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10 months
@ScottAdamsSays When I was at NASA (GARP group) fifty years ago they’d run their models against the quietest months of the year then compare the predictions against the true weather. Then they’d patch until it matched. By then another test month was ready. They run that and all the problems
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@engineers_feed Do t remember this exactly. Stranded on an island one can of food. Engineer wants to sharpen rock to open it. Chemist wants to heat it up until it bursts. Etc. Economist says “assume a can opener.”
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@austin_rief Knew someone (now deceased) who was like this. It was pretty amazing. He had a ring of keys and a telephone test thing on his belt. He’d walk into any company say he was there to fix the phone system (something was always broken) and they’d let him in. One time I challenged him
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@ScottAdamsSays Expensive motivated horoscopes.
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@austin_rief OK. One more story. Same guy (and this was for 40 years ago… He said he’d go into a hotel with two conventions going on, enter one, and sit down for a free meal. Usually nobody asked, and he could talk about anything to anybody. If someone DID ask, he say he was supposed to
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@VDHanson McAfee is running for election in an area where the locals would support keeping Willis. He should have recused himself as this being a conflict of interest.
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@PrisonPlanet God called and wanted his rainbow back? Someone discovered that pride and shame are NOT opposites?
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@VDHanson They will just reverse their position an hour before the next election and all will be forgotten.
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@JeremyClarkson @ct56543 Never moan? Doesn’t that eliminate most Brits?
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@henningwehn I’m neither but heard 200+ bagpipes (at the same time) at the Edinburgh Tattoo. That was a sound to behold.
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@MsBlaireWhite Back in 1969 the objective was to go to the moon. In 2024 the objective is to go to meetings all day and avoid all accountability and responsibility.
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@JeremyClarkson Born and raised in NYC and I agree with you. Been to London from CA many times just for lunch or a concert. But. If the UK is really imprisoning people for thought crimes or silently praying we can no longer visit. Too risky.
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@atensnut Now we know where to send all those celebrities leaving the county if Trump wins.
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@ScottAdamsSays And we get to see what became of all that stuff we left in Afghanistan.
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@stevegalaxius @austin_rief Never said English. 😁 Forgot the best part. We were walking along a street when this piece of paper with a map of the hotel blew by. Probably discarded by some convention attendant. He grabbed it saying these were invaluable as it showed all the back ways in the hotel which is
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@NoContextBrits Was always curious why the Welsh speak Klingon.
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@ScottAdamsSays I thought Biden looked better than expected. Didn’t code out on stage. Didn’t burst into flames. Ground didn’t open up and drag him to Hell (now that would have set the Atheists back a bit). Vaguely disappointing.
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@SoVeryBritish This is why I drink my tea out of the toilet.
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10 months
@davidhogg111 Staten Island Ferry. Round trip free. Great scenery.
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@RealAlexJones I’m still rooting for gross incompetence, because if this turns out to be a government sanctioned assassination attempt, the whole gov’t needs to be shutdown bottom to top, and the system “rebooted.” The main argument “for” is that no private or professional group could have
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@NoContextBrits It isn’t France?
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@PrisonPlanet Maybe 30 years ago, someone asked me what I thought transportation would be be like in 50 years. I said horse and buggy. Being right isn’t all roses.
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@PicturesFoIder Well everybody makes mistakes. But the biggest one here is that they didn’t test their answer by plugging the answer into the original equation to see if it’s correct. Anything not tested doesn’t work. Always.
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@NoContextBrits Agreed. Pet food costs more than people food.
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@OliLondonTV Who approved it and who publicized it?
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@CaseyMeansMD @RobertKennedyJr @WSJ Took quite some effort but I got a copy. To help boost sales. Here it is. And a cat.
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@katieroseof Have. Twice.
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@SaysSimulation “Rebranding” shows who is running the joint now.
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@RealJamesWoods View from mine. Nobody said life was fair.
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@ScottAdamsSays Think this answers your question.
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9 months
@SoVeryBritish “Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like the play?”
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11 months
@megynkelly Speed this up please. My plane lands in 90 minutes and I’d hate to miss the ending.
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1 year
@megynkelly @nypost Any questions? Hat tip to Trey Parker the smartest person on earth (had to be somebody - bet you didn’t guess him).
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@ScottAdamsSays One would almost think the verdict was decided already.
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@Rothmus Cardinal rule of sales - don’t waste time on prospects that aren’t going to buy.
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5 months
@YayAreaNews “Zionist mob”? Clickbaitng, are we?
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10 months
@JamesOKeefeIII @DHSgov While we’re on the subject of hell, check this out.
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1 year
@MartinSLewis @bbc5live And if you’re still holding it and where you are?
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1 year
@megynkelly Perhaps if every one of these tragedies weren’t sensationalized by the media there’d be fewer copycats? But what the hey? What’s a few lives in exchange for ratings?
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@archer_rs Drive straight across roundabouts too.
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@SoVeryBritish As bad as it all is it pales into comparison to taking on the self checkout devils from the spawn of hell, I mean kiosks.
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@TCNetwork @megynkelly She is of course 200% correct. The real question is how do we fix this? Things may have just gone too far so perhaps WW3 nuclear war is the modern Noah’s Flood. Allegedly cockroaches will survive it so maybe it’s their turn.
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@SoVeryBritish Ask anyone to say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
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@PicturesFoIder The screaming of whoever he put in there?
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@SoVeryBritish Nicknames define your life. Charles is the quiet intelligent intellectual one. Chuck is your buddy. Charlie has the lampshade on his head while drunk at parties. Unavoidable.
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@DonaldTNews Make a lowball offer on their houses.
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@EndWokeness He is toast but the teleprompter guy should be fired. They ought to have realized he’s going to read everything presented. Or it’s a superb practical joke.
