Nerd Pride Radio

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Thanks for that. I was considering watching it due to all the buzz and you've saved me the time.

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I got tired of people telling me that they needed something from the store when I'm trying to work then getting mad that I forgot. So, I implemented a google doc shopping list - if it's not on there it doesn't count. My wife had added beet pills to the list. I changed it to butt pills and she didn't...

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Yea, and no one died. Stuff happens.

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While we're at it: carcinisation, the tendency for crustaceans to become crabs. They've evolved crab shapes at least 5 times.

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Apparently, Trump had been quite taken with Obama's letter to him so took the time to write a nice letter for Biden.

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Rise of the Runelords, now flavored with Savage Worlds
I like Savage Worlds but never fell in love. I hope they can give it D&D/Pathfinder flavor while sticking to low to medium crunch.

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I really hope Trump makes a new party that is the Trumpiest party possible.

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Prince Charming was a major fetishist. "I don't remember what her face looked like but I must have her because she had freakishly small feet."

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Who voted for Hitler. It was mostly rural and wealthy urban voters. He never got more than 37% of the total vote.

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Biden is reported to nominate people to the SEC and consumer financial protection bureau who are aligned with Elizabeth Warren and progressive groups. That implies tougher enforcement of banking regulations.

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Yay: Stacey Abrams is a nerd and a Trekkie.
Oh: She rates Voyager higher than DS9.

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The part I forgot to emphasize - people wring their hands about getting rid of pennies but, for a while, all change stopped at most places and the world didn't implode. I think there'd be complainers with a switch and nostalgia but it would mostly not be a big deal.

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So, pennies. We all know Mike hates them. I agree but with less passion. For a while during the pandemic, stores around here stopped doing all change. They'd round up to the nearest dollar if you used cash. Hardly anyone blinked. Maybe we should get rid of pennies and nickels, rounding to the neares...

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I'm a lot like dolphins in that we can both be jerks at times.

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Just having nominations for positions that don't feel like joke nominations is refreshing. I was never that enthusiastic about Biden - he's old and feels out of step. But, publicly, his positions have moved to the left in the last year. I don't know how much of this campaign talk, how much is compro...

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Evolution is weird. Check out these two skulls: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Charles_Feigin/publication/335907857/figure/fig1/AS:909683393048576@1593896830958/Comparison-of-thylacine-A-and-gray-wolf-B-gross-morphology-Lateral-view-of-thylacine.png The top one is a marsupial, separated from t...

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Can you imagine being a DC cop who was massively outnumbered and beaten to later see other cops taking selfies with rioters? I wouldn't be shocked if a few cops had accidents this week.

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Yes, calls for healing are like gaslighting by a domestic abuser. I gotta keep doing what I'm doing so you have to calmly accept it.

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There may be enough votes to impeach *and* convict. It'll be interesting to see what happens. A large chunk of gop senators would have to vote for conviction. But McConnel might tell them to vote for conviction to get rid of Trump. It would be painful in the short run for gop politicians but they m...

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Just as a point of reference, if you had asked me prior to the event, what is the likely outcome of someone trying to force their way into the capitol building, my expectation is that they would be shot. That applies even if they are not visibly armed. Every adult knows that there comes a point in n...

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The mesh screen helps. Very old disposal died wo we are relying solely on it. At a convenient time, the disposal and the dishwasher with the messed up circuitry will be replaced together. In the unknown future, the water softener will be replaced as well - then life will sparkle.

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Without much by way of official presentations, I'm just getting bits of low quality info but it seems that 1. Laptops were stolen, some of which had access to high security files. 2. Unmarked offices with state ballots were ransacked; it seems that the ballots were no longer there but someone seemed...

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Well said.
It's cool that, with their niche figured out (eat poison no one else can so no competition for food), they evolved to have simpler brains that use less energy to survive on low energy food because they don't need to overthink things.

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I think Google and Apple loss only makes it harder for people to get the app version. The killing blow is loss of host. Amazon is the their ISP (one of Amazon's many side businesses). I think they just need to find another host or become their own host. As Amazon doesn't have a monopoly on the inter...

