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Sf fan, photographer, programmer
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No drops of golden sun at that hour this time of year though.
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As a quantum being (widely explained elsewhere as how he manages to serve all children in one night), perhaps his appearance is also variable?
Or he's just a Klingon, and people get confused and report some human race.
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I've been seeing a bunch of people completing trips before the holidays, and testing positive after the trip, too. Not to say the conditions are'nt also getting worse! I went to fallcon, and I went to a couple of in-person meetings, and now am not doing that right at the moment.
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An Italian salted cod dish? I can see why a spill-chucker might not think o that as the first choice. I had to look it up (but, having found it, was not in serious doubt that that's what you meant!).
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Or, it can disappear in a year when nobody remembers it on the next occurrence of that holiday.
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That would be better. I'm realizing that the design chosen looks like bad computer icons.
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If they charged you money for that, it would be a form of Monetization!
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Huh, I would have expected to notice that. Still living at home, shah exchange, maybe it didn't change there then?
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This is indeed very, very, very funny. Pretty sure Ivan posts in the thread, and Duv Galeni.
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I know a number of people with fairly religious beliefs about marijuana
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Fiction is hard, things have to be *plausible* -- a requirement not enforced on the real world. Makes historical fiction particularly hard!
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I have somehow not seen anybody putting those 2 things together anything like that way in all these years!
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Were Chandler's books before direct dialing, or did they change the dial tone (not that I've noticed during my life), or what? The timeline on dial phones at least kicks in before Chandler, but I don't remember if his characters encounter an operator when they lift the handset.
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I agree it (and other vehicles in the class) should be subject to safety standards. But I feel that there's a panic on about pedestrian deaths greatly exceeding the actual damage being done compared to so many other things.
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That's one of relatively few short stories that I can remember the title of :-). It's brilliant.
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I have to admit that I've never tried drinking battery acid. (And I recommend very strongly against it, based on reading about it!)
But the phosphoric acid in Coke is a very important part of the flavor profile.
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If I had to drastically reduce sugar (diabetes, say) I'd go to lemon water rather than diet Coke. I hate fake sweeteners with a fiery passion; they are all to varying degrees bitter and nasty, and the diet sodas are so hugely over-sweetened that even without the bitter I couldn't stand them.
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Yes. In traditional publishing from at least the 50s to the 90s, and I think much more broadly, the royalty rate per copy was higher *and* the cover price was higher for hardcovers compared to mass-market paperbacks, so the per-unit royalty was much higher.
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I demonstrably don't understand how other people decide how to vote, but I would think she'd draw sane republicans and very few Democrats and hence would hurt Trump badly.
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Well, the OED citation from 1839 is for a different meaning from the modern one, but they also get to the modern one.
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And the name of your 3rd grade teacher's dog!
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That comment makes *so much* more sense when read in context! (Which is one of the big things Bsky is bad at.)
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Hey, it wouldn't have worked so well that it's *still* the main standard if they hadn't been actual experts! (Lucky, too, I'm sure.)
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Before hand-held cell phones were common, there were also pagers / beeper, which also went off in theaters (movie, play, music performance, etc. theaters).
The vibrate option was a big step up -- it let you go places you might be interrupted out of without bothering the rest of the audience much.
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You have no conception of what hero worship constitutes, apparently. I'm slightly less negative than many other posters here, is all.
And the entire purpose of "social" media is *discussion*, trying to drive off anybody who disagrees with you is lame.
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It doesn't, but that's a rare event. Working to get it included in the safety standards is a way to address issues there. (I've seen exactly *one* pedestrian accident in my life; it was a man stepping off a bus and immediately getting hit by a bicycle.)
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That's an unusual provision, but what it seems to accomplish is blocking scalpers from controlling a lot of the units available. The provisions for allowing resale "probably" cover actual family emergencies and changed needs (but who trusts big companies?).
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Luckily, I'm not in the market 1) for a truck, 2) anywhere near that price point, so I don't have to let my fondness for the design wrestle with the practicalities.
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Also if you don't like the price, don't like the safety for occupants, don't like the safety for those outside the vehicle, don't like the inability to fit in Tesla charging stations -- don't buy it if you care much about those things, either.
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It's a striking bit of design, and clearly has multiple ancestors in previous exotic cars. If you don't like the design, by all means don't buy one!
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Is it? How can we tell? It's a step that takes place out of my sight. So, reports from employees who happen to end up handling their own orders or something? Or what?
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Yes. Desperate situations sometimes require desperate actions, but that is one.
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Did it not work as claimed? Or they found other issues? Or just it would cost to much to build all-new hangars?
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They usually can't name their price for all that long, though. It's not a well-thought-out approach. But of course it does medium-term damage.
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Overly exciting!
You handled it well, sounds like, and the signing didn't get messed up.
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On very little evidence, I assume that many of the weird IATA posts are works of art / trolling rather than real. But...the world is NOT short of extremely bizarre assholes, so.
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I had to look up escape velocity to check, I don't do much orbital mechanics. What made me suspicious is that 1,200 yards per second is in the range of real small-arms muzzle velocities, and those DO come back down, reliably.
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Yards. YARDS per second. Wish I could edit!