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Re: I’m taking the new naturalization test. Wish me luck? - 2 months ago

19/20 From the article: "questions to mirror what U.S. students typically learn in civics classes. They teach that "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" document in civics classes? Wait, do they even teach civics classes anymore?

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Re: T-shirt fun, "We were confused, too." - 2 months ago

My G-D, you Bozos are old. Me too, I guess.

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Re: Questions on the Pfizer vaccine - 2 months ago

These are the concerns I have too. I suspect there may be proprietary issues limiting the amount of public info released about each mRNA vaccine construct. To wit: 1) It would be useless to translate a mRNA that creates only a cytosolic protein. There must be an encoded amino acid sequence that results in its transport to the cell surface. 2) It could be potentially dangerous to have that

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Re: Georgia secretary of state announces hand recount of presidential race - 2 months ago

QuotergG I know for a fact that my husband voted in the Presidential race but did not vote for either Perdue or Ossoff. You have some work to do there lady.

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Re: Who gets priority for the vaccine if it passes scientific review? - 2 months ago

I'll wait for a more traditional protein vaccine, like the one being tested by Novavax.

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Re: Does your carpet match your drapes? - 2 months ago

QuoteCJsNvrUrly We'd like an electric, smooth glass top, with the knobs in front, and no rise in the back. In white. This is exactly what we have. Bought about 6 years ago from Sears. Don't know who made it for them, but maybe it's still being made by someone.

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Re: sparkle error - 2 months ago

Have you emptied the Trash, shut down, then booted up? My only experience with Sparkle was back in the 90's when it was a video player.

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Re: Biden up by 7,200 in Georgia. - 2 months ago

QuoteSpeedy “OFFICIALS FOCUSED ON GETTING IT RIGHT.” That’s how the tally releases all end in Georgia. I guess Gov. Kemp’s legacy left office when he did. The pessimist in me whispers "It depends on what your definition of 'right' is". You, I, and most Dems have one definition, 45 has another. What is the GA election commissioner's definition?

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Re: Biden takes lead in Pennsylvania - 2 months ago

I grew up in Delaware County. I'm glad to see it is still a Dem stronghold.

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Re: wanna see what they are tweeting to one another? (dumped ballot pix) - 2 months ago

That looks like a stretch of old US 1 in PA. And those are Biden ballots, in case you couldn't quite make out the printing.

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Re: Collins keeps her seat - 2 months ago

Pardon my ignorance, but how did both Biden AND Collins win in Maine?

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Absentee Ballot Observation - 3 months ago

So I filled out my SC absentee ballot and dropped it off at an early voting site. Avoided the long line, in which 1/3 of the people were not masked and standing too close together. Just what I expected in this mostly Repub county. But the paper ballot itself seemed to have been created with bias aforethought. In all multiparty contests, the Democratic candidates were at the bottom of the list.

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Re: What happened to Trump's face? - 3 months ago

Stroke?

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Re: 401k vs IRA - 3 months ago

QuotergG You can roll a 401k into an IRA when you leave, but you can’t put an IRA into an employer 401k. In some cases, you may be able to rollover an IRA into a 401k. It depends on whether the the 401k plan and its administrator allow it. You have to check with them. I did this so I could borrow against it to fund the purchase of my business. That was in 2013, and I don't know if the rule

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Re: 401k vs IRA - 3 months ago

What Will posted. Sometimes a 401k allows you to borrow against it, so it can be a source for a loan if you need one. There are terms that must be met for the loan, a payback time limit, and interest requirements. But you are paying that interest into the 401k, so in the end, that interest is yours.

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Re: bitwarden: interesting password manager, open source, free and premium plans. - 3 months ago

Quotespace-time How do you sync between devices? Admittedly not as smooth as it would be using a cloud-based, single file with all of my passwords, but to me it is much safer: Ciphsafe keeps its data in a password-protected file, and I use Ciphsafe on just 2 computers: one at work and one at home. Each computer has two Ciphsafe files, labelled Work and Home. Periodically I copy the current H

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Re: bitwarden: interesting password manager, open source, free and premium plans. - 3 months ago

I'm not brave enough to have my passwords stored on some company's server. I use the free CiphSafe. It works at least through 10.12.6, which is my newest OS.

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Re: Person's genealogy interest & DNA test results in murder convictions - 3 months ago

There is some question as to the ethics in the methodology used in some of these "use DNA evidence to find a suspect" cases. IIRC, a case in CA involved law officers submitting a crime scene DNA sample in the name of a fictitious person, looking for a matching "relative" in the genealogy site's vast archive of users. "Looking for my long lost cousin, uncle, whatever"

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Re: This dirt cheap dual monitor stand is making my life so much easier! - 3 months ago

So what brand of Coffee Lite do you drink that requires an aquarium stone to hold it down?

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Re: From the Risk vs Consequence Dept... - 3 months ago

I also have not had a professional cut since late March. And wifey's been up North since early June. I have used my razor on the short hairs on the back of my neck. I'm mostly bald on top, so its just the sides and back that grows. The sides look a bit shaggy, but in a good way. The back is just about long enough for me to relive my hippie days. Just need to find a suitable hair tie.

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Re: The Debate - 3 months ago

I watched only the first ten minutes or so, and couldn't continue. I so wish Biden would speak in complete sentences and finish the point he intended to make. IMO, that alone would show he is so much more appropriate and competent to hold the office.

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Re: Could the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett actually lead to more votes for Joe? - 4 months ago

QuoteWags Suppose there were many one-issue conservative religious voters, that issue being abortion, and after Barrett is on the court they no longer have a reason to rationalize support for tRump? By definition, the "one-issue conservative religious voters" have no other metric by which they measure 45's suitability to remain president, and on this one issue he satisfied their wish.

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Re: [FOLLOWUP] Shark Rocket Pro Dirt Engage Cordless stick vacuum (was Vacuums--Anybody using a Dyson V8, V10, or V11? Miele HX1) - 4 months ago

Any idea how well it would work on cat/dog fur on carpet?

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Re: It's Friday? Friday Funnies - 4 months ago

A man buys a parrot and brings him home. But the parrot starts insulting him and gets really nasty, so the man picks up the parrot and tosses him into the freezer to teach him a lesson. He hears the bird squawking for a few minutes, but all of a sudden the parrot is quiet. The man opens the freezer door, the parrot walks out, looks up at him and says, "I apologize for offending you, and I hu

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Re: Take a look at this picture and tell me your first thoughts - 4 months ago

Repurposed 1990s hard drive case?

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Re: What attracts lizards? (welcome to my Monday) - 4 months ago

The ones around here eat cockroaches, sorry, palmetto bugs. Their carcasses are easy to dispose of: after they die they just slowly dessicate to tough skin and bones.

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Re: '63 Aston Martin DB5 update - 4 months ago

Unless that DB5 has the optional hub cap tire slicers, its a nonstarter for me.

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Re: Because there are so many Matt Taibbai admirers hereabouts... - 4 months ago

Quotedeckeda If he turned it around any after that, I wouldn’t know. Why read more? He didn't: towards the end he wrote "The Democratic Party has no message — literally none — apart from him." Biden, Harris, and whole lot of others have a message that Taibbai doesn't acknowledge.

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Re: What part of the US is the reading every vowel letter combination from? - 4 months ago

Perhaps the south, where vowel sounds are sometimes drawn out. And sometimes a vowel is added: "One, Two, Tha-ree."

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Re: Charge your phone in 12 parsecs - 5 months ago

"Charge your phone in 12 parsecs" That device can charge every phone this side of Trappist-1?

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