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So AncestryDNA has a category labeled "Traits Report". I hadn't clicked on that before, but I was poking around and they have a new genetics-based category on Morning Person vs Night Owl.

Geography plays a significant role in Friendship Games. Following the sinking of a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, prominent Iranians are convinced that the USA will launch a war and seek nothing short of regime change and an end to the Islamic Republic.

It is St. Patrick's Day 2023, and Irish band U2 released their 40-song new (make that 'reimagined') album Songs of Surrender. 'Reimagined' in the sense that the 40 songs of SOS are not new tracks but, rather, 'reimagined' updates of 40 songs from their existing discography.

Okay, so this I like. Yes, it is in the same vein as the other three pre-released singles: Pride (I like that new ending, though), With Or Without You, One. Stripped down and slow. But I haven't been a true fan of anything past their Zooropa album except for some individual songs here and there. I do like their most recent album, ...

A US aircraft blows up and sinks in the Persian Gulf. Was it an accident? An attack? Does it matter? Not after years of antagonism between the USA & Iran, and Iranian brinkmanship.