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the_nybbler 6 points ago +6 / -0

Apparently this is how it got started -- our "victim" referred to himself as the new Jackie Robinson. Obviously being that full of yourself is going to make you a target.

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the_nybbler 3 points ago +3 / -0

"The Black Hole" wasn't great in 1979, and I doubt it's aged well.

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the_nybbler 21 points ago +21 / -0

Ah, yes, Ruby Ridge. Where ATF tricked a man into cutting a shotgun barrel 1/4" too short, then the courts fucked around with his court dates, then when he didn't show up to the court date which had changed without adequate notice, the FBI went and killed his wife, who was armed with an assault baby at the time. That Ruby Ridge?

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the_nybbler 2 points ago +2 / -0

They're 9M22S submunitions, which have a magnesium casing. They've been using them all over the place, including places they don't make sense. Like at the Mariupol steel plant. If there's anything that can handle being shot with burning metal, it's a steel plant.

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the_nybbler 4 points ago +4 / -0

All it's going to do there is jam the hammers, I'm pretty sure. If you want that grenade to go off you have to hit the pointy end really hard.

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the_nybbler 8 points ago +8 / -0

The portrayal of Viking slavery is wrong. They had it, yes, but the idea that a slave was always a slave and would never be set free because they were considered inherently inferior is bullshit. Not sure if that was a "slavery is bad, mmkay" message or just an error. That they portray the gates of Hel as hot is a pretty bad error; I mean, that's fucking Norse Myth 101 -- all the bad stuff is cold.

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the_nybbler 3 points ago +4 / -1

Not really, no. Programmers are to computer science what engineers are to science. The "mechanic" job is mostly done by machines, some by IT and ops.

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the_nybbler 10 points ago +10 / -0

Not women, but one particular woman, Lady (Nancy) Astor. Though like Yogi Berra, it's likely he didn't say everything he said.

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the_nybbler 26 points ago +26 / -0

Ben Franklin, whose "Poor Richard's Almanac" was full of pithy quotes. Lots of them serious, but then you have stuff like "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." or “Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”

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the_nybbler 3 points ago +3 / -0

Unfair, hell. Come up with that pill and I'll go down to CNN HQ and personally pill them all.

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the_nybbler 6 points ago +6 / -0

The idea is apparently that the kids are supposed to do the math, and that tells them the answer to the narrative; that is, they aren't given the reading ahead of time.

I rather doubt that's how it's actually done.

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the_nybbler 5 points ago +5 / -0

Yeah, he's real, his name is Quentin Hosea Merritt and he's one of about 2200 winners of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I would assume an affirmative action awardee.

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the_nybbler 4 points ago +4 / -0

Oreos
Ho Hos
Eggplant
Eggs
Char siu bau (check the hot bar)
Banana
Wonder Bread
Mustard seed
Sauerkraut
Brownie mix
Coconut
Ginger
Macaroni
Pepsi
Pineapple
Pork Chops
Potatoes / Spuds
Turnips

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the_nybbler 7 points ago +7 / -0

Naa, this is BS. Standardized tests are the best way you know they're teaching at least some of the basics and not 100% "black power queer drag queen hour".

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