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  • A Question About Bananas

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    MikM
    Filling pullers.
  • Hospitalized with pneumonia

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    George KG
    @jon-nyc said in Hospitalized with pneumonia: I’m home since yesterday. Good news, indeed.
  • On Homegrown Tomatoes

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    MikM
    Been through there many times on my way to Kingsport and back, although I'd head up 25E from Bean Station. Never knew about the tomatoes or I'd definitely have picked some up.
  • June 2022 employment report

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    HoraceH
    @Axtremus said in June 2022 employment report: Chart on “working remotely” by Axios based on BLS data: [image: 2022-06-01-1734-share-of-u-fallback.png] https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-closer-615ca79a-bcb5-4286-b1b7-6549dbf594ce.html Musk needs to worry about the job market for his target employees. Not this massive statistical amalgamation.
  • Almost two score

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    brendaB
    @Horace said in Almost two score: Congratulations Brenda and Hubby on the long and fruitful marriage! #5 coming up for me in a couple weeks. Now you're the young'un! Congrats!
  • A Stupid Question About Monitors

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    AxtremusA
    Yes.
  • Leather

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    MikM
    Stella has made my leather chair a little rough to the touch in places but it’s not visible, so… She only scratches on that chair to get my attention when she wants to play red dot.
  • Hay Cats! Your "stuck in the mud" tip of the day.

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  • Coming Food Crises

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    JollyJ
    Depends on what you plant. COVID did create a seed shortage, so maybe a food crisis would create a problem with seeds. But most of what I plant is open pollinated, so if needed, I could save most of my seeds, except for sweet corn and another one or two.
  • A Stupid Question About Monitors

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    KlausK
    @Horace said in A Stupid Question About Monitors: Samsung CH890 Typed it into Google. Stumbled upon this on the Samsung website: [image: 1654250384863-c95f4c8a-acf5-43cb-be67-83cfd5b5663b-image.png] Pixel density of Full HD??? How about we let the engineers take a look at the ads before publishing them to the world and embarrassing a whole company?
  • Puzzle time - bias evidence

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    jon-nycJ
    I have an elegant analytic solution: click to show Suppose you know that your coin has probability heads equal to either p or 1-p. You flip the coin n times and get h heads and t tails, with h+t=n and a difference d=h-t. Using the standard Bayesian formula and simplifying, you can show (setting tail probability as q=1-p): P(coin bias is p given observing h heads in n coin tosses) = (p^d)/((p^d) + (q^d)) This is a function of the difference in the observed numbers of heads and tails, not the overall number of coin tosses n. So in the example the probabilities must be equal, since 10-0=55-45. Done.
  • How are cases where you are?

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    89th8
    @LuFins-Dad said in How are cases where you are?: @Mik said in How are cases where you are?: There you go with the feelz again. You can't go with the reported numbers since just about everybody is self-testing at home with no reporting mechanism. So anecdotal is really all that you have to go on. And anecdotally, the numbers look to be as high or even higher than January in these parts... Heck, our 4 year old (and 1 year old) both had coughing/colds the last week. We didn't test them.
  • Cogan's Syndrome

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    89th8
    Or as the old golf/joke goes, maybe he was faking it? One time I played with an older gentleman for a full round of golf. At the end we were walking in the parking lot when his wife pulls up. He whispers to me, "Pretend I'm deaf. My wife has thought I've been deaf for years, so I don't have to listen to her."
  • It can decapitate an adult.

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    JollyJ
    @Renauda said in It can decapitate an adult.: My old .444 Marlin would decapitate, if not vaporise. I neck shot a bull moose once. The exit wound was like a soft ball. Moose just stood there in shock and bled out on the spot. Used to load a 165g Speer Grand Slam in a 30-06 that would scare the sugar out of 2900fps. Within 50 yards, it would blow an exit wound you could drop a 12oz beer can in. That still wouldn't decapitate someone.
  • Türkiye

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    CopperC
    I say Turkey McTurkFace
  • Media hits a new low

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    LuFins DadL
    @Mik said in Media hits a new low: Taking it to the nth degree, if you could bang a wolf you'd be pretty badass. Not even D'Oh could do that. Well, it would depend on what end of the banging you wound up...
  • An avoidable medical inequity

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    JollyJ
    George and Bach can explain much better than I, but there are multiple different medical differences between races.
  • jon would tap that

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    89th8
    it lolz
  • How close did Covid death come to you and yours?

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    MikM
    A family friend who was pretty close, but she had one foot in already Terrible health. COVID was the catalyst, not the cause. One former colleague's husband whom I had meet maybe once.
  • Finally. After 30+ years.

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    LuFins DadL
    @Jolly said in Finally. After 30+ years.: @89th said in Finally. After 30+ years.: I mean, are we forgetting about Star Wars (Empire & Jedi), and ET? That would be SF, not fantasy. Star Wars is considered more fantasy than Sci-Fi.