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by lainga 3y ago
"Ma'am, I'm here to enforce the terms of the divorce agreement. I need you to take his gonads out of your purse and hand them over."
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by lainga 3y ago
The saturated adiabatic lapse rate! When they meet it's happy land^W^W the cloud base
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by lainga 3y ago
I wonder if you (the bird) get hypoxia or altitude sickness and experience the whole thing as a sort of gliding blur
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by lainga 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign (only semi-serious)
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by lainga 3y ago
Also appeared in Breaking Bad as one of Pollos Hermanos' sister brands!
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by lainga 3y ago
> the first variable name which comes to your head. I do this. I do it, but I will say it's not for everyone, including me. There have been a lot of "jimmy" and "pibbo" over the years. Keep the first name that do
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by lainga 3y ago
What is the target age for this series? IMO I thought some parts could be a little slower (like "think of something you do every day..." - pause just a second or two for thought). Not that it matters as the series is 3 years old a
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by lainga 3y ago
It is unusually well-funded, and also large in absolute numbers, but not proportionally to the population. Greece and South Korea, for instance, have 1.3% and 1.1% of their populations in active service. When you include reservists (of vary
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by lainga 3y ago
bradley13's local agency was Seattle's IT department?
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by lainga 3y ago
Here it is (I think...): "Mr Cosgrave criticised the conflict in the Gaza region in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying he was “shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many western leaders & governments, with the excep
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by lainga 3y ago
Please see my other comment. I will explain my original comment. In the first case, climate models don't usually do that. You couple them to biological models that predict habitat expansion or contraction. (I think this is probably wha
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by lainga 3y ago
In the spirit of Timothy Dexter I provide the audience with some markers that they may pepper and salt as they please /s /s /s
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by lainga 3y ago
Not quite on-topic, but... > One factor driving the disease’s northward creep may be climate change... Climate modeling suggests this trend will continue. Either their circulation models include an epidemiology module, or they are sugges
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by lainga 3y ago
True Marxism is called that by / the extreme left. / Occasionally the true left calls / a spade a spade and tells the left it’s right. https://www.opera-arias.com/adams/nixon-in-china/libretto&#x2F
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by lainga 3y ago
I don't know about you, but I find this one rather charming! Just demonstrates the Plattenbau were a failure of imagination, not materials [] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19860910310NR_Rostoc...
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by lainga 3y ago
IF the primitive aliens were anything like us, you could point something like FIRMS at the planet and wait a few weeks. One of the first things I would qualify as an anthropogenic (xenogenic??) signature, visible from space, would have been
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by lainga 3y ago
Not much, I just thought they had taken that one out of DSM-5
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by lainga 3y ago
Reminds me of gofmt insisting "Id" should always be "ID" and in the process totally dunking on Freud
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by lainga 3y ago
Oh my goodness, that FBI behavioural profile on the second link. "We're looking for a suspect who's depressed... alcoholic... and HOMOSEXUAL"
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by lainga 3y ago
Same here. It's telling that one of the most meaningful scenes doesn't even have anything to do with mecha... just two guys on a boat talking about the world after the Cold War. "The line between a just war and an unjust pea
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by lainga 3y ago
Oh, it's not the thing itself, it's just me...
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by lainga 3y ago
I go out of my way to find olive oil from outside Italy since I heard the Italian olive oil industry is tied up with organised crime. Most common alternative sources are Tunisia and California. It's hard sometimes because you'll s
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by lainga 3y ago
Don't quote me on this, but I vaguely recall an explanation years ago, that the one-two punch of Norman French and the Great Vowel Shift arriving were enough for spelling and pronounciation to permanently decouple in English speakers&#
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by lainga 3y ago
Just to clarify, does "cross-platform" in this case mean only {iOS, Android, Web}?
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by lainga 3y ago
Counterpoint: It took only one of me (sitting on my butt) to not create Teams, which, despite a small principality's worth of better minds than I, Microsoft has historically struggled to do
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by lainga 3y ago
I hesitate to put words into the mouths of others, but this sibling comment by the GP poster may explain their position https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694140
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by lainga 3y ago
>Elephants rely on visual cues [when striding] So did I. I had an ear infection in the summer of 2021 that apparently caused something called "vestibular neuritis" (?). I only figured it out because I was getting up in the midd
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by lainga 3y ago
When plotted that way, it is indeed strange that the trend in density of large-scale structures (from Sun up to superclusters) is heading towards an intersection with the "black holes" line (Schwarzschild radius?)
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by lainga 3y ago
Uh oh. Do they still like yaeba in Japan? A few years from now we might be seeing people with big old sabre-tooth fangs because it looks cute...
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by lainga 3y ago
"Time was when men could (so to speak) of a given man, by nourishing and decorating him with fit appliances, to the due pitch, make themselves a King, almost as the Bees do ... How such Ideals do realise themselves; and grow, wondrou

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