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Smoosh
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About Smoosh
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Comment #49190645
Yes, it somewhat undermines the point that the auto industry is not realistic about the future. Why consider flying cars when teleportation may be just a few more years away?
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Comment #49149895
I see another problem being that the same words can have different meaning or intent in different contexts and particularly with different intonations and facial expressions.
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Comment #49140562
That last sentence also works without the last 4 words.
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Comment #48792995
According to YouTuber Bjorn Nyland, some such as Circle-K had already installed charging stations and are now removing some pumps and replacing them with chargers while adding even…
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Comment #48770158
The movie Touching the Void is highly recommended.
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Comment #48740732
If only it were that easy! The economy would collapse if scams were stopped. There would be no progress. The president would be poor. We are already losing the scam war with china,…
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Comment #48705738
Also, the three sticks are called the stumps and are topped with two unattached cross-beams which are called the bails. Hitting the wicket (stumps) does not count unless one or bot…
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Comment #48705716
Let’s be clear here. If the ball is bowled and strikes the stumps and dislodges a bail, that is “bowled out”. If the batsman contacts the ball but it still hits the stumps and disl…
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Comment #48613992
“Replaced” seems very pejorative here. The times are clearly changing, as they always do. Are you saying that it is “natural and sensible” to be racist and xenophobic? Perhaps it i…
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Comment #48514134
Thanks for that final BTW which sent me on a side quest to listen to a half dozen different versions and gave me a completely different outlook on what that song was about and what…
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Comment #48503145
Try Orion
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Comment #48431332
> they described these projects as a horror show. Yes, they allowed, some progress was made, and some of it was pretty cool, but he also left a long, fiery trail of chaos in his wa…
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Comment #48321473
I have to think that there were other similar things contemporaneous with this device as the skill and knowledge displayed in its design and execution would not come ex nihilo. Sad…
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Comment #48079285
And yet we still have a huge problem with spam calls and “nothing can be done about it”.
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Comment #48079257
Personal anecdote from my wife yesterday. She doesn’t get many spam calls but has noticed that when a particular friend calls her, she gets a spam call later that day. I surmised t…
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Comment #48071335
Why do you think musk was all about the small private tunnels for transportation but then he blabbed to the public and was forced to go quiet? /s
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Comment #48071287
As is that “off road adventure 4x4”, yet people still buy them.
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Comment #47991233
We may or may not be experts on a particular topic but most of us are inexpert at estimating competence on that topic.
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Comment #47811782
“Weaponizedspaces” seems appropriate.
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Comment #47727337
> Are we actually being serious right now of America doing a conflict with Cuba? Trump says 'Cuba is next' in speech touting US military successes - https://www.reuters.com/world/a…
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Comment #47654303
F9 is their Model 3/Y. Starship is their Cybertruck.
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Comment #47646961
Perhaps they are thinking "I Like People Who Weren't Captured".
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Comment #47644119
I suspect that they are willing to wait a few more years until they have built up their own chip making capacity so that disrupting Formosa won’t strongly affect their own economy,…
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Comment #47621870
Nice, thanks.
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Comment #47621618
“When I took over our military, we didn’t have ammunition,” Trump said Monday. “I was told by a top general – maybe the top of them all – ‘Sir, I’m sorry. Sir, we don’t have ammuni…