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R/sexyspacebabes Space Orcs?
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The market makes it real, if it believes enough.
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The scroll lock banished you to a maze. Thankfully, the maze was really simple to get out of, so it really just annoyed you because you were trying to get a new screen 3D printed, not run mazes.
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And Martha Wells really deserves to be on that list too.
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hmmm. Ten writers of whom I have read more than five books:
David Weber
Isaac Aasimov
Robert Asprin
Orson Scott Card
Rick Cook
C.J. Cherryh
Arthur C. Clarke
Harry Harrison
Donald E. Westlake
Christopher Moore
Terry Pratchet
Well, that was 11, but I can't decide which one to remove.
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no.Look at a different field:healthcare.Canada has free healthcare,and that doesn't mean that doctors charge whatever-they-please.The government sets the rates, and if you want to be a doctor in Canada,you get paid that much.That system has its own flaws,but colleges could do something similar.
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Linux and Macs are options.
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Huh. I was wrong! My apologies!
knowyourmeme.com/memes/three-...
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Nope. I think you need to look closer at the rightmost head. Look into his eyes.
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Jury nullification of the murder of CEOs would be incredible.
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If you run into an orangutan, his name is The Librarian, and he gets very upset if you call him a monkey. Just be polite and say Ook.
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Where are the dragons from? I recognize them, but I don’t remember.
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How to be my friend:
- tell me about your cat
- show me photos of your cat
- invite me over to meet your cat
- be a cat
- cat
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At that age, I think the books I was most into were lost in the barrens by Farley Mowatt and My Friend Flicka (I forgot the author’s name and the story has little in common with the movie)
Neither are contemporary or women authors, though.
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youtu.be/J1DAmmROUX8
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Earlier this year, I learned about a setting on my bread maker: you can put stuff in it, hit go, and it will mix and knead but not cook! It is awesome for making doughs! I was about to throw out the machine: bread cooked in it is so very bland and awful.
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That’s what screens and nohup are made for.
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You say that like clutter will stop the fur-monster from going Godzilla on your stuff.
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Commodores didn’t do thinks like dynamic libraries or swapping. The *whole* program loaded into memory, and then you could swap floppies to your data.
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“Please do not the cat.”
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Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Lost In The Barrens by Farley Mowatt is probably too old for a 4 year old, but I don’t care!
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I don’t think word Perfect was released on the Commodore, but I clearly remember having a word processor in a rom on the school pets.
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Bitluni is working towards a retro monitor for it:
youtu.be/9qPc_I1V6go
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Doooo eeet! You could put a Pi in it and have the most banging retro case!
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Sorry, but that’s not my lived experience in Toronto with Glio Blastoma Multiform. Most treatments were covered. But the weekly Avastin dose was absolutely not covered. My health insurance from work covered *most* of it.
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Yes.
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I really mean it when I say I don’t want to dunk on it. I see what it could be if I was American and say fuck no! This is infinitely better. You read stories about long wait times but that’s not my experience either. It’s just not perfect and I won’t pretend it is.
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That’s utter bullshit. My wife had a brain tumour. We never waited more than 12 hours to talk to a doctor. The longest wait was for a neurosurgeon who was in 3 back-to-back emergency craniotomies.
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Have you looked into provincial aid for the drugs? Ontario has something called Trillium which oftentimes helps when your drug plan doesn’t. I imagine other provinces have similar.
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I don’t want to dunk on our healthcare, but it’s not that simple. My wife’s third round of chemotherapy cost about $200,000 and we were not sure until the last moment how much would be covered. I don’t remember how much I paid in the end, but it wasn’t zero.
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I kinda doubt it. I expect they’re too bewildered to actually be introspective.
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I’m Canadian too, and I remember how we closed our borders for a time for tourism. I also remember how we handled SARS. It’ll be harder to keep out of Canada than for other countries, but my point is that it is not guaranteed to become a *pan*demic. Far from it.
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There's a difference here: we see the bird flu coming,and there won't be a global appetite to tolerate much of the hesitancy that allowed COVID to spread.Meanwhile, the US seems to be rolling up its sleeves preparing to dismantle the infrastructure that would be tasked with dealing with this issue.
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ENJOY YOUR BOG PEANUT SQUEEZINGS
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This might not be helpful, but I listen to a lot of science fiction short stories on YouTube. The video is pointless, I background the app while doing other things. NetNarrator, AgroSquirel and Zren all have many stories in nice long playlists. I think AS is on some podcast sites too.
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So… the cops have made it more dangerous to be a refugee. Damn those criminals who give refugees life jackets!
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I was just thinking that maybe it could spread to Canada: viruses, birds, insects, they don’t obey immigration laws.
However, I’ll take “putting 400 million people at risk” over “ putting 8 billion people at risk “ every day of the year.
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Printing in colour will never get you a “sharper” black. The three dots will never line up perfectly, so you’ll always get a fuzzy black dot with colour fringes.
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Lawyers. Teachers. Woodworkers. Model builders. Architects. Doctors. People who have a DR plan. Anyone working with a small government bureaucracy that doesn’t have a budget to computerize. My kung fu teacher loves giving me printed essays on the meaning of some esoteric Chinese word…
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I’ve had some problems with networking on my brother printer, and my mother did too. She’s using wireless and macs, I’m wired and Linux only. So they are not perfect.
But they are pretty good. They still get my seal of approval.
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Honestly, it never occurred to me that “the beatings will continue until attitudes improve” could be turned around.
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Pour encourager les autres.
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Do you believe that just because the Trump administration mishandles a virus that the entire world will suddenly stop pasteurizing their milk? This’ll be an epidemic at worst.
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And yet, we have to argue about vaccinations, how masks do help, why florinated tap water is good, etc.
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Bots have uses too. It’s hard, from an API perspective, to differentiate between people trying to do something interesting with software and someone trying to scam with software.
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I have the vague impression that an archduke was just assassinated this week. Time will tell.
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I ask this knowing I really don’t want an answer and recoiling in horror from the mental image, but is his ass actually orange? Is he likely dumb enough to get a chemical tan on his ass?