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  • The Chevron exception

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    DougGD
    Key reasons that you’re missing that I’m in favor of this exception: my father worked his entire career with the Union Oil Corporation Union oil was purchased by Chevron in 2005.. so I still own some chevron stock… see, there’s two sides to every argument.
  • No, Nancy, it is not time to be nice

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    OMG, I find myself in agreement with Bernard again.
  • Spending 93% on tech, 7% on people

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    AxtremusA
    Any economic historian in the house know what the "capital investment vs. labor investment" ratio was when our ancestors adopted steam engines?
  • New York’s Retail Cash Law

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    AxtremusA
    Yeah, this is a big difference between Western democracies and the Asian countries. India and China are very big on going all-electric for every day commerce, but (at least for China) there is always suspicion that they go all-electronic to tighten controls by the government.
  • My. God.

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    @wtg said in My. God.: President Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of Rob Reiner, asserting today the slain Hollywood director was “a deranged person.” “I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” Trump said from the Oval Office, less than a day after Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in what is being investigated as a homicide. “He became like a deranged person – ‘Trump derangement syndrome.’ So, I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country,” he said. The irony is this level of narcissism meets the definition of deranged 100x over.
  • Favorite Rob Reiner movie

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    dolmansaxlilD
    Princess Bride… or maybe Stand By Me. But it’s amazing how many classics he was involved with.
  • Someone gave a damn

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    AdagioMA
    It was Gene Hackman who died, after his wife Betsy Arakawa died of hanta virus. So sad.
  • Recipes for cold weather

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    wtgW
    I cooked a couple of squashes yesterday, one delicata and the other a kabocha. Both were splittable with a big chef's knife without pre-cooking. In my experience, butternut squash is in a whole 'nother category...
  • Snowflakes

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    AxtremusA
    Got me thinking what that process would look like in 3D if it were in a weightless environment. Unfortunately I couldn't find a video for this with a quick Google search.
  • Mary Berry's Christmas dinner

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    wtgW
    Agreed! Mr wtg and I have watched some of her shows on PBS and enjoyed them immensely.
  • Machado's journey to Norway

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    Link to video
  • Hey Ax, Thanks for the Shokz

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  • When you don’t practice

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    Of course! D'oh
  • Teachers, students, and AI

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  • Christmas tenderloin

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    New this year will be making Demi-glacé. We ff to buy some bones…
  • When he puts it that way…

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    One state governor said he regretted signing a bill permitting sports gambling online. Sports gambling was illegal???
  • Calibri v. Times New Roman

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    I wonder if the argument that serifs make text easier to read is related to the notion that cursive handwriting is better for the flow of ideas. After all, they both involve extra strokes that guide you from one letter to the next.
  • LOLcritters (winter hat edition)

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    M
    Thanks, wtg! And Loki thanks you, too.
  • RIP Raul Malo

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    AdagioMA
    @Bernard such fun shows! A dance party, for sure.
  • Dick Van Dyke and Coldplay

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    wtgW
    He made it! There's an American Masters segment about Van Dyke on PBS. Link is good till early January: https://www.thirteen.org/programs/american-masters/starring-dick-van-dyke-vuwz7y/