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Open Thread - Thurs 29 Aug 2024 - Dog Days of Summer

Submitted by Sima on Thu, 08/29/2024 - 5:00am

The Dog Days of Summer

The term 'Dog Days of Summer' was always interesting to me. I never thought it had anything to do with dogs laying around being lazy in the summer but more about sailing, for some reason. Maybe because the term is about celestial happenings? Or maybe I had some vague memory from a Hornblower novel about sailing? Smile

So, why are the hottest days of the year (in the Europeanoid part of northern hemisphere) called the 'Dog Days of Summer'? I wanted to know, and I'm sharing what I found out because it was kind of interesting.

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Some Dogs Aren't that lazy, right Nikko?

NASA Astronauts?

Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 08/27/2024 - 9:35am


The ever changing narrative.
I'm noticing a subtle divorcing of the Boeing name on the MSM with this debacle on the stranded Starliner crew.
Twice I've seen them referred to as NASA astronauts in the little time I watch their news.
Now their reporting that SpaceX will rescue them.......next year.

Some principles for political discussion in an election run-up

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 08/26/2024 - 1:50pm

(Sigh) another election run-up. I really can't stand Trump, and I really can't stand the Democrats. But this is election season, and so here we go. I'm hoping this set of principles can soften the expected blows of election run-up social life a bit.

1. Most votes for President are unimportant.

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