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  • Mr. Plinkett reviews "Star Trek Picard."

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    Doctor PhibesD

    Those that can, do.

    Those that can't, teach.

    Those that can't teach, teach gym.

    Those that can't teach gym make videos on YouTube complaining about everything.

  • Meanwhile, in Ohio...

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    HoraceH

    Considering how ambiguous at best and basically nonsensical at worst it is to think that America "has no friends" geopolitically, I would have to assume that those who think that, do not in fact feel that it sucks. They enjoy thinking it. It really wouldn't be hard to find friends of America, if you wanted to find them.

  • Hyundai? Yes, Hyundai.

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    MikM

    We are a Mustang family. My dad bought a 64.5. That got stolen and trashed so he bought a 68 convert. My brother had a 67 for many years, and I had a 65, 66 convert and a 67. Think Ford did a great job in the mid 2000's retro version and I will seriously consider a new mustang when we decide to buy a convertible.

  • RIP Eddie Haskell

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    CopperC

    What a nice polite boy.

    RIP Mr Osmond

  • We need more people to get it so we can figure out how to cure it...

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    MikM

    Didn't want to listen to podcast, so I googled. This is actually quite interesting.

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/new-york-clinical-trial-quietly-tests-heartburn-remedy-against-coronavirus

  • The awful realisation....

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    MikM

    Hilarious and brilliant!

  • Flip a coin.

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    HoraceH

    Nothing obvious is ever considered a "major decision" so the fact that the decisions are major points to plenty of pros and cons to them. So among those decisions where the prediction of the outcome is low confidence, it helps psychologically to take no personal responsibility for the decision making process and accept what comes as if it was what nature demanded. It makes sense from that perspective. But the main thing is the sorts of decisions one would leave up to a coin, in this study. They are by definition of ambiguous "happiness" value and the very fact of removing personal responsibility and potential regret from the equation, is enough to tip the "happiness" scale in favor of that decision making process.

    It is for this reason that I believe in a system of government which would force all of its citizens, upon penalty of imprisonment, to make large life decisions based on a coin flip. It would be for their own good, and they would be happier. I care so much about other people that I would do that for them - force them to flip a coin to make their life decisions. Sometimes I marvel at how wonderful and pure my heart is, that I would go to these lengths, just to make other people happier.

  • The Ginsburg of the Right

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  • For the cat people

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    George KG

    @jon-nyc LOL.

    Reminds me of the old joke (and there are many variations):

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  • The Chinese Resurgence

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    JollyJ

    You never know what to believe from the Chinese. I was looking at their virus numbers today, and they are pure fiction.

  • Is it safe?

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    brendaB

    I can relate to what he says. Risk aversion runs along a wide spectrum for people, and can change during different times of their lives. However, the safe space concept has become an excuse to be intellectually intolerant and lazy. Sharing ideas by having a speaker doesn't make you unsafe. It's a pity tactic like a tantrum. The mature response is to present your own ideas as the counterpoint, and then move on.

  • BCG

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    JollyJ

    Another treatment bites the dust...

  • Last Night's Concert - from last year

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  • Inline Skating Slalom

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    AxtremusA

    @George-K said in Inline Skating Slalom:

    However, the first thing that struck me, even before she started her routine is how out-of-place those clunky "skates" look so huge on her small body.

    Same skater when she was younger:

    Link to video

    Same skater when she was older (2019):

    Link to video

  • Now it all makes sense....

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    George KG

    Yeah, funny indeed. The other consideration is what would those ear straps do to his "wings" above his ears.

  • The One-off

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    X

    Don’t we see this same story in lots of engineering and production challenges these days?

    The complexity of a minimally viable products is so high that there’s little room for the risk that innovation brings.

    Even in something as different as movies. The basic budgets and expectation of a blockbuster are so inflated that the dollars keep flowing to the same, tried and tested products.

    Wasn’t this also the story for the F35? Incremental gains needing exponential investment.

  • Geography

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    X

    If we need to go into some sort of permanent multi-year social distancing, then some of this stuff stands.

    If not - urban centers are extremely popular with the younger generation folks. (And my generation)

    I live within 2 miles of Seattle’s urban core. This has not made me rethink that at all.

    I think once this blows over urban real estate likely continues its insanely steep appreciation.

  • Pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome

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    JollyJ

    @Rainman said in Pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome:

    @Loki
    My concern is when the public schools open this coming fall. Everything will be fine, until something like the Kawasaki disease hits, then parents will go ballistic.
    I did hear a reasonable governor speak to this yesterday. Don't remember who it was. He said that when schools open, if Covid hits, they may have to keep kids home for a couple of weeks. His perspective was that switching from school to online could be a solution parents could get used to.
    Problem is, in my experience, most parents will be caught in the scenario where they cannot find daycare that is equivalent to some sort of part-time model. And then once again, the finger pointing will begin.

    Too many one parent families. Too many families where both parents work.

    You can't open and close schools like a window shade.

  • "Against Community Standards."

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    @Doctor-Phibes said in "Against Community Standards.":

    @Mik said in "Against Community Standards.":

    I suppose it depends on if they got what they were paying for.

    It might also depend on if they got what they were praying for.

    Maybe it was ice cream?

    A little too successful it seems.

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    MikM

    The vaccine should be rolled out if that is the only problem.