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A mysterious expert in submersibles was interviewed by the Coast Guard during the Titan investigation. His name is redacted, but we barely get into the interview before it becomes obvious who it is.
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Got sent this clip from the Iranian comedy show "Bachelors". Subtitled it because I thought it was hilarious
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they should let you set your phone screen to grayscale except for one person you really like, whose posts display in color
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Some Well-Meaning Knaves Have Asked Innocently Enough (And So I Generously Ignore Their Knavery) What Level Of Detail I Hope To Achieve With My Scans. Here I Present A 15,000 Gaussian Per Square Meter Scan Which Is My Ambition To Complete For The Entire City God Above Willing
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German discount grocer Lidl built their own cloud infrastructure because of German data laws, and now has a ~$2B revenue business selling it to others (a la AWS)
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Already lots of qrts about how the ancients had spreadsheets too but it really needs to be emphasized that their sheets look *exactly* like ours
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so i'm at the central state museum of Kazakhstan, and they have this dombra exhibit. i notice that one of them is modern-looking and out of a case, so i ask one of the docents if i could try playing it. i sit down & start strumming away, basically playing it like a balalaika
one of the other guests, a middle-aged Kazakh guy there with his family, is watching me, and i can recognize the antsy look of someone watching someone else butchering their instrument, so i hand it to him
he pops off his shoes, sits down, and starts *wailing* on it
after two songs, the docent is like "wait, sit here" and slides this table over to him, which has this little string attached. he slips it around his pinky, and…
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This is the crowd that came out in West Virginia, one of the most conservative states in the country, to listen to Bernie Sanders talk about oligarchy
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Linux 6.17 Will Correctly Map By Default F13 To F24 Keys On PS/2 Keyboards
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