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And having been barraged every time I sign in with warnings to update my version of Joomla!,I finally did.
Here it is.
Yeah, I'm liking the lines, but there's some issues and I wouldn't define this as a "seamless migration", although I did ignore plenty of warnings...
Over time it will come back. Not the same, a little bit different, who knows, better even.
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My Facebook is filled with these, "mysteries" that upon the slightest examination prove to be no mystery at all.
For example, the melted steps within the Temple of Hathor in Egypt. According to the link on Facebook, and (briefly) on Reddit - "it would take 4k degrees fahrenheit (2204 celsius)to melt stone. That's a little less than the surface temperature of the sun."
Wow! That's proof of Ancient Aliens, or a Meteorite, or Nuclear War, or Atlantis, or something.
Only a single Google search reveals the steps are carved from Limestone - specifically travertine, which as the rain washed into the temple over thousands of years ran down the steps, both removing the limestone and redepositing it, in a process very similar to what you find in Caves.
So no mystery at all, the mystery being how people are too lazy to do the most remedial of research and come to an intelligent and informed conclusion, preferring to spread disinformation.
..That said, you heard the latest regarding 5G and the activation of the Covid shots?
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Rub-a-Dub-Dub
5 men in a sub
and who/where do you think they be?
The Diver, The Pilot, The Founder who founders
A Billionaire and his heir...
All Crushed now and Drowned at the bottom of the Sea...
(actually, only need: "Rub-a-Dub-Dub, 5 Men in a Sub, And Where do you think they be???"...Everyone knows the rest...)
That the Entirely Predictable Misadventures of the most unsympathetic and entitled band of Adventurers should demand our undivided attention, sympathy, empathy and grief, well, no thanks, there are better causes.
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Found these interesting (via reddit):
I mean, it seems a bit much, having to commit to one thing and one thing only so early in the game....
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And the other day, out of the blue, killing time between hangovers, when what should hit me but a trifling epiphany.
That of Jack and the Beanstalk. That Jack makes a bad deal, turns it into an adventure, along the way steals a treasured golden harp in the shape of a woman and barely escapes with his life by chopping down the beanstalk and killing the evil giant.
The Giant, of course, is Jack's father, the beautiful harp is both the muse and libido, and his cutting down the beanstalk is symbolic of him castrating (or chopping down the giant's giant manhood) and his death is taken as the natural succession. Jack has transitioned from childhood or adolescence into manhood, with all the riches required to fulfill his dreams.
This was ridiculously easy, and I wonder for what reason I thought of it, and - for what reason my mind thought to solve it.
Therein lies the real question...
(**Note: I mean, I've never thought about this consciously, and so I would quite probably have figured it out. But why I would think about this unconsciously, and solve it....???)