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California Senate Votes 38-0 to Finally Close Child Marriage Loophole
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It isn't a problem there (since they are all family, everyone gets along). /s
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California Senate Votes 38-0 to Finally Close Child Marriage Loophole
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It isn't a problem there (since they are all family, everyone gets along). /s
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How many watts could a windmill generate?
There is no "single answer" for this; way too many factors to consider.
Try getting an idea from a website geared to that subject, like Wind Turbine Calculator, just the first of many links from a popular web search engine.
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‘It’s absolutely criminal’: US tipping culture has reached the UK – and is causing chaos
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Could always thank them for "Filling in the tip for me ".
Sarcasm, just one of the many services I offer!
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Rockstar reportedly furious by GTA 6 leaks and has no idea how it happened, but won’t change Netflix premiere date
I heard (somewhere) that there pre-release copies of it instead some Flock cameras; just might have to investigate a number of them to find it. /s
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Dozens of Troops Suspected of Advocating Overthrow of US Government, New Pentagon Extremism Report Says
I have a good friend that works with these nut cases daily.
I call them nut cases because about 70% of them keep taking about how they need to violate their oath to the US Constitution to (in their exclusive opinion) "protect the country for the deep state".
The US government is way too stupid to either develop a "deep state" or keep it secret.
Conspiracy theories are rampant in the US military.
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Sounds to me like this person played the game quite well.
I want a second lunch.
You only get that if you're stupid.
Okay . . .
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Sounds like a great cause for a law suit to me (not protecting a student). And we all know how much Louisiana cares about that.
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Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"
Of course they won't be; somebody has to debug all the crap AI writes.
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Hundreds of works in the Louvre damaged by flooding
NBC's AI can't write worth a hoot:
Hundreds of works were damaged at the Louvre in Paris when a pipe burst because of flooding, the museum’s deputy general administrator said.
The flooding led to a burst pipe and affected one of the three rooms of the library in the Egyptian antiquities department, he said.
Above are paragraphs 1 and 3 from the referenced article.
A simple but logical reading of both states that "a flood occurred (first), and the flood is what caused the pipe to burst (second)". Extremely disappointed in this level of journalistic competence.
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Why haven't you done this yet too?
Growing up on a farm, I always told my spouse that if a severe earthquake hit I was going to go to the farm supply store and get two 50 lb bags of "calf mana" to feed our child with (if needed). "Calf mana" is basically powdered baby formula for calfs/colts/sheep/etc.
I'm sure it would be safe to eat (in an emergency). Wouldn't normally use it, but in a pinch it's better than starving.
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Baby chicks cost $6 at a supply store, but I can get a rotisserie for $5? What is the real cost of having chickens?
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Had some friends that tried doing that about three years ago. They finally gave up (and moved) recently.
Gave away their 15-20 chickens, coop, fence, etc. IMHO, they are much happier now.
The cost of feed, mite treatment, lice treatment, bedding, vaccinations, etc were much higher than anything they claimed to "save". And that's not counting all the time and labor they put into it.
Found this with a simple web search: https://coopeduplife.com/backyard-chicken-egg-production-cost-statistics/.
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This brings back memories.
When I was in university, I worked in the computer services department (IT services for the campus). A social science prof down the hall would use a program called SPSS (Statistics Package for Social Sciences) to do various statistics on data sets.
It was available on two platforms: PC & VAX
The PC had about 4 MB of RAM. The VAX (a large centralized computer) had much more (not sure the amount, but I'm guessing around 256 MB at least). The data sets they were using would sometimes require more RAM to process than the PC had (even with swap space), and would give an "out of memory" error.
They always came down the hall and would ask us what to do. The answer was always the same, "Some combination of: get more RAM/swap space for the PC, shrink the data set, simplify the complexity of the query or run it on the VAX server."
They finally started saying, "We connect to VAX, get more memory?"
I don't know if they thought using telnet to connect to the VAX actually caused the local PC to gain RAM or not but it was an inside pun for the department for a couple of years ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) .
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Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist
I'm sure AI could solve this problem. /s
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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
Farming - family has been doing it for ~5 generations. I'd say we have put in about $10 M dollars over time (adjusted for inflation).
What's that dear? It's a way of life/occupation . . . are you sure? Seems like it must be a hobby given the return we've made on it over the years. Well, if you're sure.
My wife said that farming is technically an occupation and not a hobby. I still have my doubts given how much we have thrown away on it over the years, but I don't like to disagree with her (she's usually right).
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Daemon calls kill -9 on children
Had one application that would (somethings) give the message: Hey baby, you're an object.
Some users where not amused.
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip
What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?
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Humans being bros
I wanted to independently verify this story; have to say I'm a bit disappointed.
Teen hero who helped save girl from abductor gets up to 10 years for armed robbery
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charged with ten counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence
I'll bet that has a penalty of like $1.25 total.
Back when I was in school, they would have expelled him and gave her a high five (and told her not to get caught doing it again).
Her brothers or cousins might very well pay him a visit also.
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Laid off rule
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You didn't hear this from me, but I hear a lot of cubicle corners have removable caps that can make a great storage place for all kinds of interesting things.
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Why are there so many conspiracy theories regarding soy beans?
As a farmer who's family has grown probably 2M+ bushes of soybeans since they became popular in the 70s. I can truly say that the worst part is spending night after night with little needles injecting the Republican poison into the fattest beans.
/s - do I really need this here? Oh hell yeah!