World Views

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Re: https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/stou ... p-clothing

"Stouffer's, the frozen food brand, is debuting a merch shop featuring its own clothing"

"Stouffer’s — a brand synonymous with the frozen-food aisle of your grocery store — is debuting a line of apparel that includes sweatshirts, T-shirts, and even a fanny pack that will enable fans to display their (clearly) overzealous love for frozen lasagna or macaroni and cheese."

Of course, long-term fans of Stouffer's mac 'n cheese may not need the fanny pack.
Even the Stouffer's name now seems to associate with "gourmand".

Entrepreneur Alert
If you're fond of food (and it shows), why not advertise how you achieved your size?!
Maybe food purveyors would at least offer discount coupons for more product.
Caution: Two donuts on a T-shirt may advertise a different product!

Rod

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/politics ... index.html

"Atlas push to 'slow the testing down' tracks with dramatic decline in one key state"

A version of "What you don't know won't hurt you" (unless it hurts you).
The upside is herd immunity being promoted via increasing infections
caused by less concern about prevention.

Rod

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Re: https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/i ... -locations

"IHOP will close nearly 100 restaurants in the next six months"

"Indoor dining restrictions might be making it harder for pancakes to sell like hotcakes during the pandemic."

Since pancakes and sausages on sticks (good for dippin') and eggy muffins might be popular
(with IHOPpers* delivering meals-to-go to cars), some of these iconic restaurants might survive.

* Bunny costumes suggest a different service, but other creatures/critters hop.
Ima Hopper could be the mascot ... with giveaway buttons, decals, T-shirts, etc.

The marketing differentiation is that Ima Hopper refers to a streamlined meal-to-go service
where customer places order by phone and pre-pays (transaction completed when order received
by customer in waiting vehicle). The "I'm a fast mover!" insinuation is a marketing plus!

Rod

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Re: https://www.yahoo.com/news/couple-lived ... 14673.html

"A couple has lived in a 130-square-foot tiny house for 5 years — here's what a typical week looks like for them"

"While it's easy to clean the small space quickly, Stephens also noted that the space can get dirty even faster,
especially because their dog sheds so much."

One would think that "tiny house" calls for "tiny dog" ... or even "virtual dog"
since there's no room for de Roomba to de-shed de main room.

Rod

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Re: https://www.foxnews.com/travel/london-f ... rst-airbnb

"But to our surprise when we uploaded this thing on to Airbnb, we had an insane amount of interest
for people to come and stay within our establishment"

According to stories online, there are worser Airbnb's
(for example, those that don't exist when you arrive)

Rod

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Re: https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/pr ... 053173002/

"Make a lifelike scarecrow decoration that you can trade places with to make trick-or-treaters jump in fear."

This assumes that the same people who view this scarecrow for a few days will be Halloween's "trick or treaters".
But today's "trick or treaters" might carry personal protection to avoid being someone's trick for the evening.

Rod

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Re: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how- ... -superfood

"Superfood is a marketing term. It has no nutritional meaning"

"consumers should just focus on the value of eating more whole fruits and vegetables in general."

"The key to eating healthfully is to eat a wide variety of these foods so their nutrient contents complement each other"

Rod

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Re: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/pol ... 27765.html

"The Halloween decorations include a bloody walkway, with multiple dummies laying facedown on the ground; one of which has a chainsaw to its back and another had its head smashed by a safe. There was also a dummy laying off the front end of the roof with a machete to its skull and a tipped over wheelbarrow with plastic bags of fake dismembered body parts."

Seems to me, Hispanic celebration of Day of the Dead is more respectful of the dead.
This increasingly (?) popular Halloween celebration just glorifies passage into deaddom.

Rod

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Re: https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-n ... id/992099/

"Poor Blood Flow to Brain Linked to Alzheimer's Risk"

"new research finds that diminished blood flow to the brain is tied to buildup of a protein long associated with Alzheimer's disease."

"But until we're better able to understand the sequence of events that leads to Alzheimer's, we can't truly say that we know the causal factors.
'That, she said, will require more research' that leaves no stone unturned."

Hmmm ... doesn't "stone" also refer to weight (and the dietary reasons thereof)?

Rod

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/asia/tai ... index.html

"Taiwan just went 200 days without a locally transmitted Covid-19 case."

Hmmm ... notice the much better weight control of these residents?
(excess weight is associated with severe coronavirus symptoms)

Rod

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Re: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/why ... -election/

Because of all the mail-in ballots that will take days (or a few weeks) to count,
winners of close elections may not be known for days (or weeks ... or ...)
... including the office of U.S. President!

A much overstated problem because the President is not inaugurated
until January 20 of next year (more than two months after election)

Rod

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/politics ... index.html

"Among the most crucial swing states, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania
don't count early ballots cast by voters who die before Election Day"

Maybe salient perspective is that a vote is cast for representation in the future - not against the past
... and a voter needs to be present to benefit from that future representation.

On the other hand, a parent effectively casts a vote for their underage child
... but not necessarily the vote the child would prefer.

Rod

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Re: https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/pr ... 068672002/

"How to make graveyard and ghost cookies"

I always thought that graveyard cookies were those with good "pick me up"
for graveyard shift workers ... and ghost cookies were for the lucky stiffs
who were sleeping since they did not have to work the graveyard shift ...
so these lighter cookies were also consumed on the graveyard shift.

New definitions (from the virtual graveyard) ...
Graveyard Gravy - any perceived benefit of working the graveyard shift.
Graveyard Gray - negative aging benefit of working the graveyard shift.
Graveyard G - low-speed cellular network used by graveyard residents.

