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Me: Trump has been president for four years. What initiatives has he spearheaded in that time?

Trump supporter: Uh... all of them?

Me: I see. Then he must have some good ideas for the future as well.

Trump supporter: He sure does!

Me: Such as...?

Trump supporter starts dreaming about the land of white chocolate for 20 minutes

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

The Tsar Bomba is terrifying, but what always bothered me was the fact that we made an air-to-air nuclear missile.

What did we know about that was flying that would require a nuclear missile to knock it out of the air?

The AIR-2 Genie unguided rocket was equipped with a very small 1.5 kt warhead. It was designed to be fired into middle of a formation of Soviet strategic bombers.

There was also the AIM-26 Falcon, which was a guided air-to-air missile. It carried the same warhead as the Davy Crockett recoilless rifle, with a yield of only 250 tons. Guided missiles were extremely inaccurate at the time, and using a nuclear warhead ensured a high kill probability against Soviet bombers.

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Nebraska: Let's make all the counties with nice straight lines.

Nance County: I'M DRUNK!




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The real question is who does the Wedge belong to?





Does it belong to Pennsylvania because it was beyond the Twelve-Mile Circle, as indicated in this 1989 USGS map?


Or does it belong to Delaware because it was never intended for Pennsylvania to go below the northern border of Maryland?

(It cannot belong to Maryland because it is east of the north line of the Mason-Dixon)

In 1921 Pennsylvania and Delaware agreed that this small sliver of land should belong to Delaware.

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They had SEALABs back in the 1960s. Scott Carpenter, the 2nd American to orbit the Earth, spent 28 days aboard SEALAB II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEALAB

Since 2001 NASA has operated Aquarius Reef Base, an underwater habitat 62 feet below the ocean surface off Key Largo, as part of the NEEMO program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEEMO

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I didn't used to care much for spicy stuff, but I've been eating more of it lately. Now I regularly use Valentina, Tapatio, and Cholula, I love Nong Shim Shin Ramyun, and I bought some creamy hatch pepper and garlic hot sauce on clearance and it was the best thing ever and now I can't find it anywhere.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkG3_K8NjWc

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Any sports game with a year in the title and the year is more than 5 years ago.

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92.1F (33.4C). The heat index is 97F (36.1C)

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mrduckbear posted...

Boyd then went back into his car to grab his gun

I think this is the key here. You can't claim self-defense if you can walk back to your car to get your gun.

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Oh, I forgot, I've also dialed 911 a few times to test the phone system after an install. You explain to the operator that you are testing a new phone system and ask several questions such as what phone number and address they are seeing and if you reached the correct call center. The phone system can't be certified ready for use otherwise.

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KeePass. LastPass and its ilk are more convenient, but to me it seems like a perfect target for hackers, one successful intrusion and you have EVERYTHING. KeePass keeps its encrypted database local. This means I have to copy it to my phone every time I make a change, and you have to be very careful about maintaining backups, but I think it's worth it for the increased security.

And it's totally free.

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I called 911 a couple times when my grandmother had a bad insulin reaction. In one instance her blood sugar registered only 12. (Normal is 80-130, most people pass out at 20).

I've called 911 when there was a car accident right in front of me and one of the vehicles started smoking (didn't catch fire, though), and a couple times to report dangerous debris in the road.

I've called the Sheriff's non-emergency number several times, when our Great Dane got stuck in a tree, when a strange vehicle with non-local plates was parked in my driveway for several hours with no sign of the driver, and when I found several cattle wandering around loose.

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Have you read the Thrawn trilogy?

If you want something totally cheesy, there's always Splinter of the Mind's Eye. It was written to be a low-budget sequel to Star Wars in case the first movie was a bust. Since it broke box office records, a different, big-budget script was used instead for the sequel.

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Thanksgiving dinner isn't really that expensive if you do the cooking yourself. Turkeys are quite inexpensive, especially around the Holidays, often under 50 cents a pound. I cook the turkey on top of a bed of potatoes (cheap), carrots (cheap), and onions (cheap). A box or bag of stuffing is usually about $1-2 each. A can of green beans, a can of cream of mushroom soup, and a bag of french fried onions is probably under $5. A package of rolls is about $2-5, depending on the kind. I make my own cranberry sauce, a bag of cranberries is usually about $3.

Now TIME, that's where a Thanksgiving dinner gets expensive. I brine my turkey so I have to start thawing the turkey at least a week before Thanksgiving, and I start the brine on Tuesday.

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I do what I can. I've replaced light fixtures, outlets, and switches and run ethernet cable inside the house, and added new light fixtures and circuit breakers and run Romex and conduit in the garage and barn. I've replaced the kitchen sink and the fixtures in the kitchen and bathroom sinks, and I've replaced a leaky toilet flapper. I installed a drain pipe to carry water from a badly placed gutter away from the house. I hooked up all the major appliances in the house except the hot water heater and the furnace/air conditioner. I built a new door for the barn and a gate for the barnyard, I built a few shelters for the goats and the horse, and I've repaired damaged sections of fence. And of course I set up the network, which is surprisingly complex (VPN router, 5 switches, wireless bridge, and 3 WiFi access points, plus a network printer, NAS, VoIP, and a light controller).

I'm not about to try doing plumbing, the wiring inside the walls, the air conditioner, or the water heater.

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If you want to read about how Hitler and the Nazi's came into power (and how things started going wrong for them), I highly recommend the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer. Shirer was an American journalist who worked as a reporter in Berlin from 1934 to 1940, returning in 1945 to cover the Nuremberg Trials.

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I'm very disappointed that they stopped serving Orange Juliuses.

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GanonsSpirit posted...

Isn't it like a 5% reduction in infection rates if you're wearing one and not the infected?

