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Loofahs are great for exfoliating the skin, and though one of them is my regular shower companion, I had no idea what they are. I assumed the coarse tubes were either natural sponges from the sea, or perhaps manufactured in a factory somehow. But it turns out they are actually a plant from the gourd family, and you can grow them right in your backyard.
Their scientific name is Luffa aegyptiaca, and their outside resembles a cucumber. On the inside, you’ll find an edible squash-like flesh that, when over-ripened, hardens into those familiar, exfoliating mesh tubes. Who knew: All this time we’ve been paying $US5.99 ($8) a pop for store-bought loofahs when we could’ve just been picking them from the vine ourselves. Here’s what you need to know to grow an unlimited supply of scrubbing loofahs.
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i mean, remember what we learned in the russian social media operation in 2016 to target our election to benefit trump. we learned it in the criminal indictments against the russian military intelligence officers charged by mueller. we learned it in the senate report reviewing how that russian operation information worked against us. one of their key plays is that they would build up seemingly nonpolitical content, they have lots of different avatars, lots of different accounts on lots of different social media platforms attracting u.s. viewership, attracting likes, attracting followers. all doing stuff that didn t seem to be overtly political at all. it was just designed to get people clicking there, just designed to get into peoples feeds. and when it came time to turn those things operational for the purposes of american political impact those seemingly nonpolitical channels started pushing out material designed to influence the election. and a big part of the impact, you want to ca
followers. all doing stuff that didn t seem to be overtly political at all. it was just designed to get people clicking there, just designed to get into peoples feeds. and when it came time to turn those things operational for the purposes of american political impact those seemingly nonpolitical channels started pushing out material designed to influence the election. and a big part of the impact, you want to capture the maximum number of eyeballs, well you better have the maximum number of subscribers already looking at your content before you become a political operation. well, boy, are they doing that now. with the election of 2020 now bearing down upon us, i mean the iowa caucuses are six weeks away. it s super bowl sunday then the first monday in february, the day after super bowl sunday is the iowa caucuses. i mean, how prepped are we really? how prepped are the democratic candidates and the democratic party for contending with a potentially major foreign-based social media oper