cardiffspaceman

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Comment · 23 days ago
Hamilton didn’t waste her shot
Comment · 29 days ago
I’m not sure why the abbreviations were used. California and China.
Comment · 1 month ago
> will erase literally any crime.

It would be a shame if your car ended up in the the subduction zone

Comment · 2 months ago
Can we put Bezos on a PIP?
Comment · 2 months ago
I used to fantasize about using computers to print stuff. I ended up at a little company that made desktop publishing software. While I was employed there, I went on vacation in Chicago and found myself in the basement of the former Donnelly printing plant where Sears-Robuck catalogs were printed. They had an exhibit of old printing presses, and at least one of them functioned. The docent told small groups how they worked. I told him my occupation, and he played off me as he lectured. He printed a souvenir for me, a little bit of paper with “Quality isn’t quick” written on it. Except there was an upside down ‘n’ where a ‘u’ belonged.

The organization used an antique letterpress to print up invitations for weddings and such.

Comment · 3 months ago
From USA, one mainly needs WhatsApp to chat with Latin Americans. Judging from the billboards I have seen in Argentina and Uruguay, there are a lot of Latin Americans getting WA free. So of course, why pay more?
Comment · 4 months ago
The video of the assassination of the UHC executive revealed to one viewer that the assassin had practiced thoroughly, because when the gun jammed the assassin recovered deftly.

I wonder how a would-be striker could do this work while factoring in the goalie behavior.

Comment · 4 months ago
I kept thinking of the sketch in which contestants in a quiz contest attempt to summarize Proust. IYKYK.
Comment · 4 months ago
The question marks are because it’s practically a trope that the most interesting subjects disguise their importance by driving Civics and such.
Comment · 4 months ago
West Asia is a less Eurocentric than “Orient” or “Middle East.” I like it.
Comment · 4 months ago
I told someone about UBI and they hadn’t heard of it, 4 or 5 years ago, despite being an executive at a charity that is supposed to help people with food money.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
On the other hand, sometimes the naive approach does work. I bought something from a Ukrainian via Kickstarter, and expected that some sort of difficulty would emerge, but no, it did not. From the tracking information, it appears that from his location, it was handed over to the Post, and it went through the usual steps to me in California.

In fact there was one unusual event, compared to my daily experience, which was an event that blew the windows of his shop. So he divided his works across multiple locations for geographical diversity and carried on.

Comment · 5 months ago
The capitalists who own them shut them down.
Comment · 5 months ago
If your NASCAR car had a sticker, you’d have ad money from STP/Pennzoil/RainX/whatever.

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