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First Letter: H
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First Letter: H
Hint: If Wordle usually drives you crazy, today's will make you absolutely batsh*t.
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First Letter: G
Hint: Best to get even complicated knots loose this way, unless they really are Gordian-level complex.
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First Letter: U
Hint: If you're one of these, Democrats accuse Republicans of suppressing you, and Republicans accuse Democrats of creating you from thin air.
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First Letter: V
Hint: Filling in today's Wordle is much easier than filling the spaces between your lovely new floor tiles, for which you'll need some of this.
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The US has provided Ukraine with so much weaponry to fend off Russia's unprovoked [sic] invasion that Pentagon stockpiles for some munitions are "uncomfortably low," defense officials told The Wall Street Journal. Lower levels of 155mm ammunition, which can be fired from US-made M777 Howitzers, have some officials especially concerned, the Journal reported on Monday.
The Manhattan 'hush-money' grand jury, after being told by prosecutors not to come in on Wednesday, is not 'likely' to meet Thursday either, law enforcement sources told Insider. ... Wednesday's pause in the grand jury's activity -- especially if the panel indeed takes the rest of this week off -- will likely delay the process into next week.
Hint: Today's Wordle isn't very exciting. In fact, it's the opposite -- rather sober and sedate.
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First Letter: S
Hint: A quilt, if you're British or trying to sound fancy.
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First Letter: D
If there were a button on this rostrum, the pressing of which would release all wage and price controls instantaneously, I would put my finger on it and push!
The genuine Libertarian, then, is, in all senses of the word, an "abolitionist;" he would, if he could, abolish instantaneously all invasions of liberty, whether it be, in the original coining of the term, slavery, or whether it be the manifold other instances of State oppression. He would, in the words of another libertarian in a similar connection, "blister my thumb pushing that button!"
My confidence in free markets is so high, and my faith (for faith is required) in government is so low, that my presumption is that nearly all government interventions into the economy are, on net, unjustified and harmful. This presumption fuels my instinct that these interventions should be eliminated pronto. But I’m also sufficiently influenced by the works of Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Lord Acton, and F.A. Hayek to understand that large, sudden changes to an economy or society can be dangerously disruptive, even when such changes involve reversing policies that should never have existed in the first place. So even if I had the power to eliminate all government interventions that I believe are harmful, I would not press a button to eliminate all of them.
Hint: Rare, medium, well or even raw is just a matter of personal preference, but almost no one likes their steak this way.
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First Letter: T
Hint: If you're an amputee or Michael Jackson, you might wear just one.
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First Letter: G
Hint: Solving today's Wordle implies a deeply held belief system, probably codified into very particular points.
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First Letter: C
Hint: Many wealthy people have this kind of vehicle. Lately fewer wealthy Russian people have this kind of vehicle.
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First Letter: Y
Hint: I'm not hesitant or afraid to clue you in on today's Wordle in no uncertain terms. But my mouth is.
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First Letter: M
Hint: Apples, the hard way.
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a person who knowingly and willfully commits any of the following offenses commits a felony of the third degree .... Conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, in any place within this state, including any temporary or permanent structure or through any means of transportation, an individual whom the person knows, or reasonably should know, has entered the United States in violation of law [sic] and has not been inspected by the Federal Government since his or her unlawful [sic] entry ...
Hint: The players on a Quidditch team might do this by winning a series of matches, or to clean up the locker room afterward.
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First Letter: S
Hint: Sorry for being so rude and mean to you this morning. Guess I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed or something.
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CNBC headline this morning: "First Republic drops 70%, leads decline in bank stocks despite government’s backstop of SVB."
Well, no: Bank stops are dropping because Silicon Valley Bank is getting a bailout, because the bailout has already spread to a second bank (Signature Bank), and because investors are likely assuming (and likely wisely so) two things:
Hint: If you have trouble solving today's Wordle, it's not my fault, it's yours.
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First Letter: B
Hint: The beginning, assuming reincarnation isn't a thing.
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... but I wish I'd had it when I saw what air fares have done in the last three years. It's a $2,278 fainting couch (not an affiliate link):
Hint: If today's Wordle was a fad diet, its core food would be spam.
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First Letter: E
It had me at "[t]he resulting brew is generally much stronger than Western drip/filter coffee, and often stronger than espresso."
I've added a rig and a bag of the kind of coffee used to my Amazon wish list -- but unless they disappear from it quickly because someone loves me that much, I'll probably end up going to a local Indian market this weekend looking for a good deal.
