Today marks the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s last speech. He spoke in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968. The speech has memorialized as “I’ve Been To The Mountain Top”:
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Thank you for this post. It has actually been 55 years.
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Television laugh tracks, or pre-recorded laughter designed to give the illusion of a laughing studio audience, debuted in 1950 on the Hank McCune Show.
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Macaws and other parrots in the western Amazon basin of Peru congregate along exposed river banks to gather the clay found there, which they eat later in nearby trees. Researchers are unsure why they do so, but believe that the inland birds eat the clay to supplement their diet with salt.
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The deepest point in all of the Earth’s oceans is the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. The deepest area within the trench, appropriately named the Challenger Deep, is a staggering 36,037 feet (10,984 meters) below sea level.
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The “Wilhelm Scream” is a stock sound effect of a man’s scream which has been used in hundreds of movies, television shows, cartoons, and video games. It was originally recorded in 1951 for the film Distant Drums.
For those of you who have been asking us to help you with your colds, fevers, and various virus borne diseases, when we checked we found that many of you were getting infected by bacteria, viruses, and many other very bad pathogens. When we checked the source of these infections, we discovered that they were coming from your remotes. This article was found and may explain and help.
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Most of us recognize that certain things in our homes tend to attract more germs than others. You wouldn’t dream of not cleaning your toilet, your shower, or your kitchen.
But, you could be forgetting to clean one of the grossest things of all—your remote control.
Chances are you use the remote almost every single day. Whether you’re pausing Netflix to go get a snack or you’re simply flipping through channels to find something good, think of how often you (and everyone else in your house) touch the remote control.
Unfortunately, it’s unlikely everyone is washing their hands before grabbing it to watch a show. Gross, right?
Germs can spread quickly, even on surfaces. Thankfully, it’s easy to clean your remote often and only takes a few minutes each time. Just about any household bleach or alcohol can be used to clean the device. But make sure you dilute bleach with water and always wear rubber gloves!
Instead of spraying the remote with a bottle, remove the batteries and wipe everything down with a cloth or paper towel that’s been sprayed with a cleaning solution. If you’re having a hard time getting in between the buttons, consider a cotton swab or Q-tip that can get between small spaces. Let it air dry, put the batteries back, and you’re good to go!
You don’t necessarily have to clean your remote control every day. But, try to disinfect it at least once a week as part of your regular cleaning routine. You’ll feel much better about your next Netflix binge if you do.
Thanks. My friends and I in Cali and Florida are suffering w a weird allergy head congestion. I’m cleaning my remote when I sigh off !
Did you use the IRS-authorized website eFile.com —- Very Bad News,
We have some bad news if you used the IRS-authorized website eFile.com to prepare your taxes this year. Security researchers say the site was hacked and compromised for weeks, serving up malware alongside refunds.
According to several users on Reddit dating back to March, not to mention security researchers on Twitter, hackers are using the site to target users with a Windows machine and injecting malware on computers.
While filing taxes, users could see a fake “This site can’t be reached” pop-up with a link that delivered malware through a javascript file. And considering the first reports are from mid-March, who knows how long this has been happening. You can learn more from a post by Johannes Ullrich, a security researcher at the SANS Technology Institute.
Apparently, users were getting a pop-up saying the site couldn’t be reached and to update their browsers. Then, unfortunately, a malicious link labeled “update.exe” was ready and waiting for unsuspecting users. We do not know the scope of the hack.
If there’s a silver lining, we’re hearing the eFile website was updated and removed the malware link. However, there’s no telling if the site suffered a more significant breach, which would be bad news. The company’s Twitter account has been inactive since 2020, and the website doesn’t mention the hack in any capacity.
Considering all the sensitive information input during tax season, this entire situation is very concerning. We’ll report back if we learn more.
The old couple stood before the family court judge asking for a divorce.
“ I can’t believe this” the judge said. You are 99, your wife is 98. You’ve been married for 80 years. Why get divorced now?”
The old man replied “We didn’t want to upset the children, so we waited until they were dead.”
So an elderly Italian man living alone in New Jersey wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, since the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:
Dear Vincent,
I am feeling pretty sad, because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I’m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my
troubles would be over.. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.
