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fresh_42 said:
It's on Comedy Central here and the channel is next to a documentary channel I often watch. So it happens that I look at it from time to time.
Haven't had a TV in a while. Maybe I'll try one of those Streaming Services.
 
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I've been curious about this but didn't know how to categorize it. If I knew someone, say 10 years ago I last saw them. Would I say s/he _was_ a good person, which msy imply they no longer are, or s,/he _is_ a good person/overweight/wealthy?
 
fresh_42 said:
It's on Comedy Central here and the channel is next to a documentary channel I often watch. So it happens that I look at it from time to time.
Documentary channel? Discovery? Hope not the History channel, since it jumped the shark a while back.
 
WWGD said:
Documentary channel? Discovery? Hope not the History channel, since it jumped the shark a while back.
A German one.
 
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Flying cars like this:
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I'm pretty sure that at the concept phase this started like this...
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On a more serious note, veteran Russian diplomat to the U.N. Office at Geneva, Boris Bondarev, has resigned in protest to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. He handed in his resignation before sending out a scathing letter to foreign colleagues inveighing against the “aggressive war unleashed” by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-u...and-politics-2019b1448217f57e68d2b18b6727bf99
“In 18 years, he (Lavrov) went from a professional and educated intellectual … to a person who constantly broadcasts conflicting statements and threatens the world with nuclear weapons!” he wrote. “Today, the (Russian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not about diplomacy. It is all about warmongering, lies and hatred.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...lomat-in-geneva-resigns-over-ukraine-invasion
Asked whether he had asked for asylum outside Russia, he said: “I think that if someone offers to help in this difficult situation, I think it would be very gratefully accepted.”

As to returning to Russia, he said that “would not be a very good idea right now”.
Yeah - now would not be a good time for him to return to Russia.
 
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I thought this chart was pretty cool:

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A tv ad gave me a good idea. They spoke about vegan chicken. I think I will join: vegan chicken and vegan cattle. But I don't think I will bother what the pigs ate.
 
Ibix said:
I didn't think chickens ate meat, eggs or cheese anyway.
It was probably a meat substitute product. But I found it funny, since chickens are vegan anyway.
 
Me, I eat just the best: Gluten-free chicken.
 
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WWGD said:
Me, I eat just the best: Gluten-free chicken.
The whole epidemic started when they started to sell beer without alcohol. And I don't mean root beer.
 
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Chickens are omnivores. They will eat worms and bugs and whatever they can catch. Its a big bonus for them if they are free range.
Even cattle if they only ate grass could easily ingest some bugs in the grass by accident.
Digesting bugs would be easier than digesting grass.
 
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“Americans will do anything not to use the metric system”

https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-7335-near-earth-may-27/1190523
Asteroid the size of 350 giraffes to fly past Earth this week

The UK should know better.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...size-giraffe-strikes-Earth-coast-Iceland.html
Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth off the coast of Iceland – just two HOURS after it was discovered by astronomers
 
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Was experimenting with numerically inverting functions in mathematica and decided to use it to plot the heat capacity of a free bose gas:

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Isn't it kind of odd how the heat capacity exceeds the classical value of 3/2 around the phase transition?
 
What is it with these freaks hanging out by the bathroom, who are not waiting? I waited for 30 minutes the other day thinking they were in line.
 
WWGD said:
What is it with these freaks hanging out by the bathroom, who are not waiting? I waited for 30 minutes the other day thinking they were in line.
That's one of my weaknesses, too, making false assumptions from what appears to be obvious. A day before, however, I asked and have been asked whether we queue for the same service or not.
 
fresh_42 said:
That's one of my weaknesses, too, making false assumptions from what appears to be obvious. A day before, however, I asked and have been asked whether we queue for the same service or not.
Yes, it's reasonable to just ask. I guess I was just being lazy.
 
fresh_42 said:
That's one of my weaknesses, too, making false assumptions from what appears to be obvious. A day before, however, I asked and have been asked whether we queue for the same service or not.
Just curious what you, others here think about coffee-shop reading or studying, vs libraries, quieter environments.
 
WWGD said:
Pretty amazing you remembered a post you made 4 years back.
'Aljechin' is a thankful search key and I remembered the anecdote.
 

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