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  • Kick Like A Mule

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  • February Numbers

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    89th8
    Good. Presuming we can believe the numbers. It's crazy that 30,000 is a "low" number for a month, but even crazier that it was 250,000 the previous two years...
  • Bengals get it done for the WR room

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    MikM
    44% of the Bengals salary cap on three players. Three we had last year I might add.
  • Now he’s gone too far!

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    89th8
    Funny, I remember when craft beer in cans was an absolute travesty. Then came along Oskar Blues Brewery's "Dale's Pale Ale" in a can, and the industry started to realize how much easier it made the "bottling" process and cheaper goods, and cheaper distribution. Yes, @Doctor-Phibes most crafts are now in cans, usually 16-ouncers.
  • Hey Asshat MAMILs…

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    KlausK
    @jon-nyc said in Hey Asshat MAMILs…: That could be dangerous. Often big groups are too spread out with a few stragglers 30-50ft behind. They may consider themselves part of the group for purposes of running the red, meanwhile other cars might not notice them. There must be a group leader and he or she has the legal responsibility of taking care of proper formation of the riders. I've also taken part in such rides many times. The formation is formally temporarily dissolved when climbing a mountain and then re-established on top. It doesn't happen that anyone is behind while the group formation is active. It can be quite annoying for cars but it is less dangerous for the bike riders than the alternative, I think.
  • Meanwhile, at Columbia...

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    HoraceH
    @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Columbia...: @Horace said in Meanwhile, at Columbia...: Difficult to not notice he happens to be an outspoken right-leaning sort. Most of us here have had no problem not noticing that. Please stick to the topic. This thread is about the pro-Hamas Columbia student.
  • Yeah, but they're Christians...

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    JollyJ
    You get what you pay for.
  • The Worlds Deadliest Infectious Disease is About to get Worse

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    taiwan_girlT
    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/african-giant-pouched-hero-rats-stop-tb-landmines Until recently, Carolina worked Monday through Friday, with weekends off. At her retirement this past November, colleagues lined up to applaud her and celebrate over cake. In her seven-year career, she had detected more than 3,000 cases of tuberculosis that health clinics had missed and, as a result, likely spared more than 30,000 other people from infection. But she's not exactly your typical employee. Carolina is an African giant pouched rat who can screen 100 sputum (i.e phlegm) samples for tuberculosis in 20 minutes—much faster than a human, who takes four days to process the same amount of information with a microscope. And she’s part of a cohort of 40 rats belonging to nonprofit APOPO who are helping to combat the tuberculosis epidemic in Tanzania and Ethiopia. “Everybody’s first impression is that the rats are our enemies,” Tefera Agizew, a physician and APOPO’s head of tuberculosis, says of the animals’ reputation in Africa and beyond. “Once they see how they function, they fall in love with them.” African giant pouched rats are not your typical New York City–style rodent. They’re calm, easier to train than some dogs, and able to work up to seven or eight years (they live eight to 10 years in captivity). Their body alone is generally longer than a 13-inch MacBook Air—and their tail is equally as long, if not longer. (A New York City rat is only about 16 inches, nose to tail.) A giant pouched rat’s sense of smell is so strong that they could conceivably detect half a drop of chlorine in a space the size of 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools, says APOPO’s head of training Cindy Fast, a behavioral neuroscientist who coaches the rodents.
  • One Way to Maybe Reach Jesus

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  • Pass the ecstasy

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    taiwan_girlT
    @Renauda 555
  • In Elon's opinion...

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    HoraceH
    @jon-nyc said in In Elon's opinion...: Tell me I’m right without telling me I’m right. You can be right all day about generally applicable truisms about political rhetoric, without being meaningful. His details about why he believes he's doing good things relative to what the opposition would have done (which is what your point abstracts to) might be of interest, but you'd have to watch to find out, and I'm sure nobody is invested in whether you do.
  • Hay Bach

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    jon-nycJ
    Well he is in the news now and then.
  • No more Radio Free Europe

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    MikM
    If that article is even close to correct I support shutting it down.
  • Candace and TuCa

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    HoraceH
    That's a rhetorical trick they pull. It should have a name. Posture as if it's a given that you have credibility, then put that credibility on the line for a question that you can always claim some truth about without engaging with any honest pushback. I've heard Bret Weinstein pull the same trick, putting his credibility as a biologist on the line, over some question about the COVID vaccine. He openly challenged the world to rebut him, and some other biologists did so, and he never responded, last I checked.
  • When Gorbachev met Trump(CF)

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    taiwan_girlT
    LOL. On another note, I still remember reading about a story when President Reagan met Premier Gorbachev in Iceland. From the airport, there was Gorbachev and about 50 vehicles heading into town. There was Reagan with about 50 vehicles heading into town. And at the end, there was a pickup truck driven by the President of Iceland driving himself into town. LOL
  • The man on a mission to visit every Irish pub in the world

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    jon-nycJ
    I could go to 97 Irish pubs without leaving NYC.
  • When you’ve lost the NY Times

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    jon-nycJ
    To be fair that’s an opinion piece. I doubt most of the editorial board is there yet. But at least they no longer treat asking the question as a hate crime, so, progress.
  • I had to follow one of these guys at a school career day

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    JollyJ
    Then go be a Navy pilot on a carrier.
  • Hay Horse Peeps

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  • How do cars get their names? Art, science, and a legal process.

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