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Good morning I thought you needed to see this today.
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Pretty sure they don't exist in nature.
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Good morning I thought you needed to see this today.
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Pretty sure they don't exist in nature.
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This showed up on a neighbor's roof. Extra context in post.
Like others have already said, looks like a cell network antenna. Maybe service sucks inside home, so they got a repeater/amplifier?
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Alex Jones and his fans are intrigued by Putin offer of sanctuary to conservatives
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ICE agents can be arrested over unlawful actions, Chicago federal judge rules
This needed a fucking ruling?!
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The Google Pay app is shutting down in the US
The fun part is you still can't transfer out less than $1. I had 81¢. So I tried to transfer in 19¢ so I could transfer a whole $1 out.
Nope, can't transfer in less than $10.
I was able to transfer in $10 so I can get my $10.81 out. But fuck, Google, if you're the one shutting shit down, how about you let me transfer my money out regardless of how much/little there is?
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Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup
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That's fine, but the facts don't really care about your feelings.
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Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup
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There are in many states.
And yet, doctors are still concerned because shit is too vague, so they just... don't do them for any reason.
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Why don't radar planes crew wear a parachute during combat missions ?
I don't think the design of the plane allows for it.
In fighters, it blows the canopy, triggers a rocket in the seat that gets the pilot clear of the disintegrating plane, and eventually deploys the chute.
These types of planes don't have a canopy. They're also much larger, which means it's much more difficult to get clear.
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Does my arm take long term damage if it falls asleep every third night?
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Am doctor, can confirm. Don't trust lying morons on the Internet.
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That's such a Tom thing to do
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his songs/poetry are terrible
To be fair, Tolkien's songs/poetry are terrible. He was a great writer, an amazing storyteller, and an unparalleled world-builder. But he was not a lyricist or poet by a long shot.
The songs and poems do convey a lot of information and help build the world. But that doesn't mean they're good.
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American public transit
If you look on Google Maps, there's this super convenient line of trees that goes from the next large city north-ish of my town to the largest city in the state, south of me. It runs right through my town. If you go looking in that line of trees, you'll find abandoned train tracks.
There was a day when someone (not me, I'm not that old) could get on a train in my town and go to virtually any medium to large city. Now, we can't even get funding to connect the walking trail segments that parallel portions of those abandoned tracks between towns.
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18 elementary students, teacher fall ill after dry ice experiment in Tennessee classroom
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If you want to have a stick up your ass…
It's carbonation, not carbonization.
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Going on my first super long haul flight - what can I buy to make it more comfortable?
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I swear by my WH-1000XM4's. I don't even usually play anything, just turn the noise-cancellation on. Makes flying so much more chill.
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Anyone planning to play along?
I desperately want SpaceX to have some competition. Competition drives innovation up and prices down.
But at the same time, I kind of want this to be a colossal enough failure that they can't deny that this thing isn't ready.
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Standalone Google Pay app in the U.S. is going to be shut down on June 4th, 2024
The fun part is you still can't transfer out less than $1. I had 81¢. So I tried to transfer in 21¢ so I could transfer a whole $1 out.
Nope, can't transfer in less than $10.
I was able to transfer in $10 so I can get my $10.81 out. But fuck, Google, if you're the one shutting shit down, how about you let me transfer my money out regardless of how much/little there is?
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People who almost never games anymore what happened ?
I was primarily a PC gamer. Life happened.
Time was already tight. I was working 2 jobs totaling ~80 hours a week. About the time I finally quit one, my computer let out the magic smoke. Rent went up, replaced my beater of a car, bought a house because rent was going up again, found out I was going to be a parent, house needed work, replaced my SO's car, fixed fire damage to the house, SO quit their job, found out I was gonna be a parent x2.
Things just got busy fast. That computer blew the magic smoke 6-7 years ago now. I've saved up the money to replace it several times, but something else more important always comes up. I'd still love to replace it and game again, but I've been out of it so long that I don't even really know what games are out anymore or what I'd like to play, and honestly I get more joy out of occasionally playing Smash Bros on the Switch with my first kiddo. The game is ok, but time with the kiddo is valuable.
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The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
Today is always a good day to make the world a better place. Don't add to the inertia.
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Difficult decisions
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Add JerryRigEverything to that list. His wife is literally a Mormon motivational speaker and they built a survival bunker (which is a Mormon thing, in addition to just being kinda cool).
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Sike!
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There has never been a proven case of juice jacking, anywhere, ever.
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Adult daughter. Should I disown her!?
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It's not necessarily washing them first, but I do get the "chunks" out. As the only person in the house who remembers that the food doesn't just magically disappear, and eventually has to clean the filter, I prefer to do the cleaning before the food gets to the filter. Everyone else, on the other hand, seems perfectly content to put a half-full bowl of spaghetti in the dishwasher.