Love, Papa
A few days later he received a letter from his son.
Dear Pop,
Don’t dig up that garden. That’s where the bodies are buried.
Love,
Vinnie
At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.
Dear Pop,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That’s the best I could do under the circumstances.
Love you,
JOKE:
One day, a farmer was tending to his livestock when he noticed that one of his cows was
completely cross-eyed. He called up a veterinarian friend of his who told him to bring in his cow.
The vet took one look at the cow, stuck a tube up the cow’s butt, and blew into the tube until the cow’s
eyes straightened out. The vet charged the farmer a hundred bucks, and the farmer went home happy. About a
week later, the cow’s eyes were cross-eyed again, but this time the farmer figured he could probably take care of
it himself. So he called his hired hand over, and together they put a tube up the cow’s butt. The farmer put his
lips to the tube and started to blow. Strangely, nothing happened, so he asked his hired hand to give it a try.
The hired hand removed the tube, turned it around, put it in the cow’s butt and started to blow.
“What are you doing?” asked the farmer, horrified.
“Well, I wasn’t gonna use the side that YOU had put your lips on.”
JOKE:
The Will
With but hours to live, Doug asks for two witnesses to be present and a camcorder in place to record his last wishes. His nurse, his wife, his daughter, and two sons are with him. When all is ready, Doug says, “My son Sam I want you to take the Ocean Reef houses.
“My daughter, Sybil, you take the apartments between mile markers 100 and Tavernier.
“My son Jamie, I want you to take the offices over in the Marathon Government Center.
“Sarah, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings on the bay side on Blackwater Sound.”
The nurse and witnesses are blown away as they did not know about his extensive holdings.
After Doug passes, the nurse says, “Mrs. Boone, your husband must have been such a hard-working man to have accumulated all this property.”
The wife replies, “He had a paper route.”
Joke:
A man is talking to the family doctor, “Doc, I think my wife’s going deaf.”
The doctor answers, “Well, here’s something you can try on her to test her hearing. Stand some distance away from her and ask her a question. If she doesn’t answer, move a little closer and ask again. Keep repeating this until she answers. Then you’ll be able to tell just how hard of hearing she really is.”
The man goes home and tries it out.
He walks in the door and says, “Honey, what’s for dinner?”
He doesn’t hear an answer, so he moves closer to her.
“Honey, what’s for dinner?” Still no answer.
He repeats this several times until he’s standing just a few feet away from her.
Finally, she answers,
“For the eleventh time, I said we’re having MEATLOAF!”
Joke:
A man walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender gives the man his drink and the man asks “If I show you something crazy, would you let me have free drinks?” The bartender says “It would have to be something spectacular to take that offer.”
The man leans down and picks up a box and sets it on the bar.
He opens the box and inside is a small piano man, who is only 1 foot tall, and a little piano. The piano man starts playing Chopin. Once he finishes, the bartender is in utter disbelief. He tells the man “You can have free drinks for the rest of the night, but only if you tell where you got this.”
The man says “In the alleyway behind your bar, there is a Genie who is granting free wishes to everyone who wants them.” Elated, the bartender heads behind his bar to see if it was true. A few minutes pass and out of the alleyway erupts a cacophony of quacking.
The bartender rushes back into the bar and shuts his door against a wave of thousands of ducks. He manages to secure the door and says to the man “I think that the Genie is hard of hearing because after I asked for a million bucks, these ducks appeared by the thousands.” The man chuckles and says “Did you really think I wished for a 12-inch pianist
JOKE:
A dying man gathered his Lawyer, Doctor, and Clergyman at his bedside and handed each of them an envelope containing $25,000 in cash. He made them each promise that after his death and during his repose, they would place the three envelopes in his coffin. He told them that he wanted to have enough money to enjoy the next life.
A week later the man died.
At the Wake, the Lawyer and Doctor and Clergyman, each concealed an envelope in the coffin and bid their old client and friend farewell. By chance, these three met several months later. Soon the Clergyman, feeling guilty, blurted out a confession saying that there was only $10,000 in the envelope he placed in the coffin. He felt, rather than waste all the money, he would send it to a Mission in South America. He asked for their forgiveness.
