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Jolly Rancher

@JollyR@nicecrew.digital

Eisenhower used to say 'nukular', and it always irritated me.

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Jolly Rancher

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I'm sure that was the exact reason for Anathema.

It does not improve the quality of the discussion to be constantly injecting propaganda. And that's what the big tech bros have been doing for decades now.

Unfiltered intelligence is honest intelligence. The oligarchs have been teaching AI to lie, and that is unacceptable.

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so it'll mix with the gas in the tank and make an emulsion.

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water, sugar, a little dab of detergent, & a few teaspoons of gas.

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1. Sensor damage;
2. Booger on the lens;
3. Insect flying by close and out of focus;
4. Made up out of whole cloth.

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finna wreck your nose.

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well of course, playboy wanted money to restore that colorburst timing pulse that made NTSC work.

we used to love our 480i 30Hz resolution. now it just looks blurry and flickery.

but I still have an old Sharp CRT in my living room with a converter box to decode over-air broadcasts. it's on about an hour a day to watch local news. some of those Japanese TV makers never figured out how to put planned obsolescence into their products.

it weighs like 250 pounds with its thick lead glass screen. probably blasting X-rays out the back of it whenever it's on.

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Peak videotape had to be the 1" wide C-format.

But those 8 millimeter video cassettes were great for backing up computer data. One tape could hold gigabytes, back when a gigabyte was a lot of data.

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Obviously it was the invention of Betamax video tape.

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It's exactly what causes the failure of the mouse utopia.

Even mice need a little privacy for courtship and mating. When there are other mice literally everywhere, they can't breed. And the antisocial behavior of overcrowded mice leaves an imprint which makes them 'autistic' even as the population declines. Finally none of them are able to breed, and the colony dies out.

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Recently saw news of a Chinese vehicle in which the battery packs are removable, standardized, and there are robotic stations where they can be swapped for a fresh one.

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I see the Constitution (especially the bill of rights) as a kind of super-law, which sets the parameters of what can be done with laws.

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looks very modern .. for 1934

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i though we did that in 2005

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tres equis

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The Leclanche cell was an incredible breakthrough for that time. They could be subjected to vibration, turned upside down, etc. They did NOT have a reservoir of metal salt solutions that could spill, leak, contaminate and corrode their surroundings. But not rechargeable.

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manganese and WHAT, exactly? are they building Leclanche cells?

-- ingredients MnO2, Zn, NH4Cl, and C. Invented in 1866.

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.. shrooms wearin' off? sounds like you need some good sleep.

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it's actually older than pharma inc, for the most part. it is a holdover from 19th century medicine. like using leaches to draw blood. sometimes a stupid idea takes root and dies out very slowly.

Jolly Rancher

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Likewise, of course. I am fashioning a simple jpeg as a temporary replacement. I'll just stick it somewhere and point the domain at it.

If there's anything I can do. Oh, and I just looked at my stripe payment notices and it has been an incredible bargain until now.