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I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️
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I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️
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heh
Atlanta, GA

Recursive Trucker's Hitch

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As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.
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As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.
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Atlanta, GA

Calibration Nobel

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We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.
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We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.
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Arthurian Connector

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Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord.
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Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord.
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marcrichter
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Innovative! 🚀
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Latitude and Longitude

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NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).
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NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).
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JayM
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Hahaha
Atlanta, GA
silberbaer
9 days ago
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Now treat this like a "What If...?". I feel like the amount of surface that is liquid would still leave us with slack lines.
New Baltimore, MI

Time Change

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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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zwol
11 days ago
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True local solar time for everyone. We have the technology.
Pittsburgh, PA
kyb
10 days ago
That's actually how I set up https://kybernetikos.github.io/UIT/ local solar midnight is always directly down on the clockface and solar midday directly up. It rotates as you travel.
zwol
10 days ago
@kyb Neat!
mxm23
10 days ago
Very cool
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