hardcoreufo

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Oh I didn't notice it did that. thanks for fixing it.

They probably only saw Blue's Brothers 2000.

There are 8.0658*10^67 orders you can shuffle a card deck in.

The math is easy. It's just 52! if your calculator has that function which is really 525150...32*1. There are 52 possibilities for the first card 51 for the second since you've already used one card and so on.

How many decks of cards have been shuffled over human history, or will be is beyond me.

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Great News! There's a new Dacia Sandero!

I 100% believe this. The video streamers are getting too greedy and pushing out too much subpar content. When it was affordable and easy to find what you want streaming was great. Now it's expensive and stuff in on 12 different platforms.

Also most of what I watch is older so everyone on the creative and production side has been paid the only ones making money at this point are the studio fat cats.

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I used to sail the seas with great passion about 10-15 years ago. Then music, and video streaming came along and was fairly priced and I happily became a landlubber. Over the past year I've begun sailing again because all the services want a slice of a pie that's just not that big. Sailing is better than it ever was. The boats are much larger, faster and even look and sound better.

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Being mayor of a small town doesn't buy you much with the police. The mayor of a small town near where I grew up got swatted by police after someone sent weed to his address that the police were following. The mayor had nothing to do with the weed they just happened to pick his house. The cops didn't even check who lived at the address and shot the family's two golden retrievers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor%27s_residence_drug_raid

36 year old and still sleep with stuffed animals. I've had them for 30 years and just honestly sleep better with them than a pillow. They are a stuffed wolf named timber and a stuffed dog named woofles.

I think only the real dog judges me, but that's cause she's a jealous bitch.

The most ridiculous part about this is he stated the first shot was a warning shot in attempts to "start a dialog."

This is a red flag. It means he listens exclusively to Nickelback and Creed.

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I'm still sour a decade later over some customer interactions. One of the most notable was during my time as a barista. It was a busy weekend and quite loud in the shop with a line out the door. The line was to the left of the register and it's important to know I only have about 50 percent hearing out of my left ear so most people are on my "bad side."

Now this isn't a big deal, since if I'm looking at you I hear just fine or if it's quiet I can pick up on sounds from that side no problem. In a loud busy cafe, it's pretty bad. So I go to help the next customer and say "hi how can I help you today" or something. The Karen replies that "I was very rude to her, she said hi earlier and I didn't reply."

She was a regular and I recognized her but we didn't have a rapport or anything but I would have definitely greeted her had I heard. I apologized and explained I'm pretty deaf in my left ear and just didn't hear her. Story should have ended there but she goes ballistic and starts calling me a liar and that I made it up. Luckily a more friendly regular was also in line and backed me up.

Still pisses me off. Everyone should work a service job just to learn how to treat people.

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I don't like Teslas, Musk or the cyber truck but it can't be any more dangerous than the 4 ft wall of radiator traditional pickups have now. Not saying this isn't a concern but I am way more concerned about the millions of pedestrian crushing rolling walls already on the road.

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I've been to conferences where the name tag has a place for pronouns but most people don't fill them out. 99% of the time it's safe to assume the pronouns you believe are correct, are correct. If you get told otherwise use the preferred pronouns in the future. If someone freaks out over it after one mistake that's their problem.

You can also get around pronouns by just using names. I find i rarely need to use pronouns.

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You alright buddy?

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New intern at work was talking about smashing 2 cars while speeding just weeks apart. Then starts talking about wanting to get a motorcycle. Kid isn't going to make it to 25.

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Fruity lager.

My friends and I used to be Four Loko fans back when it had energy drink mixed in. When that got taken off the market we replicated the feeling by drinking a 5 hour energy and a forty.

Well one day my friend decides to pour his 5 hour energy into his forty despite our protests. He takes a big gulp and smacks his lips and says it tastes like a fruity lager.

One by one we all pour our 5 hour energies into our forties and smack our lips and say it tastes like a fruity lager. Finally the last guy does it and takes a sip and immediately spits it out saying it tastes like ass.

We all crack up because we all got tricked and couldn't let the other guys not drink this nasty swill so everyone played it cool until we were all in it together.

We still text each other Fruity Lager and crack up over a decade later.

I work in the industry and my understanding of the chips act is certain goals must be met in order to receive money. Something like in order to get this 50 million, you must buy 100 million of new equipment and facilities improvement. In order to get this 25 million you must have 50 million worth of new jobs. These requirements were also spread out over years so you couldn't artificially inflate your work force or sell off equipment.

Not saying Intel doesn't suck, but I doubt they are getting chips act money now. Or they will have to have a big turn around in the next few years to do so. They certainly aren't getting a free 8 billion.

