Not for nothing, but I still consider lobster to be slop.
Sheesh! A river catches fire once, and they never let you forget it!
And I thought that was going to be the fear of small robot dogs…
The Tim Traveller paid it a visit!
In 1970, the North American radio station with the most listeners outside of the NY and Chicago areas was CKLW, based in Windsor ON - across the river from Detroit. CKLW-AM – The History of Canadian Broadcasting (broadcasting-history.ca)
I’m not surprised by that. I grew up (on a farm in Ohio) in the mid-1960s listening to mostly Motown music, despite the fact that I didn’t know any Blacks personally. The Four Tops are still my favorite band. I listened to Motown music on CKLW.
Agreed, if you are talking about the apples grown in the U.S.A. We used to get Granny Smith apples from New Zealand and those peels tasted remarkably different and delicious. I’ve been curious about the difference for years, but the U.S. no longer imports apples from New Zealand and I can’t afford to take a trip to discover more about why the difference. I suspect we are treating them differently or cross-bred them so they would tolerate cold storage for a while (the New Zealand ones didn’t last more than a couple of months). Whatever it did, it turned Granny Smith into a cooking-only apple because of that peel.
Also, it was about a hundred miles straight-line from our farm to the CKLW studio.
I grew up in a house with a granny smith tree in the back yard. I like to tell about seeing my brother extract the juice to make cider using a burlap sack full of apples and a #32 Louisville Slugger. I think he had issues.
reminds me of that joke …
(but you fugg ONE sheep, and …)
I knew the life expectancy in the USA was falling. TIL just how far behind we are. 47th in the world, and falling. This is very close to the statistic that predicted the fall of the USSR.
The chart in the website you quote says nothing directly about the life expectancy falling in the U.S. It says that life expectancy is close to the bottom for what we think of as “developed” countries. It’s above that for what we think of as “developing” countries, in some cases well above that. Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped and than increased a little over the past four years because of Covid, just like it has in many countries. Before then, life expectancy has been increasing generally in the U.S. since about 1875, just as it has been doing in nearly all countries.
So why isn’t the life expectancy in the U.S. as high as in nearly every other “developed” country? It’s because we don’t have universal health coverage and we do have more financial inequality than in nearly every other “developed” country. Regardless of how rich your country is on the whole, you can’t have as high a life expectancy as nearly every other “developed” country if you don’t have universal health coverage and not nearly as much financial inequality as the U.S. does.
My BiL is from Maine, and as a poorish kid (over 60 years ago), he had lobster in his school lunchbox. It marked him as poor. Not like the rich kids who had PB&J!
When my family made homemade icecream for birthday parties my father never bought ice. He got a burlap bag and a two by four and whacked the heck out of ice blocks frozen in cardboard milk cartons.
8 billion people are currently alive on Earth. An estimated 117 billion individuals have lived since Day One. (of course - 109 billion of them are dead).
Though that depends, of course, on when you define “people” to start.
@Baker , my relatives with ice-cream makers used a similar technique.
I myself make homemade icecream occasionally but it’s a table top model. I don’t buy the ice, I plan in advance. I half fill ice cube trays and keep doing it until I have enough. So I can’t do it on a whim, but have to start about three days in advance.
4% of the sand of Omaha beach is made up of shrapnel particles from the invasion of Normandy.
A more pleasant counterpart is Glass Beach in California.
The pictures on that page show a much higher preponderance of glass than when I visited in summer 2022. A Wikimedia picture from 2015:
From the descriptions we read before going, that’s what I was expecting: a beach full of glass. So I was somewhat let down to see this 18 months ago.
Mostly pebbles with some glass. Apparently a lot of tourists take samples with them, even though signs ask you not to. We didn’t.