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@LuFins-Dad said in There ain't no Planet B: Barely read 1/3 and found it unnecessary to continue. Ya’ll and the author really need to READ (not watch) The Expanse. Author also needs to take into account our own ability to adapt. Author and Ya’ll ought to also listen to Bobiverse… I see no reason to believe that either of those two books are any better a predictor of my future than is 50 Shades of Gray.

It's a coincidence.

Support of Donald Trump, was a full stop excommunicable offense in most high status American circles. You really don't need to know more than that, about why people felt as they did. One can go deeper psychologically, like an excess of the disgust reflex and its ability to overwhelm reason, but when the cultural coercion was at that sort of peak, you don't even need to consider more than that. People love good vs evil battles, especially when they can participate at no personal risk, and even with an associated personal gain.

There's only a few things that'll cause such a rapid drop in the Hct - and all of them involve a lot of bleeding, and none of them are good. Mesenteric artery is usually associated with a thrombosis, not bleeding. Is it possible the endoscopy got a major vessel? @bachophile ? Thoughts?

Only Jim Kelly has lost more SBs than Tom Brady… So sad…

@mark said in Wisconsin got nothin’ on us: Dickheads. LOL, and Asshats!

This one sniffs of existential risk. Best to not vote for a Republican for at least another 20 years. After a couple decades, we can revisit whether conservative ideals are within reason to vote for. But we must wait until the existential risk has passed. For our Democracy.

And nothing new for us. Shoulda been here after Katrina and Rita.

(B)(1) Not less than thirty days, but not more than one hundred twenty days following the receipt of a nomination, the commission shall conduct a meeting for the purpose of determining whether to approve or disapprove the nomination for the purpose of leasing a formation within the parcel of land that is identified in the nomination. In making its decision to approve or disapprove the nomination, the commission shall consider all of the following: (a) The economic benefits, including the potential income from an oil or natural gas operation, that would result if the lease of a formation that is the subject of the nomination were approved; (b) Whether the proposed oil or gas operation is compatible with the current uses of the parcel of land that is the subject of the nomination; (c) The environmental impact that would result if the lease of a formation that is the subject of the nomination were approved; (d) Any potential adverse geological impact that would result if the lease of a formation that is the subject of the nomination were approved; (e) Any potential impact to visitors or users of a parcel of land that is the subject of the nomination; (f) Any potential impact to the operations or equipment of a state agency that is a state university or college if the lease of a formation within a parcel of land owned or controlled by the university or college that is the subject of the nomination were executed; (g) Any comments or objections to the nomination submitted to the commission by the state agency that owns or controls the parcel of land on which the proposed oil or natural gas operation would take place; (h) Any comments or objections to the nomination submitted to the commission by residents of this state or other users of the parcel of land that is the subject of the nomination; (i) Any special terms and conditions the state agency included in its comments or objections that the state agency believes are appropriate for the lease of the parcel of land because of specific conditions related to that parcel of land.

Everything is racist.

Why the Heck Is Amazon Selling These Fake 16 Terabyte Portable SSD Drives? It’s clear that the manufacturer, whoever that may be, didn’t want people to take this hard drive apart. There are no seams, no screws, no obvious points of access. I found a pinhole near the USB-C port resembling a SIM card access point. But no amount of prodding did anything. So I broke out my trusty iFixit tools and pried the thing apart. “What would I find inside?” I wondered as I carefully shoved one end inside the case. Hopefully, I didn’t break whatever was inside. Maybe it really would be a magical 16TB M.2 SSD drive. Perhaps they just installed it incorrectly, and thus it wasn’t performing correctly. Or maybe, if I were to suggest more likely outcomes, I would open the casing and find world peace. Or the solution to unlimited energy. Or at least the answer to why hot dogs come in ten packs while hot dog buns come in 8 packs. Alas, once I managed to take the drive apart, I found exactly what I suspected from my tests: a micro SD card slotted into a circuit board acting as a USB-C adapter. The micro SD card doesn’t have any markings on the front side, and some serial numbers on the back that seem to confirm the 64 GB size my testing revealed. Why does Windows show a 16TB drive, then? That’s likely a part of the board’s firmware, falsely reporting a size that doesn’t exist. This thing is a total lie, from top to bottom.

@jon-nyc said in What will the Speaker vote look like?: Gaetz voted for Trump. Sound on. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1611163673564774401

@Ivorythumper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,: @Copper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,: Viet Nam memorial It even has the V Maya Lin’s design was intentionally an inverted V for defeat, and a black scar on the earth, and creates a void rather than a sense of presence. It is a poetic place of healing — the mirror smooth black granite allows the families, friends, and surviving comrades to see themselves in the names of the fallen — and is quite a moving piece of architecture appropriate for the complex emotions of the war in Vietnam. That's my view on it. I personally find the finish on the granite the most meaningful feature of the design.

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