paranoidadnoid.bsky.social
Music, rugby, fatherhood. Opinions may not even be mine, let along those of anyone associated with me.
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Ask a lawyer older than about 45 what they did in their first year working. Vast swathes of that has been automated, partially or wholly, for years.
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Haven’t you ever been to Ahftadina?
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For our entertainment, we ‘ad to just stare at hole in t’ road.
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Mr Big Bird
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True. 18% of the squad were born in the former southern hemisphere Imperial Dominions.
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Genuine Q: are escapes from high security Federal Prisons a significant problem in the US?
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Settle down. It’s not like he wore a tan suit or anything.
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Test strike on a country that can’t really punch back.
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Chinese EMP weapon.
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The sea isn’t moving. The earth is rotating under it.
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I’ve been to Assad’s Syria, Gaddafi’s Libya, Al-Bashir’s Sudan, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, & Lebanon during an election. Secret police once burst into my AirBnB in Azerbaijan. Regular police detained me in Tanzania. I’m not really keen on Trump’s America though.
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I did actually read the whole thing once, just to make sure it was as rubbish as I thought (ditto The Da Vinci Code). One bit seemed worth remembering though; one of the Proverbs: “‘Tis better to meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs, than to confront a fool immersed in folly.” So true.
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On the other hand, meeting a graduate with a law degree on their first day in the firm
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Yeah….I’m gonna go ahead and file that under “Did not need to be 6 minutes long”.
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Assuming humans are roughly as dense as water, a person with a “normal” BMI could be rolled out into a square as wide as they are tall that is between 18.5mm and 30mm thick.
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I’d give up the area bounded roughly by Palmerston North, Raetihi, and Waipukurau.
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Australian nomenclature is binary. It’s either hilariously childlike (“slippery-dip” FFS) or incredibly literal (“Great Sandy Desert”)
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4 lb off the lid pretty good slapstick.
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Which bar?
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Seriously, it was thanks to last year’s edition of this that I discovered Shepherd’s Reign who I will soon be seeing live (supporting Alien Weaponry🤘). Everyone should read and listen along - you’ll discover something new that you like. #SupportLocalMusic
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A lot of listening, but how much did you *hear*?
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the request for anybody who wants to follow along at home.
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I think there are sub-categories here. For instance, in a Futile David, surely there is more comedy when A v D is the first match, rather than a dead rubber at the end? Similarly, the timing of B v D in Strutting Peacock is relevant to comedic potential.
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I’d love to hear the story.
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I want to know who on the committee failed to speak up when the Cook Islands’ (.ck) domain people decided to follow .uk and .nz in having a .co corporate 2nd level. www.101domain.com/co_ck.htm
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You mean like your navy’s only *hydrographic* vessel hitting a reef and sinking? www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre...
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But her emails…
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What’s your pettiest?
I haven’t been to any McDonalds since 1998 because the one in Huntly wouldn’t give me a second packet of sauce for my large fries.
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Actually, no, that would require Trump to have read a nonUS news source. It’s probably the apartheid thing.
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It might be because the South African police just deliberately starved dozens of people to death, and pushed others to the point of cannibalism. www.hindustantimes.com/trending/sou...
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Does this maths take into account Greenland and Panama joining? I presume that Panama won’t become a state though, for the same mysterious reason as Puerto Rico