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  • BYOB

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  • When is political violence OK?

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    JollyJ
    Buy ammo.
  • How Dad are you?

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    @horace said in How Dad are you?: @george-k said in How Dad are you?: @lufins-dad said in How Dad are you?: Nice... What was it? Lagavulin - 16 year old. I'm getting in touch with my inner Avasarala. That’s my favorite scotch. Me too
  • Hey, Jodi.

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    @george-k said in Hey, Jodi.: Shouldn't this be in the "Nihilism Thread?" Reminds me when I first got gout. The doctor listed stuff I shouldn't consume, it was like 'meat fish wine beer alcohol etc. etc.' I looked him in the eye and said "can't you just amputate my foot?" (true story)
  • I broke down and bought another Apple product.

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    AxtremusA
    Apple 2nd Gen Pencil is a significant improvement over the first generation. Though to be honest I like the Microsoft Pen that works with Microsoft Surface Pro even better. But if the app you want to use is only available on an iPad, the 2nd Gen Pencil will do pretty well.
  • The Most Unrelevant

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    Aqua LetiferA
    Rates for horse insurance.
  • Finally! More Star Trek

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    CopperC
    That, and too many white people
  • Jetman

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    CopperC
    ![alt text]([image: 1615676322469-f37b33ef-fbc3-4dcd-bcdc-fdff7d75070c-image.png] image url) https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/first-passenger-capsule-installed-on-dubai-s-big-wheel-1.1067692#3 First passenger capsule installed on Dubai's big wheel The world’s tallest observation wheel is one step closer to completion after the first passenger capsule was installed on Ain Dubai. Once completed, Ain Dubai will stand 250 metres high on Bluewaters Island off Jumeirah Beach Residence and will have 48 capsules. The project was expected to open in time for Expo 2020, which was due to start in October. The event will now take place in 2021. "Ain Dubai is shaping up well and has successfully installed its first capsule on to the wheel this weekend," said a representative. "Over the coming period, the remaining 47 capsules are scheduled for gradual installation."
  • A question for the forum

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    LuFins DadL
    Don’t click the link!
  • Caption this photo

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    MikM
    Looks like Richie Aprile.
  • Senator Cotton talks about wokeness and race

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    CopperC
    idiot
  • Garbage heaters?

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  • Do we have anybody getting hit by the blizzard?

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  • Heartbreak...

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    taiwan_girlT
    Sad. Offer as much support as you can.
  • For those who got vaccinated, any side effects?

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    jodiJ
    @brenda he’s fine. He was sore with aches the first night, and neither one of us slept much, but then he was the same as me, just a little sore. Yay. Hopefully shot number two will be just as easy!
  • So, yesterday was International Women's Day

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    @aqua-letifer said in So, yesterday was International Women's Day: Who else thinks BK was trolling? [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FKl5NkRuyqaD1m%2F200.gif&f=1&nofb=1]
  • Novavax

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    brendaB
    If this becomes an annual thing like flu shots, the winner of this round will see a long term win. People will gravitate toward the top two or three that have comparable effectiveness, especially if it boils down to just one injection.
  • Up your (bowling) alley

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    MikM
    What witchcraft was THAT??? Incredible and entertaining.
  • Puzzle Time - after the decimal point

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    The ‘official’ answer came out today. SOLUTION: If you try entering "(sqrt(2) + sqrt(3))^1,000,000,000" into Google or your calculator, you're likely to find that you get only the dozen or so most significant figures; that is, you don't get a nearly accurate enough answer to see what happens after the decimal point. But you can try smaller powers and see what happens. For example, the decimal expansion of the 10th power of the square root of 2 plus the square root of 3 begins 95049.9999895. A bit of experimentation shows that each even power of the square root of 2 plus the square root of 3 seems to be just a hair below some integer. So the solution to the puzzle seems to be 9. But why? If we merely square the number "square root of 2 plus square root of 3," we get about 9.9. If we play with 10 minus this number, we discover that it's equal to the square of the square root of 2 minus the square root of 3. Aha! Yes, (sqrt(3) + sqrt(2))^2n + (sqrt(3) - sqrt(2))^2n is always an integer, because when you expand it, the odd-power terms cancel and the even ones are integers. But (sqrt(3) - sqrt(2))^2n is very small, about 10^-n, so the first roughly n digits of (sqrt(3) + sqrt(2))^2n past the decimal point are all 9's. [The idea for this puzzle comes from the 29th Annual Virginia Tech Mathematics Contest, 2007
  • The Queen's Gambit on Netflix

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    bachophileB
    Book was better. I saw it before the series.