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by acheron 2y ago
Congress was entirely controlled by Democrats for longer than that, I think 1956 to 1994. The US has liked divided government for a long time.
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by acheron 2y ago
Same. It was in 2002. Well, I guess it was still Phoenix then.
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by acheron 2y ago
The Celebrity Jeopardy sketch started in the mid 90s and was done by 2005 other than a couple reunion special occasions. It’s not from the last 20 years anymore, you may be getting old.
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by acheron 2y ago
This is just the etymological fallacy. Etymology is interesting in learning where words came from and what their sources originally meant, but it doesn't define what words currently mean. You can "decimate" something without
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by acheron 2y ago
What? No. Apps are guaranteed to be sandboxed and can’t access anything you don’t let them.
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by acheron 2y ago
Is the only alternative still Google? Yeah I’m good with Apple, thanks.
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by acheron 2y ago
LinkedIn locked my account for no reason awhile ago and apparently want me to send a photo of my ID to some sketchy “verification” third party. No thanks. I’m glad it’s a trivial amount of effort for you, I guess.
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by acheron 2y ago
If only Stalin knew!
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by acheron 2y ago
Brave is still Chrome, you’re just kidding yourself.
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by acheron 2y ago
The IBM PC version is one of the first games I remember playing as well. Do do do do do da do do…
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by acheron 2y ago
The head of the physics department goes to the university president to ask for money for a new lab. The president says “Your department always needs such expensive equipment. Why can’t you be more like mathematics? All they need are paper,
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by acheron 2y ago
Awhile back I wrote a Clojure program to take a PLAY statement from GW-BASIC and turn it into a WAV file. I used this site to look up all the details of PLAY.
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by acheron 2y ago
This is called “hazing”.
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by acheron 2y ago
on the other hand, new TLDs make ICANN a lot of money, and isn't that the important thing?
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by acheron 2y ago
Le cose ti fier conte quando noi fermerem li nostri passi su la trista riviera d'Acheronte.
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by acheron 2y ago
Maybe, but the good books in ASOIAF all came out in the 20th century. Did you really like A Dance with Dragons that much?
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by acheron 2y ago
I would choose Anathem over Seveneves for a NS pick.
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by acheron 2y ago
Sounds like a question you should ask the panzer of the lake.
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by acheron 2y ago
I would feel shitty about myself that I got taken in by a scam.
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by acheron 2y ago
Semi-related, the Old English word for cemetery was "licburg": corpse-town. The lic- in that is the source of "lich".
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Star Trek Writer-Producer Jeri Taylor Dies at 86(deadline.com)
12 points by acheron 2y ago|2 comments
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by acheron 2y ago
Chopin is pretty distinctive. I think the question would be if someone could identify it as “actual lost Chopin” vs “modern composer trying to imitate Chopin”.
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by acheron 2y ago
Yeah took me a bit to catch how the starting spaces worked. Not sure how to clarify that other than just writing it out in the instructions below.
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by acheron 2y ago
That was a Clarke story too, at least the one I remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story) I don't remember an Asimov one, but maybe he did one too; he wrote a whole lot of stories and I
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by acheron 2y ago
Sorry, too busy selling ads.
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by acheron 2y ago
We all know the best place to get a New York slice is Sbarro.
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by acheron 2y ago
With a 2 year old, sure. But a lot of my PTO used to be "elementary aged child is sick and has to stay home from school, so I have to stay home too because he can't be home by himself for 9 hours". Now I don't have to ta
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by acheron 2y ago
What’s the original source? Is it this site? I read it on a forum probably close to 20 years ago but didn’t know where it originally came from.
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by acheron 2y ago
It’s the same picture.
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by acheron 2y ago
For some games sure, but for this game there’s almost certainly a licensing issue.

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