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People are mostly worthless.

-- Bo3b Johnson

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Total concentration, total mobilisation. All head to the harvest battle!

-- poster translation; Haeju, DPRK

Datum of the moment

An American overdosing on opioids has a 1-in-4 chance of overdosing again in the next year.

-- Phillip Coffin

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If you don't have control of the baseball, you might end somebody's career.

-- Charlie Morton

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The brain [of Eric Paddock] will arrive in California soon, and Stanford has been instructed to spare no expense for the work, The New York Times reported. It will be further dissected to determine if Paddock suffered from health problems such as strokes, blood vessel diseases, tumors, some types of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, degenerative disorders, physical trauma and infections.

--Sally Ho

{color differences in the text are part of the ABC original with links (which I assume won't xfer over. saving this for later use.}

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Saudi Arabia becomes first known nation to grant citizenship to robot

-- Syracuse.com

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The Astros were dead before they were alive before they were dead before they were alive before they were dead before they were victorious, and as the smoke poured into the ballpark, it was impossible to know if the whump-whump-whump of the helicopters around the ballpark were for the fire or the World Series, and it's not like anyone could tell the difference.

--Grant Bisbee

Odd story layout

This is a screenshot from my cell phone just now...

The newstory concerns DPRK nuke testing; but the picture attached is of the broken out windows from the shooting at Mandalay Bay.

I'm not sure what this is... An Android updating problem, perhaps?

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Chess never gets any harder or easier, you just become better at it.

-- Steve Rousseau

Headline of the moment

Ancient mutation helped create delicious, fatty pork. Scientists just fixed it.

--arstechinca.com

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The truth has nothing to hide.

-- Kristen Kolp

Trivium of the moment

70% of care givers die before their patients.

--Lou Ruvo Institute for Brain Health

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Curiosity rover gives Mars the middle finger, prepares to get drilling

-- theregister.co.uk

Trivium of the moment

The average sperm whale will consume around a ton of squid a day.

-- us.whales.org

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As far a revolutions went, Bolivia even in 1967 was already a world champion at having revolutions so it wasn't a new thing and people were sick of it.

-- Ramiro Estrugo

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South Florida's low, flat, boggy, buggy terrain was considered unfit for human habitation for most of history, but now that it has air conditioning, mosquito spray and modern water control, it appears that humans would rather inhabit it than Buffalo or Cleveland in the winter. 

-- Michael Grunwald

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[the book, "Lies That Came True"] really captured the essence of Florida, a precarious civilization engineered out of a watery wilderness, a bewildering dreamscape forged by greed, flimflam and absurdly grandiose visions that somehow stumbled into heavily populated realities.

-- Michael Grunwald

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The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them.

-- GW Bush

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I think it's healthier for family members to call one another, rather than do Facebook posts.

--Lisa Bloom

Headline of the moment

Would $1 Million in Hot Dogs Violate the Emoluments Clause?

--slate.com

Discovered poetry of the moment

He said 

three people were dead

and two others 

were shot in the head

-- Baltimoresun.com

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The frequency of one predator eating the other is really about size dynamic.  If a small shark swims by an alligator and the alligator feels like it can take the shark down, it will, but we also reviewed some old stories about larger sharks eating smaller alligators.

-- James Nifong

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ALLIGATORS ARE FEASTING ON SHARKS IN AMERICA'S RIVERS AND ESTUARIES, SCIENTISTS DISCOVER

-- Newsweek

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Fish Depression Is Not a Joke

-- NYT

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I feel that the universe is full of glorious energy.  That the energy tends to take pattern and shape, and that the ultimate character of things is comely and good. I am perfectly aware that I say this in the teeth of all sorts of contrary evidence, and that I must be basing it partly on temperament and partly on faith, but that's my attitude.

-- Richard Wilbur

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Addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

-- Eckhart Tolle

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Madagascar sees cases of plague nearly every year in the rainy season.

-- Robyn Dixon

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... just because you pay for information doesn't mean it's not good.

--Larry Flynt

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 Io is the most volcanic object in the solar system.

-- space.com

Trivia of the moment

Only 3 countries have never stopped transmission of polio: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

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There is no possible mediation between democratic law and disobedience and unlawfulness.

