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by wombatpm 8mo ago
Aluminized Mylar streamers is what was used to take down the grid in Balkans back in the 90’s
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by wombatpm 8mo ago
If you took fencing at an Ivy League school for you PR requirement you would know all about foil, saber, and epee fencing. Not everyone gets to row crew.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
If the can walk and randomly fire teargas and bullets into crowds of protesters they could replace half of ICE right now.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
And it will remove excess fat from the zeros so the move faster down the wires
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
If it jams, force it. If it breaks it needed replacement anyway.
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Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks(publishersweekly.com)
6 points by wombatpm 9mo ago|1 comments
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
Publishing continues their death by a thousand cuts.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
Don’t forget the whole DOM vs SAX processing mess. Big documents would routinely kill parsers by running out of Memory. XSLT was cool. Too bad XSL and Apache-FOP never took off.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
It was bad enough that they stripped Andrew of his titles, staff and property.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
At least the underwater city would be useful.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
It’s not like they are overthrowing South American countries for favorable terms in pineapple and banana trade *cough*Dole*cough*Chiquita*cough* Yet.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
Is that why the BritBox app is absolute garbage?
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
The first patient in this cluster to die should provide confirmation of CJD or other prion disease. There is a theory that spontaneous CJD can be spread environmentally. Apparently particles of sufficiently small size (10 nm) can pass from
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
An Evening of Laughs with Greg Gutfeld
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
Medication is the fastest way to make some positive progress before you completely spiral and majorly fuck up your life. Would you rather take a pill and keep working while you sort things out or would you try to rebuild everything after yo
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
Yes. The only reason bug shippings are getting same day is because they are bypassing most of the postal network and dropping it off in time for the days final sortation for delivery.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
Announcements and documentation can be found at pe.usps.gov and postalpro.usps.com User guides on PostalPro are probably the best place to start. The Domestic Mail Manual is highly recommended if you have trouble sleeping. This stuff gets d
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
The USPS is in year 4 of a 10 year overhaul of its infrastructure. New facilities with new equipment optimized for the current mail mix. Magazines and catalogs used to be huge. Now they are a fraction of their volume. First class letter vol
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
If you can identify scraping bots, can’t you just serve them pages and pages of Lor Ipsum text
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
I pay $2k a month through work for a plan. I could pay that plus the payroll deduction plus the pittance my employer kicks in. I’d make that trade all day every day.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
I disagree. My toilet was leaking. I diagnosed the issue as a bad tank gasket. Replace said gasket and things are working fine. Could a licensed plumber have done it faster. Possibly. But a $300 service call was avoided. Now I had my house
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
Or lower the age for Medicare every year until everyone is covered.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
The other step down was when you had to pay in order to guarantee that your post was seen by all of your followers.
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by wombatpm 9mo ago
Which is great for new cars. I drove a 78 Buick Riviera. Friends couldn’t figure out how to fill it up. Because the gas cap was behind the license plate in the back!
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by wombatpm 10mo ago
Thankfully the ad supported streaming brings occasionally brings you back to a proper sound mix and volume level.
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by wombatpm 10mo ago
Waiting for Godot’s robotaxi
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by wombatpm 10mo ago
Traditionally it’s TWO minutes of hate at a selected government target after your morning exercise program. To do otherwise is wrongthink
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by wombatpm 10mo ago
It would seem if we think Voltaire was wrong, then the difference between pessimists and “modern” optimists is not fundamental but merely a matter of degree.
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by wombatpm 10mo ago
Optimists proclaim we live in the best of all possible worlds. Pessimists fear that is true.
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by wombatpm 10mo ago
You should always distrust politicians on science issues. Even if they come from a science background. Being a successful politician is orthogonal to being a brilliant scientist.

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