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Luther Vandro

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...and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak

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Are you telling me this sax doesn’t wear a shirt

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civ

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all of it more interesting than that one giant bug! There are many more stories to tell in this setting than in the rest of the series combined, since every other entry rests on being confined in limited space with something that kills better than you do.

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I see it as an attempt to depict the Earth where corporations are striving so hard over generations to collect animals that every normal person would want even _further_ from earth. Contract slavery, sociopathic CEO's living in artificial islands, owned cities...

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist (@nameshiv.bsky.social) reposted

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

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"janitor puts dentures in clock gears movie" worked, because I was still lost

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WE KNOW

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Hey, at least he didn’t mention eigenfaces

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

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Any burrito is a seven layer burrito under OSI, where only layer 1 is physical.

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From their Wikipedia page, you’d think their arc was like The Who, though. 58 footnotes!

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WFNX (Boston’s tastemaking alt radio station of the ‘80’s and pre-soundscan 90’s) played the shit out of Bellbottoms when it dropped, but never any other song. Hadn’t heard it since until Baby Driver came out.

tocharian spongebart eatpants (@theophite.bsky.social) reposted

it's a pathetic liberal emotion, but the strongest thing i'm feeling right now is total indignity at how much they hate us despite us not doing fucking _anything_ to them

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two people required for best results

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The application of the original steam engines by Newcomen and Watt was pumping, often a back & forth linear motion, and what I thought was happening here for about 5 minutes.

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yeah, yeah

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actually, if you click on the picture, it's obvious that there's a huge wheel on the right that's mostly below the apparent floor.

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it's connected to a piston that goes up and down.

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some did, but some didn't: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralle...

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...who would _assert_ that they are trying to avoid being swept...

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Those lyrics from the demo just don't hit as hard as what they ended up with.

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_which_ boots with the fur? maybe i'm making this too complicated

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Sox have been playing this guy at second in a pennant race: www.mlb.com/video/corbin...

David Roberts (@volts.wtf) reposted

This matters a lot more than his tweets.

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He might just have really long feet.

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Luis Buñuel's Porky's!

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YES, BUT— BUT— Let me play you the next one, that’ll get you

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Ack!! Eyelid spider!

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reposted

the thing is -and I say this as a reformed China hawk- nobody gives a shit because Americans correctly see each other as the most immediately dangerous threats to their security and way of life

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"...and, get this: after all that, they don't actually pay for the treatments, either!"

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I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

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If this stands, it would be one of the most generous settlements to authors ever. Many authors will be _delighted_.

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kind of surprised we haven't heard any oldtimer grousing about this one. "YA Tittle and Bart Starr both spat in each others' faces back in '61, and no one said boo. And they were both chewing tobacco at the time!"

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I hope they become wildly successful, because if someone gave me frames like the guy with the glasses, I could believably pretend to be him from the distant future. Surprise him in Starbucks, tell him urgently he has to, i don't know, buy every labubu, or the world will end.

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tbh, Vera's the only one having fun in this picture.

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guy on the left

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and a full bathroom suite, cooking appliances, etc

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but since it's GH, i guess I'm not surprised

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it shouldn't have to answer, "these are the 75 things I can do," if it could just say "here's the 1 thing I'm configured to do."

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wow is it all or nothing? Like, if all you want it for is say, to review issues, can you just bring in the issues stuff? or do you always bring in the whole thing?

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under what circumstances?

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So far, at least, it's engaging pretty hard with the dysfunctions of corporate impunity and whimsical imperial leadership. The team on the Maginot is not incompetent/murderous because of idiot plotting, but because the show is about how bad leadership sends bad teams that create disasters

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As you depart your lunch engagement, you stop with a curse. You left the Grimmelshausen at Roddy's club.

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You leave the book on the seat by "accident." Your counterpart picks up the book and dashes after you, but you're already out of earshot. Visibly grumbling, your counterpart leaves with the book and also the microfilm it contains.

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Hey, it's six months! I can start tomorrow!

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so if you order scallops and I call for lobster you say, "that lobster is your emperor and you will be crushed in its mighty claw" oh, all right, no contest, I'll order scallops

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finally doing that "cocoon in space" movie the world has been crying out for

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, to rephrase it in the vernacular

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platform navelgazing has mutated. it has now given us new powers. more to come as we explore these new navelgazing powers.

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Karloff's version was a horror, and Young Frankenstein clearly imitates the brow and cranial scarring.

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tbf, we don't know what they're saying to him.

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Man, I was hoping someone would take him off our hands.

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Which one gets Brazil? And which one gets everything else?

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in the US there'd be something about "avid gun collector," but this hits just about everything I can think of for the UK. For maximum points, wouldn't they have to fit in a reference to "his collection of World War II memorabilia?"

