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This is a mostly empty story so that I can test something related to comments. I’m sorry for wasting your time if you read this.
by ksb
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on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 01:19 PM PST
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You can make a difference in your town or your city, to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event! �Reuse this information! �This is the letter for week 14�of a weekly ...
by birches
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on Fri Jun 30, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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This story is to test the comment posting function, comment replying, and recommending/unrecommending comments.
by ksb
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on Sat May 27, 2023 at 05:24 PM PDT
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94% of Americans already had covid?
I find that hard to believe, and I hope it’s not true, because that leaves hundreds of millions of Americans open to the very bad effects of a second bout with ...
by Mark Hennon
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on Thu Dec 08, 2022 at 08:00 AM PST
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by � Shriya Bhattacharya
This story was originally published at Prism .
As schools and universities across the country ...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Sun Feb 06, 2022 at 08:15 AM PST
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Some of us, for various reasons, chose the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Because I have until very recently lived completely alone and am extremely isolated without friends or family anywhere near me and due to my health issues, I was hesitant to take a...
by Dem
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on Tue Sep 21, 2021 at 03:21 PM PDT
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I’m having tech issues with a story I compiled. This is a test to determine if it’s just that file. BTW, what happened to help? I haven’t tried to get help in a while and now it is so changed it is effectively not available?
by DRo
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on Tue Sep 21, 2021 at 10:12 AM PDT
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I am writing my first blog post to this group so please be kind. I really want to write an entire story about cupcakes and chocolate mousse, but since I want to test some amazing functionality we just released, I’ll keep it simple. Also, no one but...
by QAPatriciaSock
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on Tue Aug 31, 2021 at 04:20 PM PDT
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When the media and Trump challenge Joe to take the cognitive test, the best answer may be an obvious and calmer one. The latest flap around this taunt: (as reported by Bart Jansen of USA TODAY): President Donald Trump has attacked Biden for his mental...
by KKwriter
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on Thu Aug 06, 2020 at 05:31 AM PDT
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by 2thanks
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on Fri Jul 31, 2020 at 05:36 PM PDT
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I’m not one of those people who say that I don’t have any political biases. I do. But I pick my battles carefully and typically choose not to try to persuade others, except for my 90-year-old Mom, who clings to her political opinions as stubbornly as I...
by dternove
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on Thu Jul 23, 2020 at 11:54 AM PDT
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This is posted for informational purposes and is not diagnostic. I has to be administered, scored and interpreted by trained individuals to be valid. Here is an instructional course in using the test called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) aka...
by YellerDog
48 comments
on Mon Jul 20, 2020 at 01:22 AM PDT
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As COVID-19 continues to tragically break new records of spread throughout the country, our testing capacity is beyond strained. Places like California, early in its response to the growing pandemic, are finding themselves hard-pressed to test enough...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jul 15, 2020 at 02:36 PM PDT
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“Intransigent Ignorance: A lack of knowledge, education, or awareness characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an often extreme position or attitude.” That’s pretty bad in anybody — say folks like those who don’t want to wear masks or...
by Old Verger
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on Wed May 27, 2020 at 05:59 PM PDT
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On Monday, May 11, Donald Trump decided to hold a pep rally to champion how big and strong and robust America’s COVID-19 testing capabilities are. It was the most pathetic attempt yet by this incompetent administration to cover their criminally...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon May 11, 2020 at 02:17 PM PDT
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I’m having trouble deleting this. Please ignore
by robinmessing
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on Sun May 10, 2020 at 02:09 AM PDT
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What’s your poison? The president who once stared directly into a solar eclipse despite warnings muses on a possible cure for the coronavirus. Our Teetotaler in Chief spitballed at a gobsmacking stream-of-consciousness news briefing the idea that...
by Con Artist
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on Mon Apr 27, 2020 at 09:59 AM PDT
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COVID-45: "Send all the medical supplies to me and I'll see that they get to the right people." Public: "Yeah, but the 'right people' are middlemen who jack the price up so they can make an obscene profit. Why would you do that?" COVID-45: "Because if...
by Raging Pencils
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on Thu Apr 09, 2020 at 08:47 AM PDT
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Fox News consumers were treated to a rare moment of truth Wednesday evening when Dr. Rishi Desai, chief medical officer at Osmosis, came on the air. Dr. Desai ostensibly was on to discuss the potential merits of a nationwide shutdown of activities in...
by Walter Einenkel
346 comments
on Thu Apr 02, 2020 at 09:34 AM PDT
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While COVID-19 is taking up all the airtime and headlines Lt Gen. Russel Honore’ reminds us to pay attention to what will save lives. He points out we need to pay attention to what this administration is doing to the environment. The EPA rollbacks of...
by Cocob
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on Tue Mar 31, 2020 at 08:48 AM PDT
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