CharleFKane

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by CharleFKane 2y ago
The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This prize was created in 1968. It is not a Nobel Prize. It is wrong and misleading to c
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by CharleFKane 2y ago
This site has been hijacked and the link pops up aggressive “your phone has been hacked”, “download our VPN” pop-ups. Proceed with caution.
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by CharleFKane 2y ago
I have no relationship with my car radio right now. I don’t want a relationship with my car radio. I can’t remember the last time I turned on my car radio. I don’t expect this to change in the future.
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by CharleFKane 2y ago
Oh, wow! Another “Classical Stuff…” fan! Excellent!
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by CharleFKane 2y ago
Not so much the past few weeks, but I was getting a lot of them before the Texas primary. And I expect it to pick up again as we get closer to the US elections. My tactic is similar to that of a poster below. I respond back with “ I don&#x2
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by CharleFKane 2y ago
What is a Huberman and where is this alleged “hit piece”? Seriously, I have no idea what y’all are talking about.
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by CharleFKane 2y ago
This one is linked from his Wikipedia page: https://lfpress.remembering.ca/obituary/alexander-dewdney-10...
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
I generally do not need an excuse to eat pie. Your mileage may vary.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
Has anyone else ever read Joe Haldeman’s “To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal”? I’d recommend trying to find a copy if you haven’t.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
Douglas Southall Freeman, On Leadership , especially the lecture he called “Old Number One”. I can’t find it online now, though the whole book is on archive.org. Here’s a good summary: https://uncomn.com/leadership-part-1-l
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
Church.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror, Lew Irwin River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard The Fleet That Had T
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
Will it require a $200 tax stamp, a Form 4, and a nine-month wait?
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
It's got electrolytes.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This prize was created in 1968. It is not a Nobel Prize. It is wrong and misleading to c
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
Can we start by getting rid of the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, which is not a Nobel Prize, but is commonly and misleadingly referred to as one?
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
One blog post, one essay: “Fire And Motion” by Joel Spolsky. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ “Leadership”, Douglas Southall Freeman. https://www.usmcu.edu/Porta
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
Isn’t the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa? Or have I been misled by “Hinterland Who’s Who”?
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
If I go through the drive-thru, will they make me one, too?
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
All meats. Real meats, none of that fake plant-based meat. Some roasted garlic would be nice too.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
This is a really fun, and atypical, science fiction story.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
I believe Cormac McCarthy did as well, at least until his recent death.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
Texas has had a “Safe Surrender” law since 1999, which allows people to surrender babies to first responders without penalty. Texas also recently legalized “baby boxes” which allow for anonymous surrender: the law takes effect in September.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
I’m reminded of that panel from “Spider-Man”: “But I don’t WANT to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.”
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
To get to the other side?
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
In other news, I hear that IBM is making excellent progress on quantum level violins.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
“…we feed the rats to the cats, and the cats to the rats, and we get the skins for free!”
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
Yes, it’s bigamy. It’s big of you, too. It’s big of all of us.
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by CharleFKane 3y ago
“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” —-H.D. Thoreau

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