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  • Klaus - issues with avatar

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    KlausK
    Thanks, now I could finally replicate your problem, Rainman. I tried it with Edge and Chrome. Edge does this a little bit better. But in both cases, the problem only occurs if there is very little vertical space and plenty of horizontal space (if there's little horizontal space, too, the answer window turns into the "mobile phone" layout). So, you can either force "mobile layout" or allow more vertical space to get a usable emoji window.
  • TIME Names Karen Person Of The Year

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    AxtremusA
    One of the real-life Karens: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Gillan Those who watched Dr. Who in the last few years may remember her as Amy Pond. [image: karen-gillan-never-wanted-to-remake-jumanji-1577995273-5828.jpg]
  • Emerging Hotspots

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    JollyJ
    @Rainman said in Emerging Hotspots: I'm watching the riots in several cities this evening. These people are not practicing social distancing. Good thing the pandemic is over, otherwise this could be a catalyst to that exponential growth of the virus in urban areas. Whew! That was a close one. Yeah, but many of them were wearing masks...
  • Today's musical interlude

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    LarryL
    Link to video The entire point of any piece of music is to entertain. The idea of a polka band covering Guns and Roses and then knocking it out of the park like that resulted in something that I found fantastically entertaining.
  • The Bionic Breast

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    AxtremusA
    Nice, may be some day similar technology can benefit victims of female genital mutilation.
  • Songs Inspired By Bach

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  • This is NOT the year for that..

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    George KG
    @Mik [image: giphy.gif?cid=e1bb72ff7cdece22b410528a8d72bfa70ed1db3903c5f204&rid=giphy.gif]
  • First flight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly nine years

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    CopperC
    3:22 p.m. EDT tomorrow Saturday 5/30
  • Hacked

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    CopperC
    I just checked my account, I don't see anything obvious. The thing I wanted was that any email address in my domain would be forwarded to my default address. So if I use tncr@mydomain.com it will come to me but I didn't do anything to setup that email address. So whenever I set up an account on the web (I have hundreds like most people) I use the name of the site like hertz@mydomain.com or amazon@mydomain.com. It just helps me sort things. I looked around, but I don't see anywhere I can set this up, maybe the GoDaddy guy had to do it.
  • South Korea Closes Schools Again Due To COVID-19 Case Spike

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    L
    @Axtremus said in South Korea Closes Schools Again Due To COVID-19 Case Spike: Coronavirus: South Korea closes schools again after biggest spike in weeks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52845015 South Korea reopened schools briefly, saw number new COVID-19 cases shot up, so they close the schools again. Now that our testing per capita far exceeds South Korea we should be in better shape. It’s a long battle, harping on the initial roll out may prove to be irrelevant in the long run.
  • Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.

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    George KG
    @Doctor-Phibes said in Pixel Phone vs Siri on dictation.: And yet most newborn babies look like Churchill. I used to tell my patients (obviously only those who had a good sense of humor) that all newborns look like Edward G. Robinson. [image: 1590777591937-screen-shot-2020-05-29-at-1.39.14-pm.png]
  • Isn’t this how Planet of the Apes begins?

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    L
    Brilliant title to the thread. File under you can’t make this up.
  • Return to Work Bonus

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    LuFins DadL
    Where I'm at, employers pay into something called unemployment insurance, which is administered by the state. Now, as former employees begin filing for unemployment from our company, our rates do still go up.
  • Phase 1 - step backward

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    jon-nycJ
    I’m not talking about the order, I’m talking about the medical condition that would prevent one from wearing a mask.
  • Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA

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    jon-nycJ
    @LuFins-Dad said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA: In all fairness, most of the deaths were over 6 months (December 68 - May 69) so the rate isn't that much higher for COVID-19. Also, while there was no lockdown, the population density was about 40% less back then, the number of people in the workforce was less than half what it is now with a much higher percentage of mothers staying at home, fewer people rode subways or planes, all of these things that we believe helped spread this pandemic, the people of 1968 were a little more naturally insulated from...And their death toll per capita was still not that different than COVID-19. Yet, nobody that I've spoken with that was alive then really recall it as being considered all that important. Hell, it doesn't even make the Wikipedia list of important events in the US for that year. I find that astounding. If we had a 6 month flu season that took 100k lives using excess death calculation and in a non-locked down environment, most of us would shrug it off too. Look how many people shrug this off despite being so much worse.
  • Let It Die?

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @Jolly said in Let It Die?: Could the NYT draw as many eyeballs without the fluff? No. The fluff brings in the money you need to do actual journalism, at a ratio of about 1:10: for every ten stories of crap, you can do something decent. A big problem is social media. Folks sharing links on Facebook, Twitter, and hell, even here, is a huge driving factor in the increase in subscriptions. A very certain kind of story does well on social media. And it's not journalism.
  • Increasing Cash Position in COVID-19 Lockdown

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    JollyJ
    Not enough dead, yet.
  • Another Stimulus/Relief Package?

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    MikM
    Well, in fairness, Ax could demo the hell out of those Yammies.
  • “On line three, we have Donny from Queens...”

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    George KG
    @jon-nyc said in “On line three, we have Donny from Queens...”: That first video video is actually well done. It's beyond well done. It's brilliant. By removing all the OrangeMan tics, etc, and assuming a reasonable posture, it makes it even funnier. I loved the "injection" part.
  • 103 Years Old, She Beats COVID-19 and Cracks Open a Beer!

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    jon-nycJ
    Love that story.