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    The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

    Recently read the first book in the series - it was good sci-fi, very neat twists in some places. My favorite moments were when Copernicus revealed the situation in the ThreeBody game, the 30 million man computer, Ye's solution to the transmission problem (yay! We are Type 2!!!) Ye's response...
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    Useful fun projects (charcoal, woodgas, glue, foundry)

    Been doing a few of these lately; I am not particularly prepping, but I figured people on these forums might find them of interest charcoal and woodgas (also produces tar as a byproduct) gluesticks (charcoal and pinesap) mini metal foundry (more complex but definitely good to have...
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    Netflix Gamera

    Can't... wait...
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    everyone is wearing hats today...

    Get it off! How do I take this hat off?!?!?!
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    Recent AI developments - happening very fast

    Do you guys remember Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons from Game of Thrones? About 1 month ago, everyone got a dragon egg. About a week ago, the eggs hatched. Everyone now has a cute little baby dragon...
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    Chernobyl HBO max series (what happened, what almost happened)

    This doco-drama mini-series was the best I have ever seen about what happened and what almost happened (this wasn't even the biggest problem) (beautiful scene) (last and most important) https://youtu.be/jBwSuSuGhyk?t=201
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    Severe depression

    Please pray for me; I am experiencing severe depression Please pray also for my brother Matthew Please pray that the light of Christ be brought into both our lives
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    bio-bots... I did not know this existed

    The vid title is a little click-baity, but the vid actually has a lot of meat (pardon the pun) on it. They used frog stem cells, configured in a design served up by an AI and built little... mobile somethings. And then the little mobile somethings piled up more frog stem cells they gave them And...
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    Fibonacci sequence + quantum computer = ?

    https://futurism.com/the-byte/fibonacci-quantum-computer?fbclid=IwAR0YkK0lGdw36qS91C--szlo4vgDiRsW1YR1Go5b2_Yki2vpF2PrS1TTxS0 "Physicists shot a laser pulse sequence mimicking the Fibonacci sequence at a quantum computer and ended up creating a new phase of matter in the process, according to a...
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    Models

    Trying to get back into some model painting, posting here to give myself some inspiration - this a primed cruiser from the reboot of the StarBlazers series I loved as a kid. I was really impressed with the kit quality and detail; didn't even need model glue to assemble
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    Inventory

    Hey... I have an Inventory now... That means I can get... ...Stuff!!! Where's the Tavern? I need to get some armor and a holy symbol at least. How do we trade items with people? All kidding aside, as someone in IT who occasionally has to do a lot of work to release things that lots of people...
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    Trinity graphic

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    It's a Sign!

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    Interesting one

    I have a friend who is struggling in recovery, and he posted something on his fb page which I saw and thought... "hmmm, kinda true BUT..." and then I commented on it about noon today: And then about 2hrs ago, 7 hours later, he posted what he had been doing today on facebook with photos -...
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    Check book! yep yep yep!

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    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar ep29

    I love these, but this one was particularly amusing from the Conspiracy Theory point of view. Circa 1950
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    Kishi Bashi (favorites)

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    Inkarnate map tool rpg or real life geography maps

    really nice, free features, subscription $25 year or $5 month a little nonintuitive for me, but good tutorials on youtube one of mine some of theirs lol Inkarnate - Create Fantasy Maps Online
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    commentary on camel, eye of the needle

    was pretty interesting; covered a couple of contraversies about the verse I was not aware of which made me chuckle