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Worst was this girl making an uncomfortable amount of eye contact the whole time. It was like she was trying to start her way into my soul. I'd make eye contact to talk but kept having to look away because she was just too intense. I would not be surprised if she was some sort of succubus or siren trying to drain my life force.

After about an hour she asks if I have autism... I went to the bathroom and called one of my friends to vent. When I returned she asked if there was going to be a second date... There was not.

Prices are always lower in the winter. It'll be back to $4.00 in the summer.

Musk is just butthurt a good father is insulting him.

They really pissed me off with their Terry Prachet bundle a few months ago. Only in the small text did it state the books had kobo DRM. I've been buying bundles for a decade and never had to worry about DRM before so I didn't even think to look for it.

Download unciv. It's a civilization 5 clone with stripped down graphics but gameplay remains the same. You can kill an eternity with civilization games.

I've only seriously lowballed scalpers who buy niche new records and try and flip them. I will pay you the cost of the record and shipping and throw in 5 bucks but that's it. I will not pay triple.

Mexico mode is only available once a year on May Fifth. It then disappears until next the next year.

Primer. Time travel paradoxes. Two guys accidentally build a time machine and their tests of it cause chaos in their lives.

In high school I worked in a call center doing telemarket research. They would monitor phone calls and your typing and grade you on if you entered stuff verbatim. I'd get in trouble a lot for using contractions when the person didn't and small stuff like that. I'm sure there was some reason for needing to be precise but it was never explained. Oh well. I put up with it because it paid well 15 bucks an hour when minimum wage was 6 something and hours were 6 to 10 so people could work it as a second job.

Anyway it was senior year and I had a lot going on. Internship from 6am to 10am. School from 11am to 3pm then work 6pm to 10pm. Well I ended up getting some really nasty flu or something in February and my internship gave me the week I was sick off and the week after since we worked with primates and I may have been contagious. Work didn't believe me but I literally had no voice and could only whisper, no way was I talking on the phone for 4 hours a night. But I begged and pleaded and they let me come back a few weeks later.

Well a week or two after getting better my grandfather ended up passing away. I just needed my Friday and Saturday shifts off at work and internship to drive up for the funeral. My internship gave me the week off anyways. The bosses at work called me in and told me they didn't believe me thought I'd been lying about everything the past few months and told me to shape up or ship out. I chose to ship out.

They ended up calling me a week later and asking me to come but I'd had enough.

That's fucking weird Donnie.

I think it's okay to let this one go doesn't seem like there is any value in his work.

I do think it's time to open up the rights to older IPs and let the community make their own stories within universes though. I loved all the star wars EU stuff as a kid.

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Ew I missed that. Someone is not following the factory recommend hourly full chassis wipedowns.

I think you're missing the point of these shows and that's okay.

The characters aren't role models, they are your intrusive thoughts manifest. If you didn't hear someone's name when they told you, any rational person would just say it was loud and they didn't hear you. They wouldnt go through lengths of introducing friends, finding out childhood taunts and rifling through your belongings in an attempt to save face.

The joke is in the breaking of social norms. A show about people being polite to each other doesn't make for very good comedy.

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It's people saying shit like this that is part of the problem. While the left is generally much more accepting than the right our community needs to be better about accepting people who don't share all our beliefs. Maybe that way when they start to become more progressive and can help bring other people over that have some fledgling left wing values in them.

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How's the winner determined? Volume, velocity, viscosity?

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It just bans the flag on government property along with religious flags and breast cancer awareness flags. Sounds like they just don't want to make any left or right statements which makes sense. Local government should focus primarily on keeping things rolling smoothly over left/right politics which tend to be more state/national issues.

As far as I can tell you can fly whatever flag you want off your house/apt/car.

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I had a 92 Taurus that made a loud crack when I turned left. Mechanic said engine was about to fall out. Left it parked in front of my house and a cement mixer backed into it and crumpled the front end. Got about 2000 bucks out of a car we were going to scrap.

I'm doing great thanks for asking. You seem kinda angry. Putting down the Internet for the night might be a good idea.

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Wouldn't let it touch my system. Try Endeavor if you want to hop to an arch based distro.

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Anyone else really want some fried rice?

How ever did you manage to crack the code? You must be very smart to have figured out educate means indoctrinate. Now the CIA is gonna hunt you down to prevent the information from spreading.

I think the RIAA has a different view on that. Huge push backs against recordable cassettes and VHS tapes when they were introduced.

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I'm mostly surprised the NYT is the one publishing this. It's read more like a capitalist shill rag trying to play both sides for at least a decade. Never taking the shots it needed to at the right even when there were facts to do so and not editorials/opinions.

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