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Semi-Hemi-Demigod

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I'm just this guy, you know?

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How the fuck did this guy know I shit my pants in 96?

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Could be worse: They could have called it Moriarty.

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I have a hypothesis that adolescents staying up late and the elderly waking up early is an an evolutionary holdover from a time when someone needed to be awake to watch for lion attacks.

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To those who know

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I remember the commercial and I never thought they were fucking

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Works great on all kinds of infestations, too. I had wasps in my siding that were getting in my house and stinging me in my sleep. Doused them with DE and they haven't come back.

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Gregg would love those creamy beige walls

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Leavened products, especially chemically leavened ones like cakes, need the oven to be hot when they go in for proper texture. The heat creates steam which means more and bigger bubbles, and the baking powder also reacts better at high temperatures, producing even more bubbles. And these bubbles need to start growing before the protein in the flour starts to set, otherwise they stay small and you get a dense texture.

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Damn. Tutu Spock is packin'

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It’s less about the land claims than it is about the CCP’s laughable rejection of reality

Finding room for carry-on baggage has become 'the Hunger Games' of air travel, analyst says (www.cbc.ca)

Airline industry insiders say passengers have become carried away with carry-on baggage, leading to costly delays. That’s prompting calls for changes to how airplanes charge for baggage, with some discount airlines like Sunwing and Spirit already beginning to flip the fee structure so passengers pay for the privilege of...

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That would help but a lot of folks check bags so they don’t have to wait and the carousel and because airlines lose bags all the time.

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It feels crazy to me. ALL the bags have barcodes. The barcodes tell them where to go. How in the entirety of hell do you scan a bag for Chicago and put it on a flight for Philly?!

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Also, the last thing I want is another screen popping up notifications at me.

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I never really liked watches to begin with. I sweat a lot and it would always smell funky under my band. The last watch I had I got a machine washable nylon band to prevent this and had to wash it every other day.

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If I do that, what’s the point of the smart watch?

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The P90 was the pinnacle of bullpup design

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Mine’s been in the brine for about 24 hours. Just added another bag of ice and flipped the bird.

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If we all did it, yes. But there's no way we'd get enough people to do it to outweigh all the people who vote party line.

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Voyager is Pugsley

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You also joke but turkey breasts are now so large they can't mate anymore

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For more fun ideas, check out the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (pdf)

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If you count in binary you can get to 31 on one hand, and 2,047 on two hands

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I taught my kids how to do it and for a while they'd tell each other to binary four off

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Be right behind you for having an unregistered 3D printer

young voters say social media to blame for divisions in the u.s (thehill.com)

A Quinnipiac University poll asked U.S. registered voters to select one of four options to blame for the divisions in the country. Overall, 35 percent blamed social media, 32 percent blamed political leaders, 28 percent blamed cable news channels and only 1 percent blamed other countries.

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To expand more on virality: Platform algorithms reward posts that get engagement because it sells ad space. Posts that trigger our lizard brain get engagement.

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Like Bortus's porn program but all Rikers

How does attraction feel like to you, mentally, physically and emotionally?

It was sometime in early 2022 that I found myself reading a few romance novels. I remember being mildly annoyed about how most of the books had instant chemistry/attraction as part of the plot. Then I suddenly found myself wondering, how do I feel if and when I feel attraction? I think I have probably never felt instant...

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For me it's two things: The Tingle and The Fizz.

The Tingle is an intellectual and emotional. If I see an attractive person do something nice, or they're extremely competent about something, especially if it's something I don't know a lot about, there's a flutter in my heart and a tingly electrical feeling in my brain. If they keep doing these things and don't do unattractive things, maybe I'll work up the nerve to ask them out.

The Fizz is more primal. James May explains it well.

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Steve Martin in the background wishing he was one of the cool kids

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I imagine the ban on rainwater collection is from before the war, and I imagine there are similar laws in Israel.

There’s lots to be mad at the Israelis for doing. We don’t need to make things up. This article on water in Gaza makes a good point:

A graphic representation of the unfair restrictions is that while many Jewish settlements have swimming pools, Palestinians in “Area C” of the West Bank are not allowed cisterns for collecting rainwater.

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If you’re gonna replace a worker with an AI, replacing the CEO gives you the most return on investment.

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I would really love a version of Calibre that ran in a web browser instead of a desktop app

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vnc-style web interface

That's still not what I'm looking for. What's wrong with good old HTML?

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I tried that but you need a Calibre library first, and that requires using Calibre AFAIK

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All the other services I have running are on a server in my closet, which I access with a web browser from other devices. Calibre needing to run on my workstation is a big shift in that workflow. Especially because all the rest of my media is sitting on that server.

Also, UX of open source desktop apps is… lacking. They don’t look good, and they don’t feel good to use. But that might be because I’m picky and spoiled by decades of using a Mac.

I definitely don’t want more Electron apps. About the only things I want to run locally is a browser, a text editor, and a terminal.

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The last nuclear power plant built in the US bankrupted Westinghouse, was 7 years late, $14 billion over budget, and is set to raise electricity rates in Georgia.

Nuclear is not a solution.

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So the people who built that reactor were incompetent and ignorant?

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Yes but if not enough people pick the same Not Trump we will get Trump anyway.

Best. Government. Ever. /s

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I'm excited for the possibility of being an ethical cannibal. Imagine being able to take a tissue sample and then grow a steak that's made of you.

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"Hey guys, you all say that you eat ass and here's your chance to prove it!"

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The games I like to play have to make UX compromises on consoles that they don't on a device with a mouse and full keyboard.

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Soundtrack on this one is a banger. Who's the artist?

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Thanks! It reminds me of early Cypress Hill. I look forward to their career with great interest

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Another masterpiece

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No, that's because you guys got caught

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To paraphrase Charlemagne: "Let my armies be the beavers and the polecats, and the boars on the ground."

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They’ve got bugs that can shoot spaceships out of orbit with their butts. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think they could knock an asteroid out of orbit.

Though considering your username it might be you dropping the rocks.

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Their giant brain bug might have found a way to use eggs launched to knock them through hyperspace used by humans.

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You sound like you love bugs, bug-lover

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