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I predict a surprisingly low turnout for the World Cup.
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You were in the Netherlands? Sorry to have missed you, thank you for writing such comforting and informative books!
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It could be worse. You could have Mothership, which has a metric f-ton of very cool material that grows exponentially. I am resisting so many things right now.
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It is tempting to go along with something you do not in fact know about if someone loud enough says it and it is your own interest.
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I told them that the marks for the question would not change and promised to quality check the test exam, which I did. There was a superficial resemblance between the questions but their answers were very different and both correct. It was..."fake news". This is a tiny incident but illustrative.
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I let my students write any problems they have with marked work on sticky notes. It sometimes highlights problems with the test or errors in marking. This time four of the notes echoed that same complaint about the test exam. Either they had spontaneously had the same reaction or it had "gone viral"
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We used to have police like that in Europe. They were called brownshirts and we needed to do a thing to stop them.
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..or "take your hand out of the till, you grifters"
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The key twitch is to temporarily retract a latch to open the door. The key turn is you winding back a bolt. My very European front door is generally just latched but I will fully bolt it if I am going to be away for a while.
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Thinking of the CIA as saviours is awful but understandable and it is horrifying that it is understandable.
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Pong
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The point being - in some contexts the standard of care required is stringent. Nobody in that department was unaware of the consequences of making that error. I was just working there for a few weeks and I STILL have a tendency to Windowskey-L my PC 20 years later. Signalgate is a MASSIVE failure.
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I love your reviews for the detailed advice and practical advice. You are the reason I bought Mongoose Traveller (I got burned by Megatraveller many years ago) and Murder on Arcturus station. I also like your analyses of old D&D modules, they are a useful perspective on GMing.
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...to root out the little tumours of racism that Bannon scattered around with his big bag of Russian money. I am a supply teacher and every school I go to has a distinct culture and the ones I am most wary of are the ones with the palest populations. Big, busy inner-city schools are pretty healthy.
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I wish you strength. Your commitment to rationality, analysis and calculation are at odds with the current culture but I am old enough to remember when that way of thinking was the keystone of human progress. May those days return.
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We may be ants but there are a LOT of us. My wife and I have ditched Amazon, Facebook, WhatsApp and are replacing them with Oligarch-Free Alternatives.
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Mathematicians know that if you have a magic wand that detects evil 99.9% accurately you will test positive on a lot of innocent people. Say 5 demons in a million people. Your wand zaps all the demons but also 0.001 x 999995, so just under 1000 innocent people get zapped.