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Amperage

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Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?
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Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?
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Eliminating the Impossible

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'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
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'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
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jlvanderzwan
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We need an ADHD-friendly variation of Sherlock Holmes

Plums

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My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
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My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
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tedder
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I'm confused by this. What's the dilemma? Wanting to use the plum for dinner?
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marcrichter
5 days ago
Me too, but there's always this: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3209:_Plums
ttencate
4 days ago
Not always; it's throwing 500 errors right now. Apparently you and I are not the only ones who are confused 😁
dlowe
4 days ago
There's a famous (infamous) poem about stealing plums from the icebox that has been remixed a thousand times in meme-culture.
fancycwabs
4 days ago
He's tempted to go all William Carlos Williams on the plums, mostly for the opportunity to apologize later.

SNEWS

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People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.
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People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.
JavaJim
7 days ago
if anyone else needs to know what foe is - as per Wikipedia it's a unit of energy "equal to 10^44 joules or 10^51 ergs". foe is an acronym of "[ten to the power of] Fifty-One Ergs"
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Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

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'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
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'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
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tedder
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I still struggle to remember if I add or subtract.
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Installation

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Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?
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Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?
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