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Posts by Jon Lennox

Also, given how much fuel it burns, if jet fuel prices hadn't just more than doubled.

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Don't tell Trump, but it works against Russia too!

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So, everyone, then?

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It's the supersymmetric superpartner of a region.

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I heard reports of British people resident in Dubai for tax purposes, who were trying to get *back* to Dubai once the war started so they didn't go over the residence threshold in the UK.

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Looks like the A's and Dodgers face each other in interleague play at the end of June/beginning of July. I hope both Max Muncies play!

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Apparently it was only down in us-east? So the answer is that you VPN to a different AWS region!

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If you switch to Desktop View it's readable, albeit very small.

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Don't forget to look at Mr. Trash Wheel!

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I think it's the next step after yak-shaving.

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Maybe it's "Lord" in the British sense, like they're all members of the aquatic House of Lords.

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Do we know what they called the extra months in 46 BC? How do historians refer to dates for things that happened in that year?

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While there are vegan cheeses and/or vegan meats, the quality of them is usually such that eggplant still wins. (And I don't even like eggplant!)

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William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol π. The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh,[3] learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age.[4] By the end of his life, he knew eight languages with critical thoroughness.[5]

William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol π. The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh,[3] learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age.[4] By the end of his life, he knew eight languages with critical thoroughness.[5]

Pi(e) day pi(e) facts:

The guy introduced the Greek letter for pi was the father of the guy who discovered proto-Indo-European (PIE)

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First of them appeared in F&SF in '85.

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It depends whether Iran lets ships through the Straits of Hormuz. If they don't, markets don't recover.

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And Telstar 1 wasn't in a geosynchronous orbit. My father was in London in '63 and told stories of seeing fragments of JFK's funeral as the satellite was in the right position.

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The alternative to a provider that will comply with its local police is one that will comply with its local mafia, which is definitely worse. (And Gmail almost certainly won't accept email from them.)

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Robert Smalls!

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One was an FBI agent.

The other was a Navy captain in the only happy part of his life, and other than that — as far as I can tell — mostly mooched off his father-in-law by working sinecures at his company.

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A list of people who should be fired of course including Whiskey Pete and the orange guy.

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I have no opinion on the substance of it, but on aesthetic grounds I disagree with calling it "Pacific Daylight Time" rather than "Mountain Standard Time" (there are mountains on the coast!), and giving only eight months notice — when every computer and phone will need to be updated — is a bad idea.

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The showing of Cinema Paridiso is going to take a while.

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I'm pretty convinced this is a large part of the motivation for return-to-office.

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At least it's a WotY 2025 not 2026?

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To me it looks more like cosplay as Rowlf.

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Check their shoes. Sounds like undercover feds to me.

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Muppet a rated R (or worse) movie:
My Dinner With Kermit

(credit to @meravhoffman.bsky.social)

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I'd say have it at Independence Hall, the optics are hard to beat.

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Can you hear these words hidden in theme tunes?
Can you hear these words hidden in theme tunes? YouTube video by Dr Geoff Lindsey

"Up, Up, and Away, It's A Bird…Up, Up, and Away…Superman!"
As Dr. Geoff Lindsey explains in this video, a surprising number of tv and movie themes scan to the title of the work, because the composer had to start with something; John Williams is particularly prone to it. youtu.be/cTUdzhKuSsU?...

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