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Yet another, "Oh, I read about that on bluesky/reddit/saw it on youtube a week ago."

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Whoops, that didn't go to the specific episode with the simulation. You want the one labeled "Dry Falls".

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www.nickzentner.com/pbs-nick-on-...

This has a simulation imposed on the modern landscape (and a fleeing RV) of what the floods were estimated to look like. A very conservative estimate (likely larger).

BTW, Nick Zentner is a Washington state treasure. All of his stuff is super awesome.

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A lot of people (like me) just don't answer phone calls from numbers they don't recognize. I don't know if those people tend to skew politically.

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I sincerely hope you never have to decide between a shitty job like this and having no money to pay for the things you need for your family's survival.

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Strange that people would willingly work in such dire circumstances for luxuries like food and health insurance.

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social chooseAncestry Gnome

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social
chooseAncestry Gnome

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He claims it was a joke and that he never actually did it.

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You mean it's not? I thought that was the joke.

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"recognize limits on their power"... huh

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Oh, come on, we all know that if the train doesn't get you at the crossing, it will chase you though the woods.

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Apparently someone put me on two lists (a moron list and a fascist list) for using "they" as a singular pronoun. Proud to be on those lists.

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The rules include not having sex even if you are married, and families will be split up, with men and women/children being housed in separate facilities. You are also expected to work at jobs assigned by the organization. It's not clear if there is any pay for this work.

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That's an even worse example. Human language is full of shaded meaning, sarcasm, coded language, and inside jokes, especially when humans are trying to disguise something. AI is terrible at dealing with stuff like that.

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A woman who lived in the area told me that before the big eruption, the people who had property up near Spirit Lake were all riled up that the rumblings were part of a government plot to make people evacuate so their land could be seized. Seems crazy, but Close Encounters came out a few years before

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OMG, please leave it for those of us who love seafood.

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Yeah, but they don't have any sort of support. If you want shoe like support, you gotta bring your own.

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Some of those blamers are in denial that they live where historical lahars from Tahoma (Rainier) have run before.

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They used the fig leaf of "bad test scores" for the school they had been assigned to, but of all the solutions that were put forth, the only ones most were willing to accept were to be assigned to a majority white school, regardless of "test scores".

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That's not true. We had a year here in Seattle when enrollment was way up, and a lot of students that were in the borders of a majority white school had to get allocated to a majority black school (ironically MLKJr Elementary) that had a lot of spaces. Uproar ensued with many white families refusing

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Yeah, I follow him here too, but he doesn't post. :(

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Landlords. They'll buy the totally cheapest option, no matter if it costs the tenants far more to run it than the savings on the appliance.

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None of my husband's texts end up on my macs. Mine end up on them because I turned that on. I note frequently that texts that I read on one device don't always get marked read on all of them in a timely manner (or at all).

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It is self-interest. They are quite likely correct in that viewing medical care as a right to be provided as a public good is a crack in the dam. The fact that they provide it to those they employ tends to shackle those employees to such companies, which is extremely valuable.

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Reset how old you are, using a vague proxy: My parents let me stay up way past my bedtime to watch the first moonwalk.

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Go Dolly!

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Very cool. Do the GPS sensors have to be a specific type, or would it be possible to incorporate CWU's PANGA network into the early warning system?

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I thought mail fraud had to involve mailing things USPS. Email counts these days?

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Hasn't been happening where I live. That would be very distressing cuz us old farts need our meds.

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Assholes? The car recently got towed for illegally parking in a handicapped spot.

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What? They don't do that here!

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Ah, the cutting off your nose to spite your face tactic. I'm sure that will work.

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Harney's hot cinnamon spice. The spices make it sweet without any sugar.

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Putting on the 🍿, anybody else want some?

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My God, what a fucking moron.

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Agreed. I fear that down the road it will end up like phen-fen with a lot of people harmed who really didn't have the conditions to justify the risk of taking it.

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So... who is covering these losses?

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For people who chose to take it up, yes, you can't reason them out of it. But I've seen it happen quite often with those raised in it. They grow up, realize what they were taught was idiotic bunk, and discard it.

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The ones they had at my college were 200MB (around 1985). My operating systems textbook had an algorithm for sorting data held on multiple 8/9 track tapes. These would hold ballpark around 100-150MB of data. The IBM XT was released in 1983 and had a 10MB hard drive.

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I don't believe Biden did anything to cause inflation, that was going to happen anyway due to people who had a job through covid piling up tons of cash they then wanted to spend, which then knocked its way through the economy. I'm not sure what Biden could have done to stop that.

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No one was searched inside the Capitol, because the emphasis was on keeping people out and getting them out once they were in there. But there are photos, such as one of the "zip tie guy" that appears to show a loaded holster on his right hip.

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www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

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Besides, ash depositions travel for hundreds if not thousands of miles, they certainly wouldn't have established the exclusion zones based on that or they would have had to evacuate millions of people.

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He was not. You can see his location on this map, it was outside of both the red and blue zones. Only 3 people were known to have died inside the exclusions zones, all inside the red zone. Two were geologists who had requested permission, and the other was that idiot Harry Truman.

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It was not a well established blast zone. He was two ridges away from the mountain, it was expected to be safe there. We didn't know then what we know now.

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Because they despise the people who support them too, and those people take it with, "Please, suh, hit me again!"

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Fine bridge, right here, recently renovated, we expect a bidding war, but for you, my fine friend, I'm willing to cut you a good deal.

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Yeah, move those goalposts. First it was "nobody brought guns to the 'protest'" and now it's "nobody brought guns into the Capitol Building". If you believe they all went "oh, no, we should leave the guns outside", then I have a bridge to sell you.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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