BBC report.
Place conspiracy theory here.
you'll hear about it when you learn that the US economy has improvement was "mild to moderate"in recent months.
and wait til the feminist discover the translation of the local "Grand Tetons"...
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In the US, it is Amazon vs Walmart for your groceries.
But in China, it is AliBaba vs Baidu
Since 2016, China's food delivery apps have exploded into a 113.3 billion yuan ($17 billion) market thanks to their convenience.
will the next big fight be Bezos vs Jack Ma?
I laugh, because in the good old days, we had milk and bread delivered, and if you go further back, you could send a list to the grocery store for delivery.
Now with mom's working, getting home delivery instead of standing in line at the grocery store is a godsend.
This probably will hit here in the cities soon: We still use the Palenke, but hey, we have a full time cook and a part time maid/laundress (whereas in the US, I had to do this myself).
we do have internet commerce, however: but I don't trust them not to steal my credit card number, so don't use it.
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Blimps are back, and Amazon's got them.
moreHERE.
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Syphilis is back, and the NYTimes blames gangs, drug s and "uneducated doctors".
yes, Syphilis is spread by IV drug use, and this is about the heroin injection epidemic.
And in Asia/Russia, IV drug use, not sex, is the major cause of HIV...
the article notes they are going back to the good old days of tracing contacts (a practice that was discouraged when HIV became a protected disease).
But if you read way down in the article, you find that syphilis is common in another group: men who have sex with men.
When I was in medical school, we learned syphilis was the "Great pretender" because it looked like so many other diseases.
and the underbelly of evil is here:
Something to remember the next time you hear a libertarian insist that "sex workers" like to do their jobs.
Usually such efforts lead to sagas of unrelenting grimness: mothers who prostitute daughters, and men who forcibly inject runaways with drugs to hook them, a practice known as guerrilla pimping.
In the good old days (until it was stopped because there were so few cases, in the 1970's) everyone admitted to a hospital got a screening test for syphilis because often people didn't know that they had been exposed, especially women.
Sigh. In our prayers.
And I wonder: where are the preachers? Preaching joy joy joy, and the religion of recycling?
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The church in the Congo has been trying to force the dictator there to obey the law and not run for reelection, and hopefully avert the revival of that area's civil wars.
Alas, SP reports he is now breaking his promise.
lots more there about the instability of Central Africa. But since that war is only killing locals, and unlike ISIS and their ilk, not exporting their violence, it rarely gets in the news.
Sigh. In our prayer.
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StrategyTalk podcast about North Korea's nukes and another podcast on missiles and missile defense.
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WWRD? What would Rock do?
Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, has dubbed a 10-year-old boy a "real-life hero" after the youngster copied a scene from one of his films and saved his little brother's life.
When Jacob O'Connor found two-year-old Dylan floating face-down in the swimming pool he didn't rush off and find a grown up to help, instead he remembered a move from one of his favourite films, San Andreas. Jacob, from Roseville, Michigan, managed to pull his brother out of the pool and started giving him chest compressions - just as he'd seen The Rock doing in the film. Dylan was then rushed to hospital and went on to make a full recovery.
amazing story....You're a real life hero. We're all proud of you! DJ".
Wow amazing story. Giving you a TwitterJacob for saving your little brother's life. You're a real life hero. We're all proud of you! DJ twitter.com/maxwhitewxyz/s…
End of Twitter post by @TheRock
Jacob's mother Christa O'Connor told the BBC: "I'm at a loss for words. I'm amazed at what Jacob did. I'm so proud of him."
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