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Because cheerleading is not governed by the N.C.A.A., its participants can sign lucrative endorsement deals that would lead to punishment for most college athletes, including soon-to-be N.F.L. and N.B.A. millionaires.

Sounds fair to me.

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I love good cartoons.

Scott Adams.

‘Californians can act like stupid fucking idiots better than any other state.’

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What goes down, must come up, and one quarter after US GDP collapsed by a record 31.4% annualized, moments ago the BEA reported that in Q3 the US economy rebounded by a similarly record high 33.1%, the biggest annualized increase in history.

This isn’t as amazing as it appears, because most of that growth is just a return to normalcy after the Pandemic Panic, but it’s still a Trump win.

Steve is focusing on what’s important.

Our nation is hurtling downward toward chaos, BLM is trying to kill cops in Philadelphia, Christians are predicting a 2020 rapture, and what am I doing? I’m smoking ribs.

Babylon Bee.

To the relief of Texans across the state, Governor Greg Abbott has signed a law prohibiting escaping Californians from voting after they move to Texas. Experts say this will prevent the happy and prosperous slice of heaven from sliding into the endless despair and crushing poverty of leftist policy.

And about time, too.

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A viral campaign on TikTok urged users to reserve spots at Trump’s rally in Staten Island, New York in September. The goal was to try to drive down attendance. Instead, the Staten Island GOP turned the tables on them, the New York Post reported. The local Republican group charged for the previously free tickets.

Now that’s comedy.

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You can’t be a Really Engaged Voter without a Babylon Bee Debate Bingo Card.

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Although you ought not to need a reason.

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San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious got a letter from Placer County Board of Supervisors Chair Bonnie Gore welcoming her to move to the community.

“While you may already know your next destination, I would like to invite you to consider setting up your next salon here,” Gore wrote. “Our arms are open to hard-working small business owners.”

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GoFundMe and Patreon, of course, wouldn’t touch it.

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A rotating globe image showing you the earth in whatever past year you wish.

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An Army sergeant major who rescued around 75 hostages from being executed by ISIS fighters in Iraq will be awarded the Medal of Honor on Friday, the U.S. Army announced on Tuesday.

Sgt. Maj. Thomas “Patrick” Payne ran through a burning building and enemy gunfire with a pair of bolt cutters to free the hostages during a rescue mission, according to the Army.

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“What do you mean, I have to wear a mask?”

Joel Kotkin.

For roughly the past half century, the middle swath of America has been widely written off as reactionary, backward, and des­tined for unceasing decline. CNBC recently ranked the “worst states” to live in, and almost all were in what is typically defined as the Heartland.1 Paul Krugman of the New York Times sees the region populated by “jobless men in their prime working years, with many suffering ‘deaths of despair’ by drugs, alcohol or suicide.”

Another Times article describes much of the small-town and rural areas as home to “the left behind”—Trumpian knuckle-draggers at war with modernity. This coastal contempt for the interior is nothing new, going back to celebrated figures such as Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken, who dismissed it as hopelessly “backward if not reactionary.”2 Two New Jersey academics have even proposed, with the ap­proval of much of the national media, that large parts of the Great Plains be evacuated to make way for an expansive “Buffalo Commons.”3 One progressive publication suggested that the country should send “reparations” to the region, as if it were incapable of devising its own recovery.

Yet in reality, the Heartland—a region of twenty states between the Appalachians and the Rockies—has remained a critical part of our country. In 2016, this area generated nearly $5 trillion in goods and services.4 As of 2015, it was also home to nearly 60 percent of the U.S. population,5 a percentage that is likely to increase as both the North­east and coastal California are projected to grow less than the national average between 2010 and 2030.6

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In the early 1960s, Julia Child and her husband handed Barbara Ketcham Wheaton the keys to their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The famous couple was going to California for the summer, but they wanted their young neighbor to be able to continue one of her favorite activities: perusing Child’s collection of historical cookbooks.

Now an honorary curator of Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library Culinary Collection, Wheaton was then in her early 30s, with young children at home. She had left an art history PhD program a few years before to marry historian Bob Wheaton, but she still had a passion for the past. When she discovered her love of cooking, and her neighbor’s trove of unique books, Wheaton wondered: What if she turned the same methodology she had learned in art-history classes to a more humble text—the cookbook?

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Straight outa 1988.  Ah, those were the days….

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Members of Brooklyn’s Jewish community used a pair of bolt cutters on Monday to cut the lock on Middleton Playground in Brooklyn, according to footage posted by NYC Scanner.

A heavily Jewish community’s nearby entrance to the park had been welded shut Monday morning. The city’s Parks & Recreation department then “unwelded” the gate and installed a linked chain and padlock.

You want identity politics? We got your identity politics, right here.

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fter the recent liberal media meltdown over hydroxychloroquine, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tore apart their hysteria in Wednesday’s briefing. In particular, she took aim at CNN host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo for taking the more-dangerous quinine during his coronavirus bout. And seeing as how deranged corners of the liberal media have been seemingly rooting for the drug to fail, it was time someone — anyone — called out their nonsense.

