abracadocious.bsky.social
Mostly harmless. Tikkun olamnik.
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5d, so plenoptic modeling?
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...oh, no. No.
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Closest this comes to imho is Reagan's EPA head James Watt. Millenarianist who felt there was no reason to preserve the environment since Jesus was coming back soon. It felt like every week he was doing something awful.
He finally said something too horrible and got dumped.
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The End of Browser History
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For those unfamiliar with the rules ,polo is played between two teams on horseback, who ride around the field and the team that swallows the most bees in 60 minutes wins.
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You remember the ludicrous amount of Zolpidem/Ambien dispensed by the WH pharmacy during the first Trump administration, yes?
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anyway, "judging individuals by race instead of merit" is such a perfect example of how one literally begs the question. embedded in this sentence are a set of conclusions about how diversity programs operate and what constitutes merit.
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"I'm not lost! I know exactly where we are! This is more efficient."
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Bless your heart.
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We must cleave to these definitions or be cleaved in two.
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Abu Mazen has led the PA for over 20 years, so yeah.
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First fax machine patent was granted in 1843. Not a typo.
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Published in 1982:
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If you want to go down the rabbit hole, the power consumption was to solve an issue called the Byzantine generals problem.
Cryptocurrencies themselves grew from a community called the cypherpunks. If there is any justice in the world, those responsible will be mauled by bears.
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Ham truck?
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My 1st time in Japan, long ago, we saw this guy driving a tiny lil custom truck, singing a phrase through a loudspeaker. The melody was gentle, spiritual. We asked our translator “What’s he singing?” She said “He’s saying ‘baaaaked potaaatoooo.’ It is baked potato truck.” I think about that a lot.
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With a punch? Doubtful. But running and then tripping headlong into the adult’s face after the latter bent down for a hug is entirely feasible.
I will not be taking follow-up questions.
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“Please do not behave like the guy with literal brain worms.”
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KEEP SHOWING WEIRD ITEMS.
Okay, hubby and I went to the Dollar store, they have a few things that we needed and we didn't want to go all the way North of town to go to our only big store.
There's a little line at checkout, the check out girl is young, maybe 25.
There's an old guy in line.
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Additionally, while Musk was working in DC, the rumor going around was that the Millers + Musk were a throuple.
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N64 had 18 bit color. Phil Gossett noted that the RDRAM used in the frame buffer had a parity bit per byte. But there's no point to using it for determining whether one bit has flipped accidentally; you have to output some color as you travel across the raster. Boom: 6 red, 6 green, 6 blue bits.
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I know exactly what they'd say if you ask them what they think government's for. They'll tell you it's for providing a military and enforcing the law. And they might not even be too sure about that last part.
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I'm pretty sure it's about now-former Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone and let me assure you that the less you know about why he was kicked to the curb, the better your mental health will be. Suffice it to say that it was lewd talk leading to a hostile work environment.
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I'm certain that if I just tell the nice FBI man the complete story he'll understand and I'll be left alone. Also I hope the wallet inspector who came by yesterday returns my wallet soon.
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The only Red Scare I recognize fought The Tick in issue #6 of his New England Comics run.
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Great clip. I had forgotten about, "Thanks for the cigarettes!"
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Not all of them turned into nihilists; some went brown-red alliance and then slid into fascism.