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Undone: The Unprocrastination Challenge

By Leo Babauta This month, I’m issuing a challenge to all of you procrastinators … and no, you can’t make the joke that you’ll do it later! The challenge is called Undone: The Unprocrastination Challenge, and it’s a part of my Sea Change Program. The challenge is to set aside an “unprocrastination session” every day […]



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IT WAS THE DOG




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THE VULCAN HAND SIGN CAN BE HARD TO MASTER IF YOU DON'T HAVE FINGERS




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ONLY DOLPHIN SAFE TUNA FOR ME




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A basketful of adorables.




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THE WORLD DOMINATION PLOT TAKES ANOTHER STEP




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Brrrr! It's spring: time to heat up the outdoors . . . safely

It’s not unusual for the mother of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be in the news. Margaret Sinclair Trudeau is a celebrity in her own right – author, speaker, and mental-health advocate.   But Ms. Trudeau, 71, made headlines




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Guest Post — Lockdown! An American in China Caught in the Corona Virus Emergency — by Evan Villarrubia

The following is a guest essay by Evan Villarrubia. “I feel stupid! And contagious!” — Nirvana The panic and lockdown state we are just exiting in Dali (southwestern China) has been by far the most intense historical episode I’ve ever experienced. I’ve gone through several deep emotional phase changes throughout this time. If I’d written more »

The post Guest Post — Lockdown! An American in China Caught in the Corona Virus Emergency — by Evan Villarrubia appeared first on Kunstler.



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Oscars 2021 Will Happen, the Academy Says, but We Don’t Know When




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The Coronavirus is Voting for Donald TrumpVoting by mail is no cure; we're heading for a "pretend election"

Mail-in voting, as it currently exists, is likely to guarantee Trump's victory in the 2020 election. However, new Democratic mail-in voting proposals can be improved so the will of the people can be fully realized at the ballot box.

The post The Coronavirus is Voting for Donald Trump<div id='sec-title'>Voting by mail is no cure; we're heading for a "pretend election"</div> appeared first on Greg Palast.




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At Least Donald Trump Kept Us Safe

"Katie" from the VPs office got a positive test. Presumably THE Katie.





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Final Fantasy Remake - Double 10 Dollar Rewards for Preorder?

Not sure if it was a glitch or intentional, but I got a notice this morning saying that my copy of Final Fantasy Remake Standard Edition had shipped.  That made me happy enough, as I was afraid it might be delayed - had it pre-ordered on Amazon but it shifted to delivery unknown earlier in the week so I canceled it.  But, back on topic - about 3 hours later I got a message that I had a 25 dollar reward.  I did not have anywhere near that many points before so I looked for where they came from.  When I clicked on the Final Fantasy VII Remake purchase, this is what it said:

 

Total Points: 1142

My Best Buy Visa Purchase Bonus - 83

$10 Dollar Certificate for Final Fantasy VII Preorder - 500

$10 Dollar Certificate for Final Fantasy VII Preorder - 500

Base Points - 59

 

Did this happen to anyone else?  Considering I preordered it when I still had Gamers Club - so got it for 51.23 ... this has been an especially Cheap Ass Gamer type of purchase.

 

P.S.  Sigh, I really miss Gamers Club.  Hate spending 64.04 on new releases (that includes local tax).







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Fortnite Darkfire Bundle (PS4/XB1/Switch) $14.99 &#38; BOGO Fortnite Figures at Best Buy - DotD

Fortnite Darkfire Bundle (PS4/XB1/Switch) $14.99  msrp $29.99

Amazon has the PS4 version for the same price.

 

BOGO Fortnite Figures

 

Other Fornite deals:

Buy any v-bucks card, get the SteelSeries - Arctis 1 Wireless Stereo Gaming Headset for PC for $59.99

 

 

Here's what the Darkfire Bundle includes:

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/darkfire

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    Doom Eternal $39.99 at Best Buy

    First time I’ve seen it discounted. With return windows extended until May 31st, you may be eligible for price match even if you bought it at launch.

    Xbox One https://www.bestbuy.com/site/doom-eternal-standard-edition-xbox-one/6255282.p?skuId=6255282

    PS4 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/doom-eternal-standard-edition-playstation-4/6255267.p?skuId=6255267

    Windows https://www.bestbuy.com/site/doom-eternal-standard-edition-windows/6255255.p?skuId=6255255





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    RagingStallion: Logan Stevens and Donnie Argento

    Anonymous studs at the bathhouse carry on with their fun. Bearded stud Logan Stevens stumbles on Donnie Argento, face-down-ass-up in his room wearing nothing but a jock. Enticed by Donnie’s hot hole, Logan steps up and dives straight in to eat his furry ass. After eating out Donnie’s hole, Logan spins his new anon friend... View Article

    The post RagingStallion: Logan Stevens and Donnie Argento appeared first on QueerClick.




