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by bregma 6mo ago
Sure. The largest is under Lake Huron. One of the largest is under Lake Erie. And they're both in the same massive salt formation. The same massive formation is also deep under Chicago, but too deep to mine practically. When I say mass
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by bregma 6mo ago
Mark Carney's famous speech at Davos was a breath of fresh air compared with anything ever spewed by the deranged current president of the USA. I am so glad I live in the best country in the world with him as prime minister and that we
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by bregma 6mo ago
It started with Richard Nixon and his cynical manoevering. It was reinforced with Ronald Reagan. Remember how he spun the Iranian revolution and the bad economy on his opposition? Remember how he rode the Moral Majority wave? It was taken u
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by bregma 6mo ago
Malicious incompetence. The inbred kissing cousin of malicious compliance.
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by bregma 6mo ago
"Houston, this is Golden One. I'm looking down on the big, beautiful, blue world. They love me down there. They all love me. I'm the greatest astronaut ever in the history of mankind. No one has ever orbited like this before.
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by bregma 6mo ago
There's not as much crossover as you might think. In North America the native pollinators are adapted to the native plants and can't even pollinate the introduced eurasian ones. And it goes the other way: honeybees can't poll
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by bregma 6mo ago
Honeybees are livestock. They're no more endangered than chickens or cows. If we need more, we just breed more. In most places honeybees are raised they couldn't even survive in the wild. Just like cows and chickens and pigs. As w
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by bregma 7mo ago
> It's not about the truth anymore. It's about opinion validation. But... that's exactly what Big Academia doesn't want you to know.
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by bregma 7mo ago
It's far far easier to tear down than to build.
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by bregma 7mo ago
The problem was you also needed to buy a Mac to get the licensed ROMs.
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by bregma 7mo ago
I got all the GEM docs through Archie at umich.edu. You could get everything there including the entire GNU toolchain and MiNT so you could have a real development environment. Between DM sessions, of course. Or Time Bandits.
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by bregma 7mo ago
> but surely someone wanted hot tea faster No one in the USA drinks hat tea. The choices (and it tends to be regionally-based) is sweet or unsweet tea. No need to boil a kettle quickly for that.
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by bregma 7mo ago
I don't want my beer to taste like gasoline though.
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by bregma 7mo ago
How do you measure the head through the red solo bubba cup? Really, no self-respecting Canadian would drink beer out of anything except directly out of the bottle, can, or keg.
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by bregma 7mo ago
Why bother with the facts when you're already heard all the gossip?
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by bregma 7mo ago
Our first was colicky for the first 18 months or so. A nightmare, really, just like you described. Back arched, face red, for hours every day, no comforting. We went on to have more kids. They were all quiet and easy. We sometimes wondered
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by bregma 7mo ago
You're just confused by terminology. While 1 C is 273 K, 1 degree Celsius is 1 degree Kelvin. See, a degree is not an absolute unit of measure like a Celsius or a Kelvin, it's a relative difference between two absolute units o
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by bregma 7mo ago
Following the precedents of imprisoning and persecuting the previous regime on "corruption" charges established by the likes of much of Latin America, Pakistan, the Phillipines, and other similar countries will definitely mark the
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by bregma 7mo ago
There is no evidence that dozy Donny the paedo president has dementia. It's just that one of his personality traits is "Arbitrary". I can just imagine him saying, as he walks into the TV room in the Whitehouse, "I went
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by bregma 7mo ago
"Digital" means you represent information using digits. Discrete numbers. "on/off" is binary. "Analog" means not using digits but instead an alternative (analogous) representation of the original data, usu
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by bregma 7mo ago
The Linux kernel is licensed GPLv2. The GPLv2 license forbids adding addition terms that further restrict the use of the software. A "Linux distro" is not the Linux kernel. It's possible for some distros to add such license
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by bregma 7mo ago
More importantly: are there places that will pay me to make regular donations?
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by bregma 7mo ago
Catching the pedophiles. Think of the children.
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by bregma 7mo ago
Warping a loom by hand is a nightmare of repetitive tweaking, drawing each warp end through a heddle and adjusting the tension, one by one and back again. It's like restringing and tuning a guitar with hundreds of strings. Even hand
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by bregma 7mo ago
Looms weave. You need a knitting machine to knit.
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by bregma 7mo ago
> Laser discs are not digital... It is digitized in the time domain Laser disks are 100% digital (as you said, they store digits in the time domain). They don't encode their data using binary like a CD does. "Binary" and &
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by bregma 7mo ago
They're a ... gas.
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by bregma 7mo ago
I like to just roll over and bite the pillow, click "accept all cookies" and let them go in dry and unprotected.
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by bregma 7mo ago
Mikado is the name of an opera (by Gilbert and Sullivan) in which someone is deemed to have been executed without actually having been executed. Sounds like an ideal test strategy to me: yes, all the tests were executed, just not actually r
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by bregma 7mo ago
Most modern C runtime libraries on POSIX OSes implement malloc() and friends using the mmap() system call.

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