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Chimp's avatar

Here's hoping she wears a mask to school on Monday...

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pmsrw3's avatar

I spent something like an hour at home yesterday trying to understand why some code I had just written kept throwing a NameError. A certain number of profanities were issued during that time.

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goonemeritus now with chatGPT's avatar

This is only going to further alienate the beleaguered vacuum tube industry. Way to pick winners and losers' Joe!

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(((fka_donnie_d))), sick SOB's avatar

You were calling it bad names?

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pmsrw3's avatar

You can always swear sotto voce

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goonemeritus now with chatGPT's avatar

To be fair I told my dog Bo I invented tennis balls.

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(((fka_donnie_d))), sick SOB's avatar

Sure, but I would try and avoid even that. Generally speaking when other people watch me doing things I do my best to make it look easy.

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Marceline's avatar

I feel like Hannity just disappeared.

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FurryCaterwauling's avatar

...and that's the alpha and omega of it!

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DisplacedCTYankee's avatar

It's valves. Blimey.

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georgiaburning's avatar

I can see Intel getting the fab up and running with ex-pat West Coast employees despairing over living costs and young locals eager for opportunity. But one big reason semiconductor plants gather in certain areas is that they require a food chain of skilled suppliers and sub-contractors. This takes time to build. You don’t go from welding truck frames to clean room gas piping overnight.The central states have spent 40 years down-sizing their industrial skills and it will be hard to undo that damage quickly.

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FurryCaterwauling's avatar

Also too, WTF is up with that paddling?

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pmsrw3's avatar

Ugh. When I was a kid it took 30 sec for the TV to warm up after turning it on. I was awestruck when we got a TV that lit up instantly.

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Marceline's avatar

Thank you for the opportunity to post this. https://twitter.com/outside...

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pmsrw3's avatar

There's something charming about bragging on your wife's profession when you're President of the USA.

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abbienormal's avatar

Yes, but semi-conductor manufacturing uses A LOT of water. Going to have to take that into account as the southwest gets drier and drier.

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