Well this is interesting

Swaziland changed its name in 2018.

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I kinda wasn’t paying attention to the whole UFO thing that I was vaguely aware others were talking about, so this helped me catch up. I loved the ending!

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Short answer: probably yes, but not in any UFOs.

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This was cool to watch. Cued to skip the unboxing intro:

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I wanna do at least a 15-minute routine with Desi - just because of her name.

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The plant. No buds or hint of same.
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I still don’t know what kind of plant it is. Anyone got any ideas where I might find out?

Addendum: We got a winner, from one’a my pals on FB:

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The Tassie bird conservation crew have been doing 3D tracking of eagles:

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In 2019, while on a trip to Washington to answer questions from Congress about his digital currency, Thiel joined Zuckerberg, Jared Kushner, Trump, and their spouses at the White House. The specifics of the discussion were secret — but, as I report in my book, Thiel later told a confidant that Zuckerberg came to an understanding with Kushner during the meal. Facebook, he promised, would avoid fact-checking po­litical speech — thus allowing the Trump campaign to claim whatever it wanted. In return the Trump administra­tion would lay off on any heavy-handed regulations. Facebook had long seen itself as a government unto itself; now, thanks to the understanding brokered by Thiel, the site would push what the Thiel confidant called “state-sanctioned conservatism.

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Of the 32 men known to have tried to kayak from the Netherlands to England during the war, the Peteri brothers were among just eight who survived.

Of those eight, only three were still alive by the war’s end.

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Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.

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