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BUSTED! UCLA Chief of DEI Has Reportedly Been Caught Plagiarizing 10 Papers
BUSTED! UCLA Chief of DEI Who Led Students in “Free Palestine” Chant Has Reportedly Been Caught Plagiarizing 10 Papers in Her Ph.D. Dissertation Natalie Perry has reportedly been caught cheating...
 
OT Should I buy rip-off supplements for a friend of mine
A moral, philosophical question. That I bring to you because you are my moral advisors. I have an 82-year old friend, who lives alone, and has no computer, and very little money. She wants me to order...
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OT The Birds
OT Have any of you watched the movie "The Birds" from 1963, produced by Alfred Hitchcock? I suspect most of you have. But if we were a little older, we could have heard a radio drama from 10 years...
 
How can I get a set of belts for this older vacuum?
I need a drive belt for an old montgomery ward vacuum by eureka Model sp8807b but Eureka tells me they're no longer offered for sale. How can I get a set of belts for this older vacuum?
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Florida people and those who drive in Florida!
On April 13, I wrote SunPass: Dear Sunpass, I'm sure it's unintentional, but even though I returned my rental car, removed and destroyed my SunPass Mini, you are still charging my cc weeks later....
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OT: Keeping the Christmas Spirit Alive
Hey, hey, hey. Guess what came in yesterday's mail-- a Christmas card from my niece postmarked December 4, 2023. It was mailed from "up north" to me-- "down south". Google maps says it traveled 831...
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Pressure wash and restain a deck
I want to restain my deck. My plan is to pressure wash it, let it dry, and stain it with some Behr product using a paint brush and roller. When I look online for instructions there's all sorts or...
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OT car wheel hub screws
Just found these screws loose & missing when changing over to summer tires - - I don't even know what they do .. .. nor what they're called ? so I can look them up. John T.
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Assessment goes down and back up. Why?
I was just trying to find out the full name of someone who owns a house in New Jersey and I ended up seeing the property tax records for that address, and one of things it had was that the assessment...
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Cutting the Key Bridge into little pieces.
Tradepoint Atlantic dices 50,000 tons of Baltimore’s Key Bridge steel for recycling one worker cut into a piece of steel with a torch, another operated an excavator — missing at first, but then...
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U.S. Buys Bullet Train Technology From Japan
U.S. Buys Bullet Train Technology From Japan Money can't buy us love, but we can buy Japanese bullet train technology so we won't be the world's laughing stock anymore. Biden to push for the first...
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A little more about the Key Bridge
An eerily accurate simulation of the Baltimore disaster at Cal Maritime showed the crew couldn't avoid hitting the bridge under the same conditions.
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Can anyone find a video for the circular Bathtub Spout diverter repair kit please?
I think the circular one is called an American Standard 012653-0020a The only ones I can find are the other type, - the white slide-up/down ones or the 'replace the whole spout' ones
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residential air-air heat pumps
We're considering a heat pump for our 1600 sq. ft. home - mainly for summer air conditioning, with some Spring & Fall heat ; we'll keep the existing propane forced-air furnace for winter heating. Any...
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See your doctor to find out if chemotherapy is right for you.
A Texas mother says that she was diagnosed with cancer and even underwent chemotherapy, only to find out later that she did not have cancer after all. “It was a blood vessel type of cancer found in...