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At 207 Mbps, Singapore has world’s fastest internet speed – Ventureburn

It has a median internet speed of 207.61. Chile came second with a median internet speed of 200.01 Megabits per second (Mbps), while Thailand took the third position with 189.64 Mbps.

According to the BanklessTimes, the United States came at the eighth position, with a median internet speed of 151.21 Mbps. Hong Kong, Denmark, China, and Macau took the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh positions, respectively. Hong Kong has a median internet speed of 181.70 Mbps, Denmark has 166.11 Mbps, China has 162.74 Mbps, and Macau has 158.48 Mbps.

BanklessTimes chief executive Jonathan Merry says, “Of the top eight countries with the fastest speed in the fixed broadband category, China is the most improved one, having stepped up three positions. Hong Kong improved by one position, while Denmark was demoted from the fourth to the fifth. The remaining countries, including Singapore, Chile, Thailand, Macau, and the United States, maintained their positions.”

 

Source: At 207 Mbps, Singapore has world’s fastest internet speed – Ventureburn

Here’s how many COVID-19 vaccines will be available for young children in Oregon – oregonlive.com

Oregon expects to receive 61,800 COVID-19 vaccine doses for children six months to four years old in the first week the vaccines are formally approved by federal and state officials.

That means 42,600 doses could arrive as soon as Monday, with 19,200 more beginning Tuesday through June 27, according to the Oregon Health Authority. The doses would be split roughly evenly between vaccine makers Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

 

Source: Here’s how many COVID-19 vaccines will be available for young children in Oregon – oregonlive.com

“In 1860, 49% of White Families in Mississippi Owned Slaves, Who Outnumbered White Folks Here” by Jackblog | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS

Based on 1860 Census results, 49 percent of Mississippi households owned slaves at the start of the Civil War, and more than half the population of our state—55 percent—were slaves. Slavery was massive here and directed affected nearly half the white families in Mississippi, including some who weren’t as wealthy as the planters who owned many slaves

Source: “In 1860, 49% of White Families in Mississippi Owned Slaves, Who Outnumbered White Folks Here” by Jackblog | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS

♫ You’ve Made Me So Very Happy ♫

Filosofa's Word

A comment conversation with a relatively new member of my ‘blogging family’ led to this song.  I was thinking how it is that a new reader pops in to a post, and maybe that’s the only time we ever see him/her, but then on the other hand, maybe there’s a connection, a spark, something that says, “Hey, I really click with this person!”  I’ve had that happen on a number of occasions since I started this blog, and some of my blogging family have, over time, become some of my best friends.  And a line came to my mind … “I’m so glad you came into my life” … and I put those words into Google, for I knew there was a song there, but couldn’t quite put my finger on it.  But, Google found it right off and here we are …

I was unaware that this song was…

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They Are NOT Heroes

Filosofa's Word

Suddenly I’m hearing Mike Pence, Bill Barr, Ivanka Trump, and others referred to as ‘heroes’.  I don’t see it that way at all.  At some point, they did step up to the plate and do their job for We the People, but for years before that, decades in the case of Ivanka, they failed.  Instead they licked the boots and played “yes-man”, enabling a lunatic who was intent on turning the United States into his own personal playground.  I am not alone in my view of these and other people, for yesterday Frank Bruni wrote of them in his column in the New York Times


Don’t Let Bill Barr and Ivanka Trump Visit the Reputation Laundromat

June 16, 2022

By Frank Bruni

The Jan. 6 committee’s televised hearings are many things: the coalescence of scattered revelations into a clearer, cleaner narrative; an unblinking appraisal of the madness of King…

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