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Back workout, 2x5 power cleans, 2x5 slow deadlifts. Had to do the workout early because I needed to work off some anger about AI, noise, and ICE. I did, but I’m still angry, and I don’t want to seem angry around the guy.Comments
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Well, shit. A substitute teacher evaluated the guy's essay with AI, probably ChatGPT. All the kids noticed.Comments
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Trump lost Trump v. Illinois, which forced him to withdraw federalized national guard troops. There’s an interesting breakdown of ways he could try again and the legal problems he’ll hit.Comments
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From the 1040 instructions:Comments
Kidnapped child. If your child is presumed by law enforce-
I guess that's compassionate?
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ing surviving spouse filing status, the child tax credit, the credit for other dependents, and the earned income credit (EIC). For details, see Pub. 501 (Pub. 596 for the EIC). -
Winnie the Pooh is the third highest-grossing media franchise. It's made more money than the Star Wars empire.Comments
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interview with founder/guitarist Eric Hersemann of GiganComments
There's never been a power chord on a Gigan record ever. There’s never been a bar chord on a Gigan record ever.
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On January 8, 2026, a man and woman were shot and wounded by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at 2:20 PM in Portland, OregonComments
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I had some newaza success at judo today. I was able to land an armbar, a triangle, a couple of pins, a choke from guard, and I held out for a fair bit of time (for me) against a black belt before getting choked.Comments
I need to be able to play a high guard, like spider guard, though. Against better partners, I can't rotate to triangle or armbar attacks quickly enough. They always shut me down well before I get my leg up.
I also need to be able to switch sweep sides because I often try to sweep once, then when that fails, I'm stuck.
I think the most exciting development, though, is maybe I finally understand tai otoshi now that it was explained differently today? The critical obstacle for me is actually rotating the opponent. Connecting the forearm to the chest first, then turning makes it way easier for me than rotating them immediately upon gripping which is what the Tuesday senseis recommend. We'll see about this next randori, though. -
Suspects arrested in bear-spray assault at Capilano MallComments
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NPM seems to want me to use a physical key or biometric ID to publish? Fuck it, I'm just going symlink to my modules.Comments
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Minneapolis Public Schools have cancelled for the rest of the weekComments
The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
I have to be a grown up and accept that justice is never going to come to these people. If this ends, then they’ll just disperse among the regular population. But it stings to know that.
“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.
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The relationship between tonality diamond pitches and string length.Comments
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Shouldn't someone that lives be called a liver?Comments
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One advantage of the DVD era was that you could send a movie to someone regardless of their technical ability. They'd get the DVD, then it would just play.Comments
Now, you have to either ask them to subscribe to the specific streaming service that it's on, which is just too much to ask, or if you can download it, send them the file. Then, they have to be able to take an mkv file, play it on a computer, and hook it up to a TV with an HDMI cable. -
ICE murdered someone in Minneapolis that was trying to drive away from them.Comments
Trump is normalizing completely lying about what happened. The DHS always sounds like the Kremlin now.
I just watched A Taxi Driver, which is about the Gwangju Massacre. It depicts Chun Doo Hwan using the military to try to completely black out media of the military shooting hundreds of civilians, which he did in real history.
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Andy Laroque's solo from At the Gates's song Cold without any backing sounds amazing. Man, that is some strong guitar mind melding.Comments
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Tomas Lindberg. He was such a good guy. He was quoted a lot in Swedish Death Metal. While I was reading it, I looked him up and found that he had died a few months ago, at only 52 years old. RIP. -
We had a sink leak and possible shutoff leak in the kitchen, so I thought in the time it takes the plumber to fix that, he can also install a new sink, which is only about $300. We've hated our sink for a long time.Comments
He did find and fix the shutoff leak, but the sink we bought wouldn't fit in the countertop hole. Even though it's nominally the same size sink (25"x22"), the new sink has side clips when make it too big for the hole.
He was not willing to cut a formica countertop, and when he called his boss about a carpenter, those guys wouldn't do it, either. Essentially, if you want a professional to install a new sink, you have to get a new countertop, which we're not willing to do.
So, we asked him to put the old sink back, which he did. After all that, the faucet still drips. His advice was to replace the faucet entirely instead of parts like I was looking at doing earlier. After charging us for two hours of labor (at $174/hour), I asked if the faucet we bought for the new sink would work. He said definitely, then headed out.
I then realized he'd only been here for an hour and ten minutes, and we could have had him install the new faucet for 50 minutes. Instead, it's now on me to do it, if I really want the drip fixed.
I always seem to lose in every situation involving contractors. I should take it in stride, but I'm so tired of this stuff now.
(On top of all that, Lowes says in their purchase emails "returns are easy just click here and follow the instructions!" There are no instructions, just a "buy it again" button.)
I think that when it comes to getting professional home repair, from now on, I have to stick to asking for the minimal fix with the lowest risk and not venture into "improvement" territory. -
The plumber's here, and he verified that the shutoffs under the kitchen sink are indeed not closing all the way. When you don't know a domain all that well, you can come up with a logical explanation for something, but there's always this feeling that you might be missing something.Comments
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Liers in Wait was mentioned in Swedish Death Metal. They had a member of Grotesque, the band that went on to become At the Gates. They only had one EP.Comments
I just checked it out, though, and it's incredible. Amazing and cleanly played riffs for 1990 just bursting all over the place. Good use of synths, too, which is rare in metal.
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Putin was worried about Ukraine joining Nato. But it turns out Nato could be completely pulled apart by the US attacking Greenland. Trump is a golden goose for him.Comments
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The Red Rectangle NebulaComments
The unusual shape of the Red Rectangle is likely due to a thick dust torus which pinches the otherwise spherical outflow into tip-touching cone shapes. Because we view the torus edge-on, the boundary edges of the cone shapes seem to form an X.
Very weird!
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