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  • Cupcake

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    George KG

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  • Shredder ordered

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    CopperC

    @George-K said in Shredder ordered:

    @Copper are these government records preserved elsewhere?

    It is probably not possible for us to understand the total mass of government records.

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  • Polling misses by state

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    JollyJ

    Well spoken, Curly Bill.

  • "You have guilt written all over your face."

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  • The end of an era…

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    F

    Which one is Luke?

  • Embassies of Bangkok

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    F

    I have never heard of Burkina Faso. So I googled it. The country is beautiful.

  • Has this ever happened at Aqua's home?

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    Aqua LetiferA

    lol. Fun video, but a couple points of information:

    Playing 2-person D&D is a little weird. They're new-wave players, and most certainly the video's intended for that and the lay audience.

    New-wave players wear getups. They think D&D is improv, stream their sessions or tie them to some kind of social media thing, use the books as a how-to crutch and even get cross when the DM does any kind of homebrew.

    Our group's OG. No getups, and yeah we do character stuff here and there but it's equal parts in-character descriptions, catching up, solving puzzles, using game events to tell stupid jokes and some collaborative world-building. My fellow players aren't influencers but they are very and I mean VERY much into legal substances. How we and the DM treat the game is that it's all homebrew. (We didn't even call it that back in the day, it was just how you played.) And no one records it. Had a guy who kept insisting we give it a go and so we stopped asking him back. Thing is, far more players are like him today than like us. It's hard to find games that aren't of this new kind.

    I hate going. Every time we have to drive to and then through Baltimore, they're all massive stoners and we're not, and when we leave it's 3 AM, in Baltimore. But every time I'm like that was awesome when we meeting up again.

  • Walk-in tubs

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    Doctor PhibesD

    I suspect in many cases the purchase of a walk-in tub is followed fairly quickly by death.

  • Senator Trump?

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    JollyJ

    Optics aren't great. She has done a bang-up job with the RNC, though.

  • Radio Garden

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    taiwan_girlT

    Very cool website. Thanks!!

    I remember a similar one (but much more primitive) when I first started traveling. Used it to listen to Taiwan radio. ICRT was the English language one popular for learning English.

    I have bookmark this one!

  • Segregation

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    George KG

    @Copper said in Segregation:

    probably sort themselves, the dogs just watch, like most identities.

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  • IQ is Islamaphobic

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    RenaudaR

    @jon-nyc

    "Trump won because of us….”

    Really now?

  • The Onion buys Infowars

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    JollyJ

    And here comes Elon...

    https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elon-musk-x-corp-alex-jones-infowars-rcna180487

  • Sandel Speaks

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    HoraceH

    You and I are treading the same media lately Jolly. I listened to that earlier today. I found it balanced, but unremarkable. The interviewer Walter Isaacson recently wrote a biography of Musk, which will call his integrity into question in TDS quarters. But Amanpour is irreproachable.

  • Vote By Fraud

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    HoraceH

    Yep. Tidily omitted from all the "there's no evidence" sneering, is the fact that in many reasonable scenarios for fraud, there could never, even in theory, be evidence of it. The ultimate backstop is whether the scenarios are scalable. Hopefully the invisible cheating that does occur, is evenly balanced between candidates.

  • Historical Merger - but will there be antitrust concerns?

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    HoraceH

    I appreciate that someone took some time with that, but it's more along the lines of clapter for a target audience, rather than general purpose funny. IMO.

  • The Iran thread

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    George KG

  • WSJ: "America's Worst Mayor

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    CopperC

    The headline is a thousand times better than the details.

    @George-K said in WSJ: "America's Worst Mayor:

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chicago-city-council-blocks-property-tax-increase-brandon-johnson-fbe49cc2?mod=editorials_article_pos3

    America’s Worst Mayor Keeps Losing

    Chicago’s Brandon Johnson gives up on a $300 billion property tax hike.

    The Editorial Board Nov. 15, 2024 at 5:39 pm

    On Thursday the City Council met in special session to block the mayor’s plan to use a $300 million property tax increase

  • One day in English class...

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    HoraceH

    Heard that in the original run. I've been listening to Megyn's show lately. It's fun. Listening to both sides of punditry, it seems like reality matches with theory (based on polling) that the left is not very happy, as compared to the right. Of course that's true now right after the election, but it holds true all the time.

  • No Mo RV

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    MikM

    My so-environmentally-conscious leftie brother just bought one of these Winnebago Travatos. gets about 11 MPG. I guess it's OK to kill the earth if you can save on hotel rooms and camp in people's parking lots.