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    NextDoorStudios: Dean Hughes

    Mmm take a look. Sexy Dean Hughes is oh so fine to look at. But we all know that casting is about more than looks, so let’s find out. Does Dean have what it takes to blow your load? What do you think, does he pass or fail? See more at NextDoorStudios.

    The post NextDoorStudios: Dean Hughes appeared first on QueerClick.




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    Do Flyers have a Social Life?

    We bowed our heads in prayer to mourn yet another loss. It was the third murder in a week. The police captain called a meeting together to develop collaborative alternatives to enforcement so the mostly Black and Latino civilian volunteers could get more involved in promoting crime control. Lakeside, where I was conducting research, is […]




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    The “New” Gender-Neutral Doll

    Mattel, creator of the Barbie doll, has launched “a doll line designed to keep labels out and invite everyone in—giving kids the freedom to create their own customizable characters again and again.”  This doll has minimal makeup, a short hairstyle with an attachable long-hair wig, a flat chest, flat feet (for wearing sneakers, hiking boots, […]




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    Does Blindness Beat Bias?

    Because everything is currently terrible, I binge-watched Love is Blind. In case you are planning to do the same, this is a spoiler-free post. You probably know the premise: contestants in this romantic reality romp go on speed dates in little pods. They can’t see their conversation partners, and at the end of the dates […]




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    Trump On Pence Staffer That Tested Positive For COVID19: 'I Don't Know What Happened'

    After it was revealed Friday that Mike Pence's spokesperson, who is Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, tested positive, Trump gave an illogical and moronic response to the media about her and coronavirus testing in general.

    Trump said, "She tested very good for a long period of time, and then all of a sudden today, she tested positive."

    That's the way any virus spreads, especially one as infectious as COVID-19. One day you don't have it, and the next, if you're not protecting yourself, you've got it.

    Trump said he and Pence tested negative after her results came back.

    "So she tested positive out of the blue," he said.

    A person doesn't test positive out of the freaking blue. They were contaminated by somebody else. It's Basic Science 101.

    Trump continued, "This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great."

    Trump has admitted how much he hates the idea of testing Americans in general, not because they are unreliable, but because it affects the number of cases that are reported, and makes him look bad.

    What a swell guy.

    Then he made another baffling statement that makes no sense in any reality. Trump said, "The tests are perfect, but something can happen between a test where it’s good and then something happens and all of a sudden…”

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    Cops Didn't Enforce Law On Anti-lockdown Protesters, COVID-19 Spread

    Remember the April 15th "Operation Gridlock?" in Lansing Michigan? In my piece on April 21st I said we needed to start tracking these protesters to show that they will spread the virus to other communities. Well, someone did.

    Cellphone data shows 300 of the people who had gathered in Lansing for "Operation Gridlock" scattered throughout the state after the protest. The color of the dot represents device activity: yellow is more activity, red is lighter Image from: Doctors at the Committee to Protect Medicare

    The people at the Committee to Protect Medicare released data which shows the protesters dispersing to smaller communities across Michigan in the following days. The map above shows that cellphones that were in Lansing on April 15 scattered across the state. (Link)

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    • anti-lockdown protests
    • coronavirus. COVID-19
    • First Lt. Darren Green
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    Colorado: Latest updates on coronavirus

    More than 130 people in the state have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and one has died.




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    High Vibe Honey: Week Of 23rd February 2020 + What To Do If You Feel Lonely!

    Do you struggle with feeling lonely or alone? Hilariously, you’re not alone! Loneliness is an epidemic, and in fact, it’s the number one public health crisis. We are increasingly disconnected from one another, while at the same time we have more opportunities to connect than ever. So if you find it hard to make friends, […]

    The post High Vibe Honey: Week Of 23rd February 2020 + What To Do If You Feel Lonely! appeared first on Gala Darling.



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    House of 1000 Doors: The Palm of Zoroaster

    Exclusive offer from Giveaway of the Day and ToomkyGames! No third-party advertising and browser add-ons! Guide Kate Reed as she searches for the artifacts that can break the power of a cursed gem in House of 1,000 Doors: The Palm of Zoroaster! A cursed gem that has left a trail of smoldering bodies in its wake is threatening the residents of the House of 1,000 Doors, prompting the head of the mystical dwelling to once again summon Kate Reed to its aid. Guide Kate as she searches for the artifacts that can break the power of the gem!