Hint: "Hey, anyone seen Bacchus?" "Yeah, he's over in the corner wearing a lamp shade as a hat. Why?" "We're getting ready for the Beer Pong Olympics and want him on our team."
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First Letter: R
Hint: Here? There? Precisely what location are we talking about?
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First Letter: W
[T]he worse wokeness becomes, the better. Wokeness is being shrunk by the solvent of the laughter it provokes.That seems to be the case. In my experience, most "normal" people just roll their eyes and dismiss the woke-est woketards when hit with some weird demand vis a vis language or whatever.
Hint: Today's Wordle is kingly -- and makes me think of movie theaters.
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First Letter: R
Hint: An informal game played with a basketball, or what Lou Reed was looking for in Harlem.
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First Letter: H
I like to listen to my Amazon Echo/Alexa products.
When I'm listening to Alexa read a book, I usually set the volume to 7 during the day, 5 at night (it's a 1-10 volume scale).
When I'm listening to Alexa play music, the volume is almost always set to 10.
Which, when I'm wearing my bluetooth sleep mask headphones, presents no problems.
But since I discarded the Echo Show in favor of my old 4th Generation Echo Dot, the latter device has behaved in a way it didn't before.
It vibrates, and visibly moves. If I'm not paying attention, it moves right off the bedside table and onto the floor.
I did change bedside tables about the same time I switched from the Dot to the show. Maybe the finish on the new one is just too slick or something.
So, I've ordered this (not an affiliate link).
It's a wall mount. If cord length considerations, etc. work out well, I'll mount the Dot more or less centered a couple of feet above where my head usually ends up on the bed at night.
I'd already been considering it, because I think the sound might be nicer coming from that location, and because it should be easier to find the device in the dark and wearing a sleep mask if I want, for some reason, to use the volume buttons manually. The "vibrating off the bedside table onto the floor, waking me up with a conceivably device-damaging thunk" factor tipped the balance.
Yeah, I know, First World problems. But waking up and being able to just say "Alexa, play Pet Sounds" instead of having to find, purchase, and manually engage the vinyl album, cassette tape, or CD? Who could live without that now that it's become a possibility?
Adrienne LaFrance's piece in The Atlantic is titled "The New Anarchy." Pull quote:
The form of extremism we face is a new phase of domestic terror, one characterized by radicalized individuals with shape-shifting ideologies willing to kill their political enemies.
But then LaFrance directly references a previous iteration of exactly that: "Propaganda of the deed." For some reason she attributes the idea to one of its later advocates, Luigi Galleani.
She doesn't reference later improvements to that doctrine, such as Amoss's "leaderless resistance" ideas.
And she only references social media with respect to the fact that "conspiracy theories now spread instantly and globally," rather than addressing how it facilitates both open and predisposition-coded calls to action, making it easier to informally coordinate leaderless resistance, or to inspire propaganda of the deed.
The social media aspect is really the only new thing here. "Radicalized individuals with shape-shifting political ideologies willing to kill their political enemies" have been around forever, and their tactical approach has been evolving for at least a century and a half.
Hint: It's not always the case, but this morning I have more Wordle skill in my little finger than you have in your whole body.
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First Letter: P
Hint: Don't try to eat today's Wordle. It's pure poison.
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First Letter: T
Hint: Today's Wordle refers to something moving generally in a particular direction, but is often conflated with "fad."
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If a blogger posts to a blog about an elected [Florida] state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post, the blogger must register with the appropriate office, as identified in paragraph (1)(f), within 5 days after the first post by the blogger which mentions an elected state officer.
They don't have to be large pledges. A dollar will do just fine.
State senator Jason Brodeur, and any legislator who votes for this bill, governor who signs this bill, or bureaucrat who attempts to enforce this bill can
I will write about whoever and whatever I damn well please here at KN@PPSTER without asking for permission from, or considering myself obligated to report my activities to, any government entity.
But in order to openly, explicitly, and indisputably put myself in violation of this proposed law, I'll have to be compensated, or at least have it on record that I can expect to be compensated.
So, please, help me out with that in comments, e.g. "if this proposal is signed into law, I will pay you $1 to publish a post about [insert name of elected Florida politician here]."
Hint: If I practice my powerlifting technique in someone else's house without permission, I'm doing today's Wordle twice over.
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First Letter: S
Hint: The sky's position relative to the ground.
