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Glock G19 finished product after grip plug install and Slide Cover Plate swap. Total cost: $30 including Punch tool.

CAN WE PLEASE BRING BACK SHAPEWEAR FOR VEHICLES

Did you know that there is enough energy in the nuclear waste in the United States to power the entire country for 100 years with clean energy? ☢️ The technology to turn nuclear waste into energy, known as a nuclear fast reactor, has existed for decades. It was proven out by a United States government research lab pilot plant that operated from the 1960s through the 1990s.

“I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On” - Robert Palmer It’s actually a cover of a 1984 R&B track originally written and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for singer Cherrelle. Reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (blocked from #1 by Boston’s “Amanda”)

@joeybagovdonuts You could begin and end with Chicken Fried.

The white-footed mouse is the most efficient disease amplifier in American wildlife, and the numbers explain why a wooden box on a pole is a legitimate public health intervention. A tick that feeds on a white-footed mouse picks up the Lyme bacterium 90% of the time. Feed on a squirrel, deer, or opossum, and the transmission rate drops to single digits. One species sits at the center of the entire Lyme cycle. Everything else is background noise. 476,000 Americans get diagnosed and treated for Lyme every year. The healthcare system absorbs $712 million to $1.3 billion annually in excess costs from those cases. 95% of reported infections cluster in 14 northeastern and midwestern states with the highest white-footed mouse density. Now run the owl math. UC Davis researchers tracked barn owl nest box deliveries on camera and estimated a single family removes 3,466 rodents per year, with high estimates reaching 7,563. And unlike foxes or coyotes, an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the bacterium. Borrelia burgdorferi cannot survive the owl's digestive tract. The mouse dies, the pathogen dies with it. A nest box costs about $50. The Cary Institute's research confirms the equation: predator-rich habitats have measurably lower Lyme disease risk. Forest fragmentation and predator loss gave the white-footed mouse an open field across the eastern U.S. The owl box is the cheapest way to start closing it.

Tennessee just did what Congress can't. They passed a law to break up the health insurance giants. Specifically, they made it illegal for pharmacy benefit managers — the companies in charge of pharmacy insurance — and pharmacies to be owned by the same company. That makes perfect sense. For example: CVS Caremark is the PBM, and CVS is the pharmacy. So if you have Aetna insurance, you have CVS Caremark as your PBM, and they're going to do everything they can to make sure you use CVS as your pharmacy. Aetna, Caremark, CVS — all the same company. That causes all kinds of incredibly obvious problems that this law hopes to fix. If your insurance company is in charge of approving your medication, deciding how much to pay for it, AND deciding who gets that money — while also being the pharmacy that gets paid at the end — guess what happens to prices? They go up. Governor Lee signed the law last week. CVS immediately filed a federal lawsuit because they said it will force them to close all 136 stores they have in Tennessee. Let that sink in. I'm not sure most people realize what that says about CVS and health insurance in general. They had to choose between owning the middleman (the PBM) or the healthcare provider (the pharmacy). Without hesitation, they chose the middleman. The biggest pharmacy chain in the country — with a store on every corner — would drop all 136 of their Tennessee locations in a second if it means keeping their middleman business. It is more profitable for them to be a health insurance middleman getting between you and your healthcare than it is to actually provide the healthcare. That is the problem with healthcare in America. We have made the middleman so powerful that they've taken complete control of the entire system. Three PBMs — Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — handle around 80% of all prescriptions in this country. How on earth can we expect healthcare to work well and remain affordable if that's where the money is? We all auto-pay our insurance straight out of our paycheck before we even see the money. And not surprisingly, they're keeping a ton of it. That's why we fired them. And they can't file a lawsuit to stop us. That lets us offer fair, transparent prices. No PBMs. No insurance games. No hidden markups. You see the cost, you pay the cost.

Hah, now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it

@giveashitnature Plus, who doesn’t want the daily news from Hogwarts?

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box. The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year. A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease. Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk." One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks. If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you. The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

Look at this gorgeous black opal dice taken out of it's resin mold

@MrPotatoHeadUSA Although a sure sacrilege on a die this expensive, dice used to come with a crayon in the box, and you rubbed over the numbers to fill them in with the color of the crayon making the numbers easy to read. Gone are the lost arts.

"100% Grated Parmesan Cheese." That's what the label says. That is, in fact, the literal text the manufacturer has chosen to place on the front of the package. The 100% refers to a feeling, not a chemistry. In 2012, the FDA raided Castle Cheese in Pennsylvania, a major supplier of grated cheese to American supermarkets. The 100% Parmesan they were selling was 0% Parmesan. It was a blend of cheddar, Swiss, mozzarella, and powdered cellulose, the last of which is, in industrial terms, wood pulp. Or to be more specific: fine fibres extracted from the cell walls of trees and processed into a flowable powder used to stop the cheese from clumping in the shaker. The Castle Cheese executive went to prison. The company went bankrupt. The practice continued. In 2016, Bloomberg commissioned independent lab testing of major American "100% Parmesan" products. Kraft's product contained 3.8% cellulose. Some Walmart and Albertsons store brands tested as high as 9%. The accepted industry threshold for "anti-clumping" cellulose use is 2 to 4%. The cheese is partly wood. The Italians, who have been making the actual cheese for a thousand years, can only sell their version under EU protection as Parmigiano Reggiano: three ingredients, milk, rennet, salt, aged in a 75-pound wheel for at least twelve months in a specific geographic region with the name burned into the rind in dotted pin lettering. The American "Parmesan" can be anything. The American "Parmesan" can be sawdust. The Italian cheese costs more. The Italian cheese is more. The price of food is sometimes the price of food being food.

@joeybagovdonuts It is what it is. This dumb statement literally tells us nothing new. Word salad interlaced with zero insight to sound witty.

What phrase or slang annoys you the most?

I need this

@DyerbolicalDB This is abject horror of which there is no comparison.

Sweet lord this hitts in the feels

The USDA has kept raccoon rabies out of the central United States for over 30 years by air-dropping fish-flavored ravioli from helicopters. Each one is a small packet coated in fishmeal with an oral rabies vaccine inside. Raccoons, foxes, coyotes, and skunks find them by smell, bite through, and swallow. Many animals that consume the bait develop immunity, helping build a protective barrier across populations. The bait is generally considered safe for pets and tested in many non-target species. The USDA's Wildlife Services has been running this since 1995. Without the bait program, raccoon rabies very likely would have spread much further west. A federal program you've probably never heard of is protecting your pets and your kids by feeding wild animals ravioli from a helicopter.

@joeybagovdonuts These guys:

The A-Team

The kind you buy .. In a second hand store

Why Gen X will live to 1000.