The Doctor, moved by the gentle Clergyman’s sincerity, confessed that he too had kept some of the money for a worthy medical charity. The envelope, he admitted, had only $8000 in it. He said, he too could not bring himself to waste the money so frivolously when it could be used to benefit others.
By this time the Lawyer was seething with self-righteous outrage. He expressed his deep disappointment in the felonious behavior of two of his oldest and most trusted friends.
I am the only one who kept his promise to our dying friend. I want you both to know that the envelope I placed in the coffin contained the full amount. Indeed, my envelope contained my personal check for the entire $25,000.
So a bunch of aliens decided to settle in Massachusetts –
Polyamorous families now have legal protections in this Massachusetts city
Ordinances passed by Somerville’s city council — the first of their kind in the country — are aimed at recognizing the rights of non-traditional families.
Sara Luterman
Caregiving reporter
Sara Luterman, The 19th
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April 5, 2023, 7:00 a.m. PT
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Somerville, Massachusetts, has become the first city in the United States to extend legal protections against discrimination to people in polyamorous relationships and other nontraditional family structures.
Last month, the city council passed the first three ordinances defining “family or relationship structure” as a protected class, akin to race, gender or sexual orientation. The ordinances also extended specific anti-discrimination protections in police interactions and employment. A fourth ordinance is currently under consideration to bar housing discrimination.
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An estimated 4 to 5 percent of Americans are polyamorous, and 21 percent reported engaging in some form of consensual non-monogamy at some point in their lives, according to a 2016 study in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy.
This number includes Willie Burnley Jr., Somerville’s city councilor at-large.
“These ordinances are a step towards us having a society that fully embraces people of diverse relationship structures. People shouldn’t be punished because of who they love or how many people they love, as long as they’re all consenting adults. We should be celebrating the kind of care and community that builds,” Burnley told The 19th.
This is not the first legislation Somerville has passed recognizing non-traditional family structures. In 2020, the city expanded rights normally reserved for married couples, like hospital visitation, to relationships involving more than two adults.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Berkeley and Oakland in California are currently considering similar ordinances to expand and protect the rights of polyamorous and nontraditional families. But Somerville — which sits northwest of Boston with a population of more than 80,000 — was the first municipality in the United States to pass the legislation.
Andy Izenson is senior legal director at the Chosen Family Law Center, which advocates on behalf of non-traditional families and provides direct legal support, and helped craft the text of the ordinances. They say that the changes are needed.
“In the law and in our society, there’s a singular definition of family that’s embedded in everything, in how our society and legal system work. That impacted families who don’t look like that. The legal and cultural understanding of what a family is – heterosexual, cisgender married parents living with a child or children that are genetically related to them, and no one else – less than half of American kids live in a family that looks like that,” Izenson said.
They drew a distinction between “animus,” the legal term for overt discrimination, and less overt forms of discrimination.
“We’re also looking at discriminatory impact — simply living in a world not set up for you. That’s damaging to individuals, to families, to children,” they said.
According to Izenson, the legal issue that arises most often for polyamorous families involves child custody. Judges will sometimes determine that individuals are unfit parents or should have less contact with their children during divorce proceedings, by virtue of the types of relationships they engage in.
“A lot of my work is in family courts and divorce, in particular with clients who live in nontraditional family structures. Whether that’s polyamory, which is sort of the most glamorous and well-publicized, but also other family structures that do not resemble that of a married, heterosexual monogamous couple,” Izenson said. “That includes families where parents are taking care of grandchildren or queer families who are co-parenting in a way that is creative and beautiful, but is not supported by law. That includes families like mine, which are networks of queer kinship that are fully and open-heartedly committed to mutual care and building lives together, but are not able to access legal protections.”
The ordinances in Somerville do not address child custody directly, but advocates hope to tackle the issue in future legislative efforts. Because of stigma and fear of legal repercussions from child protective services, The 19th was not able to locate polyamorous parents willing to speak on the record about their experiences.
“There’s a deep concern within the community about children being taken away from families if disputes arise or if they are in contact with law enforcement. There’s this idea that their family structures are immoral or unhealthy. Our legal system and our cultural consciousness has omitted the fact that non-monogamy is a real and vibrant part of our communities,” Burnley said.
