Nick Sayer
@nwsayer
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California exile. Safety Third.
Farmington Hills, MI
Joined January 2012
This is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed tweet is commemorated here.
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@tolstoybb Someone check me:. The U.S. got 110 runs with 8 outs in 20 overs. The Indians are batting now and have made 33 runs with 2 outs in six overs, so they have 9 outs and 84 bowls to get at least 77 runs. Right?.
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@bonchieredstate “It remained standing”… so they felled it. The modern version of:. If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.
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@SouthernKeeks No tip for counter service or take-out. 20% for dine-in or delivery. There is a very specific reason for that related to how wages for those specific employees have been historically set. It’s dumb, but without an industry-wide reset, it is what it is.
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@SteveHiltonx Well, let’s see. 20% the population. Only one major urban center. Only one time zone. Area about the same as Arizona and New Mexico put together. That about covers it.
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@kevinbaum013 Chlorinated drinking water happened because John Leal poured chlorine into a reservoir in Jersey City without telling anyone. You can’t make it up.
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@JaagoPaarth @tolstoybb My favorite thing to watch is that move when a fielder will hop up in the air at the boundary, catch and redirect the ball back towards the field of play, land and then run and catch it. It’s like watching a receiver make a fingertip grab and drag both toes to make a catch.
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@RobotJunkyard72 @historyinmemes There are portable printers… but they’re certainly not popular.
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@Rainmaker1973 That plane is going as slow as it can and the dude is going as fast as he can.
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@pushtheneedle The twelve people a week who need to do that will definitely appreciate the billions it would cost.
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@lib_crusher They totally weren’t miraculous. Go to 5th floor museum and look out the window. The distances are very, very short and Oswald was a Marine. Anybody who’s been there would say,.“Of course he could have made that shot.” Looks much further on TV.
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@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R I read a story once about someone who bankrolled a real live tournament player who knew nothing. Their algorithm: fold every hand except AA or KK and then go all-in (there was some untold algorithm for handling the big blind). They made it almost to the money but lost KK to AA.
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@xtck9 @doggirlsnuffing The dig on Americans is that we don’t know what a long time is. The dig on Europeans is that they don’t know what a long distance is. NYC->LA == Madrid->Moscow.
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Just for the record, folks, this is why you put flyback diodes across relay coil switches. This is the coil collapse spike from a FIVE VOLT REED RELAY. 50 volts and 20 µs per division.
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@BrandyL68992158 @Rothmus The serviceman’s wife bought Plan B the morning after the night with Jody.
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@React2W @AtoZ_Payton Nah, bro. The year after the trade, Stafford took his team to and won the Super Bowl. That’s literally “it wasn’t me, it was you.”. Now, since then the Lions got a new coach, some good draft picks and it’s been good. But Stafford was an upgrade for the Rams that year.
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@lporiginalg “Brutal?”. Something like 90% of the pre-Columbian population died of European diseases without ever seeing a white face. This at a time when no one had any idea what disease even *was*.
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@X_Arc_ra_x @Rothmus This. Spice should add something to the dish. You want a challenge? Try Tide pods.
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@VikingRobVWO Using the terms “master/slave” in engineering contexts (and this is one) triggers only weak people whose opinions should not matter.
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@StrategicTrends “Well, yeah. The Soviet Union collapsed after we spent them to the ground on military build up and they had a nuclear plant blow up on them, so we basically won the Cold War.”. “HALLELUJAH!!!”.
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@_trash_void @YIMBYLAND I would be happy to have a nuclear reactor in my basement so long as it was a better design than a PWR or BWR.
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@cogman_bryan @renuvian @theseantcollins This is why there should be a compulsory license scheme for audiovisual works older than ten years, at least if we’re going to have multi-generational copyright terms.
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For everyone who tells me to use a 555 instead of an ATTiny9 as a timer…. The ATTiny9 is 4¢ less expensive (Q:1), doesn’t require nearly as many passives, and is more accurate. 😝.
