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If you're in a situation like the comic, where the lightning bolt persists long enough to have an entire conversation about it, a call to your religious professional may be required, to see if there was an Armageddon scheduled. That's a paranoid conclusion. I think it's much more likely that you've...

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Is he suggesting they have small Dyson spheres at Ikea, or just describing reflective lampshades? I don't know about Dyson Spheres (I didn't see any, on my first visit to one, just a couple of weeks ago), but they've definitely got a Hilbert Curve! You were probably looking in the Lighting section ...

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Life Hack: Grocery stores let you take food home that you can eat later when you give them money.

Life Hack: You can avoid damaging your eyes by not staring directly into the sun.

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In what way is this comic like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife?

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dtilque wrote:My thought: just skip #2 through #7.

ETA: more thoughts: add billionaires who own their own spaceship company immediately after #8.

Then the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Champion. That title clearly deserves a much higher spot on the list.

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I have to admit, I would enjoy the coin purse squeeze feature.

As far as the first 6 hours goes, is that 6 hours of battery per charge, or 6 hours ever over the total life of the device?

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Twitter reactions in the story versus a couple pages of Letters to the Editor, usually written by the same group of busybodies and nutjobs. Not seeing the worseness.

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Now ... do I cut the red wire or the blue wire? First you have to have to bicker about it with your complete opposite best friend, going back and forth between red and blue, and one of you interrupting whoever's just about to cut the wire. Then and only then do you cut one without noticing which on...

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rhomboidal wrote:I certainly hope he never becomes a surgeon.

Eh, let Malpractice sort that out. But would he be better or worse than his Nintendo Surgeons?

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Aaaaaaaannnnd that'stheendofLucifer. Some Foxwits have decided to axe this show. -As far as cliffhanger endings go, at least it wasn't as cliffhanger-y as it could be, or as bad as the showrunners made it sound: Chloe sees his Devil face and realizes he's been telling the truth all along as she ...

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Is that the comic with the red button bonus comic at the bottom?

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Panel 3 is a serious logic-fail. To Be Humongous wouldn't give you Honest, or was that part of the joke?

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In other news,Play-Doh sucks as a shoplifting aid in more ways than one.

Before anyone brings it up - to be fair, he wouldn't have needed to use gloves if his plan had worked.

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It's basically stuff on bread, isn't it? Whereas pies are things in pastry*. Someone else can tell us what the difference between bread and pastry is. Yes, hello. I do believe that technically a pastry dough must contain shortening, whereas bread dough is made with oil. Pizza is definitely bread. I...

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Reminded me of when I learned the difference between "partly sunny" and "mostly cloudy" (not synonyms as I thought). The new NWS website actually has a glossary to help with translating this jargon: http://w1.weather.gov/glossary/ When I was in my mid-teens and one of my brother...

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: Alt: Dear Time Traveling Historians, I get that whatever's happening here is
supposed to be important, but GET OUT OF MY WAY AND LET ME WORK!!
"Great, now there'll never be a cure for cancer." "Nice going, Steve."

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How far to the right do you put those weirdos who insist on having their toilet paper hanging down on the back side of the roll, in the Under position?

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My general rule of thumb is anything half as big as you can kill you. Did you just confess your Kryptonite Factor? You can only be killed by something that's exactly half your size? It's certainly a strange weakness, but it could have its advantages. "Silly you, that was only 49.3% of my size ...

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Show off and make those folks ordering from the $1 menu feel the sting of jealousy as you order from -- the $2 menu.

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"Somewhat less than the total number of applies that have ever existed."

It was a sad day when I learned that you can't win a 'How Many [X] In This Jar?' contest by answering >1. I feel like I was cheated, but I'm not sure where to direct my complaints.

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I got the save through Utilities -> Park Drives and it gave me a similar looking set of options, but with Save at the top. It's only worked once, though, even after refreshes, closing Chrome and going back in, and trying a different browser. It must have been something I did before that, but I can't...

