use the image search. I don’t like it much as a browser, and it doesn’t play well with my preferred one, which I don’t care to give up.
I’d have to install all my bookmarks and links in the Bing app, and keep both updated… It’s too much!
Have they changed? Back when I tried it, Bung was WORSE for trying to sell you whatever you were trying to look up (no matter how ridiculous — “We have the best price on The American Civil War…!”)
The Smithsonian’s NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM on Amelia Earharts “Little Red Bus” (go for the “Long Description”, it’s far more detailed / there are pictures and two videos / one of her departure on this flight).
I searched and searched, and found no star…. finally I searched for the solution, which I very very rarely do, because I enjoy the challenge of solving.
The one I found had a smaller circle, around only part of what is circled in the one Alexi found.
I see no star in either.
Maybe it has to be at much higher resolution to be visible, but IMHO there’s no way to solve it as is.
Mea Culpa... I made remarks that made Nighthawks look for a harder puzzle.
Sorry guys… I didn’t mean for that to happen, and I certainly didn’t mean I wanted an impossible one!
Rising egg prices in the U.S. lead to increased smuggling from Mexico. Key takeaways
The surge in egg prices in the U.S. has led to a significant increase in smuggling attempts from Mexico, with reports indicating a 36% rise in interceptions by Customs and Border Protection.As prices reach as high as $10 per dozen, travelers are increasingly attempting to bring in cheaper eggs from Mexico and Canada, despite the risks of fines and health regulations.The situation has become so severe that more egg products have been seized at the border than fentanyl this year, highlighting the unusual nature of this smuggling.
You stuff your suitcase with 10 dozen eggs…. A big box, 15 pounds plus packaging…
Try to hide them in a few layers of clothes.
You can maybe sell them for $5 a dozen back home cos you’re not Safeway.
Meanwhile two eggs break when you squash the suitcase closed, then another few from jostling.
The clothes get wet and sticky, and smell like rotten eggs … your back hurts, and you get popped for smuggling….
for what would have been a $40 profit, not counting travel expenses, which were a couple hundred.
Perfect analysis, Susan. It shouldn’t be classified as smuggling, as such. Reality is probably people thinking, hey, I’ll bring some back for breakfast. Or inadvertently not knowing. Nobody is going to risk it, too punitive in the end if caught. For what? A couple of bucks?
This is why we, regardless of where we live, look at authority as overbearing.
One nice summer evening we (my late parents and I, a teenager back then) were watching the news at about 8 pm.
Through the open terrace door in came Purzel, carrying a gift for my dad which she laid on his feet.
A real treat: a Bavarian white sausage, nicely matured after having been buried in our garden for several weeks or months…
Tracks of the Berlin elevated railway stop at the border of American sector of Berlin in this air view on 26th August, 1961. Beyond the fence, communist-ruled East Berlin side, the tracks have been removed.
That was a very sad time. Really! I lived at this demarcation border between Thuringia and Bavaria in Bavaria. It was aweful. Family or friends could not visit, later we were allowed to visit them in the “Kleinen Grenzverkehr” (small border traffic). I cannot understand that some people nowadays love a border, behind which people has to live like prisoners. Have they learned nothing from the past?
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Ooh! I know, I know!!
I recognize the squirrel, but who’s the guy?
Just in case there’s ghost of a chance you actually don’t know, and this is a real question….
or maybe somebody else out there wants to know….
Thanks, Susan, I didn’t recognize Eastwood. I thought it was just a cute photo, “Man Talking to Squirrel” (in the voice of Boris Badenov)
.
A timeless message…
For all…
Everywhere…
Anywhere…
Every time i drive up or down the coast and the ocean is there it draws my eyes.
I’ve lived here 11 or 12 years, and its still fascinating.
I would feel the same way…..I haven’t seen the ocean since 1986
72 years. It still draws me.
They made ’em tougher in those days!
Yeah… But it came at the price of a few actually being injured or dying, so you have to decide how many you’d trade in exchange for going back to before today’s safety standards.
It’s a problem for me… I did love being able to play outdoors unsupervised, ride my bike many miles without a helmet, and other stuff like that….
But I had a friend who broke his ribs, and a little neighbor boy was run over by a schoolbus and died. It was even sadder cos he was an identical twin.
I myself was thrown backward off a carousel sort of swing…. I don’t know what to call it… But I didn’t get seriously injured.
There was no adult supervision for any of this.
Falling off didn’t cause the worst of the see-saw injuries I remember. I remember a boy standing next to it, preparing to get on, when someone at the other end pushed down; the end by the boy came up and caught him right under the chin. I don’t remember much of the aftermath, but there was blood..
Not particulary good (and again, there seems to have been a crackdown of the posting of cartoons / open in a new window/ unmute the volume / you can’t get full screen either).
“The Shooting of Dan McGoo”
https://9gag.com/gag/aVxK67w
crackdown by whom?
the filming of Meet Joe Black, in 1998.
I’ve never seen it but I’ve seen a zillion (give or take) short video clips where he speaks to an elderly Jamaican woman in a wheelchair, in what we’re meant to beieve is an amazingly accurate Jamaican patois…
But everybody in the comments is saying “Noooo!” or “Boooo!”
they may have dropped the ball on authenticity , but it is a touching scene
Is it my imagination, or is Google’s AI search engine becoming less and less relevant?
(I now know where to buy framed prints, beach towels and zipper bags with this image.)
If you mean Google Lens…. Yes.
It usually opens a pop-up saying “Are these results useful?” Sometimes I take the time to tell them what I think.
Like…. “I wanted information about the image I searched.
Who’s in it, who took it, where and when…. but I don’t get any.
I really don’t care who uses it as a profile picture, nor do I need to see what some algorithm thinks are similar pictures. And I can’t read Chinese or Russian.”
