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  • Catseye3C Catseye3

    @Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation. 😳

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    @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

    @Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation. 😳

    +1

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      Link to video

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        The 50 year old Integrated Circuit still in wide use today.

        The 555 timer IC

        Link to video

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          Circuit older than that were racist because they were not integrated, right?

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • Catseye3C Catseye3

            @Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.

            A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."

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            @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

            @Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.

            A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."

            Link to video

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              The 50 year old Integrated Circuit still in wide use today.

              The 555 timer IC

              Link to video

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                Circuit older than that were racist because they were not integrated, right?

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                @George-K said in Mildly interesting:

                Circuit older than that were racist because they were not integrated, right?

                The 555 was not the first IC.

                The first IC was invented in 1958 by an engineer at Texas Instruments.

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                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-president-heads

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                      Trivia: eggs fully form in the ovaries of fetuses. That means the egg that became you was once inside the body of your grandmother.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        • George KG George K

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                          @George-K Talk about tension and release. I kept looking for the bar and when it finally came into view, I was like, NFW is he going to make that.

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                            Fake. If you look closely you can see the pole he's using to help him do that.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                              Especially for Phibes, maybe?

                              A 2022 MIT report studied the Oreo cookie's "flow and fracture".

                              Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                That time when 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 1939.

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                                Only non-witches get due process.

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                                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                  That time when 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 1939.

                                  13B9ABE5-3A09-4C9D-AD1C-45F7337864FE.jpeg

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                                  @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                  hat time when 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 1939.

                                  Holeee Cow.

                                  Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                    What way did their politics lean, within the context of America?

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                      Etymology fun fact: The arteries in the neck are called "carotids," from the Greek word "karotides", relating to the word "katotikos" (to stupefy) and "karos" (deep sleep).

                                      The ancient Greeks used it/knew that compression of the carotid arteries would produce unconsciousness.

                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        No idea if this is true or not, but if so...cool!

                                        The Canadian Passport under UV light reveals its secret watermark.

                                        aU0NfQ9-1.jpg

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                          That's very cool.

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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