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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 #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.