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  • Lungs? Who needs 'em

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    jon-nycJ
    It reminds me of a Rumsfeldism - “if a problem appears to have no solution, enlarge the problem”. By the way I made that exact comment to the transplant pulmonologist who first told me about ECMO.
  • Always look for the helpers

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    MikM
    But..but... can't they just show their White Privilege Card? Don't leave home without it.
  • Anthony Beevor on the war

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    Doctor PhibesD
    I must admit I struggled a bit with Beevor. For a much lighter read, The Fall of Berlin by Anthony Read and David Fisher is worth a look - I enjoyed it, at least. It's very anecdotal, and there are lots of little stories strung together to describe Berlin from 1036 until 1945.
  • Deleted 10,000 tweets in 2 weeks

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    HoraceH
    Expressing yourself honestly is all fun and games, till you get a high profile job.
  • Only Blacks and Puerto Ricans can be "mothers"

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @Mik said in Only Blacks and Puerto Ricans can be "mothers": Orwellian language. I thought it was Morse code.
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    MikM
    @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution: @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution: Anyway, getting back to abortion.... Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s? Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal. I knew that.
  • What does DeWine want to do a second term? Plenty.

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  • One of these things is not like the others...

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    MikM
    Do I see a little red in that hair?
  • It's a Wrap

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  • Puzzle Time - Potato Curves

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    jon-nycJ
    The answer comes out Saturday. I’m curious if they’ll share a rigorous theorem or just say “imagine the holograms”
  • NFL free agency grades by team

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    JollyJ
    Well, it does give the Saints an opportunity to beat Tom a few more times...
  • No helmet

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    brendaB
    @Horace said in No helmet: I watched a goat do that at the Grand Canyon. It’s pretty cool. But those of us with the lives experience of having seen it can’t possibly communicate it to the rest of you. Just us two, eh, Horace? Zion is beautiful, though very crowded of late.
  • Humility

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    George KG
    @Horace said in Humility: closeted WHITE homosexual.
  • Compare and Contrast

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    CopperC
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  • RIP Madeline Albright

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    CopperC
    good one
  • "It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me

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    CopperC
    @George-K said in "It's a soft 'g', so it's 'jif'. Trust me: OK, who says "gif" with a "soft" g? I don't and never have. No, of course not Hard G, no question And the story doesn't say "the inventor", it says " one of the lead inventors of the GIF" So maybe he was just one of many guys hanging around the office when gif was invented. The soft G sounds ridiculous
  • So are the Russians surprised by outcomes?

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    George KG
    @Mik said in So are the Russians surprised by outcomes?: Opposition seems to be worldwide. The cyber part of this is really interesting. Anonymous claims to have had great success in shutting down things .ru. https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/anonymous-hacker-collective-takes-credit-for-cyberattacks-against-russian-government/ar-AAUmbAn?ocid=msedgntp https://twitter.com/LatestAnonPress/status/1506779235565944841?s=20&t=fXNO0oO2GPtOx3fT9T4pag
  • Adams and Lightfoot

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    LuFins DadL
    Cue @Larry or @Jolly to bring up Kennesaw, GA
  • Okay, Brenda...

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    George KG
    @jon-nyc said in Okay, Brenda...: @George-K Let me tell you, there's nothing like going to shower at 5 AM and seeing a 2 ½ foot lizard looking down at you from the shower curtain rod to make you feel inadequate. Fixed Keyboard, meet coffee....
  • Come Fly With Me

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    89th8
    With videos like that, and overall the ability to do VR... it gets you pretty close to the experience!