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Rabid Beavers? Don't worry everyone, I'm sure Buc-ee's has already filed suit because rabid beavers is covered under their trade dress.

Hmm, what could have happened 47 years ago. Is that when the current islamist regime overthrew the dictator that the US & UK put into place by orchestrating a coup against the demo…

As someone who has been sober for 10+ years and still avoids events where alcohol is served, the word Gin doesn't cause me any stress. Just one point of anecdata.

When there is not enough AC, people sweat. It’s better for half to sweat to death so the other half can remain frosty.

I don't know about number 3. As a 53 year old Gen X'er, I still haven't come across things that see against the natural order. The main things I don't understand are things like th…

Stopping marketing mail wouldn’t change the number of accelerations per mailbox. USPS would still need to check each stop for outgoing mail. The only difference would be in weight …

> The cards observe it is Friday. Um, where I am it's still Thursday.

The main lesson I learned was I didn’t have to live in a snowy place. I left SW Michigan in 2000 and haven’t looked back. I don’t like being cold, but I loathe snow and ice.

There is that, but I get the impression that you could hire an expert to help.

"So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated" This has to be my favorite part.

I expect the bible is in virtually every public and school library in the US. It’s hardly a banned book by any measure.

I hate it because the last thing we need on sidewalks, at least here in Seattle, is more junk making it impossible to walk anywhere.

Reminder that social security is funded entirely by a separate tax and not debt, so unless you are planning to cut benefits but continue the tax it would do nothing to reduce the d…

Hong Kong and New Zealand are Berne Convention countries so that would be the grounds for extradition. I don’t remember other countries signing up to enforce Ofcom’s laws.

I highly doubt that anyone is doing 8 hours of BJs a day to pay for their habit.

I believe the answer is that English is a stupid language. Also, starchy (containing a relatively high amount of starch) doesn’t have a hard c.

> all legal to the T You might want to check that because it's not so cut and dried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...

Don't forget Yoshinoya, Sukiya, or Cafe Gusto.

The national guard was deployed to Kent State by the governor. The last time the guard was deployed without the governor’s consent was to protect civil rights marchers in Selma in …

The Toto washlets I used in Japan were plenty powerful, plus they had adjustments for pressure and temperature.

The problem with this is we live in a 24 hour world. When I worked 2nd shift, I got out of work at 2am so I would have to “choose not to” use the highway to get home. Also, emergen…

True, but there is this mythology that all prisons in the USA are private prisons controlled solely by corporations, which is wildly untrue. Public prisons aren't much better than …

Nationally, there are less than 10% of incarcerated people in private prisons. This number starts to vary widely from state to state though, with some states having more than 50% a…

They are still working on a realistic vocal fry?

HCL isn’t a programming language. This seems to be the main misconception about it and Terraform.