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Ah, I've always heard about that as green/blue bubbles.

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I had not encountered en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greentext before!

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Ok. I know what green texts are but can someone who speaks cool kid tell me what the fuck this means?

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Types of Board Game

The Types of Board Game

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With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

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It's amazing how high a number you can get to with a deck of cards! Would you like your mind blown? To imagine the number of ways a standard pack of playing cards can be uniquely shuffled, follow these simple instructions: Go to the equator with a deck of cards and start shuffling them. Shuffle them so that every second you produce a new and unique ordering of cards. Keep shuffling them over and over, a new ordering, every second, for a billion years. At the end of a billion years take a single step forward. Keep shuffling. Every billion years keep taking a single step forward. Once you have circumnavigated the Earth, take a single drop of water out of the Pacific Ocean. Keep shuffling. Keep taking a single step every billion years. Keep taking a single drop of water out of the Pacific Ocean each time you walk around the Earth. Once the Pacific Ocean is dry, refill it and place a single piece of paper on the ground. Keep shuffling. Keep taking billion year steps. Keep taking a drop out of the Pacific Ocean with each return to your start point. Keep refilling the Pacific Ocean once dry. Keep building your tower of paper one sheet at a time. Once your tower of paper is as tall as Mount Everest, throw it away and place a single grain of sand on a weighing scale. Don't stop shuffling. Don't stop taking a step every billion years. Don't stop emptying the Pacific Ocean and refilling it to build an Everest of paper. Don't stop throwing your paper tower away to place another grain of sand on your weighing scales. On the other side of your scale is a bull elephant. When it raises off the ground you will be half way done. To see the maths behind this, click here. (With thanks to my brother Mike, who saw a version of this which wasn't as good, rewrote chunks of it and did the maths.) comments

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Interesting Links for 20-04-2026 1. Looks like later kids get sick from their older siblings giving them diseases, decreasing their achievements in later life(tags:family disease achievement )2. Putin has sailed 121 tankers off Britain's coastline. None of them were seized(tags:UK Russia shipping )3. The seven programming ur-languages(tags:language programming history )4. Plans for huge new Edinburgh neighbourhood south of the Royal Infirmary(tags:Edinburgh housing ) comments

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Plans for huge new Edinburgh neighbourhood include student flats, hotel and shops A group of public bodies have hoped to see the site transformed for a number of years

Plans for huge new Edinburgh neighbourhood south of the Royal Infirmary

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madhadron - The seven programming ur-languages

The seven programming ur-languages

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Putin has sailed 121 tankers off Britain's coastline. None of them were seized Over 100 sanctioned vessels have passed through UK waters just 25 days after Sir Keir Starmer strenghtened powers to seize ships

Putin has sailed 121 tankers off Britain's coastline. None of them were seized

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Looks like later kids get sick from their older siblings giving them diseases, decreasing their achievements in later life

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: A review I'd been hearing talk about how good Frieren was for a while. It seemed to have come out of nowhere to instant acclaim, and to actually be about things. So a month ago, when I was looking for something to watch during the occasional 20 minutes when I get lunch alone, I thought I'd give the first episode a go. And while it didn't make me cry it came very close, and it had an atmosphere I hadn't encountered anywhere else, so I was completely grabbed from the beginning, and now that I've finished the first season I feel somewhat bereft. It is, in background, a bunch of totally standard fantasy tropes. But it does something interesting with them, which is to base itself after the point most stories end. This is the story of what happens to Frieren, an immortal* elven mage, after her adventuring party defeat The Demon King. And how she lives in a world where the friends she makes live much shorter lives than her, how she connects with the people around her, and what she does when she realises that this matters to her. There is plot, and action**, but mostly not that much of it. The point is the people, and watching them orbit each other, learn from each other, or completely fail to. The characters are interesting, and I love feeling that there is much more to most of them than is obvious on the surface. I particularly loved the first few episodes, which set everything up, but even once we get past past these in to the ongoing arc*** I have found myself looking forward to the next episode more than in almost any TV I've seen in the last decade. I suspect some people will get put off by some of the tropes, both the ones taken straight from fantasy/roleplaying and the ones that are stock anime conventions. But I could happily look past those and enjoy the meat of the show, which was excellent. I eagerly await season 2. The only nervousness I have is that the original manga has been on hiatus since October, and the creators have clearly struggled with the production schedule, so I don't know whether it will ever be completed. But, frankly, it's not (at this point) the kind of show where I need an ending, I'm delighted just to be along for the ride. * It is not clear how long elves live. But it is clearly at least thousands of years. ** And when it happens it is gorgeously animated *** I'm not sure it's a plot, as such. Things are happening, but I'm not convinced that it's going somewhere in particular more than it is just following characters around to see what they get up to. comments

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Interesting Links for 19-04-2026 1. Uruguay has the only stable, successful South American economy. Why is that?(tags:history economics SouthAmerica video )2. Europe doesn't care about the UK - we're deluded(tags:UK Europe doom )3. China's Humanoid Robots Are Now as Fast as Usain Bolt(tags:china robots running ) comments

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China’s Humanoid Robots Are Now as Fast as Usain Bolt At least two Chinese robotics companies have announced that their humanoid robots can now run at speeds of up to 10 meters per second.

China’s Humanoid Robots Are Now as Fast as Usain Bolt

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Europe doesn't care about the UK - we're deluded The story of Brexit has, in part, been one of Britain misunderstanding the European Union

Europe doesn't care about the UK - we're deluded

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Uruguay Has No Resources, But They're Rich Go to https://surfshark.com/economics or use code ECONOMICS at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! 📫 5,722+ read our…

Uruguay has the only stable, successful South American economy. Why is that?

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