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Recent content by DrLeftover
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BBC: "Our Sun may once have had a twin. What happened to this stellar sibling?"
much more: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241223-the-search-for-the-suns-missing-twin
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- Forum: Astronomy & Space
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Former Spkr. Pelosi Injured During European Visit
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14256319/Nancy-Pelosi-84-hobbles-House-floor-walker-hip-replacement.html- DrLeftover
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- Forum: In the News
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Information Upgrade to 2.3
I tried it again last night. Fresh power up, nothing else running, first website after browser boot was OT. Same end result.- DrLeftover
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- Forum: Announcements & Information
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"We strongly recommend enabling push notifications on this device so that you can be kept up-to-date with site activity. "
It came up with: "Offtopix: Embrace the Unexpected in Every Discussion would like your permission to enable push notifications." .... "no" wasn't a good enough answer to the first question? Let's see if "Never ask me again" works.- DrLeftover
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Worst Musical Fanbase: The Swifties vs The Juggalos
There's no comparison. Expect, perhaps, their willingness to spend considerable amount of money and time to support their artist of choice. Swifties are annoying but harmless. You can only say half of that about the others. And when you look at the subject of their adoration, Swift, or the two...- DrLeftover
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Should social media platforms regulate political advertising?
The same discussion was had in the seventies with TV. The main ones crying were those that couldn't raise enough money to annoy everybody during prime time shows.- DrLeftover
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- Forum: Debate Room
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Era of music
One thing that makes this sort of question impossible to honestly answer is the quality of the recordings as you go back in time. For instance, this is one of the better UN-enhanced, and un-AI-processed recordings of a good song from 85 years ago, but the record hiss is still somewhat distracting.- DrLeftover
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Announcement Welcome to the staff team Capt.Dan
Damn. Another one.- DrLeftover
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Information Upgrade to 2.3
One of the things that is not compatible with the new version is out of date browsers on obsolete computers. The XP machine would log in, but I couldn't do anything. Which Webster might see as a good thing.- DrLeftover
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Swearing
When you do it constantly, it loses its meaning so you have nothing to say that can take your emotional expression to the next level.- DrLeftover
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- Forum: Debate Room
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New Year's terror attack
The Sugar Bowl has been postponed until tomorrow. https://www.wdsu.com/article/sugar-bowl-new-orleans-postponed-terror-attack/63316433- DrLeftover
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- Forum: In the News
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Announcement Jan. 2025 MotM - Nebulous
He deserves something like this:- DrLeftover
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- Forum: Announcements & Information
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New Year's terror attack
Local TV https://www.wdsu.com/ https://www.wwltv.com/- DrLeftover
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- Forum: In the News
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New Year's terror attack
More: Driver rams into New Orleans crowd, killing 10 before dying in firefight with police https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-car-bourbon-street-63a1b43d615af365cb8ba6f5f0583eca- DrLeftover
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- Forum: In the News
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New Year's terror attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn4x88455qpt- DrLeftover
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- Forum: In the News
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CNN: "Live CNN New Year's Eve segment goes off the rails as drag queen dares reporter to touch her 'dangerous' body part"
And they proved it themselves with that fake rescue of a prisoner in Syria. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/17/cnn-faces-backlash-over-staged-syrian-prisoner-rescue-report- DrLeftover
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- Forum: In the News