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Ace of Spades ♠ —vids of cute critters and classless clowns

h/t BFH, IOTW Report
Nation's Last HoJos Closes

Once the largest restaurant chain in the US, the Howard Johnson's diners were down to their last orange roof by 2016. Now that location, in Lake George, New York, has shut its doors. The restaurant had served visitors to the Adirondack Mountains region for nearly 70 years

h/t Blazing Cat Fur
We're in the middle of a civilization-ending fertility crisis, but experts say "virtual children" will be all the rage in a few decades

That "within 50 years, technology will have advanced to such an extent that babies which exist in the metaverse are indistinct from those in the real world."

h/t Boswell on A♠

USDA Announces Framework for Shoring Up the Food Supply Chain and Transforming the Food System to Be Fairer, More Competitive, More Resilient

The goals of USDA’s Food System Transformation framework include:

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

The cure for brown recluse bites is growing in your yard...plantain. I went through three doctors (one of whom insisted it was a mosquito bite) before I got online and found the solution.
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Pick a bunch of the leaves and put them in a blender. Pulse on and off till it's a slurry. If too thick, add a little water. What you have now is a plantain poultice. Slap some of the plantain mush on the bite and cover it with a bandage. Change bandage in three days. Bask in the sight of the bite shrinking. It works.

Posted by: creeper on A♠

h/t A♠ Morning Report
The return of reefer madness?
John Dale Dunn, American Thinker, Jun 2, 2022
As always, it's not the super-powered pot.

It is significant that many of the violent criminal actors who populate the streets and make the news, young and old, are found to be regular marijuana-users, of course with other drug abuse habits. To complicate matters, cannabis street product is often adulterated with fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and designer drugs that are variable in their effect, from sedation to the point of death, or agitation and delirium.

h/t FenelonSpoke on A♠
The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, CERN Scientists Discover
Hannah Osborne, Newsweek, Oct 25, 2017

"All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist…."