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Ferrets are Cool's Journal
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November 4, 2023

Amazon Music Unlimited

I really enjoy AMU. It has almost ALL the songs that I want to hear, and has them in HD, or Ultra HD or Atmos.
I have noticed that lately they have really added at LOT to the Atmos catagory. If you have the capability to listen in this manner, you should give AMU a try.

November 2, 2023

With all due respect to his close relatives...

FUCK BOB KNIGHT. That is all.

October 29, 2023

Rear View Mirror Camera

Does anyone use one of these? I have degenerative discs in my neck and it is getting harder and harder to turn to see behind me. I've almost hit two cars this week by backing into them in supermarket parking lots. I drive a 2005 Rav4 and some of these cars are so low to the ground that it's difficult to see what's back there. I do not want to use the magnetic kind that stick onto the back of your vehicle because, honestly, it would be very inconvenient to take it on and off each time you needed to back out of a parking spot. And if you left it on the car, it WOULD get stolen.

Any ideas are appreciated.

October 28, 2023

Is there a "Greatest Page" any longer?

I am not complaining about DU4, but I can't find anything anymore. How do I find a list of the forums? The only ones I see are "Latest Breaking News", "General Discussion" and "The DU Lounge".
Thanks for any help.

October 27, 2023

I'm no expert, but I can made an educated guess on why "mentally ill" people use weapons of mass distruction

on innocent people. It is because they absorb ALL THE HATE spewed from FOX "news" on a daily basis. Just another reason why there should be extensive background checks AND why FAUX is such a dangerous organization.
I also expect NOTHING to change. Hell, if murdering school children doesn't change things, nothing will.

October 12, 2023

What Do We Owe the Octopus?

"Consider the octopus. Smart and sophisticated, it has a brain larger than that of any other invertebrate. With 500 million or so neurons, its nervous system is more typical of animals with a backbone. In lab experiments, the octopus can solve mazes, open jars, and complete tricky tasks to get food rewards. In the wild, they’ve been observed using tools—a benchmark of higher cognition."

https://www.wired.com/story/what-do-we-owe-the-octopus/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

It's way past time we considered them to be intelligent creatures.

October 12, 2023

We seem to be at a point where you can't believe ANYTHING you hear or see

UNLESS you hear or see it with your own eyes and ears...and then only HALF of THAT is true.

Any lie can be created with AI.

October 6, 2023

Thursday Night Football

The color looks horrible tonight. Anyone else notice this?
Edit: I think it's the pukey field color that is skewing it.

October 5, 2023

At the risk of stirring up some shit...

Do we not deserve an explanation for the "stuff" that's going on down on the border concerning the building of the wall and disregarding the environmental issues? This is important.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-administration-border-wall-construction-south-texas/

The Biden administration announced it waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration's first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency.

The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S. Federal Registry with few details outlining the construction in Starr County, Texas, which is part of a busy Border Patrol sector seeing "high illegal entry." According to government data, about 245,000 illegal entries have been recorded so far this fiscal year in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, which contains 21 counties.

"There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas," Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, stated in the notice.

The Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and Endangered Species Act were some of the federal laws waived by DHS to make way for construction that will use funds from a congressional appropriation in 2019 for border wall construction. The waivers avoid time-consuming reviews and lawsuits challenging violation of environmental laws.

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