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  • Barney Frank - Entering Hospice

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    jon-nycJ
    Interesting.
  • Jesus God No

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    RenaudaR
    Seems self indulgent and untoward… Especially so since the celebratory year is almost half over.
  • Nature is Metal

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    taiwan_girlT
    Link to video Interesting video about whale falls (basically what happens when a whale dies and how it feeds an bottom ocean community for decades.)
  • Where do our exercisers work out and what do you do?

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    jon-nycJ
    I must confess I basically skipped leg day from 1980 until sometime last year. So I have some catching up to do.
  • What are you reading now?

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    Andrea BA
    [image: 1777426525733-81syd3wuf-l._sl1500_.jpg] About 1/5 of the way in. Tell me it gets better.
  • This week in lawfare

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    Andrea BA
    https://x.com/marcorandazza/status/2049299288774041800?s=20
  • How to Learn to Code in 2026

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    MikM
    I just watched a couple minutes but I liked the comment that paranoia makes a good engineer. I’ve been obsolete as a coder for far too long to worry about it.
  • The Cocktail That Defines Every Decade Since Prohibition

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    89th8
    cock
  • A nice succinct explanation of why Marxism is wrong

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    MikM
    [image: 1777411623219-cfa61a96-95d5-4265-a396-261fd5251aa8-image.jpeg]
  • Glad the free speech folks are in charge

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    jon-nycJ
    https://x.com/brianstelter/status/2049145864606691578?s=46
  • Let Spirit die

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    jon-nycJ
    @Doctor-Phibes said: Privatisation of companies to serve the greater good. Isn't there a word for that? [image: 1777396164385-img_2131.jpeg]
  • Funny Pics

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    MikM
    [image: 684096249_1284305733873165_762478394800195367_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=13d280&_nc_ohc=NQorF6GYgYcQ7kNvwGbq_nH&_nc_oc=AdqrPiUKHxhgEqI2ZKDmag18v6zA1IbqK5bw8QnhsZxjCXtFDLaOmAhClca6kFtdbqoYPPMAFqNtjUwvAA5puHr8&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fluk1-1.fna&_nc_gid=TVSGrl-ZLVbipCpDkPhk4A&_nc_ss=7b2a8&oh=00_Af30V1c5tdLlwHWnLFED7QTCjJwXxGIAcuZMZJwVgjy71A&oe=69F6B87A]
  • White House Correspondent Dinner Memes

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    RenaudaR
    All the more reason to serve the cheapest plonk wine possible at such events.
  • Daddy can I PLEASE have a pardon?

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    89th8
    Same logic works for kids btw
  • Your first phone?

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    jon-nycJ
    Ceefax because ‘minitel’ was taken. BlackBerry integrated with corporate email systems it wasn’t just a standalone system.
  • The cost of NOT using AI

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @Horace said: @taiwan_girl said: I think most people, if given the choice, would chose remote, And those who enjoy/need the office social interactions convince themselves that those people just don't know what's best for themselves. Meanwhile, probably 90% of people, if given the choice to take or leave the whole in person office scene, would leave it. But the 10% are sure they're all simply ignorant of what is good in life. I think most people would prefer a bit of both. The main complaint I hear about office working is all the time wasted in commuting, rather than being in the actual office being awful.
  • The Pot Smokers Song

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  • Former Senator Ben Sasse

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    HoraceH
    It's pretty obscure and not quite as funny as people are saying (he's getting an impending mortality bump). Trump said that Pence needed the courage to not certify the 2020 election results, which in Trump's addled mind would have led to Trump retaining the presidency. (It wouldn't have.)
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    taiwan_girlT
    A book I mentioned in the book thread is called "Station Eleven" about a pandemic that kills not all, but most people. Goes through some of the same decay that you guys talk about. (interesting, but the book was written just a year or so before COVID).