What's going on with the Bahamas?

First, Sam Bankman-Fried moves there and builds FTX, one of the largest fraudulent corporations in history.

Then, Billy McFarland, the guy who orchestrated a huge fraudulent music festival there (Fyre Festival), gets out of jail and devises a new Bahamas-based venture called PYRT.

And now, bizarre white "clouds" are forming in the Bahamian ocean that scientists cannot explain. Are the clouds, themselves, fraudulent? Too early to tell...

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Before you duck out early for dollar-oysters and a round of IPAs, consider this: Canada just released new health guidelines for alcohol that assert "no amount" is healthy.

Canadian health officials now recommend people reduce drinking as much as possible. Previous 2011 guidelines urged women and men consume no more than 10 and 15 drinks per week, respectively.

Now, Canada has no recommended limit - just a "continuum of risk" associated with drinking even a few glasses of wine or beer over a seven-day period.

"Research shows that no amount or kind of alcohol is good for your health," the new guidelines read. "It doesn’t matter what kind of alcohol it is - wine, beer, cider or spirits. Drinking alcohol, even a small amount, is damaging to everyone."

Concern centers primarily around a large body of research linking regular alcohol use to increased risk of liver disease, cancer, heart disease, and alcohol-related accidents (e.g., car crashes). There are 140,000 alcohol-related deaths in the US each year.

While the Netherlands has come out with guidelines similar to Canada's, most countries aren't ready to "toss the sauce" just yet. Australian health officials are still okay with 10 drinks a week, and British officials recommend six or fewer. The US doesn't have a weekly recommendation, but urges no more than two drinks a day.

Anecdotally, there does seem to be an anti-alcohol movement forming, right? I, for one, am doing Dry Jan and have become the awkward guy chugging club soda with lime in the corner at social events. Never felt better, though...

Ovens are notoriously difficult to clean. So difficult, in fact, that the majority of people just...don't clean them.

The primary issue here is the awkwardly large oven door that gets in the way.

Here's the kicker: the door comes off. You read that correctly. THE DOOR COMES OFF!

I had no idea. Did you? Am I late to the party here?

In any case, this guy demonstrates how to remove the door.

Not all heros wear capes...

1. Plants can’t eat in the dark.
2. An electric toothbrush doesn’t break. It just becomes a regular toothbrush.
3. Walkie-talkies were a lot more exciting before cellphones.
4. Your life consists mostly of moments you don’t remember.
5. The first human to snap must have felt like a rockstar.

Diane McLaren: "Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

Today I learned that the USA was supposed to adopt the metric system but the ship carrying the standardized meter and kilogram was hijacked by pirates in 1793 and the measurements never made it to the States. (more here)

wangle [ wang-gul ] - verb
manage to obtain (something) by persuading or cleverly manipulating someone.
I wangled an invitation to her party.

Q: Which country borders 14 nations and crosses 8 time zones?
A: (see below next section)