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  • Living on the edge

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    MikM
    Seems unwise even if it were stable. You stumble out of the tent to whiz in the dark and off you go.
  • Last night (again) in Portland

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    MikM
    I've stayed in The Pearl too. Never again.
  • The GOP’s golden calf

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    KlausK
    @jon-nyc said in The GOP’s golden calf: That’s right! Hundreds of them, all placed below the Jewish star. But it's the left-facing version, not the right-facing one.
  • Fun anecdote on DNC convention

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    LuFins DadL
    @copper @copper said in Fun anecdote on DNC convention: @horace said in Fun anecdote on DNC convention: And the all-important endorsement of Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina was in play when Clyburn cornered Biden during a commercial break at a Charleston debate and urged him to promise to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. “This wasn’t offered as a condition of Clyburn’s endorsement, but it was an expectation,” the authors write, parsing a bit too finely. Biden awkwardly complied. politics is downstream of culture. Black women have been the majority of judges on TV and movies for a decade or more now. Is it possible to make a tv commercial without an interracial couple? I’ve seen a lot of commercials with white couples. They’re all dudes, but they are couples and white...
  • China declares victory over “extreme poverty”

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    taiwan_girlT
    @jolly said in China declares victory over “extreme poverty”: @taiwan_girl said in China declares victory over “extreme poverty”: @loki said in China declares victory over “extreme poverty”: Taiwan is coming. LOL I hope not and dont think so. If they think they can, they will... True. It will be "subtle" if it happens. Maybe start by taking over Kinmen and Matsu islands.....
  • Went antiquing...

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    jon-nycJ
    I was going to make a joke about Aqua’s great aunt.
  • 2MM a day

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    George KG
    @jon-nyc said in 2MM a day: Wow that’s great. https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1366026420389105666
  • Puzzle time - algebra edition

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    jon-nycJ
    @klaus said in Puzzle time - algebra edition: A^B is the implication B -> A I tried that and ruled it out (erroneously) thinking it failed 7
  • Vaccines for 12+

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    jon-nycJ
    @lufins-dad said in Vaccines for 12+: nor is the risk of transmission. That’s true with small kids, but older teens?
  • Regenerating neurons

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    CopperC
    I could use some reversal of age-related decline Somebody could make some money on this Unless of course the democrats decide that everyone has a right to eternal reversal of age-related decline
  • Black documentaries don't matter at Amazon

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    CopperC
    At the top of the Amazon black history list ![alt text]([image: 1614525566318-67758373-0d14-48e8-bd26-60680ffb5481-image.png] image url)
  • Hey your honor...

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    CopperC
    I assume the judge will add his fee to the medical insurance claim.
  • Thinking on her feet

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    George KG
    Presumably, she's already had the virus - anosmia and all that....
  • J&J Approved...

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    L
    AZ is 100% effective against serious illness, hospitalization and death. That’s some definition of suck based on what has happened over the last year to our people and our economy. But yeah people think it sucks. Weird.
  • Escape From New York

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    RichR
    @lufins-dad Yes and yes. Especially to point #1. The last 8 months or so, I've essentially gone from being a piano restoration guy that also does some piano moving, to a being piano mover that visits his shop just long enough to grab another dolly. Real estate prices locally have gone through the roof as tons of people from New York and Boston have moved into CT suburbs.
  • TWA Flight 800 wreckage in Ashburn to be decommissioned

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    L
    Pierre Salinger gave up most if not all of his reputation on TWA flight 800. That’s what I remember most.
  • "I am not a pussy..."

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    George KG
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  • China crushes democracy

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    JollyJ
    The dude from Iceland probably didn't gave a nuclear football in the truck seat...
  • The Pacific

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    JollyJ
    I've read the books several times. I wish the film would have stuck to one or the other.
  • Combating Racism by Instituting...Racism?

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    jon-nycJ
    My district isn’t (yet) insane with woke neoracism (though there’s a contingent trying hard to get us there), so I think the boy will be okay. Also he’s already a bit cynical about it, and it didn’t really come from me.