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Hi there! I’m just a guy looking for a place to be and stuff.

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“I teleported home one night, With Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie’s heart away, And I got Sidney’s leg.” - The Teleportation Blues

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“You have much pain… share it with me.”

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Nice! I’m going to have a look at my old HS yearbook and see who’s opposite page…

“Future Farmers of America”

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“It’s the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that’s not important right now.”

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“What role did you get? How did you get it?”

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“You want me to play a robot? But I want to show off my acting range!”

“Don’t worry, you’ll also get to play two other robots and a couple of old guys!”

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“Replicator, give me a slice of mushroom pizza.”

“Hot or cold.”

“Hot.”

“Space-warping travel mushrooms or the ones that grow on old logs.”

“Uh, the log ones I guess.”

“Coward.”

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Hold my 401k, I’m goin’ in!

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“Please count to 10.”

“… um, I’ve run out of fingers.”

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“Aaass yoooou–” squish

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“You already reversed the polarity? All right, but did you really? Let’s do it one more time while we’re on the phone together… oh, it’s working now? Yeah, that is weird, goodbye.”

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dabs corners of mouth with a cloth napkin

erupt like Vesuvius

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Sweet or dill?

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“Paige, yes!”

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I can’t remember which model it was, but wasn’t there a MacBook Pro that had 4 USB-C ports, only two of which supported Thunderbolt? Want to connect your monitor to the right side of the machine? Well… tough shit, I guess.

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“What is… a ‘Puppy Bowl?’”

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Is an ass-wagon something you’d use to haul ass?

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Months later…

Tuvok: “Captain, I must object…”

Janeway: “Ugh, I should have left you in Tuvix.”

Tuvok: “… I beg your pardon?”

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“If you think that is bad, you should see what he did to my brothers. Why are you laughing, that was a genuine request.”

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Tuvix learned too late that giving speeches doesn’t solve anything (unless you’re a captain).

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What a relief, I’d hate to think those files ended up in the wrong paws hands.

Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier ... (news.osu.edu)

Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier …::In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain...

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You’re not wrong, but people also die of behaviors that stem from loneliness. I’d suggest it’s not a complete waste to examine.

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water::A new solar desalination system takes in saltwater and heats it with natural sunlight. The system flushes out accumulated salt, so replacement parts aren’t needed often, meaning the system could potentially produce drinking water that is cheaper than...

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Apparently they solved the issue of how to keep the waste salt from clogging up the system.

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RS-23ewwwww

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“Wait, he’s got the trombone out – BACK TO FIRING AT WILL!”

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All the things the cops would want this bot to do are prohibited by rules or by the potential for public outrage; no facial recognition, no offensive capabilities, it’s basically just a camera drone. But that will change when the rules change, or when people stop paying attention… if this thing can avoid being trashed for more then ten minutes after it’s deployed.

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Gorn Captain wasn’t doing it for me, I have to admit.

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“Whoa, this thing is trashed, it’s basically useless now.”

Condition: Untested

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Hope the lifestyle comes together!

Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why (www.livescience.com)

Black holes keep ‘burping up’ stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don’t know why::Years after ripping stars to shreds, 24 black holes suddenly flared up with radio waves in inexplicable ‘burping’ bouts. Half of all star-killing black holes may experience the same.

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Partly it’s convenience, but I think the main reason is you can get cheddar and bacon flavored spray cheese.

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Nailed it.

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“Dammit kid, take the deal – we really need that cream cheese back here.”

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“This… is a warrior’s bird.”

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In the grimdark future there can be no grass roots, only astroturf.

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“All right fellow rebels… now that we’ve all infiltrated the Empire by joining as Storm Troopers, it’s time to enact our plan.”

“Aim to miss, sir?”

“You’re goddamn right.”

'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out. (www.businessinsider.com)

‘Where ambition goes to die’: These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they’re desperate to get out.::Drawn by the promise of an emerging tech hub, some tech workers who flocked to Austin found a middling tech scene, subpar culture, and scorching heat.

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Silicon Valley is where all the VCs are. They make a lot of their funding decisions based on whether they like hanging around with a founder or not. You’re more likely to get money out of them if you’re fun to drink beers with than if you have a great business plan.

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“Insert 400 tokens.”

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Feel free to correct me if I’ve misunderstood your point, but are you saying that “Greece” in a historical context is not a unitary entity? But how can that be so when the very thing that creates this “unbroken line of Greekdom” you refer to is the the entire concept of a “History of Greece” that reaches back thousands of years in the first place?

If there is no unitary Greek identity that reaches back from the present to the Greeks of the past, then a history of Greece that includes the Roman conquest, the Ottomans, Byzantium, would be absurd (and shame on the Wikizens for including it in one conceptual lump as well, I guess).

You could say the same of Britain after 1066, or France after Henry VI. Or of Egypt after the merging of the kingdoms, or after the Ptolomys, etc; and yet most Egyptians would push back at the suggestion that there is no direct line from the age of pharaohs to the present day.

Being a nation with the same name, occupying at least a portion of its original geography, populated by many of the decedents of the same people – well, that grants a country some pretty big ontological leeway. Who gets to decide whether the Greeks of today share the history and are of a piece with their ancient predecessors? Well the Greeks do, presumably. I mean, that’s just the way I see it, I might be off on a wild tangent for all I know.

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It’s a good example of how people’s morals vary greatly based on their present situation, rather than being some kind of deeply held, unchanging foundation. What people believe is good and bad is largely a function of where they happen to be at the moment.

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ring

“Hi Jeff, this is Terry from Paramount, and–”

“Yes.”

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I know this will date me, but that straight up looks like an “If They Mated” photo of David Coverdale and Tawny Kitaen.

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Millions of miles of complex nanowire circuitry… not one single 30 amp fuse.

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fire everyone + break everything = the everything app

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“I’ve had one of my trademark changes of heart.”

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LOL, Niven is a classic silver-age scifi writer, and freely admits “If something is worth selling, it’s worth selling multiple times.” I got into his Known Space stories and Star Trek at almost the same time, so I’m fine with it, but I’m not really an objective judge.

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Tres Bien!

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