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Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
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He wasn't even done giving the deposition that he literally volunteered to give...
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Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
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He wasn't even done giving the deposition that he literally volunteered to give...
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xkcd #2875: 2024
Huh. "Elected twice", not "served two terms"... So, even if the insurrectionist ban doesn't pan out, Trump still has to concede that he lost the 2020 election to run again.
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She ate a poppy seed salad just before giving birth. Then they took her baby away.
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I heard her talking about it on NPR earlier today. She did get her kid back, but it was a whole fucking ordeal she and her family should have never had to go through in the first place (and thank god she had the resources to fight it)
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Republicans in New Hampshire Want to Ban Abortion After 15 ... Days | That’s just one day after at-home tests can confirm a pregnancy
But this proposed law does not ban abortion 15 days after ovulation — it bans abortion at 15 days gestation, counted from the first day of a woman’s last menstrual cycle… which means it would ban abortion before some woman have even had conceived.
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Live updates: Multiple victims in shooting near Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade
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And signed into law by then-governor Reagan, no less!
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'You felt you could disregard it?': Judge grills Trump DOJ over White House ignoring oral order
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He can't pardon a disbarment, though!
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YSK: To prevent mashed potatoes from being gummy, boil the potatoes whole.
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Pretty sure it's the beaters (assuming that's an electric hand mixer type-thing, i've never heard them referred to by that term) that made them gummy. Over mashing will break up the cell walls too much, releasing the starches and ruining the texture. Cooking chopped or whole doesn't matter as much, since the number of cells broken by chopping is negligible. And the skin is water permeable anyway.
You gotta mash by hand, that's all.
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Meta Officially Accepts Blood Money to Promote the Big Lie
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It's like saying "no offense" after saying something totally offensive!
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we live in an explosion
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I'm traveling forward in time right now.
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Reaching a new level of cocky
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It's just unnecessarily huge. I've never seen so many gas pumps in my life. Or so many toilets. It's honestly absurd and made me feel existential dread. It's like everything wrong with America all in one convenient pit stop. I couldn't even enjoy the wall of jerky. Bathrooms were nice, though.
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They just suffered a sudden death, that's all
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with another deposition scheduled for Saturday... don't forget that part. he wasn't even done giving evidence.
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This was actually a thing btw
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i think it's a play on the word "bisque", which is a type of soup.
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You've been instantly teleported two feet to the left. How does this affect you?
A bunch of people in here without something solid two feet to the left of them seem to be assuming that there is a perfect them-shaped vaccuum that they will be teleported into. That's not the case. There is air there, and you'll be just as dead as the guy sitting next to the family refrigerator.
Unless you are an astronaut currently in space, the only correct answer is "dying of multiple simultaneous embolisms, with or without widespread traumatic amputations, and 'gross dismemberment' (SFW, only text) from instantaneous pressure changes inside the body."
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Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
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None. The wealthy can just take a trip to another country if it comes to that.
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Jet Fuel
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Yes, but you know how Kubrick was. He made them film on location.
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y'all remember the "ring back" tones? i don't think they ever really took off since they are a ring tone that people hear when they call you instead, which is... just... totally idiotic... but i did encounter it a few times in the wild.
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A Bit
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I think you can use semicolons that way, but only to eliminate confusion when the items in the list contain commas. Eg: Today I ate sausage, eggs, and hasbrowns for breakfast; a sandwich and soup for lunch; and alfredo with chicken, asparagus, and grape tomatoes for dinner. Dammit. now i'm hungry...
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A beginner's guide to astrology
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The zodiac constallations don't even line up with their original dates anymore, for exactly the kind of reasons you described: the universe and our position in it are not stationary.
This website has a chart for the updated dates (note also that they had to add another zodiac sign because of parallax or something)
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Smart password
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i have totally run into stuff that silently truncates the password i give it. It's always something like online banking that you would hope has robust enough security standards to hash that shit, too... The one in particular i'm thinking of silently truncated the password in the reset-password form, but not for the log-in form. Took me forever to figure out wtf was going on there.
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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
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Would two snakes on an ambulance be acceptable? They're kind of like couriers of the sick and injured.