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  • Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds Signs Bill Protecting Girls’ Sports

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  • Patterns

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    Aqua LetiferA

    @Horace said in Patterns:

    Ukraine is like a hot girl and Russia is her stalker. Ukraine needs to take out a restraining order.

    No means no, Russia.

    #BelieveAllCountries

  • Troll level: expert

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    Aqua LetiferA

    @89th said in Troll level: expert:

    "Fully functional".

    I wonder if they tested it first? 🙂

    "Full of petrol, both in the tank and in the cockpit!"

    "Previous owner reports it has fewer than 100 miles and he really believed it was all just a training exercise."

    "If purchasing in Russia, artillery demos available before purchase."

  • Guitar recommendation please

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    Doctor PhibesD

    @mark said in Guitar recommendation please:

    Go to a guitar shop and let him pick one out in that price range.

    This. We went through this with my son, and went to a decent guitar shop and had them advise us. Admittedly, he never stuck with it, but I think if you and he can actually see one in the flesh, you get a much better feel for what you're paying for, and he gets to try it out.

  • 90,000 soldiers' names leaked

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    George KG

    @Improviso said in 90,000 soldiers' names leaked:

    <sarcasm> Now George... the tweet says 120,000 and your thread title says 90,000. Tsk, tsk. <sarcasm>

    Actually, it was 120,000. The tweet I posted was a response to this:

  • Michael Tilson Thomas has brain surgery

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    George KG

    GBM it is:

    https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2022/03/02/1083942931/michael-tilson-thomas-discusses-cancer-and-his-scaled-back-new-world-symphony-ro

  • Speaking of really nice ships

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    AxtremusA

    … iron ore and steel giant Metalloinvest and consumer electronics firm Xiaomi.

    Metalloinvest sounds like a villain in Superman’s universe.
    Xiaomi, belief, is a premium smartphone company based in China.

  • Moody's

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    jon-nycJ

    Interesting that Gazprom paid a coupon earlier this week.

    But Russian local bonds didn’t. Not sure about RF sovereign debt. My guess is it defaults.

  • Why can't women understand thermostats?

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    IvorythumperI

    @Klaus said in Why can't women understand thermostats?:

    My favorite part of this issue is in the car.

    I usually leave the temperature at 21°C (70F) all year round.

    Winter, everyone is wearing three layers of clothing. It's 21°C in the car.
    Wife: "Turn up the heating, I'm cold".

    Summer, everyone is in shorts. It's 21°C in the car.
    Wife: "It's too hot in here! Put the AC on max!"

    IIRC, comfort also depends on relative humidity, and it’s drier in the winter which makes people feel colder, and wetter in the summer which makes people feel warmer. Latent heat of vaporization and thermodynamics explain this— drier air causes your body to wick more moisture which cools you down. Wetter air contains more heat which also prevents the cooling effect (depending on temp and relative humidity). Look up adiabetic process, which is what modern HVAC systems use to optimize comfort (which can involve both humidifiers and dehumidifiers). Our skin is one large evaporative cooler /heat exchanger.

  • Science!

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    LuFins DadL

    Wow! That explains a lot of the patterns we see on the forum, too!

  • USS Gerald R. Ford sets sail

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    JollyJ

    I doubt they have resumed, but over at Mayport (Jacksonville), they used to designate a "ship of the day" and open that ship up to the public for free tours. Your tour guide would be a junior officer from the ship. The ship could be any in port, and if you were lucky, you got the carrier.

  • Paging med peeps, (Jolly, George, Bach)

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    JollyJ

    Yikes, it's like Grand Rounds. I desperately need to find a place at the back of the group. 😲

  • Bluetooth Headphones?

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    kluursK

    @LuFins-Dad said in Bluetooth Headphones?:

    Earbuds are like shrimp… You tell somebody you don’t like them and you get nonstop recommendations to try them “this way”

    The bone conduction headphones are neither in nor over the ear.

  • Interesting tweet on the future of Russian aviation

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    jon-nycJ

    And trucks.

  • On revisionism and presentism

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  • Fake News

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  • Spermageddon

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    LarryL

    If you want to see a bunch of pussy men with no testosterone, just take a stroll through WTF. The only ones with any testosterone over there are the feminist females that cuck them.

  • Pig Night

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  • Death By Spray

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  • >60,000,000

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    jon-nycJ

    @Horace said in >60,000,000:

    I remember an NPR interview several years ago with a TDS suffering climate scientist who said, with a straight and very solemn face, that Trump would go down as history's greatest mass murderer due to his inaction on climate change and the effects that will have on humanity.

    That is totally unhinged.