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Supposably, the Free Beacon took some kind of AI bot software and fed 1000 “articles” written by the sourc*nt frump Jen Rubin into it, and then had the software spit out a simulated Jen Rubin column.

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Eat This Much creates personalized meal plans based on your food preferences, budget, and schedule. Reach your diet and nutritional goals with our calorie calculator, weekly meal plans, grocery lists and more. Create your meal plan right here in seconds.

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Open doors and press buttons without touching them!

I am not making this up.

“If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.” — George Carlin.

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People began sharing pictures on social media of what items were left behind after the shopping surge. The foods — such as cauliflower crust pizza or chocolate hummus — and the empty shelves once stocked with more appetizing foods are juxtaposed.

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Every problem has a solution.

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As George Carlin famously said, ‘If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.’

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But I sure am.

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As George Carlin famously said, ‘If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.’

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Fun for the whole family.

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Only 45% of Americans said they would be willing to vote for a socialist for president, while 53% say they would not, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday.

Gallup also asked voters on their willingness to choose candidates with other diverse characteristics, but “socialist” was the only one receiving majority opposition.

Let’s pull together and put Bernie over the top. With any luck there will be a machine gun waiting for him.

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Wendy’s has been out to lunch (so to speak) on the fast-food-breakfast field so far. This is a welcome arrival. I’ll check it out and report back.

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Pixar’s animated film Wall-E has sent a profound message to anyone who has watched the flick that if we don’t change our lifestyles, we’re all going to be obese and wheeled around in self-driving chairs.

Segway-Ninebot’s new S-Pod personal transporter is making this a reality, as the company gears up to take advantage of a record number of fat Americans who are currently wheeled around in shitty Rascal scooters.

I want one. With a pintle mount for a machine gun.

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The Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas traditionally has All The Best Toys.

• This microwave with a 27-inch touchscreen is the most CES thing you’ve ever seen.
• GE Appliances’ Kitchen Hub has cameras inside it to help you cook better.
• You can also watch Netflix on it.

I can’t imagine any circumstance in which I’d want to watch Netflix on my microwave, but still.

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As one of the primary consumers of environmental resource, the building industry faces unprecedented challenges in needing to reduce the environmental impact of current consumption practices. This applies to both the construction of the built environment and resource consumption during its occupation and use. Where incremental improvements to current practices can be realised, the net benefits are often far outstripped by the burgeoning demands of rapidly increasing population growth and urbanisation. Against the backdrop of this grand societal challenge, it is necessary to explore approaches that envision a paradigm shift in how material is sourced, processed and assembled to address the magnitude of these challenges in a truly sustainable way, and which can even provide added value. We propose to develop a structural substrate by using live fungal mycelium, functionalise the substrate with nanoparticles and polymers to make a mycelium-based electronics, implement sensorial fusion and decision making in the fungal electronics and to growing monolithic buildings from the functionalised fungal substrate. Fungal buildings will self-grow, build, and repair themselves subject to substrate supplied, use natural adaptation to the environment, sense all what human can sense.

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hello.arnoldc

IT'S SHOWTIME
TALK TO THE HAND "hello world"
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

java -jar ArnoldC.jar hello.arnoldc
java hello

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That dog has FOCUS.

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Good news.

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These are my people.

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We have the technology.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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I always used to love reading about the house kits that Sears used to sell back in the Good Old Days.

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Alpha Dog Firearms announced it would be selling AR-15s for $349.99 on Friday, hours after Beto O’Rourke pledged to ban the weapons at the ABC News debate on Thursday night. O’Rourke was adamant that his buyback program would be mandatory, not voluntary, going on to assure the debate moderators that “hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15.”

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Guess the proles in New Yawk aren’t as woke as the DemLegHump Media would have you believe.

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Waffle House restaurants are often used to gauge the magnitude of disasters in the Southeast: If a store is open, your community has been spared. If the store is open but has a limited menu, you’ve probably gotten some damage. If the store is completely closed, you’re in a disaster zone.

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Some people take the narrow road.

One to Jump School, heading for the Tower of Power.

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Making lemonade when NIMBYs hand you lemons.

If I were ever elected President I would put a McDonalds in the basement of the West Wing. I bet it would make a mint.

Ken Mondschein takes to the woods.

For the past 48 years, around 10,000 people have been gathering every summer for a festival that’s been described as “medieval Burning Man.”

My first Pennsic was Pennsic X, and it was already too big for comfort. Parts of it were fun, though, including hearing Duke Talymar’s Gargoyle Cycle of stories. And watching Lady Maureen of the Spicewoods put ice cream in Duke Moonwulf’s helmet was entertaining. Go, Rangers.

MIT Open Courseware.

This course explores languages that have been deliberately constructed, including Esperanto, Klingon, and Tolkien’s Elvish. Students construct their own languages while considering the basic linguistic characteristics of various languages of the world. Through regular assignments, students describe the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and writing system of their constructed language. The final assignment is a grammatical description of the new language.

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Things hand-made of leather, the way God intended.

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Sometimes the only appropriate response to the brain-dead Left is laughter.

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And, of course, the Usual Suspects are angry about it.