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Considered doing two separate press releases, but in this economy?

Susan of Texas (@susanoftexas.bsky.social) reposted

We should just pretend he’s dead. If we say it often enough, we can gaslight his followers into believing it. “That’s not him, he’s dead. It’s all AI. Don’t tell me you fell for that.”

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Pray, have you remembered to wind the clock?

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It’s the biggest cock and bull story

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At the top of the scale, you have Amazon, which runs/organizes/does most of its own logistics (in US) and doesn't have to pay UPS/DHL/FedEX/USPO margin on providing those services. That doesn't work at much below AMZN's scale, which is why all of those other services exist so profitably!

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Not to mention the transactional benefits of size - overhead costs like accounting, HR, management, and so on increase more slowly than the benefits of just selling more stuff to more people, giving you yet more margin with which to eat shipping costs.

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And the larger you are, the more you can do to manage your margin on the sale price by ordering in larger lots, using bigger warehouses, contracting for shipping logistics, and so on.

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If your margin on the item sale price is good enough, you can bundle some of your aggregate shipping price into it, _especially_ if you use "get your order to $50 for free shipping" prompts to boost the size of orders.

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Overall, one of the most important metrics for online shopping sites is the conversion rate of carts into orders. "Free shipping" is a pricing strategy to boost that metric.

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For populous destinations, they might be able to consolidate loads. They might be storing inventory at the shipping airport, or have arrangements to truck it there themselves. They definitely have shipping systems that can present large deliveries already sorted by ZIP.

Jim (@crazyjim.bsky.social) reposted

Whoever made this…Amazingness.

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Another dodge is the old Henry II - "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest" - where the subordinate is expected to take the fall for obeying an order that was couched to create deniability. I _think_ Iran-Contra was one of those?

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The purpose of a cut-out is to give deniability of responsibility -- "I have no idea why this person I do not know did this thing that benefits me" -- so a cut-out shouldn't be a subordinate.

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not in the general case because of the delegation of authority, not responsibility. If someone you're responsible for does something you're not supposed to do, well... you're still responsible.

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IDK, it's pretty easy to hear them coming.

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Animals, man. Crow videos and owning a dog did that to me before LLM's came on the scene. Clever Hans isn't even a counterargument. How could anyone think it's easier to the horse to read the moods of the non-equine guy who feeds you than to count to 10?

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they go "phhththt" because they're six months old

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shouting "Anna! Anna!" because Tom Clancy never really read anyone else's books

alex williams (@atwilliams.bsky.social) reposted

this is going to be the worst API that mankind has ever invented, bar none

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Also appears to be moving his lips, or perhaps just composing a sexy sneer.

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I imagine that the costume for that is similar to Uma Thurman's yellow leather togs in the first Kill Bill movie

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What if he just wears them on to the plane in many layers?

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It sure did!

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The range of human capability is wide and tall, and so was that guy who caught the fridge and lowered it smoothly to the ground.

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Once we had a new full-size refrigerator delivered up in VT. The delivery crew were a wide receiver and an OL for NHU. The wide receiver pushed the refrigerator off the back of the truck and the offensive lineman caught it, then they set up the straps and walked it into the house together.

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Got to be a lot easier to become a pull-up-the-ladder conservative when you had a glide path to lucrative employment driven by the finance boom of the eighties and the dotcom boom of the nineties.

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I'm sure this is part of it, but another part is just the timing. If you graduated with a technical or business degree from 85-95, you faced at least one of the best job markets in history, and maybe two if you're on the older side.

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I had a class in it in middle school, and they had just stopped offering keypunch. An interesting bubble of time.

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I saw a post yesterday from a guy whose revelatory dream turned out on waking to concern how tesseracts wear pants. Perhaps a co-authoring opportunity?

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Here I am, listening to music in my Linux desktop, which is just outside the frame.

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there's kind of a music in these activities, i like it better than actual music, especially when the actual music isn't coming out of the speakers and there's nothing in the logs that explains why

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actually, i enjoy reconfiguring my boot sequence as much as I like music anyway

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experience has taught him that it's as long as he can pretend to be sad

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I could see in the logs it took a whole extra 367ms to load, and I can always load it if I feel like playing music

post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) reposted

the Nazis had a pretty nasty suicide— well, problem’s the wrong word

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it's also funny because the music doesn't play, because the sound doesn't work today for unexplained reason

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It's only been 235 years or so, we can wait a little longer

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What about Providence Plantations?

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Oh, I thought you meant that he thought there was a law that he had to be invited to her wedding.

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what, prima nocte?

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there's an AITA just waiting to be written about this one, "My fiancé invited POTUS to our wedding and I'm upset because now POTUS says he's going to wear a wedding dress and announce his new tariffs at the reception"