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Tweezer Reprise
Aug 6, 2013

It hasn't got six strings, but it's a lot of fun.
Lieder and others' claims of the planet Nibiru have been repeatedly debunked by scientists.[61]

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Gubbinal Girl
Apr 11, 2022


do bad kickstarters deserve this many words on a wikipedia page?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_Books#Criticisms

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Gubbinal Girl posted:

do bad kickstarters deserve this many words on a wikipedia page?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_Books#Criticisms

it was an notably bad kickstarter for the era. the company is probably more infamous for the invariably terrible layout and editing of its books, copy/paste of outdated material from other products, and odd tendency to include a prominent human supremacist fascist faction in its books that gets treated like they're the heroes of the setting.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
The song ... was used by CBS during their 2013 coverage of the funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela, albeit not without controversy.[23][24]

lol

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

FMguru posted:

The song ... was used by CBS during their 2013 coverage of the funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela, albeit not without controversy.[23][24]

lol

there's no way this isn't Toto's Africa

e: yep

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



Midjack posted:

odd tendency to include a prominent human supremacist fascist faction in its books that gets treated like they're the heroes of the setting.

i only really know rifts but i don't remember the coalition being anything other than unambiguous evil nazi dudes that made good faceless enemies. did that change at some point, or are you thinkin of other games?

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Achmed Jones posted:

i only really know rifts but i don't remember the coalition being anything other than unambiguous evil nazi dudes that made good faceless enemies. did that change at some point, or are you thinkin of other games?

it's worse in rifts if for no reason other than the sheer amount of material published for it. early rifts the nazi skull dudes in fact seemed like obvious bad guys though even at the very start they did include full stats for a dozen different military jobs and gear lists for player characters to be part of the nazi skull dude military, but as it went on all the "good guy" factions turned out to be puppets or stooges of evil aliens from another dimension so the nazi skull dudes were the hard men making hard choices to ensure the survival of humanity, and the more peaceful and friendly communities can only exist because the nazi skull dudes are the "thin blue line". there was a multi-book campaign that described in exacting detail how the nazi skull dudes stomped the poo poo out of their neighbors because they were wizards and in part of that there is a whole bunch of hand wringing about how human the nazi skull dudes guarding the wizard concentration camps are. it's really loving gross.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
Tourism
* The glove museum

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

The album is surrealist in nature, suggesting that there is another West Virginia inside of the state, that one can drive a house to Idaho, that Montana is a leg, Iowa is a witch, Oregon chases after people, and Arkansas has sunken and is to be replaced by a ship of its exact shape and size.[3]

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
Iran is seen by many to be a country with internet censorship.

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004




well poo poo. thanks for the info!

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
https://twitter.com/mattsinger/status/1552340247287152643

qsvui
Aug 23, 2003
some crazy thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_chasing_a_pigeon.webm

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
As a result of the continued presence of the amusement park zoning lot at Bartow and Baychester Avenues, there were no restrictions on the heights of signs on that lot. In late 2017, the site's owner began erecting tall LED billboards on the lot, a move opposed by Co-op City residents since one of the billboards faced Co-op City, keeping residents awake at night.[35] The following year, residents proposed changing the lot's zoning to a standard commercial use.[36][17] A tall wind turbine was erected on the lot in December 2019.[37] The turbine toppled later that month, knocking down the billboard, but causing no injuries.[37][38]

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Young_Dudes_(fan_fiction)

Gubbinal Girl
Apr 11, 2022


Notable organizations and products that use PostgreSQL as the primary database include:

Microsoft, used for a petabyte-scale “Release Quality View” (RQV) analytics dashboard, which tracks quality of Windows updates analyzing 20K types of metrics from over 800M Windows devices.[98]

In 2009, the social-networking website Myspace used Aster Data Systems's nCluster database for data warehousing, which was built on unmodified PostgreSQL.[99][100]

Geni.com uses PostgreSQL for their main genealogy database.[101]

OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.[102]

Afilias, domain registries for .org, .info and others.[103][104]

Sony Online multiplayer online games.[105]

BASF, shopping platform for their agribusiness portal.[106]

Reddit social news website.[107]

Skype VoIP application, central business databases.[108]

Sun xVM, Sun's virtualization and datacenter automation suite.[109]

MusicBrainz, open online music encyclopedia.[110]

The International Space Station – to collect telemetry data in orbit and replicate it to the ground.[111]

MyYearbook social-networking site.[112]

Instagram, a mobile photo-sharing service.[113]

Disqus, an online discussion and commenting service.[114]

TripAdvisor, travel-information website of mostly user-generated content.[115]

Yandex, a Russian internet company switched its Yandex.Mail service from Oracle to Postgres.[116]

Amazon Redshift, part of AWS, a columnar online analytical processing (OLAP) system based on ParAccel's Postgres modifications.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS), Interactive Forecast Preparation System (IFPS), a system that integrates data from the NEXRAD weather radars, surface, and hydrology systems to build detailed localized forecast models.[104][117]

United Kingdom's national weather service, Met Office, has begun swapping Oracle for PostgreSQL in a strategy to deploy more open source technology.[117][118]

