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DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion
Rolling coal is an extremely inefficient method of converting little dick energy into kinetic energy.
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DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion
Rolling coal is an extremely inefficient method of converting little dick energy into kinetic energy.
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Alabama IVF ruling: Embryo shipping services to halt business in Alabama after ruling deems embryos ‘children’, three fertility clinics pause services in state
The article implies that current patients essentially have no choice but to continue storing whatever frozen embryos they have at the cost of hundreds of dollars per year. It also mentioned that fertility clinics have "paused" services due to the legal risk posed to anyone involved if the embryo were to fail at any stage. So what happens now? Will these clinics be legally obligated to continue maintaining these embryos in their frozen state until the end of time? Considering their business model has been made illegal, it seems like bankruptcy is inevitable. Who then becomes responsible for these embryos? This is all so absurd.
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College students leave behind hoard of trash at California’s Shasta Lake
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It wasn't in this article, but another article on the incident mentioned that earlier in the year, there was a large group of students from Oregon State University who had a similar party weekend. The difference was that 40 of them stayed an extra day to clean up and haul out trash.
In that situation, it took just a small minority of people to clean up the entire mess of the large group. I have no idea if this is something that had been planned from the start but I can see how just a few principaled individuals deciding to clean up could inspire folks who maybe felt bad but didn't want to make a fuss to stay and help out.
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Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County
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The actual name: Full self driving (supervised) is so shady. Supervised is just a less crappy sounding way to indicate that you will have to take over and drive sometimes. So sometimes the car drives itself and sometimes you drive. So partial self driving, partial human driving. I'm surprised they didn't call it "Partial Full Self Driving". That would certainly amp up the trolling factor and really separate the true believers who would come out defending it with Olympic level mental gymnastics.
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MLK’s message to those Democrats who always tell us to just “wait for a better time to vote third party”
Yes, Dr. King was wary of so called moderates, but to extrapolate this as support for third party candidates is fallacious. What does voting third party have to do with the direct action that Dr. King is championing in this quote? Non violent direct action such as protests, marches, and sit ins were a very specific strategy to expose social tensions and force society to deal with them when it would otherwise be easier to ignore them. How does voting third party achieve this?
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Jury acquits delivery driver of main charge in shooting of YouTube prankster
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If you're about to catch a beating, you can't just shoot.
What if they beat you to death. Can you shoot then?
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Man accidentally shot child while officiating wedding near Lincoln, deputy says
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"Not having a gun in a crowd" would have been better.
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Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?
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I think this depends on whether it's a 3.5 or 2.5 inch drive inside. To my knowledge, all external drives with a 3.5 inch drive inside are shuckable and have a standard SATA interface. With the compact drives that have a 2.5 inch drive inside, many will have a native usb interface and no SATA connector.
It makes sense as 3.5" sata drives are used for many many applications so why make something new just for external drives? With 2.5, however there are very few devices that use spinning sata drives in this form factor. It makes a lot more sense to build the USB interface directly on the drive since their main and possibly only application is external drives.
I could be wrong, but this has been my experience.
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I once got through about 3/4 of a book before realizing that I'd already read the book a few years prior.
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Why isn't a 3-2-3 seat layout used more often on 8-abreast widebody aircraft compared to 2-4-2?
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Very much this. Think about it from the perspective of selling tickets. If I were shopping for a ticket from multiple airlines, I'd pick a window seat in a 2-4-2 over a window seat in a 3-2-3 every time if cost was comparable. Middle seats are crappy no matter what so I don't see being the middle seat in a row of 3 being better than 4.
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Trump's legal advisers urge him to cancel press conference to refute Georgia allegations: Sources
It's just part of the script. Of course he has no proof. This just let's him continue making that absurd claim and when anyone asks for the proof, he can just say his lawyers won't let him reveal it.
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Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's Safety
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That's Full Self Driving (Sometimes).
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Pope Leo X (after Raphael) by Fernando Botero (1964)
It's a common mistake, but the subject of this painting was actually Pope Tato XI.
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Florida’s Big Lie on vaccines is a scary preview of how GOP would run America
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The GOP running America was the scary preview of how the GOP would run America.
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1st Attempt Spam Musubi
No comment on the ingredients because really you should go with whatever flavors you enjoy but I'd recommend the spam going in the middle between two thinner layers of rice. That way you get more rice absorbing the sauce and flavor of the spam and avoid soggy nori. That said, this looks damn tasty.
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Octopuses Can Rewire Their Brains to Brave Chilly Waters
Octopi are neat and all, but did anyone else notice that one of the scientists quoted in the article is named Robyn Crook? I wonder if there was a singular moment in their childhood when they put that together and was like "wtf mom and dad, am I a joke to you?"
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proxmox+pfsenseVM or just plain pfsense
I run pfSense virtualized along with a wireguard vm and a couple of other vms for core services. A benefit of virtualization is that you can live migrate your router to another physical host if you ever need to do any hardware maintenance. It's nice being able to service the hardware without waiting until every user is asleep so you can safely bring your router down.
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Tommy Paul - London qualifying?
It mihht be that he was a late entry. Often you'll see players that are ranked high enough to get in the main draw get wildcards because they enter after the draw is already out. I'm guessing the same can happen with qualifiers.
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Trump's legal advisers urge him to cancel press conference to refute Georgia allegations: Sources
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Also, the report is in Canada.
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Chinese fighter jet got within 10 feet of US bomber over South China Sea, US military says
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And for some stupid reason 1/6 of it will now be part of the Atlantic.