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Sen McCarthy Was Right

During WWII many older railroad employees returned from retirement to replace the young men who had gone into the military. On the wartime “RIP” tracks (“Repair In Place”), this Illinois Central retiree jacked up a gondola to swap out a truck during November, 1942. He did it all by himself. Forgotten men like this made America great. (Photo by Jack Delano)

Awesome but frightening at the same time. "Judie Johnson of Hahei, New Zealand recently took a dip off the coast of Coromandel, she never expected to be surrounded by a pod of orca whales." https://www.foxnews.com/science/killer-whales-surround-new-zealand-woman-in-stunning-drone-footage

Frozen spider web

Google to shut down Google+ early due to bug that leaked data of 52.5 million users "This marks the second data breach for Google's disappointing social network. The first occurred in October, when up to 500,000 users' data was compromised. Shortly after, Google announced it would shut down the platform in 2019." https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/12/11/google-plus-leak-social-network-shut-down-sooner-after-security-bug/2274296002/

"companies are not people, they don’t owe anybody anything."