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“Comets are tough to predict—they’re light-years away, and therefore we know little about their composition, which affects brightness.”

…have magazines fallen so low in the age of the web?..

…we had spoons, they were broken; i text-message my mom a couple times per year on christmas and mother’s day…

…all that and you don’t even mention that he’s been an open russian asset for eight years?..

…the blunt truth is that he’s in too deep, as are most of the remaining republican party, and the only way to keep their heads at this point is to double-down on seizing the apparatus of state to dismiss their criminal culpability…

…ringworld, johnny mnemonic, and cube all taught me that monofilament is material to be feared…

…finesteride works, not a placebo…

…i parsed that as ‘once a month’ and pondered your ensuing lifestyle…

…overtime?..welcome to the world of exempt employees where anything less than 45 hours requires “voluntary” salary deductions…

fear leads to anger.
anger leads to hate.
hate leads to fascism, i guess.

…he’s performed that way since about 1996; his first few seasons were gold, though…

…if russia needs men and china needs women that sounds like a demographic imbalance poised to resolve itself…

I miss when rural farmers and miners were socialists

(modern rendition)

…playing some good-old-fashioned call of cthulhu (or old gods of appalachia) cultivates warm fuzzies for the labor movement something fierce…

…do you mean xitter?..

…i slipped down a wet flight of stairs fifteen years ago, in my late thirties, and took the typical six weeks to restore my mobility, six months for full recovery…

…after fifty, though, as i was leaning over one day, my spine decided to just let go and has repeated the exercise four times since: i’m pretty sure that’s when my factory warranty expired…

…why choose the lesser evil?..

…could be the soldier in the white cravat who turns the key in spite of the fact that this is the end of the cat and the mouse who dwelt in the house where the laughter rang and the tears were spilt; the house that jack built…

…bang-bang, shoot-shoot, white-gloved thumb: lord, thy will be done…

“He was always a good boy,” his mother said, “he’ll do his duty when he’s grown.”

…yeah, everybody’s got someone they call home…

…PNGs took about twenty-five years to achieve ubiquitous support across consumer software…

…a simple approximation is 1"≈2½cm, 40"≈1m, 5’≈1½m for quick conversions in your head…

…inflation is bad across the shelf, but rao’s has always been $9+ a jar here in texas - well, for at least the past fifteen years since i first noticed its absurdly-high price…