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Published In The Great North Arrow, April 1, 2024: The Great Facebook Plant Self-Watering Technique

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- jim Young DISCLAIMER: Be sure to read this article in its entirety before attempting this self-watering procedure. ”Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.” - Jerry Seinfeld Facebook is filled with suggested hacks to cover everything from keeping mosquitoes out of your back yard to removing highlighter stains to getting gum out of your carpet with a baggie full of ice cubes. It would be nice if they all worked. In fact it would be nice if even half of them worked. Here’s a hack we got from Facebook that could have been a real life-saver for us. We recently planned a 2 week vacation to Cuba. Like everyone going away for a holiday, we had to make many preparations before we left.  Advise the post office to hold our mail - check Book our dog Myra into a Kennel...
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  - jim Young In the realm of expectation, disappointment is king.” - anon If someone promised to save you a substantial sum of money and was only able to produce less than 15% of half of what they originally promised… you likely wouldn’t afford them much credibility in their field, would you? In fact, in light of their failure, you would likely think they were pretty stupid. Either that or they were taking you for a ride all along. Musk is the richest man in the world. So if he’s stupid, he must be very, very lucky to get where he is. Yet this is what he has done “for”, or perhaps “to” the American people might be a better way to put it.  PROMISES AND EXPECTATIONS While campaigning for Trump, Musk bragged about cutting $2 trillion from government expenses. Once Trump was elected Musk reduced that promise to $1 trillion. As recently as last March, Musk bragged he was on schedule to reduce spending of $1 trillion by the end of May. Recently Musk has reduced that to just 15% or ...
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