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A proper nerdish "correcting to be polite": Serbia and Montenegro called itself the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003.

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I had a music appreciation class in college where the screen projector was doing that high-pitched squealing, and worst of all the squeal was always out of tune with the music!

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It's probably not practical for this trip, but for future reference, I've found that Mindfold sleep masks work well with CPAP masks, since the foam can compress around the CPAP.

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On a day that's a federal holiday in the US and a general election in the UK, so ability to get hold of lawyers quickly is probably limited.

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Even though etymologically it really should be "millows".

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I remember visiting the UK in the late 70s and being astonished when we visited a shared house and it actually had a payphone.

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That's what "Postpone Indefinitely" at the preliminary business meeting is for.

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Have you seen www.soniccenter.org/sm/mtg/megac...? Requires not one but *two* levels of special notation that go beyond exponentiation.

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Florida is the material that has eroded off the Appalachians over the last 30 million years or so.

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Toronto Transit Commission

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If I'm parsing the etymology right it's literally "crap at summer"

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Boston compares itself to New York, Washington DC compares itself to New York, Toronto compares itself to New York; New York compares itself to London and Paris.

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Alexander Technique also lets you conquer the Persian Empire and half of India before you're thirty!

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Later in life, Hellboy decided that his name just wasn't plausible at the age of 57, had it legally changed, and a few years later got into the condiment business. The rest... is sandwich history.

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Is this public, or is this one of the things you keep private to keep people from gaming its corner-cases?

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You can see how she already resembles her adult self.

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I imagine the fact that "discoteque" a) tends to be a cognate and b) makes you sound cool significantly increases its frequency in language learning classes.

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In 2000 I was (already) friends with @davidhsiegel.bsky.social, whose parents were fairly heavily involved in the Palm Beach County Democratic Party. I've definitely made clear plans to fix that election in the "mental time travel" scenario.

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At those numbers the Corbynites could schism off New Labour and become the official opposition...

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It looks so much like how a car would have been rendered on a PlayStation 1 that it surprises me when the tires are round.

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Zero Wing - with the original translation

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I think "these are weirdass Acadians" and "they're evolving to be less picky" are two ways of looking at the same concept.

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I hope there's some procedure by which they can reject attempts to DoS the docket...

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My attitude is, how is it substantially different from passively watching a stranger play baseball?

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It let them fix the seriously sucky ending of the Donna season.

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The film that shows Miyazaki thought that one the thing Totoro was missing was airships.

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No, their amplification of hard-right content is entirely human-curated.

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Airline computer systems are direct descendants of the original ticketing systems in the 50s, and they haven't re-done their data formats. Also why they can't handle names with anything other than unaccented letters. (E.g. no hyphens, apostrophes, etc. either.)

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Because the Yiddish "korn" is "grain", apparently.

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Also, fewer outdoor pets, so this may be unpopular.

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But that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right, Charlie Brown?

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Oh, you wanted to be *inside* the airplane!

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I'm pretty sure the Sun goes nova and engulfs both the Earth and the Moon before that happens, though.

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This is not made up, these are the actual locations of the earthquakes' epicenters as shown on usgs.gov.

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I think not in the UK, but this is a US report, so that's okay.

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I've now gone down a rabbit hole trying to work out whether "story" and "transitory" actually rhyme in all dialects of English.

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I feel like you could have bargained them into an assault charge against Karen. Then they'd have something to do in the courtroom!

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Need more necromancers to reverse the trend.

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The nanoprobes impersonated the CIA and hired Oswald.

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The songwriter came up with the line when his flight was stuck in a holding pattern during a night arrival at JFK.

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Does this support their "Print Anywhere" cloud printing service? Forwarding your data to their cloud server so it can connect to your printer certainly seems like it might need a pretty broad license, and then add additional services like "format this JPEG into whatever format the printer needs"...

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