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Thought I'd share this nice photo from last weekend of the burn area near the lake regrowing:

Stupid why does it look upside-down when I post here but nowhere else...

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This, unfortunately, results in "going to the police" being wildly not worthwhile as a resolution. I mean, I don't doubt that the two, particularly being minors, would have gotten off fairly lightly for repeated vandalism, escalating to many thousands in damage as they trashed a car utter...

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*takes off all his clothes*

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Also keep in mind that in the specific example you gave, what makes the difference is not the inertial motion of the spaceships and earth, but their acceleration. There's no absolute sense of how fast you're going, but there's an absolute sense of how much faster you're going now than you were a mom...

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When reading this, it is difficult for me to not imagine that the author saw someone else complaining that people were misinterpreting them frequently, when they think that they are writing clearly (perhaps they even feel like they are putting in quite a bit of effort to try to be understood). The ...

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Hahah, that is true, I watch Step Back History on YouTube, which had an episode about that. I don't remember what comment I made on that video.

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Guys from some previous interactions I think bantler might be a literal troll, as in he's saying deliberately absurd shit to stir up argument and not legitimately defending his position.

Then again, Poe's Law.

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When I first moved out of my dad's shack, I was proud of the fact that all my worldly possessions fit into my car. That means I wasn't a clutterbug like my mom, I was lean and clean and spartan. Now the fact that there are a lot of pretty ordinary things that I can't own because my home is too tiny ...

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Honey-glazed turkey does sound more appealing than actual Turkish delight to me, but only in the way that, say, a spicy italian sausage sounds better than german chocolate cake (with coconut flakes, ew): it's a different category of food altogether.

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Victorville is out in the desert, toward Barstow. There's not enough vegetation for a fire like we had, nor enough hills for mudslides, nor enough rain for mudslides even if there were hills to slide (hence the lack of vegetation, natch). Instead they have wind, and dust, and, apparently, tumbleweed...

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Pardon that this is probably a dumb question but I'm half asleep right now. As I understand it, basically all mathematical objects are reducible to sets, yes? E.g. a group is a special kind of set defined in relation to certain operations thereupon meeting certain rules? And, as I understand it less...

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Oh I think I get you now. But I still get idunno's comment on the general principle -- maybe the kids got off easy because they're local sports stars. (I didn't think high school sports were that big of a deal to the adult community, but I guess every kid belongs to some adult, so it makes some sens...

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I'm kinda lost in this conversation now.

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My mom had me diagnosed with OCD because I cared about toilet paper orientation as a teenager and neither she nor dad understood why anyone would care about something like that, so finding out as an adult that other people care too (even if 40% of them are wrong) is a huge relief.

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And of course it's possible for the police to just decline to prosecute even though the victim would really like them to, as happened when I was assaulted by some teenagers in a park once and the police response was "we'll talk to their coaches about it". Well the police can decline to ar...

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And of course it's possible for the police to just decline to prosecute even though the victim would really like them to, as happened when I was assaulted by some teenagers in a park once and the police response was "we'll talk to their coaches about it".

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Thanks Zinho. So which end do people think is gross?

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Pretty sure there are building code requirements for roofs around here that prohibit things like wooden shingles or require things like ceramic tile, to keep embers from landing on buildings and catching them fire. There are also weed abatement requirements that prohibit people from having yards ful...

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If asked out of the blue, I'd say that "catch" has the "match/latch/etc" vowel and wonder what the heck else it could be, but then there's a joke where the punchline is a "catch up"/"ketchup" pun and I've never thought twice about it, and now that I think abou...

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Congratulations, that's me around a decade and a half ago!

(And I enjoyed that "a wizard in training". That's just what I looked like back then, but several randoms did ask me around that time period "are you a wizard?").

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I'm not a denier in any way (I trust scientists to know what they're talking about) but the consequences that I've read about, including in this thread, still don't seem to warrant the kind of panic that some people seem to be having. If we shift to having a cozy Greenland and arable Canada while Ne...

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The only baklava I've ever had was from Greek restaurants and bakeries (I didn't know it came otherwise), and yes, I was still disappointed. I think it's the nuts turning me off, because buttery dough and honey sounds like it should be delicious.

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Never having had Turkish delight or even bothered looking up what it is, I've imagined it as something like baklava, which I also think is really overrated. Looking it up now, I guess it maybe is kinda similar? A gel of starch and sugar sounds similar-ish to thin layers of dough held together by hon...

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No link to the image that that's from? In any case, that's not me. That's the other Pfhorrest, who unlike me is not named Forrest, but is a fan of the same obscure 90s video game the other part of my username comes from (the Pfhor, from Marathon ), in which I am a prominent member, but somehow he ha...

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In this thread, do a Google (or Bing or whatever) image search for a previous poster's name (if known) or username, and comment on the most interesting thing you see in the results. The poster in question can then confirm or deny if the thing that came up is actually connected to them or just an irr...

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I'm not used to hearing either of those presidents (Hayes or Arthur) referred to without their middle initials (B and A respectively). It sounds weird without them.

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Yeah I've always heard "sticky tape" to mean any self-adhesive tape.

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Yes, far too often the "story" part of history is neglected in the teaching, boiling it down to a boring series of dates and trivia nobody will remember after the test is over. What started to get me interested in history was the fictional histories of worlds like J.R.R. Tolkien's Ea, and ...

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Just to try to clarify what I think other people are saying here: It follows trivially given that it would be justified to execute Hitler, there are some cases where capital punishment is justified. The heavy lifting in your argument has to be supporting the claim that it would be justified to execu...

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If what you're not getting is the title text: In our timeline, there was no Terminator 3 by James Cameron. There was a Terminator 3, but it was directed by Jonathan Mastow. The title text is insinuating that in the original timeline, James Cameron did direct Terminator 3, but it was so prophetic (an...

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re ash

Spoiler:

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That sounds awful! I hope you find some way to make him stop soon!

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Oh, yeah, that asterisk. Here we have carriageway and pavement. In the US they have ... pavement and sidewalk? Sometimes we have a footway. Maybe we should all start calling them carriageway and sidewalk. Then we'd know wtf we meant, y'know? In the US, pavement is the substance laid down on the gro...

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Same here, on both counts!

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So glad to hear I’m not alone.

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I couldn't because it was so crowded in there, but even if I could it's besides the point. I shouldn't have to walk through their cloud of smoke on my way out either, they just shouldn't be doing the first place, and they need to know not to do it in the future so fuckers don't ruin my favorite rest...

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sitting in a restaurant close to the door and some filthy ash hole is visible out the window smoking at a patio table as close to door as i am. asked two waitresses to ask them to stop in lieu of going out and giving them shit for it myself. trying to be nicer about these things. neither of them do ...

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Yes, that's why I said we should do those two things that you mentioned in the post you directly replied to, and the one before that. FWIW I realize now that I was reading the bottom of page 144 (and responding to your post there, not the one right above mine), somehow not realizing at the time tha...

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Zohar, I think Chen was initially saying was that, according to some statistics, more black people get shot by police because more black people get stopped by police to begin with, which is its own problem, but per-stop the shooting rate was pretty even by race. So the problem is not in "traini...

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It wasn't to infiltrate humanity, it was trying to copy the human genetically engineered supersoldier ("Augments") for Klingons, and had the side-effect of humanizing the Klingons effected... and then it went viral, etc, like you say.

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