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A very interesting investigation. True, it’s old—it’s already two years old. But the problem with these machines in the fields persists even now.

A very interesting story about Joseph Smith and his Church of Mormons in the USA from a person who has been part of this community for a long time. Many influential people among the parishioners. I once visited our local LDS to have a closer look. I will leave its photo in the comments

https://youtu.be/hUW7j9GmXjI

https://youtu.be/hUW7j9GmXjI?si=_4WPosAXYZW5Qn_c

Walking with Yuka near the house

Good interview. Abbyy is one of the few companies from Russia that has always elicited the most positive emotions in me. @[100000746471368:2048:Ksenia Chabanenko], wishing you the most interesting guests!

My lunch today

I’m putting up a drum set for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and my interface is set to French. Rare, but regularly, this brings something new. This time I learned that in French, a drum kit is called ‘la batterie’. It seemed, what does a battery have to do with it?

It seems that this happened because another meaning of this word is a set, a collection of something, for example une batterie de toilette – “a set of toiletries” or une batterie d’outils – a set of tools.

But in addition to that, there is also the verb battre – to beat. So, indeed, here two meanings intertwine. And of course, a battery also refers to a group of artillery guns or in the case of apartment heating, a set of heating elements. Such are the discoveries)

The hardest part about chess.com is stopping yourself from clicking New Game right after the previous ten-minute game ends. It feels like you just started playing, and suddenly it’s half past one in the morning.

Interesting. The first photo with lens correction enabled in the settings. I didn’t mistype, it’s indeed enabled. Which means the wide face is the default. And the second one – with it turned off. Front camera

Collected

Today marks the third time we made it to float down the Shenandoah River on tubes, or scientifically speaking, tubing. It’s about 40 minutes from home. There are two options, flat water and white water. The first – is essentially a typical river near Moscow. You float, drink beer from a bottle labeled as juice. Boring, but it attracts the main bulk of people. White water – is a mountain river of about a third-degree difficulty, in some places. On site, they really scare people about the difficulty, causing them to downgrade their bought pass to flat water. In our presence, two families switched. Well, about the difficulty. There are no clear movement lines, just rocks, the rapids are generally not dangerous, but still, a tube is a tube. It’s poorly controllable. There is no helm. Your arms are the paddles. I capsized from it about three times. I quickly learned that when falling, you need to raise it high above your head because any touch of the water sweeps you along with it to the rocks, but this way, you can manage, albeit barely, to stay in control and consciously do something. Overall, I got a few bruises and bumps, but the family seems not to have fallen even once, and it looks like I’m the only one who got sunburned. In general, a wonderful way to spend three hours floating five kilometers.