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CAT 5, what else ?!?

To me, the name brings to mind Tara of Helium from the john Carter series. However, I can't help but picture her looking like a clone of Thuvia (from the Michael Whelan cover).

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The first rule of Dunning-Kreuger club is you do not know that you are in Dunning-Kreuger club

Vegan curious?

The home ownership rate is higher today than in 1967.

Median home prices are about the same today as they were in 1967 after you adjust for inflation.

Mortgage interest rates are lower today than in 1967.

Median income is up for all quintiles since 1967 after adjusting for inflation, even the bottom two. Meaning the home price to income ratio has fallen since 1967 (you need to use a smaller percentage of your income to afford a home).

I'm sorry for your situation, but you are an outlier. Not representative of the norm. Home ownership is easier today than in 1967.

If you want to know why you Millenials are having a hard time buying a home, the answer is really simple. The savings rate has fallen from 12% in 1967 to about 6% today. Basically, you spent all your money instead of saving it. Contrast this to, say, the UK - where the savings rate has actually gone up since the 1970s. It's not all bad news though. Young people began saving more beginning about a decade ago. Unfortunately, you actually had a negative savings rate from about 1995-2007 (you were spending more than you made). So combine your higher savings rate with paying off your accumulated debt, and you can't afford to rent an apartment so you end up living in your parents' basement.

What are they thinking?
banana split

It's cool but misleading -start talking about physics and you'll lose them.

Once I had to introduce a bunch of 12-yrs old what programing looks like and it wasn't easy. Images like this helped, but something cooler than videogames and see programming in action.... is to see George Hotz's autonomous car.

/Oblg. My doctor says "I can only have 1 wine glass a day. I can live with that." joke

Planets do not make little spirals and then spurt around in random directions to spiral around again.

This one did.

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Dead, alive, persistent vegetative state... whatever. THIS is the important one. https://i.pinimg.com/originals...

Until a few years ago, my parents were still using a 16" CRT TV with a built in VCR player. Really looked quite Space 1999'ish with the square 4:3 aspect ratio. Still have a memory of seeing those monochrome globe TV sets along with a sphere chair and thinking that would be so cool for my room.
(Apparently, the fibreglass chipped really easily so they broke quickly)

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Yeah, I was REALLY impressed that they somehow scared-up about 6 of those for the first Men In Black movie, in the "Interview" scene. It was hilarious to see those guys trying to figure out how to fill-out their questionnaires up against the sides of those egg-chairs.

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I would really like to have one, and put some nice surface-mount car speakers in it. How retro would that be?!?

Until a few years ago, my parents were still using a 16" CRT TV with a built in VCR player. Really looked quite Space 1999'ish with the square 4:3 aspect ratio. Still have a memory of seeing those monochrome globe TV sets along with a sphere chair and thinking that would be so cool for my room.
(Apparently, the fibreglass chipped really easily so they broke quickly)

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And some Walmart shoppers have tanks. There's already casualties.

> This balance was moved with flights where sharp objects and liquids are banned.

You mean 9/11 being used as the excuse for the complete and total joke of Theater Security Logic or Security Retards ?

The bigger crime is that the sheeple do fuck all about it.

Fuck yeah

Yes it is mechanical.
For a highly analytical person it is easily graspable, because that mechanical-ness *is* analytical.
My issue isn't even with alternate teaching guides, it's that the implementation is *shit* and that's not helped when there is no context for the problems your kid brings home as homework.

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I don't even know where to start with that problem. There is no framework to understand it with.

This is the best I've been able to find:
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But it's still mapping to classical division.

To add to the shitfest of CC, many of the teachers don't like it, and as a result fail to teach it very well. That leaves the kids confused as all hell.

Random coin flips, would be "unbiased" politically, yes. However, IMHO the case of putting Page one material on Page 14 is a bias, no matter which way it goes.

Photo Editing can be biased. https://i.pinimg.com/originals...

It all depends on the narrative you're trying to portray.

Chris and Lilly have been on a first name basis for a few days now.

After Chris got off the boat at Tokyo, he was disappointed to learn that Lilly looked nothing like this and wasn't a ladyboy as she claimed to be. He was heartbroken and took a boat back to San Francisco.

Why would fat porn lovers look at a middle-aged failure that barely registers as "alive", never mind sexually active?

THIS is fat porn, you loser.

Can you spot creimer in this room full of normal people?

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You forgot to post AC. Still fucking the neighbors' goats?

Don't worry about your children, modern christian teaching methods can handle all their little problems.

