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So I discovered this amazing app that may be of interest to some people here. It's called FaceApp, it's for iOS and Android, and it's a neural network based facial image reprocessor that can do a bunch of stuff like aging and youthifying and making people smile but most interesting to me is it can f...

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I had a thought a year or so ago thinking on what use would a human civilization capable of moving the Earth even have for doing so, and settled on the answer "history/nostalgia/education/entertainment". The same reason we preserve the ruins of monuments of ancient civilizations whose reas...

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BBEdit (Lite) -> TextWrangler

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It's probably a safe bet that whatever is around by then will not count as human, even if humans never go extinct per se. Just like whatever amniote species first crawled onto land isn't around any more, though some individual members of that species had children whose children's children's children...

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We are the Bong. You will be asslmuta... assermu... ass.... hahah, ass. Dude. Have you ever really just like. Looked at your hands, man?

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Oh yeah I've seen clam chowder in bread bowls too, though clam chowder is not really a thing on my radar so it didn't come to mind. To my taste, clam chowder is a perfectly good potato soup ruined by some slimy seafood. Speaking of which, I've also seen potato soup served in bread bowls. And tomato ...

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That's a breadbowl! Common to fill them with soups (pea soup is the one I see most) in America.

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It's too late to give this further thought, but I suspect the above reasoning fails for the same reason that a collection of matter that may, in some circumstances, fail to execute whatever functionality we define as life, may nevertheless still be alive, in other circumstances. (E.g. just because, ...

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I wonder if you're underestimating how disruptive a court full of kindergarteners can be.

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So apparently plants reflect green light because there's more green light than any other color in sun's radiation, and so it would be too easy to get sunburnt if a pigment absorbed it. An episode of some YouTube thing called Physics Girl I saw recently claims that that is not the conclusive answer,...

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It is known of in the US, it's just not a common thing unless the "chips" are being served along fish in a specifically "fish & chips" dish. Usually also with tartar sauce. Although as ketchup/catsup is at it's root a vinegar-based condiment (although the American kind standa...

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Reds (including brown) are for barbecue or spicy flavors. Orange and yellow are generally for cheese and broadly cheesy flavor combinations. Green is for sour cream and (green) onion, or french onion (despite that being an ordinary white onion), or anything oniony; alternately, for jalapeño. Blues a...

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I could swear that I already posted in this thread, but apparently not. Going by middle name and street name, I'd have a pretty good male porn star name: John Ventura. Sounds more like an action star than a porn star to me, but I guess that works. If I decided to do porn as a woman, I'd go with the ...

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Others are mainly focused on mispronunciations, but what I enjoyed was the interplay between the word meaning and the word itself. I've always wanted to share an anecdote along these lines. I was taking a criminal law class and the professor was discussing and writing on the board about how acts of...

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I'm wondering if people are maybe missing the point of my comment. I wasn't saying (much) about the correct pronunciation of "bonafide", just noting that in the movie Robin Williams as Genie says "boh-nah-fee-day" in a place that seems to call for a rhyme with "certified&quo...

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Keyman wrote:You mean it doesn't??

Although Robin Williams can probably not be used whenever there's a ^{[citation needed]}.

What doesn't what?

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So, does anyone else have any words that they (mentally) pronounced incorrectly because they read them long before they heard them spoken? Chimera. I've always pronounced it "SHIM-eh-rah", and wrote a play which used the word. The actor reading it was an architectural designer, ( it's use...

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also morays are saltwater fish so wouldn't be found in creeks of either pronunciation

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orthogon wrote:If anyone isn't sure what a moiré is, here's a picture illustrating it:
Spoiler:

When a fish bites your heel and it feels like an eel...

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Steve the Pocket wrote:standard 96 dpi screens

72dpi is a standard screen

96dpi is some johnny come lately microsoft abomination

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Emoji are a necessary part of the standard because the primary mission of Unicode is to losslessly interconvert between all of the pre-existing text encodings and many of those (especially the CJK ones) have emoji, so Unicode must support at least those emoji to accomplish its primary mission. Addin...

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Licorice is a common flavoring in a number of root beers, and TBH I didn't find that Bundaberg's tasted especially strongly of it. Actually I found Bundaberg's root beer surprisingly mild and non-flavorful, contra my expectations from some of their other deliciously strong drinks. And yes, I like bl...

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pscottdv wrote:
Quantized wrote:Popcorn on the 'bad' end of the scale? Outrage. Popcorn is delicious.

Salt and butter are delicious. Popcorn is a vehicle.

Recently discovered that Trader Joes sells a potato chip seasoned with salt, butter, and honey, and just that. It's like sweet popcorn without the nasty kernels.

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You mean a cot of quinoa? (Or perhaps a hammock...?)

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Blue whales, which are even larger than humans,^{[cetacean needed]}

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It took rereading it quoted in your reply for me to get it. (I should have reread more carefully the first time when wondering why da Doctah 'repeated the same joke twice in a row' as I read it at first glance). Also, obligatory " Who's On Stage? " (The Band is performing later and Yes isn...

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THIRD BASE!

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Soupspoon wrote:Just A Minute

Was that the show that had David Tennant guest-host an episode, and a Q&A exchange along the lines of:

Tennant: Knock knock.
Contestant: ...who's there?
Tennant: Doctor.
Contestant: ...Doctor Who?
Tennant: Correct! Next question...

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hamburger icon Maybe it's because I was never a burger guy, but this name for that icon never made much intuitive sense to me and I still have to interpret it every time I see it. Yeah I've figured out why people think it looks burger-like, but that's definitely not the first thing that comes to mi...

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I told you, I'm not Robin. I'm Burt Ward.

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There's a lovely spacetimebar in the restaurant at the end of the universe. Serves an amazing pan galactic gargle blaster.

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IRL I just got invited to speak on a podcast about dreams that might interest some people here:

http://dreamcatching.libsyn.com

(My interview hasn't happened yet and so isn't on there yet).

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In my experience frozen-unfrozen bread is best heated by convection oven, not microwave. Or if you're toasting it anyway, putting it straight into the toaster. It's the microwaving that ruins it. Microwaving generally ruins bread, frozen or otherwise.

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The sane alternatives pretty much all involve a surveillance state. Charge a large flat rate for registration, more than enough to cover the road maintenance. Then offer discounts for verified odometer mileage (since time of last registration) and vehicle weight, while you're at the DMV already. Co...

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Road users are already charged for access to the roads (license and registration fees), why not roll the cost of road maintenance into that and not fuel? Break the payments up into monthly installments so you don't have a huge bill every year when you renew. Charging for road maintenance through fue...

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"...and the pale horse you rode in on!"

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The only constant stream of annoyance my phone ever feeds me is calls from Mom. Until I blocked her entirely at least. With that fixed, my phone is a way for me to reach out to the broader world no matter where I am, if I should need it. (Hours and directions to places I want to go, for example). Or...

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I had a sink clogged years ago and the plumber said it was due to "someone pouring tons of oil down the drain over years", which sounded ridiculous, who the the fuck would do something like that (it was a house shared with other strangers so someone else could have, it wasn't an accusation...

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To which the cure is the old adage "Shit or get off the pot." But which one of those options should I choose? In order to 'shit' I have to resolve the original conundrum, but to 'get off the pot' is to forego whatever benefit hoped to be gained by making the correct decision in that conun...

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Goddamn are houses expensive. That realization has singlehandedly and drastically reshaped my entire view of the world. It is someone else's world, not mine, and I will be lucky if after a lifetime of soul crushingly hard work and saving I might earn the right to call some tiny part of it mine by sh...

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