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Re: Any real milk switchers do it for digestive matters? - 3 months ago

Quotemrbigstuff Diana, wow, thanks for that informative piece, esp as it relates to goat milk (which I've tried but wouldn't sub in my cappuccino, probably!). No, goat milk definitely has a taste to it quite different from cow milk. I'm not a fan of it in my coffee, but it does well if you were to mix it with other things that can soften that taste, such as parmesan cheese. I find it does well

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Re: Any real milk switchers do it for digestive matters? - 3 months ago

I had noticed an issue when I ate something prepared with milk or drank milk itself. I had previously gradually drifted from milk drinking, and so it was most noticeable when I tried to add that back to my diet. Pain, bloating, diarrhea, did I mention pain? I noticed that it wasn’t a problem when I ate aged cheese, but was a problem with young cheeses or cottage cheese. Cooked in something,

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Re: Upgraded cell phone, and now the dam**ed App Library - 3 months ago

My phone has been incrementally updated and hasn’t had the problem that her’s had, but then it never insisted that it had to be taken back to its factory settings, and then restored from the backup. It appears that “factory settings” are the current ones for a new phone, or as close to it as possible, not the ones that existed at the time the phone was new. She had tried to input the lock

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Re: Upgraded cell phone, and now the dam**ed App Library - 3 months ago

Thanks! I’ll be seeing her tomorrow and I’ll give it a try. I knew someone here could help. Diana

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Upgraded cell phone, and now the dam**ed App Library - 3 months ago

First, forgive me as I'm just a leeetle frustrated now. Yes, I know. (1) I should have never upgraded; and (2) it's how things are done now. A little background is in order, and I'll try to keep it short. My mom had back surgery in December. Things happened, and the phone got borked to the point where it demanded to reconnect to iTunes and restore the phone. It had not been upgraded/backed

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Re: Dear MRF, if I should disappear, have them look for DNA evidence under my cat’s claws - 3 months ago

Umm, you’ve never ... umm ... been jack-rabbited by the back claws, have you? The front ones are just to hold you ... sigh. The back ones do a LOT of damage. Learn the kitty nerve pinch. For particularly ornery ones, two people are required. Either that, or learn how to trap and hold them so they can’t move. Hopefully he’ll heal quickly. Good luck to both of you. Quotemrbigstuff Becau

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Re: She blinded me with SCIENCE! - 3 months ago

QuoteRAMd®d Just sayin'. Thanks all. I just had to get all science-y

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Re: My latest rabbit hole: ultra-pure water? - 3 months ago

Okay then. Ultra pure water is just that, free of many if not all of the contaminants normally found in water. Water is a very small molecule, consisting of an oxygen atom with two hydrogen atoms attached to it. It is thus polar, and the negative and positive ends of this bent molecule can and easily does strip the oppositely charged ions from other ionically-bonded substances. Due to its

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Re: National Anthem at CPAC. Pick a key! Pick a key! - 3 months ago

QuoteDennis S Listen to all of it to get the full effect. Gee, thanks. Now I have a headache. I need to take some aspirin and lie down (or is it lay down?). Some day I’ll remember to not click on links like that. Yeah, I know, I was warned. Edited to correct autocorrect issues

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Re: Apple Watch throws some shade on my exercise - 3 months ago

My Apple Watch does not count my “outside walk” as exercise (it used to but not any longer). The 20-minute mile being a brisk walk would equate to a run for me, as I average 22-23 minutes a mile. At that rate I’m huffing and puffing and can’t speak if I try to go faster and feel like my chest is going to explode. For reference, I’m 5’3” and heavier than I should be, and suffer from

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Re: Our February snow - 3 months ago

Quotedeckeda Thanks DP. We're in upper-middle TN, near KY. I thought that barn style looked familiar ....

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Re: What's going on with the power failures in Texas? - 3 months ago

The power consortium that most of (at least) Texas and Oklahoma uses is under strain due to extra demand for electricity AND the record cold freezing up the natural gas pipelines. Much of the electric generation is now done using natural gas, not coal; solar arrays only work when they are exposed to the sun and not covered by snow; wind turbines don’t work well in periods of light winds or in i

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Re: What is the most dangerous thing you have ever done? - 3 months ago

Don’t know if it’s the most dangerous, but certainly not the smartest. Driving too fast down a (thankfully) paved 2-lane county road with bar ditches on each side and suddenly recalling that the right-hand turn right in front of me was a 90 degree, 20 mph turn and not a curve. I hit the brakes and found they didn’t grab. The car slewed around, and at that moment I realized that trying

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Re: “ A zero-emissions US is now pretty cheap “ - 4 months ago

Quotesekker QuoteSarcany Quotemattkime Feels like we're at a tipping point. Feels like the oil industry is going to push some more legislation and press some agencies to slow this down. Yes, and the consequences to those areas where the jobs may disappear in the next 5-10 years are real. Watching the boom-bust cycle in the upper midwest is just terrible, and this is going to happen to OK a

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Re: Do you think the emperor's children will be relevant in future politics? - 4 months ago

QuoteSarcany QuoteSteve G. As for Don 2 and Ivanka, please name one thing that either has done to indicate any level of intelligence. Let's be clear: I'm not suggesting that either of them has any greater intelligence than average. But it does take some intelligence to commit real estate fraud at the level she (allegedly) did throughout Europe and (allegedly) selling access to 45 for things lik

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Re: Good news on conviction - 4 months ago

