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  • Today’s puzzle

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    HoraceH

    Yes, I like how binary digits map to the idea of including/excluding things from a set.

  • What's your favorite city to visit?

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    ?

    Cozumel

  • Hey Copper, yoke question

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    89th8

    @Rainman said in Hey Copper, yoke question:

    I suspect the cockpit is soundproof, to muffle the pilot screaming?

    Maybe it’s the other way around 😂

  • Saturday Caption Contest

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    CopperC

    Nope, guess again

  • Hey Copper, woke folk question

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    CopperC

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  • Hey Copper, yolk question

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    CopperC

    Scrambled, well done, if possible cooked in a little grease leftover from the bacon.

  • Why are absentee ballots OK and mail in ballots not OK?

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    CopperC

    @89th said in Why are absentee ballots OK and mail in ballots not OK?:

    Also, I’m surprised we haven’t ventured into online voting yet. Maybe that’d be a bad thing...

    Abuse, fraud and corruption would be much easier.

    But what matters is if one side or the other sees an advantage in the fraud.

  • Over Boston - 5 years ago

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    89th8

    Damn, that’s insane. I’m fairly certain your son was like 6 years old or so.

  • Kansas - church and funeral attendence vs COVID-19

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    AxtremusA

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-considers-churches-demands-that-states-lift-pandemic-restrictions/2020/05/29/af07b918-a1b2-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html

    Supreme Court, in rare late-night ruling, says California may enforce certain restrictions on religious gatherings

    “ The Supreme Court late Friday rejected a California church’s challenge of the state’s new pandemic-related rules on worship services, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the court’s liberals in the 5-to-4 vote.

    Roberts wrote that state officials such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) had leeway to impose restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus, and had not singled out places of worship for unfair treatment.
    ...”

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Supreme-Court-votes-5-4-to-let-Gov-Newsom-15304978.php

  • 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.

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  • 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

    LOL

  • 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.

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