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Re:Ask HN: Who is going to win the Kentucky Derby? on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:19PM (#35808577)

Michelle Yu SKINNER #9 as the winner???

Re:Ask HN: Is there an advantage in becoming a Masonic member? on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:01PM (#35808371)

Is there an age limit to be able lean and pass its rituals?

Ask HN: Who is going to win the Kentucky Derby?

Posted by Mobil1 on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:54PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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Ask HN: Is there an advantage in becoming a Masonic member?

Posted by Mobil1 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:40PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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The Great Silencing

Posted by Mobil1 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @02:07PM
from the elizabethnickson.substack.com dept.

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-great-silencing-the-weaponization

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Dadeville, Al Shooting

Posted by Mobil1 on Sunday April 16, 2023 @12:43PM
from the al.com dept.

https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/dadeville-football-player-bound-for-jacksonville-state-killed-at-sisters-birthday-party-pastor-says.html

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Ben Ferencz

Posted by Mobil1 on Sunday April 09, 2023 @01:47PM
from the aljazeera.com dept.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/3/11/benjamin-ferencz-the-last-surviving-nuremberg-prosecutor

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Re:Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103 on Sunday April 09, 2023 @01:46PM (#35504849)

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/3/11/benjamin-ferenc...

Re:Getting Home as a Stowaway on Sunday April 09, 2023 @01:40PM (#35504816)

https://benferencz.org/news/

Re:‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life’ on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:41PM (#35413081)

Mine died at 59 while working in a hospital pharmacy.

Florida New Gun Law

Posted by Mobil1 on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:37PM
from the washingtonexaminer.com dept.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/florida-legislature-concealed-carry-without-permit

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Gays with Guns

Posted by Mobil1 on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:07PM
from the npr.org dept.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/26/1159528541/meet-the-queer-people-who-practice-shooting-to-defend-themselves-from-hate-group

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Re:20hrs on a Qantas plane: the future of aviation or a fresh hell in ... on Sunday March 12, 2023 @02:59PM (#35124589)

What is the health effect to the pilots and crew? Are they not people and passengers, too? Without a stop there is no chance to change them for fresh employees. Sounds like a safety concern.

E Bike Fires

Posted by Mobil1 on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:08PM
from the fireengineering.com dept.

https://www.fireengineering.com/firefighting/fdny-union-chief-e-bike-battery-fire-smoke-may-be-as-dangerous-as-911-toxins/

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Balloon

Posted by Mobil1 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:36PM
from the self-post dept.

FU “FU-MAN-CHU”!

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Ask HN

Posted by Mobil1 on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Does the Chinese Balloon have Nuclear Bombs on board? Is that why it hasn’t been shot down?

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Tell HN

Posted by Mobil1 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:00PM
from the self-post dept.

From a Paramedic, Bill Kelleher (tried to tag). I don’t personally know anything about this topic but I wanted to share:I'm familiar with commotio cordis as a paramedic for over 32 years. I've been teaching for 30 of those years including topics like kinematics of trauma, anatomy and physiology, etc.CC is exceedingly rare, with fewer than 30 cases per year in the US, almost exclusively in...

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Damar Hamlin

Posted by Mobil1 on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:40PM
from the self-post dept.

Time of death?

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Ask HN: Why do Razor Blades become dull?

Posted by Mobil1 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @07:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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Boris Johnson Resigned

Posted by Mobil1 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @05:16PM
from the self-post dept.

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The Perfect Face

Posted by Mobil1 on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:52PM
from the medisculpt.co.za dept.

https://www.medisculpt.co.za/golden-ratio-beautiful-face/

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Re:Installing a payphone in my house on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:38PM (#31603998)

I found that if you had 2 adjacent pay phones you could make free calls by inverting the 2 handsets and placing the call on one phone, but putting your money in the other so the sound of the money dropping would make the operator think that you had paid for your call. Your money would be returned to you when you hung up the second phone.