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I saw a sign that said "oppose defunding the police".

Do you want antidisestablishmentarianism? Because this is how you get antidisestablishmentarianism.

Remember WAIS?

I don't think I ever got to see it working, just tantalizing descriptions.

This year: the final season.

Next year: the final season, part 2

Bitch, what?

Alice: That does seem risky. Why do you do that?

Bruce: My parents were killed in front of me by a mugger when I was a child. I swore to fight a personal war on crime.

Alice: Hmm. Tell me more about your parents.

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Alice: I want you to know that everything you say here is confidential and this is not a place of judgement. Now, what's bothering you?

Bruce: My friends are worried that I'm taking too many risks.

Alice: What kinds of risks?

Bruce: I dress up in costume and fight crime.

So, it looks like post-COVID we will see a lot of office jobs go to work from home. Remote work is going to be a lot more popular.

However, schools will probably drop remote learning like a hot rock.

It's probably worth pondering why remote work works and remote school doesn't.

Note: I have secondary lists for WST-adjacenct bots and for Suns that RT so heavily that their RTs overwhelm the list.

(Online)

Alice: you seem cute.

Bob: I'm a minor, weirdo!

Alice: my daughter is looking for a boyfriend.

Can anyone identify this beetle and tell me how to get him out of my house.

On the one hand, yeah, the US government has done some bad things, and those are great examples.

On the other hand, no RTs for tankies.

Good news though: the lantern I got while COVID prepping works really nicely.

(The battery powered one. Don't use a gas lantern indoors.)

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My ISP says there's an outage and it's taking them longer than expected to restore service.

That's because the whole neighborhood has no power.

Thought experiment: We're going to create a micro-black hole. It has to be held in an electromagnetic field; If it ever escapes, it will sink into the earth's core and slowly devour the planet.

Your job is to design a power system for the electromagnets. Zero downtime.

What do you think is the probability that Elisabeth Warren writes her own tweets?

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