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Designers, can you either put an easy to find setting to disable all the standby lights on your devices or put in a light detector so they auto power the LED off in the dark? There's a handy switch on the wall that will turn the lights off on any device. (Though saying that, outlet switches aren't ...

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BlitzGirl wrote:I mean, there are only like five lights and the clock in that one.

THERE. ARE. FOUR. LI- Oh, wait, there's the fifth one. Okay yeah, never mind, my bad. Carry on.

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oh please, that's easy. Einstein has proven that gravity affects light. Ergo, light from distant objects gets deflected downwards, which *looks* like the earth were curved. Any perceived planetary curvature is the result of the ends of the Earth being curved like a table edge: http://www.kpetersen....

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That strawberry-kiwi one would be awesome.

Strawberries + kiwi + cream cheese on a sugar cookie = win^infinity

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I found the constellation known as Point of Origin:

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Giant Speck wrote:Yes, these are terrible. Give them all to me so that I may dispose of them properly in my food hole.

We couldn't ask you to make that big of a sacrifice alone.

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richP wrote:Do people really tow banners with an SR22? At least one of the images seems to be a Cirrus.

That seems like the kind of question that can only be answered with more banners. To the plane banner company!

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Given the adult content, I'm disturbed at how many knitted objects the neural network designs have tentacles. Given the amount of time I've spent on Ravelry, I'm more disturbed by LSGers teaching machines. At least tentacles made of yarn are soft and don't require a flange. Safety first! Real proje...

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There's also the issue that self-driving cars might turn people into jerks http://datagenetics.com/blog/january42017/index.html TL;DR - If you know a car is going to stop when you step into the street, why not simply step into the street whenever you like? Not even a hypothetical - see Boston. And ...

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cellocgw wrote:There's a guaranteed flame war over whether a self-driving car should sacrifice its occupants rather than run over a large number of pedestrians (or whatever). To which I cheerfully submit the OnlyCorrectAnswer(TM) to the Trolley Problem.

High score!

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Old Bruce wrote:I watched the video and thought they were cute. Yes I said it. Cute. What is wrong with me?

Nothing at all. Just, in the event of an actual robot revolution, don't expect any of us to trust you.

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It's already out in the UK? That's cool. We have our tickets for Sunday. Apparently the local theater only made the expensive formats available for preorder (IMAX, 3D...) and the regular screenings only get scheduled tomorrow. So we got expensive tickets (blech). Yeah, I can (allegedly) see all the...

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I was one of the ones hoping for a live action Static, but I do appreciate that this is not another goddamn origin story for the CW*. We don't need episode after episode of him figuring out how to use his powers. Fuck that. I'm still giving the show a chance, I do enjoy the fact that it's a departur...

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I already knew about it, but if you're gonna have that attitude I'm not telling you where you're supposed to be taking her. I'll let you figure it out for yourself, but I will tell you to wear a tuxedo and bring 2 cans of silly string and a single rain poncho with the Albanian flag.

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I just recently got a chance to read an advance copy of Christopher Moore's new book, Noir , coming out in April. If you like Moore's stuff, you'll almost certainly enjoy this one. However, he does warn you up front that many characters do display attitudes towards race/gender/sexuality that are in ...

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The fact that my newest backpack came in a mix of grey and soft blue was actually a selling point for me since it was nice to do something different than black. And the size so I can carry both a knitting project & my lunch (or do lots of yarn shopping). Also the arrangement of additional pocket...

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peregrine7 wrote:Basically, a plot was planted around a radioactive source, such as Cobalt-60, and exposed to that source. The stuff close in often all died off after an extended battle with the locals who only barely survived the onslaught of gigantic, radioactive, killer produce, ...

FTFY

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Forget these other foolish pursuits and instead focus on the only one that matters - bring me a True Grāpple. I grow weary of these pretenders to the throne.

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