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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
>How fast might a specialty language evolve Pretty fast, actually. At least if you leave it up to kids.† † https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
> Russia may be ready to attack the alliance within five years. With what, sharpened sticks? Russia will soon only be left with rattling its nuclear saber as its once mighty military is left in ruins.
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
Russia is not only on the precipice of giving up territory in Ukraine, it's likely to give up so much more because its ability to function as a country is being systematically destroyed. The only barrier between Russians and anarchy is
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
Zelle was built to preempt FedNow. The banks saw what was coming and wanted to own instant payments. https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
'BYD has pulled ahead on battery tech and vertical integration right now.' - FTFY
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
'A new piece of electronic warfare equipment appears more precisely targeted, apparently capable of jamming Starlink terminals on the ground across an area of up to 20 square kilometers.' Here's the result of Russia's ef
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
Elon turning off Russian access to Starlink by whitelisting only authorized terminals in the region was a turning point for Ukraine's success. The conflict has proven that modern warfare depends on Starlink and its mimics.
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
'Fowler’s A. shawii , with its fused spines, was not typical; from a conservation perspective it would have been more helpful to take one with normal spines.' Unless it's a new variety/species and not A. shawii ?
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
Yes, sometimes gravity resolves the problem for you.
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
Nobody with any intelligence is recovering these if they miss. There are a number of Reddit channels with videos of why this is a bad idea.
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by onlypassingthru 3mo ago
I'll never work in Mission Control, but the Hayabusa2 website lets me pretend I do. Kudos to whomever designed this website: https://haya2now.jp/en.html
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
Just in time for the big 4th of July celebrations. Happy Semiquincentennial! https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/america-may-see-actu...
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
The US is on pace to run out of its strategic reserve in ~2 weeks.
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
I've heard that the biggest limiting factor in octopus ocean domination is their short lifespans. Tool use, building structures, communication, facial recognition, multiple brains, it's all there. https://www.nhm.ac.uk
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
When did octopuses start breathing air?
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
There's a 1991 film (and earlier novel) called Black Robe that fictionalizes what it might've been like when the first Jesuit missionaries introduced this powerful black magic to the North American natives in the 17th century.[0]
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
The WNBA would like a word.
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
IIRC, Steve Nash wanted to play professional soccer but since there wasn't a professional pathway had to settle for playing basketball in college and later the NBA.
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
Are there bootlegs on vinyl? Maybe now there can be.
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity prayer
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Selling a House with AI(nytimes.com)
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
While working in Japan, I once asked my Japanese supervisor what he was doing for his next vacation. He responded that he never took a vacation and had, in fact, accrued some ridiculous amount of PTO over many years that he never intended
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
The honesty will be noticeable. Maybe we'll see some honest assessments like "That is not possible within the laws of known physics", "Your legal argument is nonsensical and defies logic", "There is no evidenc
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. - Paul Newman
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by onlypassingthru 4mo ago
I once had two onsite interviews with a 20 minute "break" in between. I was given a surprise crossword puzzle during the break to see (if I had a rich vocabulary?, excelled at puzzles?, could come up with synonyms under pressure?
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by onlypassingthru 5mo ago
And the Model S is no longer in production due to poor sales. How many of these $650k family sedans could Ferrari possibly move?
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by onlypassingthru 5mo ago
Claude is obviously planning to become a structural engineer.
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by onlypassingthru 5mo ago
I think the record profits would be very good reasons. Using "Drill Baby, Drill" as a campaign slogan was not a pointless turn of phrase. Also, the world's largest proven oil reserves, which happen to be in Venezuela, are n
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by onlypassingthru 5mo ago
Pointless? Have you noticed which energy companies are making record profits? Who is filling demand for oil & gas if the ME refineries are blown up or blockaded?
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by onlypassingthru 5mo ago
>we don't have oneteen and twoteen But we do have duodecim, aka dozen. So we just need to add "onezen" to the current vernacular to make the set complete. Let's go team onezen!

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