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Browsers
by Jeremy Keith I’ve been using Firefox as my main browser for a while now, and I can heartily recommend it. You should try it (and maybe talk to your relatives about it at Christmas). At this point, which browser you use no longer feels like it’s just about personal choice—it feels part of something …
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See the @NYTimes story about how Dutch church @BethelDenHaag has been holding a non-stop six-week service in order to prevent the deportation of a family taking refuge within?
Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/world/europe/migrants-dutch-church-service.html
My take: https://danq.me/2018/12/15/to-protect-migrants-from-police-a-dutch-church-service-never-ends/ -
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial
by BMJ ...
Conclusion
Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention.
However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps.
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Yeh et al (BMJ)
As always, when the BMJ … -
Performed maintenance for GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. At community suggestion, replaced containers at waypoints #1 and #2 with smaller, more-discreet variants to help reduce risk of future muggling. A geocacher still shouldn't struggle to find these containers, though: they're pretty obvious once you're …
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To Protect Migrants From Police, a Dutch Church Service Never Ends
by Patrick Kingsley ...[A] marathon church service, which started more than six weeks ago, and hasn’t stopped since, can never take a break.
Under an obscure Dutch law, the police may not disrupt a church service to make an arrest. And so for the past six weeks, immigration officials have been unable to enter Bethel Church … -
If your kid stops believing in Santa this year...
by Imgur **********************************
"In our family, we have a special way of transitioning the kids from receiving from Santa, to becoming a Santa. This way, the Santa construct is not a lie that gets discovered, but an unfolding series of good deeds and Christmas spirit.
When they are 6 or 7, whenever you see that dawning suspicion … -
Alpha-Gal and the Gaia Hypothesis
A tick bite can make you allergic to non-primate mammals. Gaia hypothesis advocates might suggest that the increase in frequency of such bites is an example of the Earth fighting back against intensive farming's impact on climate.
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The Hu - Yuve Yuve Yu
by The Hu
The Hu (YouTube)
Mongolian folk rock. Until right now, you probably didn't even know that this was missing from your life.
Be sure to switch on the translated subtitles (assuming you don't speak Mongolian): they're not perfect, but they're good enough to get the idea. Awesome. -
Emails to Melbourne's trees
Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns.
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Margaret Burin (ABC News)
In an effort to facilitate better tracking of the health of their trees, the city of Melbourne assigned an email address to each of … -
How to Poach an Egg and Leave a Marriage
by Brandy Jensen ...
Set a timer. Cook the eggs for precisely three minutes and not a second longer.
Everyone thinks they have a sense of how time passes, but it’s crucial to use a timer. You are never as right as you think. Three minutes goes by more quickly than you expect. Six years even quicker.
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Chromedge and headcount
So Microsoft is going to retire EdgeHTML and use Chromium instead for Edge while not really answering the question if the web [is] better off with less engine diversity. This upset people, and Mozilla, especially, is worrying about the future:
Will Microsoft’s decision make it harder for Firefox to prosper? It could. Making … -
Letters For Lucardo
by Erika Moen
Oh Joy Sex Toy
Click through for the full review. I've always loved me some Oh Joy Sex Toy, but I've rarely been inclined to buy something off the back of one of Erika's recommendations until now. -
Posted a note for GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Visited GZ as part of maintenance; all well here, although the "obvious" path to the cache continues to become increasingly overgrown - a fallen tree in the way almost but not quite justifies putting the terrain …
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Enabled GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Ran the trail myself, all looks good now!
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Made-maintenance OK045A Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to OK045A Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Replaced Waypoint #2 and checked on final stage. All well and ready to go!