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  • Hey, Aqua! Another writing style question

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    George KG
    @Klaus said in Hey, Aqua! Another writing style question: It's completely fine to start a sentence with "plus". In fact, it's even preferable to having it in the middle, where it can cause ambiguities. Yeah, but it's Polish. So there's that.
  • Finally someone speaks the truth

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    MikM
    He does indeed. Scandalous!
  • The stock market crash based on nothing

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @Horace said in The stock market crash based on nothing: Take one for the team Aqua. There are a lot of fine, decent people on this side that need that money for our second vacation homes. Know this, friend: as sure as the sun will come up tomorrow, as the Pope shits in the woods, as I know you have a D20 somewhere in your house, nothing I do in the next 14 days will have any economic impact on anything outside my immediate vicinity.
  • RIP, Tom Seaver

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    bachophileB
    A boyhood hero. I’ll never in my life forget watching Seaver’s near perfect game on July 9, 1969. I was watching on a portable b/w TV set while my mom was serving me dinner, I was 11 years old. I watched that game, hanging on every pitch. I thought I was actually going to see a prefect game live on TV. (WOR TV channel 9. That was the Mets station, unIike WPIX channel 11 that broadcast the Yankees whom every true New Yorker loathed. ) Man I was such a baseball nerd kid. https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/july-9-1969-tom-seavers-near-perfect-game/ https://m. Link to video Rest In Peace.
  • Will snow days be a casualty of COVID-19?

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    89th8
    Right on cue, @jon-nyc lol
  • Florida woman stabbed police with knife, shot and killed

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    CopperC
    White people Yuck
  • Mutiny

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    CopperC
    Pretend that you already quit. Then look back on it. Hindsight is 20/20
  • Why Joe isn't going to Kenosha

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    LarryL
    Ain't that whut ah sayd? .....
  • Locked Out

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    L
    Well we need test cases to settle things down. A bit of wild Wild West right now. Regulations will fix that, nothing better for social media to be subject to regulations. Let the progressives get a nice taste of their own regulatory medicine.
  • Our brave politicians

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  • 150 DC Sites

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    89th8
    lolz
  • Today in history

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  • Every night, this is me....

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    brendaB
    Graduation party is when her parents will share this again.
  • Krugman goes full Pauline Kael

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  • 75th Anniversary of WWII end (live stream 3pm eastern)

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    jon-nycJ
    We really liked it. Good story, good characters, good effects. I’ve seen the 76 version but that was decades ago. It used some of John Ford’s documentary footage. This one didn’t but it did have John Ford as a very minor character.
  • My mother called a while ago, stranded on the side of the road

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    jon-nycJ
    My father started scraping the car against the garage. That’s what we could see. It was probably worse than that. He knew it though. When he finally moved in with my sister I drove him in his car from IN to Arlington. When he walked in her house he handed my sister the keys and said ‘take it, I won’t be needing it anymore’.
  • Bias free news

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    MikM
    So far they have done a very good job. I watched another hour and a half tonight.
  • The Maureen Corps?

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @Jolly said in The Maureen Corps?: @Aqua-Letifer said in The Maureen Corps?: @Jolly said in The Maureen Corps?: A young lad dropped by my house today, who served a hitch in the Corps and did one tour in Afghanistan. His opinion? One word... Clusterfuck. He said there might be a few gals that could pack a combat load in the 110 degree heat, but they would be far and few between. I agree with both assessments. But it'd be a cluster because of inflexibility to change, not because women by virtue of being women would destroy the military. As for who could pass muster, I don't care if it's one out of 100,000. If that's what it is then that's what it is. He also talked about the problems with unit cohesion and women in an outfit. Heard that one before.
  • Atul Gawande on how we can fix the testing mess

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    taiwan_girlT
    University of Illinois in Illinois also developed a saliva test and are using it on all students at least two times each week.
  • Minnesota to get more political advertising

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    brendaB
    You betcha! We're ready. Got the manure scoop handy.