2022 LC Thread—New Year, New Thread

Jeopardy is not singular in being a qualitatively dumb show (answer in the form of a question? enough.) but in the way it makes everyone who watches it awful as well. Watching the Price is Right with your loved ones is a wonderous communal experience that brings everyone together. Watching Jeopardy makes you a jackass who thinks anyone gives a shit that you know how many plays Falstaff was in. Getouttahere.

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People who like jeopardy are usually also the people who like the smell of their own farts :grin:

https://twitter.com/spiritoflenin/status/1504479161255010311?s=21

I would have been good with 2 weeks, but this calls for a perma really.

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What was the name off he game show on Nickelodeon where the kids would get to play in giant video games? I loved that show.

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Nick Arcade. Yes, that was good.

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gene rayburn GOAT host, dude was just on another level

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I’m not an expert but it’s probably safe to say that practical batteries are limited by materials, not physics. A given battery chemistry has a maximum theoretical specific energy (energy per kg) but we don’t come close to that in practice. We can get several times more energy into a lithium ion battery than we do but we’d have more car fires. We’ll do better. We’ll develop better materials, new chemistries, safer implementations.

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Moved the trans discussion to the existing thread for that. Please feel free to continue it there.

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Discrimination Against Women: SPORTS EDITION (with exclusive never-before-heard hot takes from men)

WaPo with a rare good headline
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1505091251095359497

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Amazon will refund you every time. They give no fricks. There are various reports around the ether that they are destroying hundreds of thousands of packages a week.

I can’t speak to the veracity of the reports but it aligns with my experience of delivering packages for them. They have no contingency plans for obvious situations like people passing away. They literally do not care about waste on that level.

They have such a stranglehold on product inventory that it is actually logical for this kind of waste to happen.

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William’s victory over James and the subsequent Protestant Ascendancy are celebrated by the Orange Order.

These guys don’t even accept Protestants married to Catholics as members. There are yearly marches in various places in Ireland and Northern Ireland on the 12th of July, which have often been flashpoints for sectarian violence. I was in Derry for it one year.

Lines for sugar in Russia. Meanwhile, in the US

https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1505292742993321993?t=NmLXBd488LzZwOjJhIrQ-g&s=19

Has to be a troll, come on.

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Has the feel of a satire account

I learned something random today. If you are an iPhone and iPad user you can simply cut and paste back and fourth seamlessly. Cut something from one go to other and hit paste. It’s pretty cool.