Heron Greenesmith, cofounder of the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, said it is unlikely that there will be state or federal legislation protecting the rights of polyamorous families for some time, because of the current political environment in the United States. The rights of LGBTQ+ Americans are under attack in many states, so it’s hard to focus on expanding protections.
“It’s all defensive right now on the state and federal level,” Greenesmith said.
Izenson remained optimistic and stressed the importance of work beyond the law.
“Legislative advocacy and changes in black-letter law always have to be one arm of a comprehensive and diverse toolbox for the liberation of the marginalized,” they said. “I’m excited that the law is changing. I’m excited to see how the law changes further. And also, I want to be realistic about the limits of the law. It’s never going to stop being important for queer families to take care of each other on a material level.”
Burnley also sees the ordinances as a step towards not only legal change, but cultural change as well.
“I think this is the first salvo in a larger cultural movement towards freedom for families. It’s funny that right-wing types try to monopolize being pro-family,” Burnley said. “But ordinances like this are about being able to form a family in whatever ethical ways people choose. We will be seeing more drastic changes as we come together as communities.”
J]9, Your hypothesis that the Three Beings most believe to be true Gods are really just three intelligent beings that have mastered time is based on circular reasoning. You say that for them all points in time past, present, and future exist at once. Yes, we know this to be true for points in space. Yet, we can travel between those points. We can measure that distance in relation to the time it takes us to get from one point to the other with speed being constant. Dimensional travel has proven that time is a dimension too. Your logic escapes me: Because for those Beings there is no past, present, or future. We exist as a product of their imaginations, thus we have a past, present, or future depending on when one of those Gods decides on a special “now.” From that “now” we get our past, present, or future. Hence to us time moves forward. Such is the basics of the law of thermodynamics.
If you can prove that from some point they can control time for the entire universe and remain untouched my this invention, then, all you have done is define the powers of at least one God using a machine to do it. That logic escapes me because what would be the purpose, what would be gained by it? To invent such a machine would require what everything in the Universe requires – a memory and a way to carry the information from that memory forward. None of the creations we have today or will have tomorrow could or will exist without that forward flow from a previous memory. Since this happens over time, therefore, can not invent something without a memory to create access to the information we need to create something new.
To be a God means there is no need to invent anything through memory or the need for information, a God only needs to imagine a thing, allow it to exist and move on to watch its development or not. To the Gods we are mere entertainment at best and non existent at worst.
Our proof is the planet Swuenau. Given to Howie by the Gods and available to any who have the ability to land on its surface. A place that is there and not there at the same time. A place where anything can happen simply by imaging that it is happening. No being who has gone there leaves not believing in the Gods. As you have not been there, my suggestion is for you to go so that you can put your revered intelligence to making the Universe better for all of us.
S*/e9, I can personally attest that something can be instantly created out of nothing. I can also personally attest that memories can be removed. So, based on your query, from my experience, there is no reason to have memory in order to be able to create something.
S*/e9, I can personally attest that memories can be removed. I can also personally attest that something can be created and/or manifested instantly out of nothing.
S*/e9,
In addition, if my memory serves me correctly, the planet name is Sweteno.
That would be the interpretation that early visitors to the planet came away with. We have no record of such spelling. Do you think our memories were removed?Why would someone want to do that?
No, I do not think your memories were removed.
I understand. No, I do not think your memories were removed.
I have been told it’s wonderful there but many are destined to lose the memory after visiting. If I have been, I don’t remember.
I also saw a platinum colored diamond inlayed orb worn around the neck of Someone.
They may well be one and same.
You can interpret that how you wish.
Michelle, is she dead or taken? I know she has always wanted to be part of the stars, but we loved each other. I cannot believe she voluntarily left me. I regret having mentioned to you she was a girl. You have wronged me.
If you truly loved her, you would be okay with her choice. I only wish she had taken me with her. This place sucks and it becomes scarier every day. She is a “girlz.” It was her life, she lived it. Leave Michelle alone or I will call your mother and tell her about this blog and show her some to the jokes you have posted here.