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    Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes Is Now Available For Xbox One And Windows 10 (Xbox Play Anywhere)

    Product Info: Developer: Arcade Distillery Publisher: Arcade Distillery Website: Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes Twitter: @ArcadeDistiller




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    Duke Of Defense Is Now Available For Xbox One And Windows 10 (Xbox Play Anywhere)

    Product Info: Developer: Sebastian Nigro, Christ Anselmo Publisher: HItcents Website: Duke Of Defense Twitter: @tophtacular / @Seabass_N / @Hitcents




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    SokoBunny Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One

    NOTE: You may pre-download this game, but it will not be playable until the release date/time: 05/22/2020 – 3:00 AM (check the product page for release date/time in your region).   Product Info: Developer: DillyFrameGames Publisher: DillyFrameGames Website: SokoBunny Twitter: @DillyFrameGames




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    NASCAR Heat 5 Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One

    NOTE: You may pre-download this game, but it will not be playable until the release date/time: 07/10/2019 (check the product page for release date/time in your region). Get three days early access when you purchase the Gold Edition. Product Info: Developer: Motorsport Games Publisher: 704 Games Company Website: NASCAR Heat 5 Twitter: @704Games / @MSportgames / @NASCARHeat




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    In the Interest of Safety, NFPA Cancels June 2020 NFPA Conference & Expo® in Orlando

    At this time, the world continues to be significantly impacted by COVID-19 and we no longer believe it is possible to host and conduct the NFPA Conference and Expo in June. NFPA is a safety organization and we would not hold an event where the well-being



    • nfpa conference & expo
    • home fire sprinklers
    • 2019 nfpa conference & expo
    • home fire sprinkler advocacy

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    Darkest Of Days At DOJ

    The corrupt, unprecedented abandonment of the prosecution of Mike Flynn by the Barr Justice Department – despite having secured a...




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    Why The Flynn Dismissal Is Way Worse Than A Pardon

    No, this is not like a pardon by other means. The Barr Justice Department’s corrupt abandonment of the prosecution of...




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    A Catastrophe for the DOJ

    From TPM Reader ANON … Your brief write-up is true as far as it goes, but doesn’t even scratch the...




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    Doubling Down

    TPM Reader DB reports in from the Shenandoah Valley … So I was listening to your podcast tonight and I...




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    Case Mod Friday: IndominAORUS Bench

    This week for Case Mod Friday we have what might be the ultimate bench build! It is from KillR_MODZ and he calls it the IndominAORUS Bench featuring all new Z490 hardware and some awesome watercooling!

    The post Case Mod Friday: IndominAORUS Bench appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.





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    Where do baby magnetars come from? Mysterious 'fast radio bursts' may provide clues.

    Magnetars — highly magnetized, rapidly rotating super-dense stars — are among the most enigmatic creatures to inhabit the cosmos and their origins are shrouded in mystery.




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    Our Doctors, Ourselves: Barbara Seaman and Popular Health Feminism in the 1970s

    “If the plastic speculum was the tool of choice for self-help advocates, leading women to a better understanding of their own bodies, then the popular media was Barbara Seaman’s preferred weapon in the cultural battle against medical sexism.”
    — Kelly O’Donnell, in her article “Our Doctors, Ourselves: Barbara Seaman and Popular Health Feminism in the 1970s”

    Barbara Seaman, a popular journalist in the 1960s and 70s who wrote for magazines including Brides, Ms., Ladies Home Journal, and Family Circle, was one of the first journalists to ... More

    The post Our Doctors, Ourselves: Barbara Seaman and Popular Health Feminism in the 1970s appeared first on Our Bodies Ourselves.




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    Book Week 2019: David Shariatmadari's Don't Believe a Word

    Welcome to the third review post of Book Week 2019. In the intro to Book Week 2019, I explain what I'm doing this week. In the end, there will be four posts. I thought there would be five, but one of the books has (orig. BrE) gone missing. Having had a day off yesterday, I will also have a day off tomorrow, so the final review will appear during the weekend. Probably.

    Anyhow, today's book is:

    Don't believe a word
    the surprising truth about language

    by David Shariatmadari
    Norton, 2019 (N America)
    W&N, 2019 (UK/RoW)


    David Shariatmadari writes for the Guardian, often about language, and is one of the sensible journalists on the topic. The number of sensible journalists writing about language has really shot up in the past decade, and judging from reading their books, this is in part because of increasingly clear, public-facing work by academic linguists. (Yay, academic linguists!) But in Shariatmadari's case, the journalist is a linguist: he has a BA and MA in the subject. And it shows—in the best possible way. 

    The book is a familiar genre: busting widely held language myths. If you've read books in this genre before, you probably don't need these myths busted. You probably know that linguistic change is natural, that the border between language and dialect is unfindable, that apes haven't really learned sign languages, and that no form of language is inherently superior to another. Nevertheless, you may learn something new, since Shariatmadari's tastes for linguistic research and theories is not always on the same wavelength as some other books directed at such a general audience.

