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[Bracket City] June 2, 2025

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Rank: 🎖 (Mayor) ❌ Wrong guesses: 7

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Connections Puzzle #722

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Wordle 1,444 3/6

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"India's fertility rate has fallen substantially - from 5.7 births per woman in 1950 to the current rate of two.

Fertility rates have fallen below the replacement level of two births per woman in 17 of the 29 states and territories." - BBC

The replacement rate is 2.1 births per woman, just for accuracy. So the country's rate of 2 per woman on average is below replacement level.

Ha! Gym mat! I can feel the toughness and taste the salt; that is a grim picture you paint.

My wife and I never really went to steakhouses that often, but now that we can cook a better steak than anyone else, it's once in a blue moon that we go out for one. Marcel in Atlanta is the only place we go for steak and it's an incredible experience. I just want to put that out there so that people know it can be done right, just rarely is.

I envy you, but only because you have so much fresh Trek to watch.

Wordle 1,442 4/6

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If you haven't read The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, put it on your list. Please and thank you.

Speech makes the case we can save a lot of money paying the unhoused to teach us about life instead of universities. Anti-college before it was cool.

Connections Puzzle #719

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My niece suggested this place for lunch today and was quickly shouted down by the rest of the kids here. They know!

Everyone's going low, but Ruth's Chris is the worst fucking restaurant experience I've ever had. And I've been a couple of times, once with family and once because we were given a gift card. Shit apps, shit sides and an acceptable steak for way more money than it should be. The wait staff was creepily servile, like the "how may I pleasure you" that Chick Fil A used to force. And the lights were a cool 5K color temp like I was eating dinner in the parking garage. Fucking garbage.