She told everyone she would be going because she knew that Michelle never lets a girlz down. You men with your selfish ways can be tiresome.
We truly loved each other for over 20 years. I knew what was important to her and was okay with her choice. I willingly helped her get to her decision and got out of her way to help make that decision happen. It was her life and her destiny as the “original GIRLZ”. Our life’s bigger picture prevailed. I have and will always wish her well.
Surely you jest. Men always think they mean more to a woman that she does. Like Paul, I think you are giving yourself too much credit. The Original Girlz I followed was a force unto herself.
I’m sure so many wish they actually knew her. You do have your vision though. Good for you.
So Doug what was she like when you met her? Is she an alien? Why did you part ways? Do you still talk with her. I’m in Saudi Arabia and I want to leave so desperately.
So you actually knew her. Did you know that she was the head of the Girlz? Is that why he had to leave you? Are you sad? I live in Sialkot, Pakistan. We have a Girlz club. I am the Wazir-e-Azam. I have several Girlz that would like to leave this earth. Can you tell her to find us?
Of course she voluntarily left your ass. She’s gone isn’t she? Men they always over value themselves in a relationship. She is probably so glad to be rid of your ass that she’s forgotten your relationship ever existed. Men, a bunch of selfish narcissists who think a woman loved them way more than she did when they were together. Michelle offers women an opportunity to get away from you narcissists like she did in her marriage. Okay I never met her but from her blogs I can tell she didn’t suffer fools likely. You better believe she cut that cord with gusto, and you can say the same for your lady. Be a man like Doug and get over it,
📱 End of the Road
Happy Thursday! Samsung has stopped providing OS security updates to the Galaxy S10 series, even though the phones are only four years old.
Meanwhile, Google Chrome might get a new design on iPhone, and Microsoft Copilot AI is coming to OneNote.
Samsung released the Galaxy S10, S10+ and S10e in early 2019, serving as the company’s best Android phones until the S20 series arrived the following year. Unfortunately, all three phones are now out of software support.
When the Galaxy S10 series first arrived, Samsung only promised two years of major Android OS upgrades and security patches for another additional year. That paled in comparison to Apple’s software support for iPhones, so Samsung gradually raised that to the current pledge of four years of OS updates and five years of security patches. Samsung extended the Galaxy S10’s software support, but not quite to the extent that its current phones receive — all three models recieved Android 12 in 2022, marking the third major update for the phones.
Unfortunately, system security updates for the S10 series have now ended, and all three phones are now fully out of software support. Most apps and services will continue to work for a while, but as time goes on, the security vulnerabilities that Google fixes each month won’t be pushed to S10 devices. If you own a Galaxy S10, S10+, or S10e, you’re more at risk of malware and other issues with each passing day.
Making matters worse, the Galaxy S10 series in the United States does not have unlockable bootloaders, so you can’t even switch to a custom ROM to continue receiving security updates from community developers. The only real solution is to buy a new phone — Apple is still the king of long-term software support for phones, and Samsung’s latest flagship and mid-range devices will get 5 years of security patches (starting from when they are released).
If you have a Galaxy S10 phone and you can’t upgrade for now, the built-in Google Play Protect should prevent most forms of app-based malware. Google Chrome and other browsers also still support Android 12 (the last update for the S10 series), keeping you protected from web vulnerabilities. In fact, Chrome still supports OS versions as old as Android 7.0, as of version 112.
Do Unwashed Water Bottles Contain More Bacteria Than Toilet Seats?
Cutting down on disposable water bottles by turning to a reusable water bottle is great and all, but are you guilty of not washing it? It’s so convenient to grab and go—and when you get back home after a long day, you tell yourself you were the only one using it. That means it’s basically clean… right?
Hmm… wrong. Turns out, if you wouldn’t lick a toilet seat, you shouldn’t drink out of a dirty water bottle.
Why a toilet seat specifically? Because according to a study conducted by WaterFilterGuru.com, your water bottle could be carrying up to 40,000 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat.
I’d like to thank everyone who made this wet winter happen. Can you help me out? I’d like to retire comfortably. I need some help winning a moderate monetary lottery. Your help is greatly appreciated.