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   by j13k 19d ago

   Source for Mr Rogers quote: https://web.archive.org/web/20100125201022/https://www.pbs.o... ‘Fred Rogers often told this story about when he was a boy and would see scary things on the news: "My mot
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   by j13k 5mo ago

   ATP, also known as “Accidental Tech Podcast”.
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   by j13k 11mo ago

   Small but important correction: the actual quote is “Soylent Green _is_ people!”. Agree with your broader point about the Torment Nexus being a McGuffin, but we do actually know how Soylent Green is people in the film - it’s explicitly reve
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   by j13k 1y ago

   Interview from year 2000, replayed on ABC Radio National in Australia (listen from 22m:35s): https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/musicshow/tom-lehrer-...
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   by j13k 1y ago

   Worth adding that there are a bunch of paid-for apps offering 'couch to 5k', but the 2012 podcast version by the NHS was such an elegant and effective idea—essentially, a free audio coaching program of progressive run-walk trainin
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   by j13k 6y ago

   From https://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/austheir.html : 'Singular "their" etc., was an accepted part of the English language before the 18th-century grammarians started making arbitrary judgements as to w