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I'll be 53 soonish.

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The smartass answer is 1. Once you've made a slice, you have more than one square. You can't do 2 or 3 unless you allow extra cuts and then putting pieces back together. There's probably a formula list all options but that's too much thinking for me. I'll leave it to Flameblade as a belated birthday...

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That friend was obviously a psychopath. I'm sure it's for the best that all of you broke off contact with him.

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Sad but predictable.

The purposeful lack of help to the DC police, the presence of zip ties, the talk of lynching Pence, the way Trump made a speech and then hid, all add up a poorly run coup attempt instead of just a riot.

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ROOKIE HISTORIAN. I have died and gone to heaven. I started watching it while holding some random objects I was in the process of moving from point A to B and C, and I ended up just standing there slack-jawed for like 25 minutes, holding the stuff, until finally my fingers started sending the "...

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wow. Now I want to go buy a jumpsuit.

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No, it's just a fucked up week. I've been in a funk, too. Post holidays is often a slump emotionally. Add that to world events. Blame it on things other than yourself.

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As it's all but over, I'm going to summarize the highlights of the Trump administration. Made racists feel good about themselves. It's no coincidence that white nationalism burst out into the open under the watch of the biggest promoter of birtherism. Trump didn't invent racism but he brought it out...

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I'm gonna cancel this Saturday due the crazy week and I have only 2 confirmed players. Let me know if any of you can make the 16th.

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Hitler eventually turned on and disavowed his brown shirts. Here's what I'm afraid is going to happen. Politicians will say the rioters went too far and will let them be prosecuted. Then they'll go back to race baiting and vilifying anyone who isn't far right. Violent white national incidents have b...

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Oh yea, Miyazaki - think I've seen all of his. Edgar Wright is another good call.

I liked the early Almodovar that I've seen but I need to catch up on his more recent stuff.

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I love Wes Anderson, but usually in short bursts. Whereas I prefer Wes Anderson in burst shorts. I'm not systematic enough to have watched everything form most directors but there are a few that do make me much more likely to watch: Waititit, del Toro, Tsui Hark, Wes Anderson, Coen brothers, plus s...

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People have been openly talking about this yet security was surprised.

Many people will be surprised to find that breaking into a federal building with hundreds of cameras present will land them in jail.

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Actual explosive devices found at the capitol.

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Yet totally unsurprising. People who have been swallowing lies for decades and have been worked up into a frenzy are going to act on their delusions.

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I hope congress renews and strengthens the voter rights act to end voter suppression and keep close states blue.

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I never realized that was Vicki Lawrence, who I always thought of as a comedic actress. Quick research reveals that not only she still alive, she's been in a couple of shows in the last few years.

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It's one of the biggest health problems. I don't have any good answers. I've lost years of my life. In some ways, treatment is primitive. We don't have a lab test that determines which treatment is likely to work best, so there is guesswork and each wrong guess takes a month to determine that it's w...

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Damb Mike, two solid posts in a row.

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My mind is messed up - I read that as "taint that folds" and thought it must be a medical condition or insult that was unknown to me.

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If Trump gets the Georgia Secretary of State killed by some fanatic, does the family have grounds to sue Trump?

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Awesome!
I'm thinking of starting 2 or 3 pm Eastern. At this point, only people not from this group are my kid and a friend of theirs.
I'll send you a link for the barbarian character sheet.

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I have 2 probable players for January 9th. Let me know if any of you can make it. For those of you with less time or less familiarity with 5e, I made a few pregens - I have Hero Lab and love making characters. Currently available are a human dex based dual wielder, a half-orc barbarian, a human face...

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One thing pollsters rarely bother to explain is that the margin of error still assumes perfect sampling, or sampling that is perfectly representative of the population. The better polls take into account what they can, like over representing results from ages and genders that got fewer responses. Bu...

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Merry Christmas, everyone!

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Isn't that what they called you in college? It's definitely a double entendre.

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