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@h_thoreson "I mean, as if Hannah wouldn't print her own Stanley Cups"

@h_thoreson Sometimes it is like we don't know you at all

@HebrideanHecate Like a lamb to the slaughter. It's just terrible. The real world is a hard and unforgiving place.

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By 2026 Covid policy is going to be “Smell this Tabasco and if you can’t you can go home half an our early as long as you work through lunch”, and you pay for the Tabasco.

@stefano Be careful with that. Walk on water enough times, people will start thinking it's normal.

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Today in 1921, 103 years ago: in Paris, the Conference of Allied Countries establishes that Germany must pay as war compensation 226 billion marks in 42 annuities (until 1963) .1924: in Russia, Petrograd -formerly St. Petersburg- is baptized Leningrad.

#OnThisDay

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Get Ready for the Great #AI #Disappointment
wired.com/story/get-ready-for-
“Some people will start recognizing that it was always a pipe #dream to reach anything resembling #complex #human #cognition on the basis of #predicting words.”

@stefano They don't pay us for what we do, they pay us for what we know.

@mntmn Every time I have to use the reform manual (needed to look up some battery compatibility) I realize what a great job you all did with the documentation. It is some of the best I've seen and the renderings are superb.

These airline CEOs shitting all over Boeing may have a point, but they are ignoring the fact that they pressured Boeing for years to deliver airplanes at minimal cost.

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"The Czech state administration will stop providing its services over IPv4 on 6 June 2032" 👍👍👍

konecipv4.cz/en/

#IPv6 #IPv4

@homlett The shipping industry doesn't get talked about much. I worked for a large container line many years ago and they put a lot of effort into emissions efficiency but acknowledged the ships are severe cases even with the most modern builds.

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Just as i was falling asleep i thought of what seemed like a really good idea for a post and when i woke up i racked my brains until i finally remembered it. However I am grieved to announce that the thing i was trying to remember is the phrase “Captain Corelli’s Pangolin”

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Very annoying that the total solar eclipse will come a couple months before the 221-year double cicada brood emergence in blatant violation of biblical plague order

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Today in 1910, 114 years ago: in the Iranian province of Luristan, an earthquake killed more than 5,000 people.

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