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@ErrataRob I have a T shirt that says, “Well, what does the error message SAY?!?!”. Computers are magical devices that can instantly cause people to lose the ability to read.
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@BadWeaponTakes Someone needs to explain to me what is the fundamental aspect of the AR-15 that distinguishes it from every other semiautomatic rifle and makes it necessary to subject it especially to a ban. From what I can tell it’s because it’s popular. That’s it.
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@awinston Your right to free movement does not extend to mandating that the public transit system you are using does not stop to do things you don’t want it to do, including allowing cops to board and leave. There is a difference between a subway train and a private automobile.
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@wanyeburkett The real opposition is teachers unions, because they can’t justify their existence in the face of evidence that any other choice does a better job at educating children.
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@muhanji6346 @imagesaicouldnt Yes. There are only 14 possible calendars, so every year has to pick one.
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@_trash_void @YIMBYLAND Do you ever drive a car? Fly in a plane? Ride in an elevator? They were all properly designed, no?.
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@phil_so_silly It’s just that it can’t function the way the left wants it to - completely without any oversight.
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@TheSkyDaddy1 I don’t know why you’d reject something that has been as demonstrably effective as meth.
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You ever need to hook two computers together via USB based serial? No? Just me, then?
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@1God_Emperor1 @empireenjoyer10 @shoe0nhead Or Pearl Harbor.Or the Bataan Death March.Or the “Comfort Women”.Or….
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@glamelegance @elonmusk Republicans are not against EVs. Republicans are against the government mandating or subsidizing EVs.
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@bonchieredstate Obama needed a VP dumber than him, so he picked Biden. Biden needed a VP dumber than him, so he picked Harris. Harris needed a VP dumber than her, so she picked Walz.
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@_trash_void @YIMBYLAND Reactors come in all sizes. They fit nuclear reactors in submarines. And a properly designed rector keeps the radiation inside. The background inside a containment building is actually lower than it is outside.
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@matthiasellis Centuries ago, what we call classical music was paid for either by the church or by aristocrats. Nowadays it’s paid for by Hollywood. Even works that aren’t attached to a movie wind up subsidizing modern classical composers to create other work.
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@allday_ajking @alea_kevon @Anna_Snackz By comparing muslims to a particular douchebag "Christian" the unstated implication is that Christians generally are more like him than them.
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@peterrhague This is a lay-up. This was the Nixon administration. They couldn’t keep Watergate a secret but somehow managed this despite needing the cooperation of the Soviets and every other government on Earth for more than half a century?.
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@GarethDavies007 The refrigerated tractor-trailer. It revolutionized distribution of frozen food in the U.S. A black man invented the concept and went on to found ThermoKing, the company that made it happen.
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@BasedMikeLee At the end of WWII we basically made them sign a treaty that said, “You guys don’t get to have a real army anymore. We will do that for you.”. And, thus, we have 55,000 American troops in Japan.
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@kenklippenstein I’m willing to entertain the argument that The Lincoln Project was a false flag operation to waste Democrat money.
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@joelatwar Here’s the thing… The phone has GPS. IT KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE!! It’s INCREDIBLY likely that the answer to that question is THE COUNTRY YOU ARE STANDING IN RIGHT NOW!!!!.
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@AsheSchow I bet it was 11–1 for acquittal and with the extra bullshit they were able to wear down the holdout.
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@KurtSchlichter Also, the so-called popular vote compact is a suicide pact. What happens when a thousand votes separate the two candidates out of 100+ million cast? Where do you go for a recount?. The EC brings *finality* to our only national political contest.
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@CynicalPublius And as for the “expertise” necessary for judges to make proper judgements… suitable experts surely could - wait for it - testify under oath before those judges.
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@AISafetyMemes Yup. They will absolutely put together a solid proof that 9.11 is larger than 9.9 because 11 is greater than 9.
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@SilversMemez “You can come out… I don’t mind cooking.” while slowly and quietly pulling back the cocking slide.
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