Quotevision63 me QuotergG Quotevision63 bad boy bad boy, what'cha gonna do. what'cha gonna do when they come for you? This is my cat centric version that I sing to my kitty: Bad kitty, bad kitty, bad kitty poo.. what’cha gonna do with a bad kitty poo? That is so freaking hilarious. Bad kitty! “Meow! I’m going to bat it around the house. It will wind up where you step when you get

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Re: Can't post a reply to a thread - getting Phorum Database Error - 4 months ago

I have also seen times that it looks like I’m logged in (i.e., my name shows up in the list of people logged in) but I get the dreaded database error. Logging out and then logging back in fixes whatever the forum doesn’t like. Diana

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Re: Say what you will about insurance companies... - 4 months ago

Quoterz We all see it... we all see it... The one that hits home for me is the one with the woman using her speakerphone in public. My mother-in-law does that and it drives me crazy. And being older, she has the volume pretty much at max. Try grocery shopping for an 82-year old who can’t remember what the products are, only what they look like—for instance, butter in the yellow box, or

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Re: iPad gen 6 weirdness... siri activated by screen touch at top left, shutdown at bottom right - 4 months ago

Quotesrf1957 hot corners More specifically; Settings —> Accessibility—>Touch—>Assistive Touch—>Hot Corners

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Re: Newest addition to house: wall-mounted, voice-enabled, quartz space heater - 4 months ago

Quotedeckeda Lots of old homes here on the TN/KY border have small little cast iron doors at the foundation level for when the coal delivery came. I never saw such things in even-colder St. Louis growing up. Maybe it's just an artifact here of being that much closer to here to Kentucky coal? Heating the house with coal was a common practice. My grandmother lived in central Kentucky, mo

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Re: "Elon Musk, let's figure this out. You owe me a couple cats." - 4 months ago

Quotebfd QuoteRAMd®d Unless your cat is a country cat, kept it in the damn house. It should be a crime of negligence, prosecutable, but it's not. It is dereliction of a caretaker, though. It truly saddens me to see a cat or dog running around untended, and worse, see it not running or moving at all. </rant> Agree 999% Humans have a responsibility to the animals they choose to

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Re: Airpad Pro and Noise Reduction, not a fan - 4 months ago

Quotebfd If you bought them at an Apple Store, they they'd have run the ear tip fit test while you were in the store. But you can still do this yourself if you have the other tips with you. Made a whole lotta difference here to have the correctly sized tip … It greatly helped the noise reduction effect; if I remember right, it was done through the Settings app on my phone. I also found th

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 4 months ago

I believe the battery is fine; this, I believe, is the model that the airlines famously declined to have aboard their aircraft because the battery supposedly would spontaneously burst into flames or some such. It will run for several hours disconnected from power, depending how hard I run it. And yes, the Envoy is a bit awkward sticking out as it does but I see very little difference between the

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 4 months ago

I did get the advice Sarcany gave me implemented. I continued to work. And the screen went dark, and it crashed. Rebooted. 2015 15" MBP, obtained about a year ago from our sponsors. The battery was replaced prior to being shipped. To complicate things, I'm running off a USB flash drive (OWC Envoy Pro Mini) that is wicked fast. I had installed Mojave on the Envoy Pro to check is the

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 4 months ago

I typed those commands in the order you gave, and I got this (*** = me): drhMBP15:~ ***$ sudo chmod -R 775 /Users/***/Documents/Bookends Password: chmod: Unable to change file mode on /Users/***/Documents/Bookends/Attachments/Boucher & Kyriakidis 2006.pdf: Operation not permitted drhMBP15:~ ***$ drhMBP15:~ ***$ sudo chflags -R nouchg /Users/***/Documents/Bookends drhMBP15:~ ***$

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Re: Biden will elevate White House science office to Cabinet-level - 4 months ago

Quotevision63 I forgot how that works. I thought you had to know a guy that knows a guy. You become the guy that everyone wants to know. Major papers, seminal breakthroughs, hard work, serendipity—as well as publish in the journals that are highly regarded—bring in the money ... a never ending hamster wheel. A slight bit of sarcasm there, but only a bit. The train becomes too big so you bri

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Re: Biden will elevate White House science office to Cabinet-level - 4 months ago

When you accumulate enough notable honors, you tend to be put in charge ‘cause ya know stuffs. People are genuinely shocked when they see such a person working in the lab, doing lab stuff. And they are additionally shocked to hear that such a person may find working in the lab fun. It’s about damn time science policy is guided by scientists, AND that someone is there that is smart enough

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 4 months ago

QuoteSarcany ... Preview is actually toggling the same "Locked" bit. It's just using a different interface for the job. Makes sense. QuoteSarcanyIf you toggle the lock-bit in Preview, and then Get Info on the file, you will see that there's a check-mark over the "Locked" box in the "General" panel of the Info window. In fact, if you leave the "Info

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Re: Why do SOME of YouTube's videos have out of sync audio? - 4 months ago

Uber rich. The speed of sound is so much slower than the speed of light, and the sound is ahead of the picture by about 1/5 seconds so now you’ve reached an incomprehensible level of uber-ness in the space-time continuum. space-time

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 4 months ago

Ok. I held off a bit last night because I thought I had described the problem rather thoroughly. Once more: The files are NOT password protected. The files are NOT LOCKED in Finder. Well then, you say, what do you mean? Try this experiment: take a PDF and open it in Preview. At the top of the document you will see the file name. Click on it. Ooh... you can rename the file, give it a tag .

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