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@Tantacrul @Meta Hey long time. 😀 I keep on telling people that the basic problem with UI is that the people who develop it don’t have to use it. So it invariably sucks. Cost, time constraints, outsourcing, use of crappy open source code. Buggy, infuriating, and atrocious. But now it’s become
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@susie_dent That’s because in those days capital letters WERE USED LESS. Oh. Soz.
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@niahxoxo8 Safety in numbers. 😀
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@MartinSLewis Nobody understands Excel but that doesn’t stop them from using it. 😁
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@SoVeryBritish Late as in the late dent Arthur dent. It’s a bit of a threat.
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@SoVeryBritish Did I use five bullets or six? Are you feeling lucky, cun Don’t blame me. This was your idea.
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@Skyriderrrr @EndWokeness Who approved it and who publicized it?
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@SoVeryBritish Five calories per serving. Serving size one molecule.
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@jakeshieldsajj Alls I can say is I’m so glad I’m out of the gene pool. I weep for you youngins.
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@RedTeamTactics Years ago there was this great, probably true story about Computer Associates. Unsure if they are even still in business but if not they would buy other companies products and more or less wreck them with lack of support and enhancements. Anyway the story is that the CEO watched
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@JamesOKeefeIII @DHSgov “Straight to hell”? Want to rethink that? 😁
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@BillOReilly From a distance the Aunt Bea analogy is a good one. In real life though the actress was completely humorless, detested her often drunk cast member associates, and especially hated Andy Griffith. Seriously. Look it up.
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@Komaniecki_R Worst show tech ever too. This argument is a subset of the end of every research paper ever written, to wit, “give us more money.”
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@ScottAdamsSays The issue isn’t whether elections can be hacked. The issue is that nobody cares. If they did, and had some power, it wouldn’t happen (as much). Stores could always be robbed. It was only when there was no repercussions that robberies increased.
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@MrAndyNgo Just another High School age disappointment in its formative stage.
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@megynkelly I understand that you’re in the business of growing and maintaining an audience so that you can buy your family’s groceries but at some point in humanity’s interest y’all have to stop giving these folks airtime no matter how scintillating their nonsense is.
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@DC_Draino Oh for the love of I’ll give you two. How do you figure five? Bad case of Celebrity worship?
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@MrJamesMay Is the bicycle saddle on top nouveau cuisine?
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@rickygervais That explains it.
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@SoVeryBritish Call someone who was born in Ireland, now living in London for years with a posh accent, British.
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@RepLuna Interoffice mail broken again? Email filters on broil? That’s some fingernail by the way.
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@bariweiss Seems simple and straightforward to me. What part of “the whole planet will be under our laws” don’t you get?
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@JamesOKeefeIII Nice plane. Hope your autopilot is engaged.
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@MikeSington Don’t feel bad. She can buy a country full of children.
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@megynkelly One might recall the French revolutionists attempting to redefine everything right down to the calendar and time. How did that work out?
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@seanmdav More reliable than the phones we have now.
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@ggreenwald Whenever I hear about “death with honor,” I reply “you first.” Life is cheap - especially everyone else’s.
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@ScottAdamsSays Don’t know about you but I’m well tired of people calling Trump Hitler. Can’t they break it up a bit? Call him Stalin, or Pol Pot, or Gengis Kahn, whoever, just t o break up the monotony?
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@BillOReilly Christie commenting on another’s conduct is the funniest thing I heard all day.
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@susie_dent Kind of forms the basis of all scripture - “The Lord said…”
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@OliLondonTV Who approved it and who publicized it?
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@ChrisRamsey60 Electrician. Can’t be outsourced. Unlike plumbing you don’t have to clean out sewers. Unlike carpentry you’ll still have your limbs and fingers at day’s end. Ditto welding. HVAC and solar are good scams but some manual labor is required and ducts are sharp. If you’re blonde
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@ScottAdamsSays If you’re basing your vote on “feelings,” there’s no point in arguing.
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@SoVeryBritish I’d argue but I’m too busy cleaning the kitchen.
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@24hrVicky Tan line. Must be getting old.
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@VDHanson Sadly he likely wouldn’t. Pity, as the concept of mutually assured destruction seems to have escaped the Dems.
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@SoVeryBritish Not to worry. Soon, everything will be out of stock permanently, making shopping quicker and easier if somewhat pointless.
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@VDHanson So again, now what?
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@ScottAdamsSays It’s much worse than that. The exact same ones are all the company HR VP’s. While everyone noticed Soros DA’s nobody thought to look for these. What else is out there?
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@SoVeryBritish Mental Get it down ya. Haven’t heard pear shaped in awhile. Had it been cancelled?
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@Rothmus Old story. Costal arrogance is nothing new.
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@VDHanson Societies are always divided into the haves and have-nots. Few realize our true division though. It isn’t rich/poor, white/other, liberal/conservative. etc. it’s entertainers/audience. I’ll not bore you with the myriad perks of the entertainer class but they are there.
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@RobertKennedyJr Can one Ctrl-Alt-Delete a mosquito?
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@nettermike They don’t want cars at all. Thus new unused bicycle lanes everywhere.
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@SoVeryBritish Unsure whether I’d put “blaze” and “Tesla” in the same sentence. Just sayin’.
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@LydiaRose2x Shoes too small
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Behold our sumptuous corn crop.
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@elonmusk Wish ours in Cameron Park, CA with a “business class” Starlink dish was as good. Wife ponders moving to Ireland if the election goes the wrong way so I guess I’ve something to look forward to.
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@ScottAdamsSays I’ve said for years that the advertising “model” was always a version of the emperor’s new clothes- even before the internet. Companies spending billions to place ineffective ads for people with no money.
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@qikipedia And there are no straight lines.
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