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#11
Water Cooler / Re: Copper drug restores memor...
Last post by rcjordan - June 16, 2026, 12:45:07 PM
Oooo, good one.

Debbie says that the same research is likely at the root of both of these findings.
#12
Economics & Investing / Re: Fox to buy Roku
Last post by rcjordan - June 16, 2026, 12:36:26 PM
To get my wife off cable I was a very early adopter of Roku.  (I do not watch tv.)  But over the years she has moved away from 'big screen' tv viewing which uses the Roku and now watches a hodgepodge of youtube, NFL Gamepass and such on her ipad & phone.  I don't think she's fired up the Roku so far this year at all.

Upon first seeing the Roku-Fox article in her feeds, Debbie's immediate thought was that the Murdocks took this thread to heart;

When Monday Night Football streams with a subscription...
https://th3core.com/chat/index.php?topic=16.0

Personally, though I have no use for Roku I am feeling very boxed in by the sales of our various media.
#13
Water Cooler / Re: Click [>] Button. Watch th...
Last post by rcjordan - June 16, 2026, 12:11:59 PM
4-5 days ago, by using the Lows Tracker above, you could see today's NOAA projection developing

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/xgtwo/two_atl_7d0.png
#14
Hardware & Technology / Re: In Age of AI, World’s Lead...
Last post by Brad - June 16, 2026, 08:08:45 AM
>US is the less reliable

Same.  BBC, DW, AFP, Reuters, here.  Plus NPR/PBS but they are crippled with the funding cuts.

I don't trust the US news networks and newspapers much anymore.
#15
Economics & Investing / Re: Fox to buy Roku
Last post by Brad - June 16, 2026, 07:58:47 AM
>Fox to buy Roku

Well, that kills Roku for me.
#17
Water Cooler / Copper drug restores memory an...
Last post by rcjordan - June 16, 2026, 02:48:59 AM
 - Monash University
https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/copper-drug-restores-memory-and-clears-toxic-alzheimers-proteins

<copper>

I once asked my urologist if there was any sort of copper-carrying bladder wash to nuke UTIs.

'I wish.' he replied.
#18
Water Cooler / Re: Freddy is really enjoying ...
Last post by ergophobe - June 15, 2026, 09:54:36 PM
And this French guys has a pretty funny riff on Buc-ees

https://x.com/Romi_Bean/status/2066575909797367946
#19
Water Cooler / Re: Bob Dylan on being 80
Last post by ergophobe - June 15, 2026, 09:44:31 PM
Ah, yes. Adds years. For sure.

BTW, as much as the ideas, in fact more so, I like the poetry of Dylan's answer. It shows why as much as 50 artists have been labeled the next Dylan, nobody has turned out to actually be the next Dylan.
#20
Economics & Investing / Re: Fox to buy Roku
Last post by ergophobe - June 15, 2026, 09:41:47 PM
>> Nobody spends $22 billion because they love restraint


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