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@Tsaukpaetra Wait, so instead of just not wearing the ring that signals "I am taken", you're supposed to wear a ring that signals "I am not taken"? And this is different, how exactly?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Wait, so instead of just not wearing the ring that signals "I am taken", you're supposed to wear a ring that signals "I am not taken"? And this is different, how exactly?
There is the state where you are not taken, and not wanting to be. And the state where you are taken, but not to the point of wearing rings yet. And the fading of the custom of wearing rings at all to signify being taken.
I gave this some thought in the nineties...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Wait, so instead of just not wearing the ring that signals "I am taken", you're supposed to wear a ring that signals "I am not taken"? And this is different, how exactly?
It says you're actively interested in getting into a relationship. An invitation to start flirting, as opposed to just wanting to drink in peace.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
opposed to just wanting to drink in peace.
Not sure I can give up on this.
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@topspin some of us wake up and choose violence.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Is there a ring that signals "submissive and breedable"?
Gold with diamond.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Fuckin' genius to whoever came up with it and got rich off of it.
I'm gonna get five of these!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Wait, so instead of just not wearing the ring that signals "I am taken", you're supposed to wear a ring that signals "I am not taken"? And this is different, how exactly?
Capitalism.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin some of us wake up and choose violence.
Wait. Did you just switch to being a Dem (looks at category) Oops, wrong place...
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An article on determining the age of wood and related events. Nice to read:
https://www.science.org/content/article/marking-time-cosmic-ray-storms-can-pin-precise-dates-history-ancient-egypt-vikings
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@BernieTheBernie good opportunity for more shit-posting.
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@topspin and the bar of wood is directly in front of his head. Perfect.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@topspin and the bar of wood is directly in front of his head. Perfect.
I can double the score for this picture!
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@topspin Be sure to check out his follow-up: "And Now - Number One - The Larch".
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@da-Doctah number 3, the horse chestnut.
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So I decided to take a look into that book.
It now resides on my hard disk in the form of a heap of bytes. Which is definietly not wood.@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Number One - The Larch
is mentioned in Chapter 11. Not 1.
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
number 3, the horse chestnut
is already in Chapter 10.
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@BernieTheBernie well, my entry was only in a very specific edition, and not the same edition as other posters might be thinking of.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@topspin Be sure to check out his follow-up: "And Now - Number One - The Larch".
Behinde yon shrubberie, is a Ladie.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
got rich off of it.
Yeah, I'm off to commission a Thingiverse object and just print it...
Filed under: You wouldn't steal a hookup
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@loopback0 God bless the Guinness!
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Arnold Schwarzenegger posts video filling in 'giant pothole' in L.A. — but city says it was actually a service trench
Disclaimer: I'm not an enemy of Arnold's, I just think this wasn't his high point.
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Eh, the city admits the work was done in January and it was still unfilled. So the city is arguing semantics if it takes them >4 months to fill a hole that they created.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Eh, the city admits the work was done in January and it was still unfilled. So the city is arguing semantics if it takes them >4 months to fill a hole that they created.
That amount of time doesn't surprise me. There was water main work being done on the street on the side of my house ~6 months ago. It wasn't until a couple weeks ago that they came out and fixed the patch in the intersection that had a piece of rebar or someshit sticking out of it that occasionally decided to piss away water down the street for some reason.
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@jinpa Let's send him to India. He will enjoy the highways there!
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Eh, the city admits the work was done in January and it was still unfilled. So the city is arguing semantics if it takes them >4 months to fill a hole that they created.
I've said it before and I say it again: this trend of software concepts spreading to real world is worrying.
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I hear southern California has had a bit of wet weather lately. My understanding is that you can't really properly repair a pothole (or trench) until the ground has dried out (if the ground is still wet when the hole is filled then as it dries it shrinks and leaves the new seal unsupported, ready to fall in again under repeated impacts). No doubt the hole-repair schedule isn't pure FIFO but prioritised on how hazardous the hole is (once it's dry enough to be worked on, that is).
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
My understanding is that you can't really properly repair a pothole (or trench) until the ground has dried out (if the ground is still wet when the hole is filled then as it dries it shrinks and leaves the new seal unsupported, ready to fall in again under repeated impacts).
And yet somehow they manage it in Washington...
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@boomzilla giving us one more reason to not buy a Samsung phone
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
giving us one more reason to not buy a Samsung phone
I was arguing with my friends that Samsung is a stupid phone
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Honestly? I didn't even realize they still did...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
giving us one more reason to not buy a Samsung phone
I was arguing with my friends that Samsung is a stupid phone
I think the out of context thread is
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FileUnder: diet soda is crap
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@TimeBandit They've determined that it's largely a genetic thing. At least it was with saccharine: To 25% of people, saccharine tastes bitter, not sweet. I expect there are corollaries with newer sweeteners.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit They've determined that it's largely a genetic thing. At least it was with saccharine: To 25% of people, saccharine tastes bitter, not sweet. I expect there are corollaries with newer sweeteners.
Did they properly control for the portion of the population with its head so far up that everything tastes like shit?
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Did they properly control for the portion of the population with its head so far up that everything tastes like shit?
That may describe a group of some of my best friends. Last night I brought some bottles of bacon-flavored and buffalo-wing-flavored soda. Two of them decided to try the latter and got through about half a bottle, making faces the whole time and worrying about whether they were going to be sick. I polished off the other half of the bottle myself in the name of tidiness and could only describe the taste as "insipid".
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
bacon-flavored and buffalo-wing-flavored soda.
Nope, You
EatDrink It thread is .
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
bacon-flavored and buffalo-wing-flavored soda.
Nope, You
EatDrink It thread is .I did drink it. I'll get round to the other three bottles at a later date because half a bottle is probably more cane sugar than I should be consuming in a week.
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The ancient people of Menorca (and isalnd in the Mediterranean Sea next to Mallorca) were drug users by about 3,000 years ago: a hair analysis provided proof.
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Did you know that the "new car smell" causes cancer? Not only in California where everyone would expect that, but even in China!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666386423001431?via%3DihubHow good that I buy used cars instead of new cars...
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In case that you thought that scientists live in an ivory tower, read that real-world research on using playground swings:
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Apple took a page from Microsoft
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@jinpa Quite right! Cheesecake should be sacrosanct!
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@dkf dunno, only occurs when Dr. Teeth turns toward the camera, and even then, his ass isn't in the shot.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Filed under: mining clicks from people who don’t understand how awesome bars work.
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