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First Letter: A
Your Site Has Been HackedPLEASE FORWARD THiS EMAiL TO SOMEONE iN YOUR COMPANY WHO iS ALLOWED TO MAKE iMPORTANT DECiSiONS!We have hacked your website rationalreview.com and extracted your databases.How did this happen?Our team has found a vulnerability within your site that we were able to exploit. After finding the vulnerability we were able to get your database credentials and extract your entire database and move the information to an offshore server.What does this mean?We will systematically go through a series of steps of totally damaging your reputation. First your database will be leaked or sold to the highest bidder which they will use with whatever their intentions are. Next if there are e-mails found they will be e-mailed that their information has been sold or leaked and your site rationalreview.com was at fault thusly damaging your reputation and having angry customers/associates with whatever angry customers/associates do. Lastly any links that you have indexed in the search engines will be de-indexed based off of blackhat techniques that we used in the past to de-index our targets.How do i stop this?We are willing to refrain from going through with these actions for a small fee. The amount: $3500 (0.15 BTC)[payment method demand details redacted -- KN@PPSTER]What if i don’t pay?if you decide not to pay, we will start the attack at the indicated date and uphold it until you do, there’s no counter measure to this, you will only end up wasting more money trying to find a solution. We will completely destroy your reputation amongst google and your customers.This is not a hoax, do not reply to this email, don’t try to reason or negotiate, we will not read any replies. Once you have paid we will stop what we were doing and you will never hear from us again!
Pretty cool, huh? You don't actually have to create or purchase any ransomware, or hack any sites. You just have to find someone stupid enough to believe that you've hacked his or her site but haven't done anything to it yet that would constitute proof of said hacking.
Are there any such people? Presumably so, since I've received emails like this before and probably wouldn't be continuing to receive them if someone wasn't making money by spamming the threat.
The specified BTC payment address shows a zero balance and no activity, but I suppose there could be a script for the spam that creates new addresses on the fly for each individual email.
Hint: Think Rocky's best friend and Teddy's second political party.
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Wow ... I just completely missed a month! Sorry about that. My brother's death in late January discombobulated me for some time and left me running on defective auto-pilot in some respects.
But Thanks For Asking! is back. Ask me anything -- yes, anything -- in the comments below this post, and I'll answer somewhere (in the comments, in a blog post linked from the comments, maybe on a podcast, who knows)?
"When an agency comes out and says they're leaning this way but with 'low confidence?' I mean, how do you interpret that?" Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, told Axios. "The question is: 'Why did you even put it out there?'" he said.
Low confidence generally means questionable or implausible information was used, the information is too fragmented or poorly corroborated to make solid analytic inferences, or significant concerns or problems with sources existed.
Hint: I'm feeling kind of weird this morning, Al. How about some traditional music?
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Lee Enterprises, an Iowa-based media company that owns nearly 80 daily newspapers, is transitioning to a 'uniform set of offerings' with its comics, puzzles and advice columns, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a Lee paper. ... The shift made headlines when cartoonists such as “Bizarro” creator Dan Piraro and “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams said that they had lost Lee client newspapers. Adams said he had lost 77 papers.
Hint: Wordle is usually good, but today something about it has changed this morning.
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First Letter: W
I'd heard about Delta 8 THC. I'd heard from friends who used it that it was useful for e.g. focus and concentration. And from other friends that it was just good for getting high. A little bit of online reading had emphasized the "focus and concentration" aspects.
So, I happened to be in a store that sold Delta 8 gummies, two for $4.95, yesterday, and made an impulse buy.
And, naturally, popped one into my mouth on the way to the car (I wasn't driving).
Then I pulled out my phone to do reading on recommended dosages, so as to know whether I should pop the second one.
The quick-phone-search consensus seemed to be "try a first dose of 15mg ... more experienced users might go 50-80mg."
The gummy I'd just eaten was 60mg.
Starting 30-45 minutes later, I got the "focus and concentration" bit out of it. I just generally felt more alert. Not in a psychedelic "in tune with the universe" way or anything like that. Just more awake and focused on stuff.
That lasted maybe an hour. Then I got 1) really physically tired and 2) really mentally unfocused in a distracting way that made it impossible to just go with (1) and have a nice nap.
I now have one 60mg gummy left. It's cut in a convenient square shape, so when I decide to use it again (not during the day on a weekday!), I'll probably cut it in half, then cut one half in half again, so that I hopefully (if the Delta 8 is well-distributed through the substance) have two 15m doses and one 30mg dose.
I'll start with a 15mg dose, and decide at some point into that experience whether or not to augment it with another 15mg (and use the 30mg dose another time), or just to save 15mg for later and maybe cut the other 30mg down to two 15mg doses, or maybe just decide at some point in there that Delta 8 just isn't for me.