I can't find the link now, but I recall seeing a study of other respiratory viruses that showed a 10-30% effectiveness rate for the wearer, depending on the type of mask, how well it fit, and adherence.

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I have been wondering if maybe I'd gotten sick back in March. I had a 99.7F fever, really bad headaches, runny nose, congestion, sore throat, and diarrhea. No cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, loss of smell or taste, nausea, or any of the other common symptoms, however. At the time I was doing a number of projects involving hotels and the idea of wearing masks was still unheard of, so I was being exposed to people from all over the world. And tests were virtually impossible to come by back then.

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The Kind Camomille Kickstarter is still open for another 7 days. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/xaviermoiny/the-kind-camomille

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My plans:


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The same thing we do every night, Pinky.

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Walton Simons always has trouble with doors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMbVV6YVi-I

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-dQc134Z-Q

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Parkay...

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captpackrat posted...

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhbmFsaXNhcGFja2hhbXxneDozMWNkNGU5MmI0ZjJmOGVh
SNAP Benefits and Crime: Evidence from Changing Disbursement Schedules

This paper in particular is quite interesting. It shows that criminal behavior is highest at the end of the month, when food stamp benefits have run out, and lowest at the beginning of the month when food stamps, welfare and other benefits are issued. Just staggering the issuing of SNAP benefits over multiple days in the month so people don't run out of food reduced grocery store thefts by 32%!

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

you think people wouldn't be criminals if they had houses and better paying jobs?

There would be fewer people forced to turn to crime because of poverty. I didn't say we could completely get rid of the police. Even the rich commit crimes. But statistics show that employment, lower rates of poverty, and better access to healthcare all correspond with lower crime rates.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=5508484140a84023a1e2d8b080e14d0a
Correlation between crime rate and poverty

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234816/
Is poverty the mother of crime? Evidence from homicide rates in China

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/01/03/new-evidence-that-access-to-health-care-reduces-crime/

https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-can-summer-jobs-reduce-crime-among-youth/

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhbmFsaXNhcGFja2hhbXxneDozMWNkNGU5MmI0ZjJmOGVh
SNAP Benefits and Crime: Evidence from Changing Disbursement Schedules

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Wow, modern American currency really looks crappy compared to some of the older stuff.



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argonautweakend posted...

I could not stick this note on my printers scanner and scan it.

literally will not let me.

I wonder if it would let you attempt to scan older currency, like a silver certificate.


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50 Megatons, though the bomb design could theoretically have exceed 100 Mt with a U-238 fusion tamper instead of the lead tamper that was installed.

All the buildings in a village 55 km away were obliterated, and wooden houses over 100 km away were destroyed. The heat from the explosion would have caused third-degree burns to exposed flesh 100 km away. Windows were broken as far as Norway and Finland. The fireball was visible from 1000 km away. The mushroom cloud reached 67 km in height, past the stratosphere and into the mesosphere. Despite being detonated 4 km above the ground, it still created a magnitude 5.0 earthquake.

Here's what the bomb would have done if it had detonated over the city of Paris. The yellow circle is the size of the fireball and the red circle is the area of total destruction.


The bomb was highly impractical, however, as it was 8 meters long and weighed 27,000 kg. It was far too large for a missile, and the only aircraft capable of carrying it was a heavily modified bomber that had its bomb bay doors and most of its fuel tanks removed so its range was extremely limited. Even with a parachute to slow the bomb's decent, the bomber was only given a 50% chance of surviving.

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dancer62 posted...

Certainly worth panic and wrecking the economy.

Those numbers are despite closing everything down. If we'd done nothing at all the numbers would certainly have been worse. And with the health care system completely overwhelmed people would be dying from normally survivable things like car accidents, broken bones, heart attacks, etc.


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Unbridled9 posted...

The US population is 330,000,000 or so. 200,000 really isn't a lot. I mean I'm not gonna say something stupid like the virus isn't a threat; just that maybe the hysteria surrounding it is a bit overblown.

That's 67 9/11s. That's double the number of Americans killed in military actions since WWII, and more than 2/3 the number of American combat deaths in WWII.

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Defunding the police doesn't mean getting rid of them, but taking the money that's currently being spent on police and spending on stuff to eliminate the need for police, like job training, low income housing, treatment for drug addiction, and mental health services.

And while we're at it, how about defunding the military as well. We currently spend over 1/2 the discretionary budget on the military, more money than the next 12 largest militaries combined. If we cut the military budget in half we'd still spend more than the next 4 largest militaries combined, and think about all the money we could pour into things like education and scientific research.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

TC left that word out (presumed) because it's the nail in the coffin regarding how many people have actually died from covid.

Inflated numbers are inflated. Science doesn't assume or presume unless you are building a hypothesis.

There are over 200,000 more people dead so far this year than in a normal year. So if it's not COVID-19, what is it?

https://www.sciencealert.com/2020-has-killed-up-to-200-000-extra-people-in-the-us-so-far



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1iOkNDGkFA

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I like cornmeal pancakes with just butter, no syrup.

1 package Jiffy corn muffin mix
1 egg
2 Tbsp shortening, melted
3/4 cup milk

Mix ingredients and cook on a hot, lightly greased griddle.

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Revelation34 posted...

Who the fuck would eat that?

Apparently it's used as a vegetable in Thai, Vietnamese, and Filipino cuisine. Supposedly they are slightly crunchy and taste a bit like artichoke. I've seen a number recipes that use it to make an imitation fried fish because the texture is flaky like cod.

And here's a video showing what the fresh flower looks like and how it's prepared.
https://youtu.be/M2FC1tN-EZg

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I've never seen the TV version of Our Miss Brooks, but the radio version is one of my favorites.

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