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original title: Dinosaur National Monument Construction Work Turns Up New Fossils, Leading to the First Excavation at One Site in More Than a Century

huh, not sure if life imitates snark and bull https://medium.com/luminasticity/great-products-of-illuminat...

"The ZZZ mask is an intelligent sleep mask — it allows you to sleep less while sleeping deeper. That’s the premise — but really it is a paradigm breaking computer that allows full automation and control over the sleep process, including access to dreamtime."

or if this is another scifi variation of the same theme, with some dev like embellishments.


That is the premise of HypnoSpace Outlaw, a neat game about 90s internet nostalgia and scifi.

their monopolies were formed in a different time, when it might have been thought prudent to drop bad merchants even if they themselves did not bear the risk in order to not get governmental regulation imposed that would be more detrimental than just dropping the merchants.

Not saying that's the case, just given circumstances not sure if risk is needed to explain the result in this case.


if only they had killed the Americans without harming them, but I think it was a step too far to harm the Americans and Kill them! That's rude. How many Americans did each of these millions of Illegal Aliens Harm and Kill, I'm guessing at least two due to the plural usage and there are millions of the Illegal Aliens therefore there are at least two million.

This means that the Illegal Aliens have evidently harmed and killed at least 4 million Americans.

I'm not gonna sugar-coat it here, that is a lot of harming and killing alright.


I like this theory of paying taxes is a felony, tell me more!!

Levity aside, working on a tourist visa is a violation but generally isn't prosecuted as a felony.

Also the grandparent post said "They seized a white Irishman last October who had a valid work permit and was just about to head to his green card interview."

If he had a valid work permit I suppose this means that he was allowed to work and pay taxes on that work, in other words - no, he was not committing a felony.


I would assume part of the payout rate would also be determined by level of engagement of those followers, or also people who are not subscribed but are still sitting through your content.

>Absolutely not.

A statement that certain needs some backing.

You might say that the statement you were replying to also needs some backing, but they did give some, although you believe it was incorrect.

It just seems that "absolutely not" goes against the conventional wisdom that knowledge for knowledge sake will lead to some greater return than was expended on getting that knowledge somewhere down the road which really is one of the main underlying ideas of Western Civilization since before Newton.

Absolutely not means future society will not be better off! That seems to be a big weird absurdly pompous and conceited statement to make unless you have a time machine, or at least a big mess of statistics that can show that scientific advances in physics for a significant amount of time has failed to provide a return value on existence, although I would think that does not rise to the promise of "absolutely not".


The field of Elon Musk has been promising shit for years, what do you think?

Well we definitely have a lot more Elon Musk now

To be fair, he has delivered a lot of (bull)shit

How SpaceX and Tesla patent new industrial scale techniques and technologies for any competitor to use is the bullcase for bringing the future forward faster. Lookup at Starlink.

I like this and I feel it would be a great part of my plan to someday really understand spreadsheets, except I am not wanting to learn anything in MS Office. But definitely seems like a good market to be in, and a nice tool.

I guess you could do stuff like find lots of common VBA, formulas etc. written in the past, from MSDN magazine articles and similar, and package them up as a library of add-ins that you would get as part of your membership automatically.


what does space-y mean in this context? Spacey, as in trippy (vernacular definition), in the way that Phillip K. Dick is? Or set in outer space?

If the second, there was a lot of sci-fi set in space for decades before The Left Hand of Darkness, and the cultural focus of that book and a lot of the new wave of science fiction writers of that time was a reaction against the outdated space focused science fiction of the previous generations.


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