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They do say the cards were purchased when they were cheaper. They debuted at less than nine grand apparently.

Why is the man's wife worried about being sent to collections? She owes nothing to the hospital, the dead man's estate owes money. Let the hospital line up with the other creditors…

This isn't the same thing. Yes Gmail provides IMAP so you can read it from other clients. The issue here is that Gmail cannot use IMAP to ingest email from other accounts, as it ca…

Seconded. I am very much still in the mode of copying from the chat window and then editing. I would like to have whatever she is having.

So we replace the task of writing tedious boilerplate with the task of reading the AI's tedious boilerplate. Which takes just as long. And leaves you with less understanding. And i…

The Inform Designer's Manual is mostly about Inform 6 programming, but has a lot of material on game design. https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf Crimes Against Mimesis wa…

"You are a total wimp for wanting gloves in this weather! Here they are though, you weakling."

New Complete Vegetarian by Rose Elliot is a well used book in our kitchen.

I invested in a Chargemap pass for my trip to France this summer. One card which works in nearly every French charger. Plug in, tap the card and it starts charging. Tap the card ag…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Bush

Lombok has come up a bit in this discussion. Are there any other popular Java libraries or frameworks that are affected?

Many of these places weren't homes. The vast majority of prehistoric people did not live in caves. And many places with art are nearly inaccessible, and completely dark.

Many caves with art in are extremely inaccessible. You need to explain why someone would risk their life and crawl through tiny openings in the pitch black to reach a specific loca…

This site helped me take the family from London to Rome via the beautiful Bernina Pass between Switzerland and Italy. Invaluable! https://tickets.rhb.ch/en/pages/bernina-express

And then Our Man In Havana inspire le Carré to write the Tailor Of Panama. It's a story that keeps on giving!

They certainly didn't vanish for me in Cornwall in 1999. I hope you have better luck in the US in April!

https://www.routledge.com/Why-Its-OK-to-Eat-Meat/Shahar/p/bo... Why It's Ok To Eat Meat By a philosophy professor at the University of New Orleans.

Interesting that the list of fowls and beasts also includes (if I'm reading it right): A bevy of ladies, A herd of harlots.

Podcast discussion with the creator: https://monsterfeet.com/grue/notes/55

I always remember my friend who works in VFX telling me he spent all week working on James Bond riding a pig. Which gave me some high hopes for the movie!