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Xorakios
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Goofball trivia about cracker packaging
Why are subsets of crackers always grouped in 7/14/21? Sheldon Cooper might know about hexagonal servings. OK to shooosh me
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Comment #49150103
I'm okay with complaining and proposing solutions, but saying "blue" and "red" in colors for product designs is manipulating children is odd.
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Comment #49149906
Probably most people don't Xerox things or Fotomat pictures, but still ask for a Kleenex, or use a Thermos, Band-aid, Flip-phone, Chapstick or Post-it
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Comment #49149808
"perceptibly" perhaps not so much? blue eyes are definitely newer. pale skin perhaps only after agriculture replaced meat eating for D3 production. despite what Sliders intimated, …
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Comment #49149600
Yes; the nexus for legal purposes is generally the location of the user, not the broker
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Comment #48877290
Like many older people I know, my notarized DNR, provided by and on file with my insurance company, local hospital, primary doctor, and medical power of attorney, includes standard…
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Comment #48713998
Here's the case: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/antifa-cell-members-con... The 30 year sentence was for hiding documentation being sought under a federal warrant after being …
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Comment #48549715
CAISO claims that and cleantechnica might parrot it, but there are blackouts ALL THE TIME in southern california. In Palm Springs I was down with brownouts 103 times since I bought…
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Comment #48435748
You forgot the /s That is a slam campaign by Milei's political opposition; the company the article mentions (perPETuate) only collects DNA for when cloning becomes feasible. That T…
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Comment #48365157
Yes. At least to read.
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Comment #46740266
FWIW, I utilize Perplexity a lot, and Gemini occasionally for what we old geezer call spitballing. Part of the reason I like Perplexity is because of the embedded references, and I…
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Comment #46649890
or the iPhone...
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Comment #46412766
I'm 63 and tend to communicate in full sentences, that often include semi-colons and differentiate between - and -- based on context. I asked Perplexity in a months long developmen…
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Comment #46397823
Ditto
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Comment #46397241
Dunno if this is helpful to everyone, but I have a month's long interaction with Perplexity Pro/Enterprise about the scientific background to a game I am building. Part of my canon…
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Comment #46281147
I was born in the Vancouver Social Security office #538 area in 1962. Guess how much I have to defend against attackers trying 538-62-xxxx
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Comment #46149485
Agree with that interpretation. Perhaps "Microbe extracts oxygen from the water in Martian soils" would be short and intriguing enough to be correct and interesting enough to click…
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Comment #45971315
They also started wagging tails. https://archive.is/gKO4z
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Comment #45957157
When on an extended trip to Delray Beach, Florida and shopping at the Publix market I tried to walk in with a cart that was lurking in a parking space. An employee somewhat angrily…
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Comment #45843068
Billy sorta convinced a Young Sheldon Cooper of the same thing
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Comment #45828980
It's closer 1 one degree in the last 120 years, than 20, for a global average, though polar areas are bearing more of the brunt. Unless AMOC collapses and we foolishly trip into an…
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Comment #45796018
semicolons seem to more accurately separate follow-up thoughts than em-dashes to my meathead, and I asked Perplexity/Comet this morning: what is easiest to process a whole list of …
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Comment #45714086
omg you rock!
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Comment #45713909
Or 3 days ago in Palm Springs, California, and my power was shut off for 2 hours even though it was only 92 degrees outside.