Try bing.
First hit for me: https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/11-january-1935/amelia-earhart-71794544-2/
I wasn’t really talking about this particular search, which worked ok in Lens, except that they’ve allowed results from Art America.com, which as Steve notes, pushes shower curtains and towels with whatever image you post.
I used to use Firefox on my laptop, and had both Bing and Google to try searches with.
…
For now, I only have an Android tablet, and an Android phone.
I don’t care for mobile Firefox, so i use a different android browser, which I like better, and Google search, which I prefer to Bing and which stores my bookmarks and many of my non critical passwords and other info.
I’d have to add a separate app for Bing, to use the image search. I don’t like it much as a browser, and it doesn’t play well with my preferred one, which I don’t care to give up.
I’d have to install all my bookmarks and links in the Bing app, and keep both updated… It’s too much!
Have they changed? Back when I tried it, Bung was WORSE for trying to sell you whatever you were trying to look up (no matter how ridiculous — “We have the best price on The American Civil War…!”)
I do have Adblock Plus, too…
Adblock is for pop-up ads.
It does nothing about search results that are links to products, stores and restaurants, instead of useful information.
Like those afore-mentioned links to ArtAmerica.com… they’re search results in their own right, not popups on other pages.
That’s why I stopped using it for basic search.
And most of the time, the first result would be a restaurant…
Ie “Civil War restaurant, 3462 Main Street” in some city 2,000 miles away, if there was no closer one.
I only used Bing for Image Search, to see which search found a better result. A toss-up, when we still had the original Google Image Search.
The Smithsonian’s NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM on Amelia Earharts “Little Red Bus” (go for the “Long Description”, it’s far more detailed / there are pictures and two videos / one of her departure on this flight).
..
seems like I remember those clocks didn’t work very well
I recognize the
Had to search for
It’s a frame from the 1931 Fleischer Studios “Bimbo’s Initiation”.
We had this one a couple of (or a few?) years ago, but I can’t find it or the full cartoon I posted; so here it is again.
Arn’t all flowers just stars that fell from the sky?
If you put an image or emoji in the spoiler title, it didn’t work.
However, I agree about the puzzle.
I searched and searched, and found no star…. finally I searched for the solution, which I very very rarely do, because I enjoy the challenge of solving.
The one I found had a smaller circle, around only part of what is circled in the one Alexi found.
I see no star in either.
Maybe it has to be at much higher resolution to be visible, but IMHO there’s no way to solve it as is.
Mea Culpa... I made remarks that made Nighthawks look for a harder puzzle.
Sorry guys… I didn’t mean for that to happen, and I certainly didn’t mean I wanted an impossible one!
“Hey, whaddaya want? I was bored!”
I thought he was a Golden Retriever, not a Boxer…
Not guilty
Talk about Chewy….
Looks like the kind of stuff my Moxie used to do.
Rising egg prices in the U.S. lead to increased smuggling from Mexico.
Key takeaways
The surge in egg prices in the U.S. has led to a significant increase in smuggling attempts from Mexico, with reports indicating a 36% rise in interceptions by Customs and Border Protection.As prices reach as high as $10 per dozen, travelers are increasingly attempting to bring in cheaper eggs from Mexico and Canada, despite the risks of fines and health regulations.The situation has become so severe that more egg products have been seized at the border than fentanyl this year, highlighting the unusual nature of this smuggling.
That last sentence is just bull.
In amount – no problem, in value – I doubt it.
Brilliant.
A dozen eggs weighs about a pound and a half.
If US eggs are $10 and Mexican eggs are $2…
You stuff your suitcase with 10 dozen eggs…. A big box, 15 pounds plus packaging…
Try to hide them in a few layers of clothes.
You can maybe sell them for $5 a dozen back home cos you’re not Safeway.
Meanwhile two eggs break when you squash the suitcase closed, then another few from jostling.
The clothes get wet and sticky, and smell like rotten eggs … your back hurts, and you get popped for smuggling….
for what would have been a $40 profit, not counting travel expenses, which were a couple hundred.
Uh huh.
Perfect analysis, Susan. It shouldn’t be classified as smuggling, as such. Reality is probably people thinking, hey, I’ll bring some back for breakfast. Or inadvertently not knowing. Nobody is going to risk it, too punitive in the end if caught. For what? A couple of bucks?
This is why we, regardless of where we live, look at authority as overbearing.
I guess the other respondents missed the /s….
Did he mean to be joking?
It doesn’t read that way to me… I hope my sarcasm antennae aren’t failing!
Reminds me of our late wiener dog…
One nice summer evening we (my late parents and I, a teenager back then) were watching the news at about 8 pm.
Through the open terrace door in came Purzel, carrying a gift for my dad which she laid on his feet.
A real treat: a Bavarian white sausage, nicely matured after having been buried in our garden for several weeks or months…
My mom and I laughed so hard…
Cleo thinks that hambone is just about ripe.
Time to bury it with the other 43 bones under the apple tree.
Tracks of the Berlin elevated railway stop at the border of American sector of Berlin in this air view on 26th August, 1961. Beyond the fence, communist-ruled East Berlin side, the tracks have been removed.
That was a very sad time. Really! I lived at this demarcation border between Thuringia and Bavaria in Bavaria. It was aweful. Family or friends could not visit, later we were allowed to visit them in the “Kleinen Grenzverkehr” (small border traffic). I cannot understand that some people nowadays love a border, behind which people has to live like prisoners. Have they learned nothing from the past?
“If we don’t learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it.”
And, sometimes, it is difficult to tell on which side of that border are the prisoners…
“Have they learned nothing from the past?”
A: Not a damn thing.
Right now i am very frightened.