Actually, I'm in Iceland, but not like it matters. And no, "public" does not in any way, shape, or form mean "not a parking garage". The word "public" has a very specific meaning. Just like the word private does. They're antonyms.

You cannot equip a grass verge with an electric plug

Yes you most certainly can. It's actually easier to install charging stations in grass than concrete. You run a trenching tool down the grass, lay down conduit, fill in the trench, and install the posts. And hey, if you don't want the posts for aesthetic reasons? No problem.

Look, the fact that you're arguing that something "can't be done" where there are places that it already is abundantly done should clue you in to the fact that you're wrong.

The countries we've meddled in are certainly not happy when they find out.

This point should be front and center. Every time the CIA has suborned a local politician to do their will, once the local populace finds out the reaction makes the whole operation a spectacular failure. For example, the Iranian revolution.

So anyone who thinks they are enjoying the taste of liberal tears with the help of the russians should beware. History says that karma isn't just a bitch, she's the raging black goddess of destruction who will rain down hellfire on you and your allies.

We might as well say it.

there was a whole lot of shareholder value created before the extinction period hit.

You should at least link to the New Yorker cartoon: https://i.pinimg.com/originals...

There are what is known as bowling alley apartments (or shotgun apartments) because they are long and thin with only a couple of windows at either end. They are open plan and have the living room at one end, the kitchen in the middle and the bedroom at the other, on a mezzanine level above. Similar to this:

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I just got a raise. In my pants.

Just realized something... There is a "R" missing from that...

POT 'R' US

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It does explain most of the stuff that's been going on since about 1950.... :)

If Alvin and John doesn't need pants, why does Donald?

John is wearing a sleeping gown, which was common sleeping wear back in the day. Nothing immodest about it, even if it is dated.

If Alvin and John doesn't need pants, why does Donald?

You set up snipers in strategic locations across town to cover every and all traffic sign; and you shoot the fucker who dares get even close to it.

Here in Texas, they just shoot the traffic sign and skip the middleman. Because freedom has to be irrigated by the blood of patriotic drivers in self-driving cars. Or something. I don't remember the exact quote, but it's in the Second Amendment or the Bible, I'm pretty sure.

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Let's hope they have good aim

Roadworks are always putting up crazy signs, traffic cones, and all sorts of obstructions:

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You set up snipers in strategic locations across town to cover every and all traffic sign; and you shoot the fucker who dares get even close to it.

Here in Texas, they just shoot the traffic sign and skip the middleman. Because freedom has to be irrigated by the blood of patriotic drivers in self-driving cars. Or something. I don't remember the exact quote, but it's in the Second Amendment or the Bible, I'm pretty sure.

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I heard the Drumpf family came from Europe just a couple of generations ago, so I'd steer clear of those Europeans. Just to be sure, better deport anyone with even a hint of European ancestry.

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Oh really...

Absolutely. Who wants a car that looks like this?

To put an ultra-fine point on this, there is a name for saying the "aesthetic quality of the background blur" has a name: BULLSHIT.

You're telling me the blurred background on these two images has the same aesthetic quality?
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That's not a fucking filter.

For a translation, this is the one.

That turns out badly.

Yip, third-world travel can make even our chintziest services seem good in comparison.

Many conservatives point out that even our very poorest often have it better than many in the 3rd world. But, why aim our economic system so low? Don't we want to get better over time instead of back-slide into 3rd-world-ism? Or do they find something sacred about profits?

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folks rallied around him because, hey, whatdayagot to lose?

Uh, the planet.

Well, not that shocked...

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Mad Magazine Barcode Cover

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First of all, religion is like a penis. It's fine that you have one, it's fine that you're proud of it - but don't start showing it off in public.

Oh tempora, o mores!

In the public space it should be freedom FROM religion.

One minor extension - I'd only allow people to preach a religion to other people who have paid for being preached at with a credit card in their own name, after signing a detailed medical-style consent form for the potentially dangerous indoctrination you're wishing to receive. No exceptions.

Particularly no exceptions for children. Any children who receive religious indoctrination should be of sound mind, of their own responsibility, and of full adult status. If you're really keen to indoctrinate children - you might want a detailed bureaucratic process to allow for exceptions. A process that might take up to 20 years.

And of course, because you can find everything on the internet...

You'll find horses are still in wide use.

Quote: ... "Cloud" is a faster way of saying "abdicating responsibility."

The word "cloud" is used by cloud providers to encourage cloudy thinking: Dilbert cartoon.

This Dilbert cartoon shows where cloudy thinking is leading.