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Re: Anchorage to Juneau, 14 hours by car. Canada and a ferry are involved. Most people fly instead. - 1 year ago

State senate, not federal. Sorry for the confusion. Otherwise our state population is approx. 733k, per census data released today. We've only got one state representative at the federal level Don 'Longest Currently Serving Member of the House' Young, re-elected biennially since 1973.

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Re: Anchorage to Juneau, 14 hours by car. Canada and a ferry are involved. Most people fly instead. - 1 year ago

Quotedavester Her district, Eagle River, has a population of about 20,000. So, probably only around 10,000 voters. So, she represents about 0.006% of the US. That's smaller than a city council district in my city (Berkeley). Think of her as that batty city councilmember who lives down the street, not a person worthy of a seat in congress. From Laura's last rodeo in 2018: SENATE DISTRICT G T

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Re: Anchorage to Juneau, 14 hours by car. Canada and a ferry are involved. Most people fly instead. - 1 year ago

They... grow them special in Eagle River. Eagle River is one of the communities that make up the Municipality of Anchorage (bigger than Rhode Island!), which covers a bit over 1700 sq. mi. of land (what can we say, the mountains need their space). One of the two Eagle River-Chugiak members of Anchorage Assembly members that Mrs. Z serves with is equally batshit - e.g.: You'll be shoc

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Re: They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War - 1 year ago

Saw that yesterday - a very enjoyable read - recommended.

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Re: Kerrygold butter... - 1 year ago

Want to get even tastier? Try a jar of this stuff on top of the butter -

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Re: Would you get a haircut here? - 1 year ago

The sharpest cut you can get!

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Re: What ever happened to harnessing motion for energy? - 1 year ago

Google tidal power.

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Re: I have been "stimulated" - 1 year ago

Just in time to preorder the Pentax K3III! Get yours today!

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Re: Olympus: All in on M43, We Will Not Go Full-Frame - 1 year ago

I expect that the K1iii will eventually come out, incorporating many of the advances they've made with the K3iii - with most of the dev cost sunk, if they can translate the pentaprism improvements plus the computing improvements and update to whichever latest sensor, it'll be a great machine. But they work at their own pace and don't chase the latest greatest, so it'll be another year or more be

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Re: Olympus: All in on M43, We Will Not Go Full-Frame - 1 year ago

Quotedeckeda I still say that if 24x35mm sensors continue to fall in price APS-C will die a merciful death because it’s just too similar in how it’s marketed, as being “good enough” despite all the “equivalent” focal length talk for lenses. And it’s not as if APS-C has ever had any camera size advantages. . Pentax would like to disagree with you. But most other makers would agr

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Re: YAAY! More Guns! 'Iowa governor signs bill allowing permitless purchase, carry of handguns' - 1 year ago

So much stupid.

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Re: 200 more companies protest GA voter laws - 1 year ago

And when will Apple pile on in Tx with their Austin ops?

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Re: 200 more companies protest GA voter laws - 1 year ago

So Wells Fargo, Principal, Dow, Cargill, ADM, Winnebago, and who else to drive change in Iowa?

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Re: Any info on "archival" (really longevity) small photo print paper? (and inks) - 1 year ago

We printed a number of books via flickr a number of years back and they still look great.

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Re: Jony Ive-designed Leica Prototype to sell for $200,000+ at auction? - 1 year ago

Quotelost in space Hmmm. No printed labels for the controls, only on the lens,which have no functional value. I'll pass. You just set the aperture by feel.

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Re: Covid vaccine reaction poll - 1 year ago

Like Ted - First shot of Pfizer - my arm was mildly sore for a day.

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Re: Facebook Marketplace - 1 year ago

FB Marketplace is effectively choking CL out in my local market.

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Re: March 19, 1990: Macintosh IIfx - 1 year ago

It was the Mac Pro of its day. Standard RAM: 4 MB Maximum RAM: 128 MB At $30-35mb/meg.... another $5k to fully deck out. And don't forget the special 64 pin simms rather than the usual 72 pin simms. Read the spec sheet and cry! I'll admit to lusting after one for no particular reason

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Re: Are there still any soap operas on ABC, NBC, or CBS? - 1 year ago

Ever since Passions was cancelled in 2008, there have been no true (paranormal) soap operas.

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Re: Excel Experts: Locking Cells and Sorting - 1 year ago

Select the header row and the data you want - there’s a filter button at the top right side of the main ribbon (or should be)

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Re: Does anyone know of a gadget that would do this? - 1 year ago

No recommendation - simply a google result -

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Re: I'm getting weaker - 1 year ago

Come on by for some tots!

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Re: Forget SPAM; when's the last time you ate canned corn beef? - 1 year ago

I... had some onigiri musubi last week... is that close enough?

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Re: Pentax K-1 Mark II styling, awesome or ugly? - 1 year ago

The prior J limited model of the KP has grown on me.

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Re: Bitcoin’s price rises to $50,000 as mainstream institutions hop on - 1 year ago

Wasting more power than Argentina doing bitcoin math.

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Re: Good EGO Power Plus customer service - 1 year ago

I've got an EGO mower - works well. Would recommend.

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Re: RIP Chick Corea - 1 year ago

My favorite experience with Chick was when I was at the HMV on St. Catherine's street in Montreal back in... the summer of 2001(?). He'd popped in for a quick promotional performance prior to his main performance that evening or in coming days. While playing his solo 15 minute set, the security alarm started to go off as someone figured most were enthralled with the concert and it was the time

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Re: RIP Chick Corea - 1 year ago

RIP Chick - thanks for all the great music and masterful musicianship!

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Re: Do folks have local owned doughnut shops nearby? - 1 year ago

Locals to Anchorage: Dinos Donuts Golden Donuts Wiki WIki Hawaiian Donuts Probably a few others. Plus the grocery stores, a KK or two, etc.

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Re: I need a bathroom exhaust fan/light/heater under $150. Please recommend one. - 1 year ago

After you've heard one Panasonic (or, well, not heard), it's pretty hard to go back to the loudness that is the Broan default stuff. Concur with above - it's worth going a few bucks beyond your stated budget if need be for the Panny.

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