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inflatableDodo

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    Comment #20937084

    Wow. Meta-Orwellianism. edit - I think I'm done here, bye Dang. You do a hard job, but this is utterly ridiculous. In the ongoing attempt to edit out anything contentious, this pla…

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    Comment #20937002

    I believe it means volatility of covfefe.

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    Comment #20936634

    >'If you are not careful you can rip the metal off the circuit board, and if that happens, there is very little you will be able to do to fix that.' I've done that before, managed …

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    Comment #20936533

    >Magnus Soderlund, a behavioral scientist and marketing strategist I was utterly confused as to how someone could end up quite so disconnected from civilised society's established …

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    Comment #20936404

    >Is it related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio... . ? Well, let us examine this possibility by reading the article. That was in 2009 and according t…

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    Comment #20936251

    >But the Trump map is unusual. I cannot find anything truly comparable. We had a map that was already out there that he actually mutilated, and in a very obvious way. This guy show…

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    Comment #20936187

    Alternatively, given Plato knew damn well what he was writing down, it is one of the earliest surviving examples of a postmodern joke. Also, the dialog is not against writing, it m…

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    Comment #20933391

    Good call. Since they demonstrated 2 channel already, maybe drive that with a standard electric guitar and then have a Tesla coil driven by a bass.

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    Comment #20932623

    Can someone wire one to a guitar and pair it with a rydberg vapour cell as the recieving antenna, so the audiophile community can finally have something to justify their pricing. h…

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    Comment #20932206

    >Are you getting in a pissing contest about how many shitty things the US Government has done? Because, let me tell you, that is a contest you are going to lose. Hi from the UK. I …

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    Comment #20932164

    The other technical alternative is constructing a global network of electricity interconnects, though storage is probably politically more achievable and cheaper, given lithium bat…

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    Comment #20930438

    [flagged]

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    Comment #20929123

    I didn't know that, thanks. That is probably where she has got it from. She's English, however her partner is French but grew up in the UK.

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    Comment #20928909

    Given Nero was Roman, his name will presumably be from the Latin. If the Greek version of the spelling differs, then 666 surely must be in error. Unless they meant that the number …

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    Comment #20928301

    I like the random numerology, really adds weight to the argument: > We’ve reported that a squadron of 66 bombers were launched on August 6th (666) to bomb the municipality of Imaba…

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    Comment #20924508

    Insurance is a form of subsidy, that is inherent in splitting the cost of a shared risk. If you have health insurance and do not need to claim, you are providing a subsidy for thos…

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    Comment #20924441

    The actual threat is the danger of neural network bots eventually overrunning social media with far more entertaining content.

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    Comment #20923412

    I hear 'faggot' being used more often as a slur than as the food, with the term 'fag' used pretty much synonymously. Then again, I'm a man who sleeps with other men, went to a crum…

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    Comment #20920428

    True. People even manage to ask if they can have a wee suck on my fag when I'm done 'cos they are absolutely gagging, without even giggling once.

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    Comment #20920170

    Am still a smoker, people are still asking for twosies on fags.

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    Comment #20920134

    > includes a word offensive in the UK In the UK, 'fanny' is pretty much the least offensive term for female genitals available, other than vagina, however vagina is considered a bi…

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    Comment #20919976

    The word is a perjorative for homosexual across the UK and in the private boys schools since the 1700's, fagging has been the term used to describe the practice of senior pupils en…

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    Comment #20919849

    I'm talking about having a domestic supercharger. You can get up to 70kW at the company head fuse as a standard residential customer in the UK. You can also go higher, but you have…

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    Comment #20915598

    "So if proper mathematicians aren’t interested in a proof of the odd order theorem, what are they interested in? Example: Perfectoid spaces. (Topic) - Proof of odd order theorem - …

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    Comment #20915503

    Is easy to imagine. People go all over the place and people love interfering. History would be dramatically different otherwise. And probably a lot shorter.