-- Mariano Rajoy

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Was I ready to be committed to a guy whose family owned shotguns and went to the Waffle House?

-- Maisha Closson

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Just as a wolf cannot become a lamb, so an American imperialist can never change his aggressive nature.

-- Common North Korean jape

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North Korea is sometimes simply weird. Triplets are taken from their parents and raised by the state because they are considered auspicious. 

-- Nicholas Kristof

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In Manatee County, FL, Dr. Russell Vega, the chief medical examiner, said that when he reaches "overflow" conditions, he relies on a private body transport service to store the bodies elsewhere until his office can catch up.

-- NYT

Trivium of the moment

Overdoses are the leading cause of death in Americans under 50.

NYT

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After seeing thousands of sudden, unexpected or violent deaths, I have found it impossible not to ponder the spiritual dimension of these events for both the deceased and especially those left behind.

-- Thomas Andrew

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You cannot prosper or sustain yourself over time if you do not have the victories and struggles in other places.

-- Álvaro García Linera

Spanish Moss Caught in Spiderweb

Big Cypress National Preserve, FL

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It is the fate of all great filmmakers to become adjectives.

-- Tom Shone

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The [Spanish] government will ensure that any declaration of independence will lead to nothing.

-- Mariano Rajoy

Banyan tree with orchid

(planted by Edison!)

Myers Beach, FL

Multiphone

Fort Myers Beach, FL.

Clumeria

Fort Myers Beach, FL

Headline of the moment

Knowingly infecting someone with HIV is now a misdemeanor in California, not a felony

-- kmph.com

Sentence fragment quote of the moment

"...the unending hell that is laundry..."

-- Gemma Hartley

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WOMEN AREN'T NAGS—WE'RE JUST FED UP

-- harpersbazaar.com

Sailcat skull bone

Fort Myers, FL

Beauty berry

Fort Meyers Beach, FL

Headline of the moment

Chinese woman blinded in one eye after playing game likened to electronic heroin

-- the telegraph 

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"...as you get old, per my accountant, life becomes a series of skirmishes with customs agents."

-- Gabrielle Zevin

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No reasonable person supports what happened in Las Vegas.

-- Charles Wheelan

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California is building a wall – a wall of justice – against President Trump's xenophobic, racist and ignorant immigration policies.

--Kevin de León

Headline of the moment

Young Worker Clocked 159 Hours of Overtime in a Month. Then She Died.

-- NYT

Hurricane sign with junk

Ft. Meyers Beach, FL

Headline of the moment

Google's new Clips camera is invasive, creepy, and perfect for a parent like me

-- theverge.com

Headline of the moment

Santa dead, archeologists say

-- Washington Post

Planter reflection

MIA

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Any coup that can be measured in hours rather than decades is a failure.

-- Alan Pyke

Headline of the moment

Trump Lobs Praise, and Paper Towels, to Puerto Rico Storm Victims

-- NYT

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Rex Tillerson kind of, sort of just admitted he called Trump a 'moron'

-- cnn.com

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"Person of interest" is a vague term that does not necessarily indicate that the person is suspected of committing a crime. 

-- NYT

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Respect for animals is enshrined in India's Constitution, which says that every Indian should "have compassion for living creatures." 

-- Jeffrey Gettleman

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The more tolerant you are, the more compassion you have.

-- Niharika Kishan Gandhi

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Taloja [India] is teeming with canines, and the line between a stray and a pet is blurry. 

-- Jeffrey Gettleman

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It's common that you'll see someone just pass out and die [in Ghana].

-- Dr. Matilda Laar

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To say [KFC is] the safest food is a bit like saying my hand grenade is the safest hand grenade.

-- Mike Gibney

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I'm not a criminal — I'm a terrorist.

-- Vera Zasulich, 1878

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The phenomenon of mass shooting, whether or not it properly carries the terrorist label in a particular case, is a recognizable American phenomenon. 

-- Scott Shane

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If Mr. Paddock's purpose was uncertain, his choice of weapons was unmistakable.

-- Scott Shane

Headline of the moment

A Woman Was Thought To Have Cancer, But It Was Just Her Tattoo

-- techtimes.com

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If addiction is a disease, should relapse mean jail time?

-- ABC news