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General Celebrity deaths
Coincidentally, I've been watching some old NFL games, and saw him in Favre vs. The Packers I back in 2009 just yesterday. Rick May, most famous for Soldier in TF2 and Peppy Hare in Star Fox (...and also I remember his line as Genghis Khan in Age of Empires II), passed of coronavirus yesterday.
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Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
Wow, that really is the perfect contradiction.
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General Celebrity deaths
Mathematican John Conway of coronavirus.
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Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
- Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
Need to lock down your browser, my good man. There are Google trackers even on the Obsidian forums...- Coronavirus: Continuing Vigilance
uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Smart HTTPS, Canvas Defender, Disable WebRTC, NoScript, User Agent Switcher, Tampermonkey, Dark Reader, Behind the Overlay. I recommend any and all for Firefox. NoScript is the one that takes the most work to upkeep, since you basically have to build a library of trusted sites as you go along, and casual browsing of foreign websites (i.e. ones you haven't visited before) will frequently lead to them breaking.- Coronavirus: Continuing Vigilance
- Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
- The TV and Streaming thread renewed
I enjoyed the first four seasons, thought the fifth one was alright but getting weaker, and bowed out early into the sixth. How many more could they have made? ...Oh my gosh, they made ELEVEN seasons? ...I guess it's not The Simpsons or Spongebob levels of beating a dead horse, but still, that must have been a number of seasons too many.- General Celebrity deaths
Charlotee Figi, the girl who pioneered using marijuana for seizure treatment, has passed from coronavirus.- Coronavirus: Continuing Vigilance
Posted two pages ago, . Although this one doesn't require a sign-in to view which the last inexplicably did...- AMD Ryzen
The AM5, either the first or second generation I think, will probably be when I upgrade from my 4770k, which is getting a little long in the tooth these days (although my 32GB of RAM still makes it more than good enough for most everything). Looking forward to a ridiculous amount of cores and threads with great power-to-performance efficiency. Intel's current ridiculous lineup of hot and power-hungry 14nm+++s are sadly not terribly to my liking.- Coronavirus: Continuing Vigilance
Feds seizing coronavirus supplies headed to hospitals without informing or recompensing them- Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
- Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
Trump immediately removes oversight keeping track of where trillions of the coronavirus stimulus funds go. Wow, coincidentally, Trump has very suddenly became the world's first trillionaire! Good for him, .- Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
Acting Navy Secretary that called Captain Crozier stupid resigns. Sometimes, given the insane amount of turnover in the Trump administration, I feel like some of these guys deliberately do or say stupid stuff to have any reason to resign.- Politics XXXIV (Politics never changes)
Captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt coincidentally does what Theodore Roosevelt did during Cuban War Synopsis written by someone else: During the war in Cuba in 1898, Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to the press to change public opinion to demand the Secretary of War reverse his position and allow sick soldiers with malaria and yellow fever to be returned to the United States to be quarantined. It worked. Troops with the disease were quarantined on Long Island and probably saved hundreds of lives. Roosevelt later was put up for the Medal of Honor which was then rejected by the same Secretary of War.- Coronavirus : Country readiness
It's a critical swing state. It's Trump. Enough said. Administration didn't start ordering critical supplies until mid-March.- What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread
That's usually the right decision to make. Any time I lose like more than 15m of progress in a situation like that, I turn off the game, and often wait a day to return to it.- Politics XXXIV (Politics never changes)
- The Food Thread
I was gifted a bottle of hot sauce (...same person). Dragon in the Clouds by Hot Ones. One: it's really hot. Two: it tastes like trash (super bright and fruity, which I don't really like for hot sauces). I made some fried rice with yesterday and I've had heart burn since - must've really screwed up the chemical balance of my stomach or something for it to persist this long. Nearly ruined the rice with it flavor-wise, too. I asked the person if they would take it back - turns out they got two bottles of it and have barely used the one they opened, hence why they gave it to me. Threw it directly into the garbage after I learned that. I like spicy food, but I can do without that, thanks.- FUNNY STUFF THREAD
Isn't that because he wears weird like platform-esque shoes to make him taller?- General Celebrity deaths
Fountains of Waynes' Adam Schlesinger of coronavirus.- Politics XXXIV (Politics never changes)
- Coronavirus : Country readiness
Trump with a sobering pivot today: “It's not like the flu. [...] I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. We’re going to go through a very tough two weeks.” White House now officially projects between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths...IF states and people follow these "social distancing" guidelines. - Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
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