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Do you have any baseless predictions for the future that you nonetheless expect to occur?
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It'd really be cool to see Venus colonized following some greenhouse gas cleanup like that.
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Do you have any baseless predictions for the future that you nonetheless expect to occur?
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It'd really be cool to see Venus colonized following some greenhouse gas cleanup like that.
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Do you have any baseless predictions for the future that you nonetheless expect to occur?
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I know someone in Florida who pays about 40% more than me in home owners insurance, despite my mid-Atlantic house being worth ~2.5x as much.
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Do you have any baseless predictions for the future that you nonetheless expect to occur?
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More likely the way one politician limply holds their wrist while pouring water for another politician; or some equally arcane "power move".
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Do you have any baseless predictions for the future that you nonetheless expect to occur?
We will see WWIII in my life time (next 50 years, if I'm lucky).
It will be started over something that will seem incredibly silly, in hindsight.
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Big Trouble in Indochina
I suppose in reference to This
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"It's my first day on the job, give me a break!"
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I worry it was too close to the truth that people will take it as the truth of many events that occur in the movie.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
Yeah, I'm in the market for a truck for trailering and having a bed as we get into some home improvement projects.
I feel the need to only look for older trucks (1990-2000 model years) most for reasons listed here. That plus so many trucks today are short bed with HUGE cabs. I will never understand why people want basically an SUV with a truck bed.
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Cats are the best
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Hi Facebook, I'm in this photo and I don't like it.
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Reading how he came up is like watching Johnny Rotten advertise butter, if advertising butter was as bad as debasing currency
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Diogenes of Sinope
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Reading how he came up is like watching Johnny Rotten advertise butter, if advertising butter was as bad as debasing currency
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You see, every one else thought currency was pretty based, but Diogenes saw it for the facade of civility it was. So he definitely debased currency.
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Even Omelanda' is disgusted
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Eh a little of column A, a lot of column B (Column B is just a white washed version of Column A).
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Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?
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Being a technical expert != being a good leader
There are a set of skills and attributes that enable one to leader well. An ideal leader will have both technical skills and leadership capability, but it is possible for each to exist independently in a person.
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US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues
Oh no, now we have to ban them all?? What a shame!
/s
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We have not deported U.S. Citizens or military veterans.
Oh snap, was this real? Links to video/article?
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Mama mia
I now want a community dedicated to....uh....dresses that....uh.....yeild that appearance.
Maybe something like c/MozzarellaBags?
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W Celsius
100 warm
Yeah, I suppose that's one way to describe 100°C
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Oops, Scientists May Have Severely Miscalculated How Many Humans Are on Earth
Article postulates that we're under-reporting, in case anyone doesn't want to read the article.
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Speedy Delivery
Because I recently rediscovered this, sharing here:
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
MY POINT EXACTLY.
--Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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AOC Exposes Catch in “No Tax on Tips” Rule in Trump’s Budget
AOC:
"The cap on that is $25,000. While you’re jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,00 across the United States...So if you’re at home and you’re living off tips, you do the math. Is that worth it to you?...This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt...To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation? We can not stand for it, and we will not support it."
(its unclear from this quote if that's no tax on $25,000 in gross income for tipped workers; the first $25,000 in tips; or if there are no taxes on those only for those who make under $25,000 per year. None of the possible meaning is a good one, to be clear, but that's what I was hoping to get answered).
Article isn't actually that long and is effectively a short rant AOC gave. Still annoyed with OP for click bait title without substance in post.
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Ah yes, TailOS, my favourite distro
Side note, isn't TempleOS not Linux based?
Seems like the creator (forget his name) had some beef with Linus Torvalds and was originally trying to build something to get away from his software, no?
Edit: yeah, based on the Wikipedia Page, it looks like its not based on the Linux Kernel. Also dev's name was Terry Davis.