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  • Cats in Zero Gravity

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    Catseye3C
    Shoot, I can out-zero Lara Croft on her best day, no problemo. I just don't happen to feel like it right now.
  • American Airlines to abandon Social Distancing

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    CopperC
    I wouldn't fly American unless I absolutely had to. Even worse than the virus, $120 for 2 bags round trip Larceny!
  • Hey Costco Peeps!

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    HoraceH
    that's where they keep the tres leches cake. And often the new york strips. Or ribs.
  • Chesapeake Energy filed for Bankruptcy Protection

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  • On protests, social-distancing, and COVID

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    HoraceH
    They can do a second sequel study where they establish that systemic racism serves to enhance motivation to overcome obstacles, providing a richer and more fulfilled life experience.
  • Presidential Debates, two questions

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    89th8
    @Copper said in Presidential Debates, two questions: Certainly they will begin with a sincere kneel.
  • Next thing, they'll want firewater.

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    RainmanR
    Seems odd. People are lined up around the block (so to speak) to buy guns. When there is such high demand, how can Remington go bankrupt? I assume they are making guns people don't want to buy, but I also suspect management screwed up over the years, making lousy decisions?
  • Hey Horace, for when they make you go back to the office...

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    HoraceH
    Nice. They're talking about us coming back in November.
  • Happy Birthday Aqua!

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @Loki said in Happy Birthday Aqua!: Happy birthday for sure. Tell us about your birthday exploits. Thanks, everybody! Not much to report here in reality, but in Neverwinter we tracked down some vampires, I killed a brewery foreman with a combination of harsh words and a lightning bolt to the chest, and then we took some ale barrels for compensation before the building caught fire. Also played a lot with the kiddo. She has a very large, very fuzzy d20 to play with now. Mostly she uses it as a stool.
  • My news hack

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  • RIP Segway

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    HoraceH
    The thought of owning one and using it in public and fielding all the questions from random people about it is horrifying.
  • How The Cozy Coupe Became The Best Selling Car Of All-Time

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  • New treatment reduces your odds of getting Covid

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    Doctor PhibesD
    "Too true not the share" And I bet he insists that people speak English.
  • RIP Angela Madsen

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    MikM
    Her plan was to row 12 hours out of every 24, and apparently did so for 60 days. That's a hell of a load on a 60 year old body, regardless of being in good shape. Nothing I have found states how she died. I wonder if she was tethered but in the water for the anchor repair. .
  • How to do proper SARS-CoV-2 surveillance

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    L
    TG Actor and actress may be reserved such things as plots and premises.
  • Why won’t anyone let me do my magic

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    CopperC
    People over 65 years old use Medicare, a government program. About 27 million are uninsured. For the most part, this means they don't want health insurance because if they can't afford it the government will buy it for them. You can debate what is affordable. The rest generally buy private insurance, either by paying out of their own pocket or by sharing the cost with an employer. And of course if you have the money you can just pay for healthcare out of your pocket. And of course if you are young and healthy you might not consume healthcare at all. I went for decades without paying for any healthcare except may a few dentist visits. I think a lot of the time/effort/talk/discussion/arguments/etc is just political rhetoric.
  • The Political Correctness Thread

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    Catseye3C
    But you don't have to focus on it.
  • Puzzle time

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    jon-nycJ
    No we’re not. I graphed out the sum of lightbulbs that were on in each state change (every toggle changes the sum by +-1) so it moves around in a jerky continuous fashion). That formed a narrow bell curve. When I say early ones, I did it to the completion of the cycle, or even multiple cycles for smaller n. I did also graph them for n=100 but just for the first few million ticks.
  • Mask aversion

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    Doctor PhibesD
    The Constitution doesn't mention not allowing your children to play on the freeway, either.
  • Princeton

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    George KG
    Heh: https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1276954511051980800