Which would better, send the taliban to the blm riots or send the blm riots to the taliban? I think it would be a learning experience for all.

China is not a trustworthy partner. We need to recognize that fact and deal with it or don't deal with them.

@catseye3 said in Dubious Word of the Day: @aqua-letifer I wonder, is it a legitimate verb or was it popularly turned into a verb from being solely a noun? In one of the Nero Wolfe books, his factotum Archie related how Wolfe so profoundly disapproved of using 'contact' as a verb that any client who committed that sin got $2,000 added to his bill. That's how combatted strikes me -- okay as a noun and as a verb, but as a past tense verb it just looks weird. The French, Old French, and Latin roots were all verbs. I think it looks weird because today it's a rarer usage.

@copper the fact that Trump called bullshit on the election without sufficient evidence. The fact that he didn’t care enough about our system to actually have some evidence before making his case.

This move is a win for freedom-loving people everywhere, and the restoration of customary units should be a cause for jubilation in the streets.

What a great idea!

This is however, a perfect opportunity to ask you yet again the question you have so far refused to answer: Ax, are you proud of the way the democrats are destroying our country?

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Fuzziology.

"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up" Barack H. Obama Were any NATO ambassadors recalled during Trump admin?

Ah, the things that drones hath wrought...

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Love that foursome photo. They look like cool rockstar gargoyles.

@bachophile said in AI controlled remote sniping....: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-fakhrizadeh-assassination-israel.html and you thought all Israel did was distribute vaccines well I thought the Iranians need clean energy as well???

SOLUTION: In dictionary order, one word precedes another precisely when the first letter in which the two words differ is, in the first word, earlier in the alphabet. Spaces and punctuation are ignored, and if there is no differing letter, the shorter word appears first. So, finding the dictionary-first word in a set of words is just a matter of carefully and systematically considering the successive words involved in the description of a number. The earliest digit is "eight," and the earliest odd digit is "five." We don't need to consider any other digits, but other possibly useful words that appear in numbers include "billion," "eighteen," "eighty," "hundred," "million," and "thousand." Our earliest odd number must begin with a digit, so it should start with "eight billion." After that, "eighteen" is the best we can do, and proceeding along these lines, we eventually get the answer 8,018,018,885: "eight billion, eighteen million, eighteen thousand, eight hundred eighty-five." A little more work will get you to the first prime number in the dictionary, 8,018,018,851. Annoyingly, "dictionary order" is (according to Wikipedia) subtly different from "alphabetical order," and the difference makes a difference. The issue is that, in alphabetical order, which is used with people's names, spaces typically are not ignored, but instead precede all other characters. Thus, alphabetically, "eight hundred" precedes "eighteen," and the first odd number in alphabetical order becomes 8,808,808,885. The first prime would in that case be the very next odd number in alphabetical order, namely, 8,808,808,889.