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  • Weird Fact About Oklahoma

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    @aqua-letifer said in Weird Fact About Oklahoma: Mike? That is a picture of Mike VII. Mike is not a bengal tiger, but a bengal-siberian mix. He has his own Tiger Cam, if you like watching a lazy tiger lounge around all day.
  • PSA for any computer geeks in the building....

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    @george-k said in PSA for any computer geeks in the building....: @doctor-phibes said in PSA for any computer geeks in the building....: looking at a really, really, nice monitor. Which one? Sorry, I can't remember - it was going for about $2K. It looked amazing.
  • Unindicted Co-conspirators

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    CopperC
    rejecting entrapment claims unless (1) a government agent has truly instigated the crime (it’s not enough to show that a government operative helped matters along if the defendant proposed the scheme) and (2) the defendant was not predisposed to commit the crime (i.e., he truly was enticed into lawlessness by the government operative). Was Mr. trump not a government agent?
  • Obit: Champ Biden

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    MikM
    Always a tough time. I wish them comfort.
  • Most-stressed

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    JollyJ
    They're stressed because they're broke? Link to video
  • Got some extra cash?

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  • Pronounce this

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    Doctor PhibesD
    Haema Neggz is definitely East Coast
  • "(The 'right') Papers, please"

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    @jon-nyc said in "(The 'right') Papers, please": Nobody here got that vaccine since it wasn't approved. So some tourists won't be able to go? This.
  • AT du jour, Saturday bonus edition!

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  • American Thinker du jour

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  • Growth can cause problems

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  • The New Investigative Journalism

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  • Out of Time — Denzel Washington (hey 89th!)

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    89th8
    Haha wow I forgot about that movie. That’s a flashback!
  • Interesting and quite frightening

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    jon-nycJ
    Great video. Interesting and fascinating indeed.
  • Eating Their Own

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    George KG
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  • 86,045 days

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    George KG
    Descending into geezer mode. In 1986 (?) a colleague loaned me his Macintosh computer. It was, I think, the "fat Mac" - the all-in-one 9-inch black and white display Mac. It was very similar to the Mac that Steve Jobs introduced in 1984. When he let me play with it for a weekend at my house, he told me that he was saving up for the Apple Laserwriter. [image: 1624060316326-screen-shot-2021-06-18-at-6.51.43-pm.png]
  • Religious exemption denied by IRS

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    Aqua LetiferA
    Freaking Scientology has tax-exempt status.
  • The Chinese Defector

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    @doctor-phibes said in The Chinese Defector: The sad thing is that people go to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for their news. However, if you look at the state of the 'serious' news programs, you can see why. And to add to your point the only news is was Stewart kidding the WaPo saying celebrities shouldn’t be experts- cofeve everywhere.
  • Doordash vs. Direct

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    @loki said in Doordash vs. Direct: All the start ups are losing money like crazy, let’s just say that the prices we get are subsidized by investors. That era is over. There are increasing volumes of articles about millennials who have built a lifestyle around free news, cheap Uber, cheap Airbnb whatever…. And now the costs are spiraling up to the actual cost once all the middlemen are paid off. I think at the end of the process which is still a problem as George pointed out…. Is that labor and middlemen are expensive and all the anomalies will sort out and the inherit less cost of you going direct or picking up the stuff yourself will be reflected in what you pay. In a vacuum, that's true of a lot of things. But what happens when those companies run out of investor money is that they simply go under. In the case of Doordash, Grubhub, etc., COVID was an absolute boon to their businesses. I suspect they'll be fine, and prices aren't going to spike all that much. Especially when the smart restaurants are hitting back with more unique ways of staying in business.
  • Biden approval drops - disillusionment

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    @axtremus said in Biden approval drops - disillusionment: https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/putin-polls-higher-than-biden-among-trump-voters-114976837699 Putin polls higher than Biden among Trump voters. Hahaha. And the same poll says Democrats think Russia is a bigger problem than China! can you believe that? so lets look closely at ALL the poll findings. Of course MSNBC would stop looking as soon as they found their red herring. https://today.yougov.com/topics/international/articles-reports/2021/06/17/americans-see-china-biggest-threat-united-states-n