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by lurquer 6y ago
So, state police -- on a loudspeaker -- are "ordering" people to "leave the street immediately." The reporter admits he was told "to clear the area." The loudspeaker -- again -- explicitly states to "go ba
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by lurquer 6y ago
Your answers were expected, but I mentioned Zoom for a specific reason... Currently, many judicial hearings are being conducted using Zoom. You can literally be ORDERED to appear for a hearing using Zoom. In this situation, what would you m
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by lurquer 6y ago
This is not a Trump tantrum. The issues are real. As we speak, courts across the country are using Zoom for hearings. Would there be any legal impediment to Zoom automatically inserting a caption on YOUR video feed that says "jwalgenba
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by lurquer 6y ago
But for kids, what is the point of a career? Perhaps my POV is old-fashioned, but real honestly, the only reason I went to school, obtained a professional degree, and made fat stacks of Benjamins was to get a good wife (and then kids, etc.)
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by lurquer 6y ago
As Jeff Goldblum would say, "Life finds a way." I'm avoiding Covid conversations as my self-esteem is too fragile to tolerate downvotes. ;) But, if I were opining on the subject, I'd say that masks, social distancing, lo
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by lurquer 6y ago
>Drive through windows and me going to the store have been our only exposures. Let me reword this for you: "interacting with a teenager who deals with about a thousand people a day, and going to a facility that is frequented by tens
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by lurquer 6y ago
Thanks for the better picture! Very useful post. Look like hoods to me. But, whatever works for the essay... The REAL mystery is what the two baseball batters are doing on the left side of the image.
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by lurquer 6y ago
>What's a better treat than an apple, an orange, a persimmon, fig, kiwi...? If 'better' refers to taste, the answer is simple: an Oreo.
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by lurquer 6y ago
Yeah, I miss the days when nostalgia was more common.
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by lurquer 6y ago
>are you going to attend a conference, a wedding, a dinner party / restaurant where you’ll be near 100+ people? Yes, yes, and yes. As will you.
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by lurquer 6y ago
>ER admissions are down 50% or more depending in county. This isn't as significant as you might think... There is a large (very large in some communities) percentage of ER visits that aren't for real emergencies; rather, they a
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by lurquer 6y ago
Quite right. I propose immediately banning any further stories about children driving vehicles. Enough is enough.
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by lurquer 6y ago
So, what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas.
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by lurquer 6y ago
David Icke rose to fame long before the Internet. Mormons. Scientologists. The benefits of smoking tobacco. The danger of smoking marijuana. (And vice versa, depending on decade.) The aberrancy/normalcy of homosexuality (take your pick
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by lurquer 6y ago
What about one child... and a puppy?
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by lurquer 6y ago
But, if it can save just one person...
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by lurquer 6y ago
Who is this “we” you repeatedly use in your post? Perhaps you mean “I”? You make good points... But, with all due respect, your use of that pronoun evidences a strange collectivist view of the world that may be part of the problem.
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by lurquer 6y ago
Would we get to sing songs before the readings? I'd like that.
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by lurquer 6y ago
Edit: "I don't live in Dharavi. I've never been there."
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by lurquer 6y ago
India has some of the densest urban environments on the planet... Mumbai, Calcutta, Howraw, etc. And, it has pockets of density that are mind-boggling, such as the slums at Dharavi. 9 to 10 people in a room, families taking 'shifts&#x2
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by lurquer 6y ago
Well, don’t known about your neck of the woods, but things are opening up here in two days. So, so I was a few days off in my estimate. Statistically insignificant deaths, no overwhelmed hospitals, no body bags in the hallways or rationing
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by lurquer 6y ago
That was an obvious error in their reasoning. Not surprising, though. Idiotic (and, yes, such an error IS idiotic) fumbling with statistics is displayed on a daily basis. It doesn't matter what 'side' you are on: idiots aboun
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by lurquer 6y ago
I had heard it explained explained that way as well. Made sense then and now. Not to digress, but IF the earth was stationary and everything rotated around it, can you think of a mechanism to explain the pendulums behavior? (Could be ether,
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by lurquer 6y ago
Ha. Of course. My apologies.
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by lurquer 6y ago
Republican?! Trump is the dumbass that encouraged shutdowns in the first place. Is everything in your worldview filtered through US partisanship? This idiotic overreaction transcends poltics and has been worldwide. It will be in the history
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by lurquer 6y ago
Thanks. I found that explanation a long time ago in some remote corner of the internet... some Japanese website about Transformers and Decipticons as I recall. Ages ago -- when the Internet was young -- I tried to put the explanation in the
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by lurquer 6y ago
I found it very difficult to understand WHY Foucaults pendulum behaves the way it does. I could picture what was happening with the pendulum at the Norh Pole... earth rotates under the pivot point every 24 hours. And, I understand what happ
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by lurquer 6y ago
Surely you don't really think the protests were about haircuts? Perhaps you do... There have been other examples of people being utterly out-of-touch with the plight of the little people. Marie Antoinette, they say, was confused about
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by lurquer 6y ago
Ambient temperature is important. Seeds are more likely to sprout at certain temps, and women are more likely to conceive in certain seasons (spring, for instance... not due to biology, but rather due to cultural/farming/religious
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" the agents let the boxes of equipment be released and loaded into the trucks." Ok... the FBI said everything is on the up-and-up and the trucks are heading out. "But I was soon shocked to learn that the Department of Homela

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