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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(September 22, 2022 at 4:49 am)Tomato Wrote: [Image: 308507485_648981523258518_62434288609247...e=6330802B]

They may have changed the formulation since the early 80's, but I remember the first time I took NyQuill (back when the top looked like a nurse's cap).  I never before, and have never since, slept like that without an anesthesiologist being present.
  
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(September 22, 2022 at 4:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In a series of repeated tests, raccoons were able to open complex locks (‘complex’ meaning a lock requiring four or moves to open) in less than ten attempts 84% of the time. Once they learned to open a particular lock, they were able to do so even after the lock had been rearranged or turned upside down. AND they were able to remember how to do so for up to three years.

The trash pandas are going to take over.

Boru

Assuming the domesticated primates manage to destroy themselves, I would put raccoons as the most likely to evolve into a technological species. They are smart, have very dexterous hands, and solve problems socially.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
I welcome the coming of our trash panda overlords. Oop. They're here already.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Chabad

Quote:The singing voice of a woman is considered sensual and possibly stimulating to males. It is therefore forbidden for a man to hear a woman other than his immediate family sing and it is prohibited to pray or study Torah in that environment.

Several halachic (Jewish law) authorities are of the opinion that a recording or a radio transmitted singing voice of a woman who one does not personally know would not be actually prohibited. It is the custom however in most orthodox circles for men to refrain from hearing a woman sing in any format through any medium.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
That the anagram of mother-in-law is "Woman Hitler".
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(September 22, 2022 at 10:10 am)polymath257 Wrote:
(September 22, 2022 at 4:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In a series of repeated tests, raccoons were able to open complex locks (‘complex’ meaning a lock requiring four or moves to open) in less than ten attempts 84% of the time. Once they learned to open a particular lock, they were able to do so even after the lock had been rearranged or turned upside down. AND they were able to remember how to do so for up to three years.

The trash pandas are going to take over.

Boru

Assuming the domesticated primates manage to destroy themselves, I would put raccoons as the most likely to evolve into a technological species. They are smart, have very dexterous hands, and solve problems socially.

So, apart from the hands, they're nothing like humans?
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(September 24, 2022 at 7:01 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(September 22, 2022 at 10:10 am)polymath257 Wrote: Assuming the domesticated primates manage to destroy themselves, I would put raccoons as the most likely to evolve into a technological species. They are smart, have very dexterous hands, and solve problems socially.

So, apart from the hands, they're nothing like humans?

Maybe they'll have a chance.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Went to pick up my grocery order and was listening to local news/weather when I suddenly focus as the announcer said a name I recognize. The 22 year old daughter of a former friend of my daughter was arrested with another woman for running a sex trafficking ring. Holy shit! I last saw her when she was a pudgy, dorky middle school kid hanging out with my granddaughter.
  
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John Cena now holds the record for the most wishes granted through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 650.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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There are two different orientations of right-angle SATA power connectors. I always assumed that they all would be identical, but I went to hook up the DVD drive in the small form factor computer that is my home until the other is fixed, and went to plug things in, only to realize that one of the connectors was bass ackward. Being a Lenovo compact desktop computer, it has a proprietary power supply with two SATA power cables, one oriented one way for the hard disk, and the other the opposite for the DVD drive. That was something of a rude awakening for me, but I was able to make it work with the power splitter that I had on hand.
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