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  • Hey Mik

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    MikM
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  • Hamas attacks Israel

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    HoraceH
    In fairness, public messagers like the Bee are different from TNCR posters, in their culpability.
  • Charlie Kirk Shot

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    HoraceH
    I've actually never listened to her. My strongest impression about her was when she was standing at Trump's left shoulder in some speech he was giving in his first run. I remarked about how beautiful she was. She has taken some turns, because the culture has given her leverage. It wasn't the culture that directed her, it was her inclinations. She's as crazy as people will be, without boundaries.
  • Thanksgiving memes 2025

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    jon-nycJ
    (I know, not Thanksgiving but I didn’t have the will to create an Xmas thread in mid-November
  • SpaceX

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    89th8
    That is cool. Their whole goal was frequent, reusable, economic launches. I posted in the New Glenn thread, the Blue Origin stuff gets a lot of jokes because how far "behind" it is than SpaceX, but I really enjoyed the 1.5 hour watching of those 2 behind-the-scenes tour with Jeff Bezos, it really, really, dare I say, really shed light into all of the work and decisions that goes into building reusable boosters and orbital vehicles. It also shows you what can happen if you have 100 billion dollars and are very smart. Kind of like @jon-nyc if he had 99 more billion dollars and 99 more smart.
  • Fascinating Wilson quote

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    LuFins DadL
    I liked this one - “"You're a pest, Dennis. A menace. A selfish, spoiled little boy and I've no use for you.” He always came around at the end, though.
  • FB really doesn't keep up

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    X
    I think loved ones can contact FB to get a page "memorialized".
  • Today’s pick-me-up

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    AxtremusA
    Indian accent too fake. But it's a promising concept. Just need better execution.
  • Racial oversensitivity

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    kluursK
    So much for read along with Tom Sawyer.
  • Latest Trump cause, Andrew Tate

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    jon-nycJ
    Claire Lehman for the win. https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1990187910893801563?s=46
  • A good day for Mason Rudolph

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    LuFins DadL
    @89th said in A good day for Mason Rudolph: Rudolph reminds me of Trent Green or, more recently, Kirk Cousins. A talented backup that never much of a chance earlier in their career but seems to have the arm to lead a team if he's given enough of a real chance (i.e., a multiple games). He was given an opportunity in Tennessee last year, but it was a real cluster **** of a situation.
  • None of us are guaranteed tomorrow

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    HoraceH
    Exact thing happened to a doctor driving on 680 while I drove that same road commuting to and from work. It is a chilling anecdote. I think I posted about it at the time. https://www.ktvu.com/news/internist-at-john-muir-hospital-dies-after-tree-falls-on-i-680-in-danville
  • Chess Boxing

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    AxtremusA
    Don’t know what the time limit is for each chess move. If there is a lot of time allowed per move, the best boxer can win just be going really slow during a chess round (doing just enough to avoid a checkmate), then go for a quick knockout in the subsequent boxing round.
  • The Cookbook

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    MikM
    Worth the time. (Which is admittedly not much). The crispy prosciutto really makes it. https://www.today.com/recipes/pumpkin-rigatoni-t300659
  • Very Substantially

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    jon-nycJ
    @89th said in Very Substantially: Of all of the people I trust to solve a debt problem, it’s not gonna be the guy who has bankrupted most of his companies due to debt. Actually that’s how you solve a debt problem in extremis.
  • The end of LLM in AI?

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    89th8
    Sure, changes the meaning of when I do “the robot” on the dance floor.
  • Why hydrogen is not more popular

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  • Now I know why you can’t check these in your bags

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    AxtremusA
    Yeah … when people complain why their smartphones don’t come with more powerful batteries, sometimes I ask them how big an explosive they feel comfortable carrying around in their pockets.
  • We need a Venezuela thread

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    jon-nycJ
    ‘Only’? November 30th is two weeks away. https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1989887616142250332?s=46
  • New Glenn

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    89th8
    Here’s the 2nd part of that first video. The launch pad. It is really mind blowing, the size and scale. Even the propellant tubes that are along the midsection, have to be able to be flexible based on the pressure… imagine telling an engineer that they need to design proponent tubes for 300 feet, but also maybe 320 feet. Just insane. All of it! Link to video