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  • The New Norm

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  • Wanna know how to get this country re-opened by this weekend?

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    89th8
    Lolz
  • For Lufin's Dad and Jon and Klaus and Xenon, et al.

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    LuFins DadL
    @Mik More likely Lucas would find it funny to do and make it look like Finley.
  • "Jane Roe" speaks: "I was paid to speak against abortion."

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    @Mik said in "Jane Roe" speaks: "I was paid to speak against abortion.": I lived through George Wallace. Trump is NOTHING like George Wallace. This is so awkwardly stupid that it scares me that people might actually believe it.
  • Graywalk

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    MikM
    That sort of thing is where I'm getting my food.
  • Hey Mik

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    MikM
    Yep. My home town did so earlier than that. Working very well. Everybody wants to eat outside if they can anyway.
  • SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces - CDC reverses information, again.

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    HoraceH
    Well those sorts of things always set off most people's BS detectors anyway. I wasn't going to be wiping down my groceries any time soon.
  • I heard him

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    @taiwan_girl said in I heard him: That is very neat Brenda!! Keep us updated as to how they do. Will do! It's difficult for them to get up on the porch in their usual way right now. Normally, they would climb the long flower stalks near the porch, and then hop over to the edge of the porch floor, or they will climb one of the tall birdfeeder poles and jump over to the porch floor. It's early in the season, so the flowers aren't tall enough. It's so cool in the evening, the metal poles are too cold for their toes, so they jump off to the plants again. The last two nights, I have gone down to the flower bed and picked Emmie up from where she's looking up at me to bring her to the porch. Yes, I am taxi service to frogs here. She doesn't mind, except she wants to ride on the front of my sweatshirt. They love to crawl up my arms. Emmie got special treatment last night. I want to encourage the frogs to come to the porch, but the number of bugs is still low due to the cool weather, so the bug zapper doesn't attract many bugs for them yet. That's what makes the froggos want to come up to the porch: dinner. I have some breeder crickets in the dining room that are too large for the house froggos to eat, so I brought a few out for Emmie. She wasn't interested in the first two, becase they hopped away so quickly. The third one made a wrong turn and hoppped toward Emmie. She popped that little cricket in her mouth so fast, and then squeezed it down her gullet. That can take a minute or so for a big bug. After that, she left the porch, but didn't go far. She decided to sit on the trellis immediately behind my chair, and stayed at about the same height as the porch floor, which is about four feet from the ground. That was a nice perch for digesting her first dinner of the evening. Hobbits have multiple breakfasts, and froggos have multiple dinners.
  • Syndication

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    @George-K said in Syndication: @Jolly 404, Yep, I was posting as you were. The link was for a Sherlock Holmes tv series of the 50's. Don't know why I can't do that anymore...
  • Weaponized

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    Related: https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1263293811696054272
  • Remember that sweet kid who played Anakin Skywalker?

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    HoraceH
    the progression for child stars I eventually come to hear about seems to be "children's TV show regular" -> "pop music star" -> "famous enough for me to have heard of them"
  • There are no innocent bourgeois.

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    Doctor PhibesD
    I did say 'relatively'.
  • Hey George

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  • Resistance Journalism

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    Aqua LetiferA
    Of course it is. The industry has completely imploded.
  • What happened and why...

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    George KG
    @Improviso said in What happened and why...: As Jolly posted in another thread. So...If there is no FISA warrant, there is only ONE person in government who can do this surveillance legally. Unless, as McCarthy wrote a few days ago, there was a "friendly nation" which did the surveillance, with a "wink and a nod" from the US.
  • The oil futures market

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    brendaB
    @George-K Yes, it is correct. This will get used in somebody's classroom.
  • The unconscious bias in virtual meetings and how to avoid it.

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @Axtremus said in The unconscious bias in virtual meetings and how to avoid it.: @George-K said in The unconscious bias in virtual meetings and how to avoid it.: “For example, when the virtual background of a Zoom meeting attendee has pictures of his or her wedding, it unintentionally reinforces the idea that marriage is most fitting between opposite sexes.” In the background of a Zoom meeting, had he just use a picture of a massive orgy with many sexes, including transgenders, many skin colors and skin tones, a few amputees, small people, obese people, broad based representation from the barely legal to the nonagenarian, from the atheist to the Catholic priest ... that would be very inclusive and not at all biased or triggering, thus totally appropriate. You've just given me a fantastic quitting idea.
  • I voted yesterday

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    @Axtremus said in I voted yesterday: I went to a bank with a black face mask on. I looked like the classic movie portrayal of a bank robber. The bank employee checked my government issued picture ID, but never asked to see my face, and let me did all the banking business I went there to do anyway. Ax, didn't they notice the gun?? "...and let me did..." Ax, are you drunk? It's so unlike you to both forget your gun AND ruin the language.
  • The Wiki

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    @taiwan_girl said in The Wiki: What is bias? ” not using wiki for”President Trump or President Obama. Exactly. And anyone plagiarizing a paper on one of the President’s is guaranteed an A by the prof.
  • The Vinegar Syndrome

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    Interesting article. Makes me realize how fragile the "eyewitness" accounts of history are.