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  • An Article for Jolly and all history buffs...

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  • Worth reading

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    MikM
    You should. It's great.
  • Hey Beato nerds

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    HoraceH
    Beato was on Sean Carrol’s podcast recently. Carrol is a top physicist and all around thinker about stuff. Interesting to see Beato cross paths with him.
  • Airguns For Self Defence?

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    MikM
    Uhm....no thanks. If I'm in a situation where I require any sort of self defense firearm, I want it to be lethal.
  • Hey, Aqua.

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    Aqua LetiferA
    This guy ain’t ready for prime time. We landed on cool, smooth stone, and I seriously considered never moving again. I looked up in time to see the setting sun. It took a few seconds before I realized that we’d left New York City at dawn. Adverbs are the devil. “Seriously considered” is bumsauce description. “I was in no rush to pull myself up” or a dozen other responses would have been better. But wait: you seriously considered never moving again, but looked up anyway? In time to see the setting sun? If you’re seriously considering never moving again, you’re not going to look up. Sunsets aren’t “up.” They’re out. Off in the distance. Level to the horizon. “Looked up in time”? Has this guy never seen a sunset? It’s a process, it takes awhile. It’s not a thing you miss if you don’t look up in time. It took a few seconds before I realized that we’d left New York City at dawn. This is maid-and-butler writing. What he's doing is telling you things he wants you, the reader to know, by hijacking a character and making him speak for the writer. I say "hijacking" because only maps label it "New York City". If you're from there, it's the city. If you're not, it's New York. When I got started, I joined an online crit community. Contributed on and off for quite awhile. His writing reads like that other stuff. Not really a dig—I hope he keeps at it—that's just where he's at. Also not at all surprised he's a Jim Butcher fan. That's basically where he got his premise from.
  • Farewell, Mikhail Sergeievich

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    RenaudaR
    @George-K I think George Will misses the point. Gorbachev naively believed that the Soviet system’s ills could be addressed by it moving it away from the centralized rule of the Communist Party and towards a rule of law as in the West. His legalistic approach to reform was characterized by lengthy speeches, platitudes and slogans with only limited half measures in actual reform. The result was economic chaos and political incoherence.
  • For Aqua, 89th, xenon, Horace et al....

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    X
    Don't reveal my secrets
  • When ‘woke’ hit TNCR’s vocabulary

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    jon-nycJ
    I looked at the next several usages, mostly me and George, and they had “woke” in quotes since it was a new way of using the word.
  • Did Kim get COVID?

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  • Japanese Nursing Home Recruits Babies to Keep Elderly Company

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    JollyJ
    Worked with a nurse that had two shelties she used as hospital therapy dogs. The sheltie grin is ubiquitous in the breed. You can't help but smile, when a sheltie smiles at you.
  • Times will get tougher

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    MikM
    He's not the only one predicting a large recession.
  • Maneuverability

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    George KG
    @89th and the F-22 was cancelled after 187 were built and delivered. The USAF had originally planned to buy a total of 750 ATFs. In 2009, the program was cut to 187 operational aircraft due to high costs, a lack of air-to-air missions due to the focus on counterinsurgency operations at the time of production, a ban on exports, and development of the more affordable and versatile F-35,[N 1] with the last F-22 delivered in 2012.
  • Vintage Guitar Worth?

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  • The New Noah

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  • Attitude Control

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  • Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country

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    KlausK
    I don't like it if people judge people by their membership in groups and not as individuals. I don't like it when the left does this, and I don't like it when Prager does it.
  • While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...

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    IvorythumperI
    @Renauda said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...: Our son was never interested in the Potter books so I never read any of them. He seemed to go from Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Dickens’ *Oliver Twist * in one move. His mother read Dickens in school and hated it. I read nothing by him although I’ve enjoyed BBC mini series on Dickens’ books. Kid is still reading Dickens. Says he wants to try Tolstoy next. I hope when he got in trouble you gave him the dickens.
  • Suing the FBI

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    IvorythumperI
    @George-K HAHA!
  • Summertime in Chicago

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    89th8
    Jon has volunteered to do the scrubbing.
  • For Snicks

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    Catseye3C
    @George-K I'm at the very itty-bitty bottom rung of understanding Japanese everything, but I would say that squares pattern is very un-Japanese. Maybe a fusion of West and East, but not purely Japanese. Anyone who believes I'm wrong, please speak up. I'd like to understand.