Yes, they are.

I’m going to save an old bag, and dump the chips from the sacrilegious new design into the traditional bags I have. That will show them!

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what+is+100.4+fahrenheit+in+celsius

I don’t have a great answer other than of the 32 studied, these were their stratification:

Related to population stratification, among the 16 look-alike pairs, 13 were of European ancestry, 1 Hispanic, 1 East Asian, and 1 Central-South Asian.

Source: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)01075-0

But whether people who look close enough to perform as another, such as the “Chinese Obama” (Xiao Jiguo) I can’t say.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/chinese-president-barack-obama-lookalike-xiao-jiguo-charges-1-500-n444251

Then there’s Indonesia’s former president, Joko Widodo:

https://nextshark.com/people-love-indonesias-president-looks-like-barack-obama

It would be interesting to get the researchers to analyze their DNA.

Any qualified 007 could report to Q for cutting edge clothing and gear?

Kirk hears defeat?

Go down about a mile or so, and hang a left at where the old oak tree was that my grand-daddy chopped down. Go about two or three hundred feet more, where Crazy Al’s gas station used to be. I think it’s McDonalds now. I haven’t been there in years. Any who, look for the all-brick building. You can’t miss it!

HOAs should be outlawed.

This is a serious problem for the Internet. While there are sites like https://512kb.club/ (it features lightweight websites with content), but there’s not an easy way to learn about new or niche sites.

According to https://growthbadger.com/traffic-study/ from April 5, 2020 (yes, it’s 6 years old)

What 3.25 Billion Website Visits Tell Us About the Internet’s Top Traffic Sources

1. Search is the single largest online traffic source, driving well over 50% of most industries’ web traffic.

2. Google drives 8 times more traffic than all social media networks combined.

3. The average top blog gets 66.47% of its traffic from search, of which 99.77% is organic and only 0.23% is paid.

4. In almost every industry, Facebook still sends more traffic than all other social networks. The two exceptions are Design and Development (for which the top network is YouTube) and Crypto (for which it is Twitter).

5. The niche that is most reliant on Google is Health and Medical, with 87.85% of its traffic coming from search.

6. The niche that is least reliant on Google is Crypto, with 45.74% of its traffic coming from search.

7. Facebook delivers 65.36% of all social media traffic: more visits per month than all other social networks combined.

8. Instagram drives very little traffic: under 1% overall across all niches. Even fashion and beauty brands that were launched by Instagram influencers (e.g. Kylie Cosmetics) receive less than 5% of their monthly visits from Instagram — while search brings in about 10 times as many.

9. The niche that is most reliant on Facebook is Business and Marketing, which gets 13.52% of its traffic from the network.

10. Reddit drives over 3 times as much traffic to blogs as YouTube.

While some people say shit happens, fertilizer sellers are stinking rich now.

“Yeah, but it’s great for Limbo parties, once.”

Strait of Economic Infarction.

U.S. government spending on the military contributes $3.8 billion to Alaska’s economy, a figure larger than the entire Yukon economy.

Wow.

vs.

Drought conditions in Texas have worsened, with severe impacts on crops such as winter wheat and livestock feed availability.

“Things are looking bad for far south Texas, where climate outlooks suggest higher than normal probabilities of dry conditions over much of the state,” said William Baule, regional climatologist at the Southern Regional Climate Center and research assistant professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University.

U.S. Drought Monitor data, published April 2, showed drought conditions intensified from March 24 –31. There was no change in abnormally dry conditions (D0), while drought categories (D1–D4) worsened overall.

Moderate drought increased 4.48 points to 88.98% (D1). Severe drought worsened sharply by 7.27 points to 62.81% (D2). Extreme drought was up 6.74 points to 29.34% (D3). Exceptional drought weakened by 0.86 points to 4.96% (D4).

The drought has made it difficult to take soil samples, according to Dwayne Peirce, Texas A&M AgriLife agriculture and natural resources agent, who has pulled samples since the 1990s.

“I’ve never had the difficulty that I’ve had this spring, pulling soil samples for our spring and summer crops,” he said. “It’s taken me, on an average, at least twice as long, if not three times as long, to sample the field. Just trying to find a location that’s soft enough to get the probe in the ground has been difficult.”

From the wikipedia page

Rodney Bingenheimer saw Van Halen at Gazzarri’s in the summer of 1976, and convinced Gene Simmons of Kiss to see them perform. Impressed, Simmons produced a 29-track Van Halen demo tape, entitled “Zero”, at Village Recorder studios in Los Angeles, with post-production overdubs completed at Electric Lady Studios in New York. Simmons suggested changing their name to “Daddy Longlegs.” However, a very disappointed Simmons could do no more once Kiss management decided that Van Halen “had no chance of making it”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen

It’s the assumption that what works for me will work for you. Situations change. Markets change. Skill relevancy changes (ask IT workers).

As for university in Romania, I can’t speak to that. What I can say about it in the US is:

“Go to college and get a good job.” sounds great until you go to an elite school for a Sociology degree. Oh, you’ve got a law degree? The firm expects you to work pro-bono to establish yourself. Work for little pay while establishing yourself while paying off student debt.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/biden-is-right-a-lot-of-students-at-elite-schools-have-student-debt/

and not just students at elite schools.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/29/nx-s1-5762975/competing-in-tough-job-market-college-grads-are-asking-is-there-anybody-out-there

https://fortune.com/2026/04/03/experience-creep-jobs-ai-entry-level/

Bottom line: have a couple of career paths/options.

Flamebait. Begun the flame wars have.

The Texas State Board of Education met this month to discuss potential changes to how social studies is taught under the state’s Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for K-12 social studies curriculum.

The Texas Education Agency has also published a recommended reading list of literary works developed with input from more than 5,000 Texas English teachers, according to a previous report by The Center Square.

Teachers and historians have raised concerns about elements of the proposed standards.