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  • New culinary discovery

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    George KG
    @aqua-letifer said in New culinary discovery: Dude. What does she subsist on??? Brown food. Google "Cicero, Illinois" and you'll learn all you need to know. No sauce, well-done meat (preferably dry), shaved ham, burgers (well-done of course), spuds. No casseroles, no fish...I could go on.
  • Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

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    Aqua LetiferA
    Football is still on TV?
  • What happens if you put your head in a particle accelerator?

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    Aqua LetiferA
    Yeah, I watched that. Fascinating.
  • Macro

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  • Meanwhile, in Britain...

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @lufins-dad said in Meanwhile, in Britain...: If I remember correctly, one of the biggest motivating factors behind Brexit was all of the cheap labor coming from Poland and taking jobs away from local lads… So after 3 years, it turns out that none of the local lads wanted the jobs? Lazy, good-for-nothing, xenophobic bigots turned out en-masse in favour of Brexit. . . . . . And that was just the Boris Johnson cabinet.
  • It must suck to be Jen Psaki

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    ImprovisoI
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  • Gonna cost money. A lot of money.

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  • As heard on the radio...

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  • Roadmaster

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    JollyJ
    I think '32 was the first year and '53 was the last Straight 8. Mine had that engine coupled to a three on a tree. Had enough torque it would take off in any gear. Car got 20mpg and would top out at 100mph. Even though that engine was less than 300 cubes, you'd see it in buses with appropriate gearing. The doors on those old cars are so heavy and so solid, you can close them with one finger. When they close, they click into place like a bank vault door. The backseat had so much room, you could lay down on the floorboard between the front seat and back. And the backseat has armrests, just like the couch in your home. With wool fabric seats, BTW.
  • Hay Cats! Your cool word of the day!

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    Catseye3C
    Love it! Damfino what ninnyhammer let these goats into the kitchen.
  • Covid and life expectancy loss

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    KlausK
    A less dramatic way of phrasing the result would be to say that life expectancy was temporarily set back to the levels from 5 years ago.
  • Crib Sheet.

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    RenaudaR
    @jolly said in Crib Sheet.: Should a congregant exhibit some judicious behavior about who he is in proximity of? Yep, I'll give you that one. Thank you, I am glad we have found common ground. But I expected as much since I regard you as man of integrity and applaud you as a dedicated health care worker doing your very best under difficult circumstances.
  • 12,000 Haitians

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  • Hay Klaus!

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    George KG
    What's the buzz? Apparently Merkel's bloc is not doing that well.
  • What the HELL is going on in Oz?

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @renauda said in What the HELL is going on in Oz?: @aqua-letifer As Phibes would say, I was taking the piss in the first part of my post. The sarcasm is so thick around here these days it's solidified. Hard to tell sometimes.
  • For the Math Mavens

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    HoraceH
    Yes math is the great differentiator. Physics its neighbor is, too. The other disciplines are increasingly about the ability to socially coerce ideas. Math is different in that things can be proven. Dumb people scatter.
  • What’s the vaccine hesitancy driver?

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    HoraceH
    @copper said in What’s the vaccine hesitancy driver?: How about a black asian? White woken are the ones who fetishize black men. Not too many Asian women with black men, funnily enough. Where’s that IQ bell curve again?
  • Searing Steaks and Sous Vide

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    MikM
    @kluurs said in Searing Steaks and Sous Vide: Part of the challenge of living with a molecular biologist is that she took favors "well done" - all those damn microbes need to scream in death before she feels safe devouring it. Tell her she needs a more robust biome. Medium rare will help. If all bacteria die at 140 I seriously doubt many survive 130-135. Seems like too much work. I can cook a great steak pan searing/roasting, sous vide and a sear, or indirect then reverse sear on a grill.
  • Puzzle time: The Williams sisters

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    HoraceH
    ::: There are six rounds of the tournament, and the sisters have to co-exist in a given round, to meet in it. They co-exist in the first round, where they have a 1/63 chance to meet, by the logic that wherever the first sister is placed in the 64 spots, the second has a 1/63rd chance of being in opposition to her spot. Thus if the sisters co-exist in a round, they have a 1/(n-1) chance of meeting in that round, where n is the number of competitors in that round. If they do not meet, then the chance of both advancing is .5 * .5. So the chance they both advance to the next round, and meet there, is (.5^2) * (1/31). The chance they do not meet there and advance to the third round and meet there is (.5^(2 * 2)) * 1/15. Next round you get (.5^(2 * 3)) * 1/7, and so on. Sum the probabilities for the total chance they ever meet. :::