    Once again, I'm reviewing with a partial view of the book (this is the practical law of Book Week 2019). In this case, I've read chapters 1, 5, and 9 and skimmed through other bits. The introductory chapter gives us a bit of insight into Shariatmadari's conversion to full-blown linguist, as a reluctant student of Arabic who was quickly converted to admiration for the language and to the study of language as an insight into humanity. "It's not hyperbole to say that linguistics is the universal social science", he writes. "It intrudes into almost every area of knowledge."
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    I chose to read chapter 5 because I'd had the pleasure of hearing him talk about its topic at a student conference recently: the popularity of "untranslatable word" lists. Goodness knows, I've contributed to them. What I liked about the talk was his detective work on the words themselves—some of the words and definitions presented in lists of 'untranslatables' are practically fictional. And yet, those of us who don't speak the language in question often eat up these lists because of our ethnocentric need to exotici{s/z}e others. This leads inevitably to discussion of linguistic relativism—the notion that the language you speak affects the way you think—and the bad, old (so-called) evidence for it and the newer evidence for something much subtler. The chapter then goes in a direction I wasn't expecting: introducing Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), an interesting (but far from universally taught) approach to meaning that uses about 65 semantic building blocks to represent and compare meanings across languages. NSM adherents make the case that few, if any, words are truly equivalent across languages. But while any word in one language may have no single-word equivalent in another language, that doesn't mean those words are untranslatable. It just means that translating them can be a delicate and complicated thing.

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    The final chapter (9) takes the opposite view to David Adger's Language Unlimited (in my last review), and argues that the hierarchical (and human-specific) nature of linguistic structure need not be the product of an innate Universal Grammar, but instead could arise from the complexity of the system involved and humans' advanced social cognition. While Adger had a whole book for his argument, Shariatmadari has 30-odd pages, and so it's not really fair to compare them in terms of the depth of their argumentation, but still worth reading the latter to get a sense of how linguists and psychologists are arguing about these things.

    Shariatmadari is a clear and engaging writer, and includes a good range of references and a glossary of linguistic terminology. If you know someone who still believes some language myths, this might be a good present for them. (Though in my experience, people don't actually like getting presents that threaten their worldview. I still do it, because I care more about myth-busting writers earning royalties than I care about linguistic chauvinists getting presents they want.) It would also make an excellent gift for A-level English and language students (and teachers) and others who might be future linguists. After they read it, send them my way. I love having myth-busted students.




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    COPINHO DE PÁSCOA (Coelho com Doces)

    Que tal um copinho barato, fácil e rápido de fazer para esta Páscoa!? Nosso COPINHO DE PÁSCOA com decoração de coelho é perfeito para colocar docinhos e presentear ou vender! Confira no vídeo ao vivo o passo a passo.

    O post COPINHO DE PÁSCOA (Coelho com Doces) apareceu primeiro em Cozinha do Bom Gosto.




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    Cuidado com o Álcool Gel na Cozinha

    Um pequeno lembrete para que todos tomem cuidado com álcool gel, principalmente na cozinha! Em época de Coronavírus, temos usado muito o produto nas mãos, em superfícies e embalagens. Apesar de muito eficiente para a higienização, é inflamável e muitas vezes suas chamas não são visíveis aos olhos!

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    Torta de Liquidificador de Frango

    A melhor receita de torta de liquidificador que já fiz! A massa é super fácil e leva poucos ingredientes! Te ensino ainda como fazer um recheio de frango que é rápido e prático! Bora fazer para dividir com a família? Rende uma torta grande ????

    O post Torta de Liquidificador de Frango apareceu primeiro em Cozinha do Bom Gosto.




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    Cone Trufado Torta de Limão

    Nosso CONE TRUFADO TORTA DE LIMÃO é super refrescante e uma ótima ideia para quem quer vender doces! Vem aprender a fazer o recheio e a decoração! Ao final do vídeo, você confere a validade da receita e a sugestão do preço de venda!

    O post Cone Trufado Torta de Limão apareceu primeiro em Cozinha do Bom Gosto.




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    Experimentando Doces: Dubai e Tailândia

    Vem dar risada com a gente neste quadro “Experimentando Doces Gringos”! ???? Desta vez provamos doces de Dubai e Tailândia! Entre eles está um dos meus doces industrializados favoritos! Assista e veja se você também fica com água na boca!

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    PUDIM GELADO DE COCO

    Nosso Pudim Gelado de Coco não leva ovo, não vai ao fogo e nem ao forno! É super fácil de fazer: basta bater tudo no liquidificador! Você pode servir puro e geladinho ou colocar a calda da sua preferência! Anote os ingredientes!

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