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It’s ladies day today for Columbo (5USA) as you can see how they get to grips with portraying female murderers in the 70s. First up at 9am it’s ‘Ransom for
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1. Oh shit, he’s done a thread Yes, and it won’t be the last. Put them all together, and they might make a roadmap. You can guess what the destination
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i noticed some interesting things about the EU covid curves1. the steep part of the decline in death rate came before distancing could have had effect.2. the period of peak
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1. Ok, I'm liking @RepSeanMaloney "I sure as hell didn't win 5 Xs as a gay guy in a Trump district"Much more imp he just correctly pointed out that even
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2m dead yet the UK, US & EU blocked the TRIPS waiver proposal by 100 other nations to allow generic vaccine production. This was done at the behest of the
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Did someone mention “Downfall”? Good opportunity to talk about why that movie is interesting – but problematic (and it’s not because of how Hitler is portrayed). A few thoughts on
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People often ask me what tools I use to create diagrams for my posts.Long story short, I draw them manually using:- http://sketch.io/sketchpad  (software)- Wacom Intuos pen tablet (hardware)For the long
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35 years ago today, the Challenger exploded.I watched it blow up, from the roof of the newspaper where I was working in West Palm Beach, 150 miles due south of
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"He's not just unprepared -- he's temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility." - @HillaryClinton, 2016Four years ago this country failed itself, bigly.We
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Every football-loving child has a World Cup which they remember much more than any other. Usually, it's the one they see between the ages of about 11 and 14. In
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October 31, 2020, 7:45 p.m.USA and Donald Trump:Deselect!..Donald Trump has done inestimable damage to democracy and the US-built world order in four years. Now the Americans decide - and they
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THREAD: the UK in Eurovision 2010-2020. a review of everything that went right & wrong yes i’m back doing threads cause i’m bored & also i’ve done like
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Remember this when you choose a bank account.This chart shows how poor some current account providers are at refunding fraud.Bank 2 could be Nationwide. It could be Lloyds.It could be
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OK, as promised, a live-read thread on Gohmert's motion in the stupid "the VP gets to pick the next President" litigation.I'm not going to repeat stuff I addressed when I
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Nothing wrong at all.But I think a high percentage of people replying to @dhh here have a wrong idea of what pair programming is.I've done it for 8 years straight
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a quick #telecom thread on the CA1 opinion issued last Friday in MDTC v. FCC (here: http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/19-2282P-01A.pdf) (there's a quick patent payoff for my IP friends near the end...)1/ I'll
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