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That Nug Smasher could be used for pressing tobacco into plugs to be cut into flakes if it were less expensive.

Round after round of severe Storms and Tornadoes through west and Middle TN. Texted @Bob_Luken he is good, or at least safe the tornado headed towards them down graded to a severe storm. Several bad storms last night in the general area.

The first music streaming service was invented in 1906 by a man named Thaddeus Cahill. It was called the tel-harmonium.

@silvermouse said:

Leaders, staff purged at US health agencies
Thousands of people are losing their jobs at agencies across the US Department of Health and Human Services, including at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health. Among the leaders who were offered the choice between administrative leave or reassignment to remote locations is infectious-disease physician Jeanne Marrazzo, who succeeded Anthony Fauci as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history,” says infectious-diseases epidemiologist Michael Osterholm.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01016-z

It's been 5 years since many of these agencies were involved in bringing us the pandemic, which I consider the crime of the century against the American people, I applaud a re-alignment of priorities for these agencies.

A picture of the hail that was falling in West TN last night