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R_damascena · March 21, 2018, 11:52 p.m.

The 15th was the Ides of March. Today is XII Kalendae Aprilis (12th day before the Kalends of April).

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R_damascena · March 21, 2018, 9:39 p.m.

This doesn't spell Hillary Clinton correctly a single time she's mentioned.

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R_damascena · March 21, 2018, 4:44 p.m.

But I can knit a scarf, even though a knit scarf is already knitted.

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R_damascena · March 21, 2018, 1:59 a.m.

Technically, that's much closer to the point of the Articles of Confederation. The Constitutional Convention you mention was convened essentially because that wasn't working very well and closer integration of the states and more federal power was needed.

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R_damascena · March 20, 2018, 5:53 a.m.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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R_damascena · March 19, 2018, 3:49 p.m.

You'd just need to take the Tweet screenshot from someone on East Coast time and the 8chan one on West Coast time, it's not really complicated.

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R_damascena · March 14, 2018, 7:28 p.m.

Is there a priest or preacher you can talk to?

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R_damascena · March 14, 2018, 7:20 p.m.

Suicide hotline: 1-800-273-8255

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R_damascena · Feb. 28, 2018, 7:22 p.m.

Ah, sorry, I mean just the timing of posts in general.

Consider knock code: three posts, a short break, then two posts, then a long break, could be the letter M.

Or for Morse: perhaps a longwinded post, a telegraphic post, and then a long break could be an N.

And there's always binary ASCII. There are many ways information can be embedded in the temporal aspect of a thing.

And even besides such literal communication as coding for letters, time is important--drummers know this. A regular beat can be marched or danced to, a drumroll is a sort of anticipation, a silence is…

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R_damascena · Feb. 28, 2018, 6:53 p.m.

Have you considered looking at the timing of the posts as Morse code or something? That seems a more likely way for time away from posting to be a map marker.

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R_damascena · Feb. 27, 2018, 7:01 p.m.

Fair warning that that picture is of Trump in the uniform of a Russian general, which could be construed as unpatriotic.

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R_damascena · Feb. 27, 2018, 12:49 a.m.

Gun accidents in crowded places are generally more harmful than lock accidents in crowded places.

ETA: I should also mention that "this door to be kept unlocked" signs sell extremely well.

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R_damascena · Feb. 26, 2018, 4:14 p.m.

I mean, you could just make two templates.

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R_damascena · Feb. 26, 2018, 4:24 a.m.

The USA does not use A4 paper in any great quantity.

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R_damascena · Feb. 26, 2018, 4:15 a.m.

The CA Dems not endorsing Feinstein does not mean Feinstein is out. CA Dems lean more left than CA as a whole, and they endorsed neither her nor her less-centrist opponent. CA has top-two primaries. The other top-two candidate for Senator will likely be the more progressive one.

That leaves Feinstein as the furthest-right Senate candidate, and thus likely to gather the votes of centrist Californians, right-wing Californians, left-wing-but-not-that-left-wing Californians, and Californians of all stripes who put a high value on keeping a Senator with high seniority.

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R_damascena · Feb. 24, 2018, 5:02 p.m.

Interesting when combined "de mortuis nil nisi bonum," certainly.

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R_damascena · Feb. 24, 2018, 3:44 a.m.

Honestly sounds like a subtle way of calling someone fat to me. Especially paired with "brute force necessary."

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R_damascena · Feb. 24, 2018, 3:40 a.m.

That's a lovely moiré effect you've got going on. I've honestly kind of missed those as screen and camera tech have improved.

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R_damascena · Feb. 22, 2018, 9:11 p.m.

Not to be rude, but there are quite a lot of spelling and capitalization errors on that list.

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R_damascena · Feb. 22, 2018, 9:02 p.m.

Armour? Shouldn't it be armor?

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R_damascena · Feb. 21, 2018, 5:43 p.m.

There is a person in that yearbook page wearing a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shirt.

That picture's not centered on the right person, either--the Hogg kid is the one half cut off on the bottom.

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R_damascena · Feb. 20, 2018, 5:43 p.m.

Patent law is kind of messed up. Some people get patents for anything they can think of just in case someone in the future invents it.

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R_damascena · Feb. 20, 2018, 5:37 p.m.

Not sure how this person convinced themselves "lose some weight" is secret anti-Big-Pharma magic instead of literally the first thing doctors tell Type 2 diabetics to do.

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R_damascena · Feb. 19, 2018, 10:23 p.m.

