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Super Elastic Bubble Plastic (date unknown, likely 1970s)
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Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab for kids!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory
If you link directly to Wikipedia then Google doesn't get to know who clicks the link!
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I can taste the CO2
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While it is a subsidiary of Pepsi, SodaStream is an Israeli company that has at times based its operations in territories under military occupation.
SodaStream is one of the priority boycott targets of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.
https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott
Pepsi itself is not one of the BDS boycott targets, but Coca-Cola is.
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What's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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How to bomb the US Govt book
Sam Hyde the Nazi?
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New textbook for 9th grade students in Greece promotes right and alt-right ideology
This seems like more than mildly infuriating.
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Lloyds Bank Blocks Account of Leftwing News Outlet the Canary
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Why would you do that?
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Dualboot is evil, use only linux
Put Windows in a virtual machine where it belongs!
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A phyllo dough and feta cheese pastry from the local market
It looks like a burek from Hot Oven at my local market. Yum!
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Mormon Senator praised Trump and Pete Hegseth. The new Pentagon policy bans Mormons from the list of recognized Christian denominations. Now he is outraged.
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Go to war again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_War
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Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities
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Wow, this one hits close to home.
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Lloyds Bank Blocks Account of Leftwing News Outlet the Canary
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Oops.
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Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment
Hurray!
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Peanut butter sandwiches are better without jelly.
Are you talking about just-peanuts peanut butter, or the sugary Kraft style peanut butter?
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What is your preferred Babylon 5 watch order?
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Fair enough.
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What is your preferred Babylon 5 watch order?
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Stick with it, the show has an epic story told across five seasons. The first season is maybe the most difficult to get through, at least the first time. The reward is worth it, in my opinion.
Also there's a TV movie that aired as a pilot before the first season, titled The Gathering. It's not crucial to watch first, but you'll probably want to watch it eventually. "There is a hole in your mind."
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What is your preferred Babylon 5 watch order?
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I liked The Road Home but I have only watched it once, and not as part of watching the series.
It's too bad that more of the original cast was not around to provide voice acting.
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What If Socialism Takes Over the Democratic Party?
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Social democrats and democratic socialists are not the same thing.
Social democrats are liberals who want to improve conditions under capitalism.
Democratic socialists want to replace capitalism with worker ownership of the means of production by means of electoral politics instead of a revolution.
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Round two: DEs and Window Managers!
In the 1990s I also used IceWM and Enlightenment. My first DE was KDE, but I have been using GNOME pretty consistently for twenty years.
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What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?
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What is your preferred Babylon 5 watch order?
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I can appreciate the nostalgia!
Babylon 5 was aired on my local TV station when I was a kid, but my first time watching it was an episode in the second or third season and it was clear that I was missing a lot of context. I didn't get around to watching it for real until the late 2000s.