Rod

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Re: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/student ... 08826.html

"Student in tears after submitting school paper with questionable title"

Apparently, the title was an interim comment about her paper!
"After I turned it in, I realized that the title is not appropriate"

Maybe she preferred to completely spell the word,
but her computer spell checker wouldn't cooperate ...
and ellipsical characters are not permitted.

Rod

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Re: http://nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/how ... statistics

"How Eugenics Shaped Statistics"

"Today, most people associate eugenics with Nazi Germany, but it was from these American eugenicists and Galton-followers
that the Nazis largely took their inspiration."

"Statistics, steeped as it is in esoteric mathematical terminology, may sometimes appear purely theoretical.
But the truth is that statistics is closer to the humanities than it would like to admit."

An interesting article about the history of eugenics and attempts to use statistics to support the concept.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -slur.html

"Montana judge changes racist name of 'Lost Coon Lake' to 'Lost Loon Lake' "

"Loon" seems to describe this judicial action since it's impossible to believe
that - in Montana, especially! - that "Coon" did not refer to "raccoon".
However, "raccoon" is indeed NOT the allusion ...

Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Coon_Lake

"The name allegedly came about from the fact that an African American woman named Mrs. Randals
ran a rooming house for lumberjacks near the lake. the name was not accurate, as many later claimed
that Mrs. Randals was of Spanish descent."

Obviously, it's long past time to rename the lake
So, let's celebrate and have a slice of Lost Loon Cake!

Rod

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The rest of the story ...

Re: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/re ... cal-wrong/

"One miner, Wilson Howard, staked claims around the lake at the base of McGregor in 1891. He named it Howard Lake."

So, this miner - not Mrs. Randall - is the person first associated with this lake! And he named it

Rod

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Re: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/poll-people ... strictions

"After months of steady progress, new confirmed cases of COVID-19 climbed to near record levels in the U.S. this week. Experts blame a nation that’s become complacent, and a new poll finds evidence to back them up: Support for measures to slow the virus’ spread has declined from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic."

Interestingly, being tired of the coronavirus is like ...
- being tired of performing artificial respiration to rescue someone,
- being tired of bailing out a boat that is slowly sinking.
- being tired of taking medication after a heart attack.

Obviously, the alternative is bit less tiring (until you depart
... but no one has reported back from the other side)

Rod

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/01/us/dunki ... index.html

"A couple got married at the Dunkin' drive-thru where they met"

"As the general manager of a Dunkin' in Oklahoma City, Sugar Good is used to seeing hundreds of new faces a day. But there was one face in particular she just couldn't get out of her head. His name was John Thompson, and she memorized the time he would visit every morning, the details of his order -- a large hot coffee with cream and sugar and a sausage, egg and cheese sandwich. But most of all, she memorized his smile."

And she already knew what he would want for breakfast ... but from that Dunkin'
His new motto: "Sugar Good! - 24/7"

Rod

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/01/health/v ... index.html

"The 'dose' of coronavirus a person gets may determine how sick they get"

"It's not because you need a certain number of particles of virus to infect a cell -- it just increases the odds that one of those viral particles will make it into the cell and infect it, setting off the chain reaction. Another way to think of it is like conception: You don't need millions of sperm to fertilize an egg -- you only need one -- but men make millions of sperm to improve the chances that one will reach the egg, overcome its defenses and fertilize it."

Who knew
"Overcome its defenses" means that the egg wants to be really wanted by a lil' swimmer. However, not all of the comparison applies, since a sneeze is not like (the other activity). Also, virus particles have many more cells than one egg to seduce.

Rod

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Re: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/i-am- ... 2020-11-02

"I am a white woman of privilege and a single mother. How do I stop my sister-in-law telling me why I have it so good?"

"Your sister-in-law has been renting space in your head for free, and I support your effort to put an end to it. People bring their own hang-ups to family gatherings. Happy people don’t feel the need to put other people down in order to make themselves feel or look better."

Probably more to this story than the sister-in-law put downs,
but "renting space in your head" is good perspective about dwelling on continual criticism.

Rod

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Re: https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/ways-to-get-out-of-debt

A recent Ramsey tip about personal debt ...
"If you have excessive debt, the only time you should visit a restaurant is when you work there."

However, today's debtors already know this reality check ...
"If you have excessive debt, the only time you should dumpster dine behind a restaurant is when you work there."

Rod

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Re: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bee-pop ... and-maine/

"Not only was there a 14% increase in the number of honey bee colonies from the period of January 2019 to January 2020, but the states experiencing the broadest increase in colony growth—Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Maine—added tens of thousands of colonies."

So, there will indeed be food from the plants that need pollination!


Re: https://www.zergnet.com/news/5809555/st ... youre-dead

"After you die, your brain knows you’re dead"

Makes sense! Once you know you're dead, you can start your journey to wherever.

Rod

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Re: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kfc-fri ... 00620.html

"KFC’s fried-chicken-scented firelog is back to bamboozle you"

"unless KFC has changed the log’s original recipe, heed Allison’s words of warning from last year:
'If you want your fire to smell like fried chicken, then buy a bucket of fried chicken and throw it in the pit.' "

Why not warm the chicken in your oven (for house aroma), then eat it (for chicken breath)!

However, "scratch 'n sniff" napkins with KFC logo would be a better concept ... even if free
Be sure to wipe your face and hands! Some families might prefer a designated chicken wafter
(person who will be the mobile chicken aroma). And "chicken dog" might be popular ...
but would be confused with chicken hot dogs.

Rod

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Re: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/walmart-lay ... for-humans

"Walmart is laying off the robots it had deployed in about 500 stores to keep tabs on what’s on and not on the shelves."

My recent Walmart experience with an automated floor cleaner (monitored by a nearby controller person)
found the machine to be a nuisance (frequently in my way and somewhat unpredictable in its movement).
I was soon trying to avoid it by choosing other aisles to shop first.

Rod