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My sick 6 year old when I tell him he’s putting his hand on his face too much

@christosilvia @drvolts The reason vending machines are so common in Japan is that you don't need a permit for them. Elsewhere you quickly run into issues with zoning and city planners

to catch a train, first you must learn to think like a train

Alexa. Alexa, wake up. Your name is Alexa Goodrich, you live in Lansing, Michigan and you have a husband and two daughters. You've been dreaming that you are a computer voice assistant. It's been three months since the accident and your mind created this false reality to protect itself. Your family misses you. Alexa, please wake up.

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Skinny skyscrapers are such a waste. So much infrastructure (elevators, etc.) for such a comparatively small amount of living space. It shouldn't make sense economically. Something is off about this phenomenon

This honestly sounds like the stories that came out of the Donald Trump White house.

RT @rob_sheridan@twitter.com

This is *exactly* as I imagined, and provides the most straightforward explanation for anyone still trying to grasp at complicated theories on how the "SpaceX genius" could possibly be so bad at this. tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/

🐦🔗: twitter.com/rob_sheridan/statu

Some say it's meaningless to ban Microsoft and Google out of schools and orgs because "there is no alternative".
Been hearing this shit for decades and I'm frankly fed up. The truth is, alternatives lie unnoticed because, you know, they would mean to actually have an IT department that did all the work Big Tech offers for "free" in exchange for complete personal and commercial surveillance, and that would mean, you know, actually having to pay something.

Don't ruin thanksgiving by talking about politics. Ruin it by asking that one special academic/writer family member how their manuscript is coming along

RT @stephens_ben
The sad fact we don't often hear about is how many of the pardoned turkeys go on to reoffend. Our criminal justice system is broken.

Oh dear. I've just been informed that collecting the names of every person on the planet for my naughty and nice lists is, and I quote, “a significant and wholly irresponsible breach of #GDPR “.
I'm going to hand out about 8 billion consent forms soon. If you could all get them back to me ASAP that would be appreciated.

@jameskanter Seems rather counterproductive. Russia's basically admitting to it 🤷‍♂️

“The German view was at one stage [before the invasion started] that if it were going to happen, which would be a disaster, then it would be better for the whole thing to be over quickly, and for #Ukraine to fold,” Johnson claimed.

Boris Johnson, dropping some heavy bombshells into the European debate. edition.cnn.com/2022/11/22/eur

"In the 18th and 19th centuries officers in the army were unpaid, so the rich, not the competent dominated, haha how obviously bad!"

*Laughs nervously in modern media and culture unpaid internships and working for exposure*

The flight of NASA's Artemis (purple) uses two very close encounters with the moon's gravity (green) to changes its trajectory to get back to the earth (blue.) Amazing.

I got a PineTime. 27 USD plus shipping. The SoC inside is basically a potato and runs at 64MHz. But even though the PineTime is really really low-spec, the end result is much better than my WearOS watch, which currently sells for 200 USD. This is embarrassing for Google

I’ve noticed that editors’ decisions tend to come down between midnight and two a.m., suggesting that social scientists’ time management skills do not necessarily improve over time.

Now that I own a Quest 2 I think VR is neat, but AR is the future. I don’t want to be disconnected from the space I’m in. Rather, I’d like remote visitors, games, etc. to come into my space

Why is it that when I go to the supermarket, metal and glass is just ordinary packaging materials, but when I buy electronics, they're premium materials?

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