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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Operating system development |
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| I have the unpopular opinion that you should not start a new Operating System. Look how long it took for Linux to even get the 3 or 4% share it has of the desktop market today: 30+ years. Do you think your project has 30+ years of momentum available to it? If not, maybe make a smaller contribution ... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Replies: 59,678
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:46 pm
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Microplastics & Melting Ice Reveal Deepening Crisis |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:46 pm
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Replies: 9
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| What mass extinctions has this caused? |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Microplastics & Melting Ice Reveal Deepening Crisis |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:26 pm
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| Well, in a thousand years check-in here again and we can compare notes. In the Younger Dryas, the temperature changes of something like 10 F are thought to have happened in a decade or so. The real danger to us will be when the Holocene ends and we begin the next hundred thousand years of glaciatio... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Microplastics & Melting Ice Reveal Deepening Crisis |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:58 pm
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Double Retired wrote: The expectation is that this time climate change will be unusually rapid and many species and habitats will not be able to change quickly enough.
Even worse than the start and the end of the Younger Dryas? |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:34 pm
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:01 pm
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Well I guess Israel and Iran are at war now. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 2:02 am
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Replies: 61
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| Why are they attacking TV broadcast studios then? That's something that really only makes sense if you're trying to have a change of regime. The people can still get their news online, taking out the studios is a war crime and serves no purpose if you're not trying to have a change of regime. Then ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Well I guess Israel and Iran are at war now. |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 11:41 pm
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Replies: 61
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| We should always assume that the Orange Taco is only acting for his own aggrandizement. Yeah... I guess I didnt need a card reading to tell me that. :P What always shocks me is the way his supporters consider his unpredictability to be some kind of virtue. I think that what it really means is that ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel Bombs Tehran |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 11:38 pm
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Replies: 150
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| they're the people putting their lives on the line to address an existential threat being imposed upon their people. Shouldn't that read they're the people putting their lives on the line to address an existential threat being imposed upon their people by raping, torturing, and murdering women and ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel Bombs Tehran |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 11:35 pm
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Replies: 150
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| Meanwhile you don't say anything about Israel raping, torturing and murdering Palestinians since the 40s, which kinda deflates your claim that you'd say something about Israel raping, torturing and murdering Palestinians. I don't know what they call that where you're from, but where I'm from that's... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel Bombs Tehran |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 9:46 pm
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Replies: 150
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| It is not at all comparable. America did not attack Israel. On the other hand, Israel and the Arabs there have been attacking each other for a long time. Sounds like you're offering excuses for ethnic cleansing, as though it's acceptable when certain people do it against other certain people. If yo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel Bombs Tehran |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 9:37 pm
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| I don't see it as a good guys vs bad guys thing. It seems to be more of a bad guys vs bad guys. Because of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, I have had a rather low opinion of Israel. That said, I have a far lower opinion of Hamas and consider them to be far scummier than Israel. So, when... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Microplastics & Melting Ice Reveal Deepening Crisis |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 9:22 pm
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During much of the Holocene Climatic Optimum -- roughly in the period of 5,500 to 9,500 years ago -- when the Earth was warmer than now, sea levels were something like two meters higher than today.
Lower ocean salinity, but somehow the Earth managed to survive. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Well I guess Israel and Iran are at war now. |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2025, 9:07 pm
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CherokeeDeathRose13 wrote: I think Trump is going to exploit this crisis to try and convince the public that he's needed in power. 
We should always assume that the Orange Taco is only acting for his own aggrandizement. |
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