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Awards include "Best Hustle," "Most Improved," and 4 time winner of "Perfect Attendance."

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emilygorcenski, to random

It turns out, actual engineering is a lot harder than software engineering, and this is something you should keep in mind as people start to claim ChatGPT can do a better job.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23770260/titanic-tour-titan-submersible-catastrophic-implosion-oceangate

bransonturner,
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@emilygorcenski I feel like I rarely (read: never) see the Swiss cheese layering software model.

RickiTarr, to random
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The way the United States is structured into regions is bonkers to me. Somehow Minnesota and North Dakota are the Midwest (to whom?! Canada), but Texas is not the Southwest?! It feels like the Regions are named by someone who hadn't seen it all yet.

bransonturner,
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@mentallyalex @trochee @GayDeceiver @RickiTarr oh, man, GayDeceiver boosting this like: look at this ignorant ass over here!! 😀😀😀

bransonturner,
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@mentallyalex @trochee @GayDeceiver @RickiTarr I moved from Tx to NYC when I was 17, firmly believing the Civil War was a states- rights issue. 😳

bransonturner,
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@GayDeceiver @mentallyalex @RickiTarr Texans really are the spiritual descendants of Davey Crockett: a Tennessee congressman who spent so much time hunting instead of representing his constituents, he was booted from office; a guy who threw a tantrum and moved to Texas, only to decide to help make a stand at the Alamo--a strategically useless (and so un-reinforced) mission with poor battlements--only to be overrun almost immediately, and then captured sneaking out the back in women's clothes.

clive, to random
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When I get some time free I'm gonna program a version of Pac-Man where you play as the fruit

Tight close-up on the part of the maze where you appear

When you appear, you have no control over anything

All you do is wait

And wonder

If you're going to get eaten

You can hear, in the distance, the sounds of the game; see the ghosts go by; hear the approach of Pac-Man, hear him fade further away

If you don't get eaten in that round, you score one point

If you do get eaten, the game's over

bransonturner,
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@clive this is the accurate version of TRON.

clive, to random
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“Clive” is a kind of weird name in the US

Every so often, a service worker asks if my name is pronounced “C-Live”

As if I were a DJ or something

I’m tempted to roll with it

bransonturner,
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@harmonicarichard @clive Those last three make up C-Live Crew.

rbreich, to random
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“We can’t afford to pay our writers more.”

Meanwhile, media company CEO pay is through the roof:

Netflix CEOs: $51M & $50M
Nexstar CEO: $39M
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO: $39M
Comcast CEO: $32M
Paramount CEO: $32M
Walt Disney CEO : $24M
AMC: $24M
Fox Corp CEO : $22M

Hello?

bransonturner,
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@rbreich reposting, just for you! 😀

Just so I understand: , who've spent millions of $ over the years changing US laws to ensure that anyone using their work has to pay fees every time they use it (in perpetuity), don't want to pay the writers fees for the moneymaking work they create for Disney every time Disney uses it (in perpetuity)?


lowqualityfacts, to random
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I wonder what movie it was.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

bransonturner,
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@lowqualityfacts it was The Rock's trailer on Black Adam. It took eight hours to ride from one end to the other in a studio golf cart.

hacks4pancakes, to random

I wish people knew how many hobbies (or at least hobby communities) they push people away from by aggressively talking down to people who are also interested. It’s not even necessarily intentional gatekeeping. It’s just making people who want to enjoy that interest feel like idiots by trying to prove they’re smart constantly and not having a two-way conversation. Like ripping something apart out of their hands to “do it better” without asking. It happens all the time.

bransonturner,
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@hacks4pancakes I have left hobbies due to "teachers" that were just frustrated non-professionals. They didn't actually want to teach, they just needed to pay the bills because they couldn't make it as a pro. They were a miserable lot.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Exclusive: documents case judge made multiple errors in earlier trial

made two key errors in a June trial, one of which violated a fundamental constitutional right of the defendant and could have invalidated the proceedings, according to legal experts and a court transcript.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-documents-case-judge-made-multiple-errors-earlier-trial-2023-08-04/

bransonturner,
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@GottaLaff the "unusual" plea deal where the defendant kept his appeal rights has got to be the prosecutor thinking "omg, we're going to lose this because the judge is going to screw it up!"

GottaLaff, to random
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"A GOP senator, quoted anonymously, told Vanity Fair, "The pain from 's polio leaves him totally paralyzed sometimes, like unable to walk or move or even speak because it hurts so bad…. The pain that used to be confined to his leg causes, like, a spasm up his spine that takes over his entire body." https://www.rawstory.com/mcconnells-health-fuel-talk-of-possible-replacement-as-gop-senator-notes-hes-totally-paralyzed-sometimes-2662755702/

bransonturner,
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@GottaLaff no wonder he's such a hateful piece of shit.

rbreich, to random
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I’m sick and tired of hearing this lie peddled by the GOP and corporate media. Raising the debt ceiling does not increase spending or the federal debt. It simply allows the government to pay bills it has already taken on— and defaulting on the debt would be catastrophic.

bransonturner,
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@rbreich who has Biden's ear to tell him to simply say the debt ceiling increase is to pay off Trump's tax cut. No increase, taxes reinstated.

GottaLaff, to random
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Did he also explain how slaves developed "recovery skills" from being separated from their children, whipped, raped, beaten to a pulp, and worked to death?

Via Acyn:

Watters: This is historical fact that slaves did develop skills while they were enslaved and then used those skills as blacksmiths, in agriculture, tailoring, in the shipping business, to benefit themselves and their families..

bransonturner,
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@GottaLaff Watters and DeSantis both kidnapped, beaten, and forced into hard labor for the rest of their lives, but by the time their grandchildren are forced to go through it as well, you know, the kids have learned farming skills.

davep, to random

I tried donating blood today. Never again, I'll tell you. So many questions! 'Why do you want to donate blood?' 'Whose blood is it?' 'Why is it in a bucket? '

bransonturner,
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@davep @unicorndeburgh Don't be stealing off the bird site.

w7voa, to random
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Freshman Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden reportedly yelled and cursed at a group of high school-aged Senate pages while giving a late-night tour of the US Capitol.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/27/van-orden-reportedly-curses-teenage-senate-pages-during-capitol-tour/70479593007/

bransonturner,
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@w7voa He's still mad he didn't get to have any combat scenes in Act of Valor.

ElleGray, to random
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    bransonturner,
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    @ElleGray this is how I feel about audiobooks

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    Amazing.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    bransonturner,
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    @lowqualityfacts Fortify yourself in the Lord.

    VeryBadLlama, to random
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    the only thing worse than having parents who don't support your comedy is having parents who do support your comedy and ask you every day if you've tried sending your resume to SNL

    bransonturner,
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    @VeryBadLlama "it's called a packet, Mom. The thing SNL has rejected eleven times is a packet!"

    clive, to random
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    How do you cool down lions and tigers in a zoo, during a massive heat wave?

    You make for them …

    … some “bloodsicles”: https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/07/dallas-zoo-bloodsicles-zoologist-summer-heat-wave.html

    bransonturner,
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    @clive My 6 year old is at dinosaur camp this week, and this is still his favorite fact of the week, so far.

    bransonturner, to Disney
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    Just so I understand: , who've spent millions of $ over the years changing US laws to ensure that anyone using their work has to pay fees every time they use it (in perpetuity), don't want to pay the writers fees for the moneymaking work they create for Disney every time Disney uses it (in perpetuity)?


    bransonturner, to random
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    The key to putting away a super bouncy ball is to throw it in the exact opposite place you want it to end up. (Cc @zoomar)

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