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Just leveled up Auntsam's cookie business and bought a 3d printer so she can make her own cutters. She'd been ordering them like 3-4 times a month at $10+ a pop and I finally looked at them and said "Hey we can do this ourselves...faster and cheaper." So after it arrives this weekend, I'll be 3d printing. Her mom in AL also does cookies, so we can print and send to her too.

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Bruce McCandless

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Who do you choose, what do you make them say, and to whom do you send the cameo after given a $150 gift card (must be below $150) from:

https://www.cameo.com/

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Something that came up during my residence learning community weekly meetup of all things, What planet would you like to visit and live on under the qualification that you get to live normally without health effects?

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Standing there alone

The ship is waiting

All systems are go

"Are you sure?"

Control is not convinced

But the computer

Has the evidence

No need to abort

The countdown starts

Watching in a trance

The crew is certain

Nothing left to chance

All is working

Trying to relax

Up in the capsule

"Send me up a drink"

Jokes Major Tom

The count goes on

Four, three, two, one

Earth below us

Drifting, falling

Floating weightless

Calling, calling home

Second stage is cut

We're now in orbit

Stabilizers up

Running perfect

Starting to collect

Requested data

"What will it affect

When all is done?"

Thinks Major Tom

Back at ground control

There is a problem

"Go to rockets full"

Not responding

"Hello, Major Tom

Are you receiving?

Turn the thrusters on

We're standing by"

There's no reply

Four, three, two, one

Earth below us

Drifting, falling

Floating weightless

Calling, calling home

Across the stratosphere

A final message

"Give my wife my love"

Then nothing more

Far beneath the ship

The world is mourning

They don't realize

He's alive

No one understands

But Major Tom sees

"Now the light commands

This is my home

I'm coming home"

Earth below us

Drifting, falling

Floating weightless

Coming home

Earth below us

Drifting, falling

Floating weightless

Coming home

Earth below us

Drifting, falling

Floating weightless

Coming, coming

Home

Home

Home

Home

Home

Home

Home

Home

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https://twitter.com/mathematicsprof/status/1327678313876385792?s=20

@mathematicsprof: Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it: “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”

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Comet Leonard may become visible as a naked eye object later in the year. Discovered by an astronomer at the Mt. Lemmon observatory in Arizona back in January, it shows signs of increasing prominence as it approaches the sun.

https://www.space.com/newfound-comet-leonard-visible-2021

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The COVID baby boom is looking more like a baby bust

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-bust-declining-birth-rate-covid-pandemic/

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You can't have your cake, and eat it too. How true: I bought a few bottle of Balblair 13 year old single cask scotch, and I'm sad I'm now drinking my last bottle. Excellent stuff. Yesterday someone asked me if I "collect" whisky, and I thought that was a very odd question.

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LOL KY

https://brobible.com/sports/article/kentucky-bill-covid-extra-year-eligibility/

Kentucky approved allowing an extra year of athletic eligibility. Initially it was only HS students for a do over for last year but it was extended to K-12. Athletes will have to conform to the younger than 19 YO by Aug 1 so you won't have 20 year olds playing. But still...yeah. Ky.

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Our Crumbling Democracy

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Today in Covid-19

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Pro

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Cal

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