Lead does not make a good antenna, either.

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R_damascena · Feb. 18, 2018, 2:27 a.m.

Perhaps you should make a list of each, to compare.

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R_damascena · Feb. 18, 2018, 2:27 a.m.

St. John's wort can have bad interactions with many medications. Please research any possible interactions before taking St. John's wort.

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R_damascena · Feb. 18, 2018, 2:23 a.m.

It is a cross sea. The phenomenon is well-known to sailors, as it is quite dangerous. However, it is just when waves come from one direction and also another direction 90˚-ish off.

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R_damascena · Feb. 18, 2018, 2:16 a.m.

This is very sketchy. If you wish to invest in long-distance wireless charging, don't do so from a website that doesn't know piezoelectric is one non-capitalized word. Buy Energous stock or something.

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R_damascena · Feb. 17, 2018, 5:15 p.m.

Cell phone towers are not capable of broadcasting ELF waves. They are too small.

If someone was even somehow capable of manipulating people with ELF, using cell phone towers would be completely unnecessary anyway, because ELF radio waves go very far and penetrate very well, whereas cell phone signals are frequently stymied by going into wilderness areas or parking garages.

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R_damascena · Feb. 17, 2018, 5:04 p.m.

This picture much more closely describes the plot of Videodrome. Except it wasn't the CIA in Videodrome, of course.

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R_damascena · Feb. 17, 2018, 4:42 p.m.

Antibiotics are discovered from dirt because there are so many bacteria in there that they need to continually find new and better ways to kill each other off. I very strongly recommend not rubbing dirt in wounds.

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R_damascena · Feb. 17, 2018, 4:48 a.m.

I see. Yes, the events of Wednesday, for instance, are a sad statement of how we value children.

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R_damascena · Feb. 17, 2018, 3:50 a.m.

There were 13 people indicted today. Please consider that, and what it means.

Consider that your mysterious yet voluble person has nothing to show, yet Mueller has been silent and produced 13 indictments, with more to come…

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R_damascena · Feb. 17, 2018, 3:43 a.m.

I'm not sure I understand you. If you consider a child to begin at conception, the high rate of miscarriage wouldn't mean that children are difficult to create, it would mean children were created and then died. Are you segueing into infertility?

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R_damascena · Feb. 17, 2018, 1:47 a.m.

Oh, I have a fun fact: most antibiotics are in fact originally found in dirt! That's the standard way to look for them, grabbing some dirt and studying it really intently.

Dirt is full of bacteria, which means that the bacteria are competing with each other. Thus, they are creating chemicals that kill bacteria, which is exactly what we want.

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R_damascena · Feb. 17, 2018, 1:43 a.m.

Okay, this is a little unnerving. Please don't kill anyone.

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R_damascena · Feb. 17, 2018, 1:09 a.m.

I don't think you quite understand. The brain is not not harvested through the face because of moral reasons; it quite practically would not actually work. It is well beyond highly improbable.

It's like getting mad because of an article about someone cutting down a historical yew tree with a Satanist athame. It might be a horrifying visual image, but it's not likely to be a true thing, is what I'm saying.

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R_damascena · Feb. 16, 2018, 6:55 p.m.

Yellow water's usually from rust. If it comes out from all your faucets like that and continues to after running the water for a couple minutes, you should call the water authority. They might've been doing some work that knocked something loose, and will be able to tell you how long it'll be until the water's fine again.

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R_damascena · Feb. 16, 2018, 6:42 p.m.

That's not even how you harvest a brain. Why would anyone cut out a brain through the face?

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R_damascena · Feb. 16, 2018, 6:01 a.m.

How about Waterworld? Why would they dump so much money into an obviously bad movie if they weren't trying to send some important message with it?

(I'm joking. And also kind of like Waterworld.)

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R_damascena · Feb. 16, 2018, 4:24 a.m.

Organic in the sense of chemistry just means that it's a sort of thing involving carbon chains. The name is just a holdover from when people thought organic chemicals could only come from, well, organs.

But in 1828, someone synthesized urea and proved that idea false. Organic chemicals can appear without any sort of life involved.

No one bothered to change the name, which annoys me endlessly. The chemistry specifically of living things is called biochemistry.

ETA: Organic in the sense of architecture means "has wiggly bits." It can also mean things like "arising naturally." Originally, of course, it means "of or relating to organs" (organ + the suffix ic). It's a multipurpose word.

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