WhitePages.com had been using Oracle and MySQL, but when it came to moving its core directories in-house, it turned to PostgreSQL. Because WhitePages.com needs to combine large sets of data from multiple sources, PostgreSQL's ability to load and index data at high rates was a key to its decision to use PostgreSQL.[104]

FlightAware, a flight tracking website.[119]

Grofers, an online grocery delivery service.[120]

The Guardian migrated from MongoDB to PostgreSQL in 2018.[121]

YugabyteDB implements the PostgreSQL query layer as its default SQL mode

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

Tweezer Reprise
Aug 6, 2013

It hasn't got six strings, but it's a lot of fun.
However more recently the Association of Religion Data Archives and Wolfram Alpha estimated 3.3[5]–3.8[6] thousand Baháʼís in 2005 and 2010, however these data are based on false estimations, therefore the number is hundred times less.

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

33 to 38 bahais

Gubbinal Girl
Apr 11, 2022


In August 2008, Justin was featured in a sold out four-city tour with Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series.[4] During this tour, Justin premiered two new songs, "Blue Skies" and "My Never", which would be included on the band's fifth studio album. Twilight author Stephenie Meyer is a fan of Blue October, and their music has helped inspire part of the popular book series.[4]

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007




:3:

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
Sugar glass was used as a prop for methamphetamine in the AMC TV series Breaking Bad.[6] Actor Aaron Paul would eat it on set.[7]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)).

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
In November 2008, the band participated with other similarly named bands, including Holy gently caress, hosed Up and gently caress Buttons in the Festival of the gently caress Bands music festival in the village of loving, Austria.[6]

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
:rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJwgcSjIjMQ

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
lol

darthbob88
Oct 13, 2011

YOSPOS

quote:

This article is about a book by Fred Brooks. Not to be confused with the mythical figure of Mothman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




2. ^ Her name is spelled Walburga within Harry Potter cannon. MsKingBean89 misspelled the name and later said they had to keep misspelling it as not to change the name in the middle of the story.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
In May 2002, Kay was questioned by police after an altercation at a premiere party for Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, outside the St Martin's Lane Hotel, where it was alleged a photographer kicked his £70,000 Bentley after Kay had attempted to grab him as his car drove off. Kay harangued the photographer and his girlfriend, causing the man to give him a severe headbutt. The pair were separated with blood streaming from Kay's nose. The fight almost resumed inside the hotel, and Kay was photographed in a distressed state. He sported a black eye at his next gig.[31]

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

This article needs additional citations for verification. (September 2014)

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
Since 2018, MacDonald has produced more than six hundred follow-up songs. Some bear the "Ram Ranch" title and all of them expand on the "gay cowboy" storyline.

Jabberlock
Nov 29, 2014



...died when he autodefenestrated from the 24th floor of his office building in Toronto.

BaldDwarfOnPCP
Jun 26, 2019

by Pragmatica

Malloc Voidstar posted:

Since 2018, MacDonald has produced more than six hundred follow-up songs. Some bear the "Ram Ranch" title and all of them expand on the "gay cowboy" storyline.

going for possibly the best u/n combo possible

chaps in chaps

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_miniature_people

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



happy 18th anniversary of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_Band_Chicago_River_incident

Grundma
Mar 26, 2007

DOG controls your destiny. Seek out three items of his favor and then seek his shrine.
In November 2007, the popular audio-visual discussion site AVS Forum temporarily closed its HD DVD and Blu-ray discussion forums because of, as the site reported, "physical threats that have involved police and possible legal action" between advocates of the rival formats.[29]

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
Immortan Joe's third son, Scabrous Scrotus, was introduced in a spin-off video game.[6]

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

Economy

The Gross domestic product (GDP) of Corsica was 9.6 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 0.4% of French economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 25,400 euros or 84% of the EU27 average in the same year. The GDP per employee was 103% of the EU average.[42]

Tourism plays a big part in the Corsican economy. The island's climate, mountains, and coastlines make it popular among tourists. The island has not had the same level of intensive development as other parts of the Mediterranean and is thus mainly unspoiled.[why?] Tourism is particularly concentrated in the area around Porto-Vecchio and Bonifacio in the south of the island and Calvi in the northwest.[citation needed]

In 1584 the Genoese governor ordered all farmers and landowners to plant four trees yearly; a chestnut, olive, fig, and mulberry tree. Many communities owe their origin and former richness to the ensuing chestnut woods.[43] Chestnut bread keeps fresh for as long as two weeks.[44] Corsica produces gourmet cheese, wine, sausages, and honey for sale in mainland France and for export. Corsican honey, of which there are six official varieties, is certified as to its origin (Appellation d'origine contrôlée) by the French National Institute of Origin and Quality (Institut National des Appellations d'Origine – INAO).

Corsica's main exports are granite and marble, tannic acid, cork, cheese, wine, citrus fruit, olive oil and cigarettes.[45]

cyberWyrm
Jul 21, 2022

lived to be 103 years old and died 2 days before the release of chrono trigger, what an epic fail

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Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


Malloc Voidstar posted:

wikipassiveaggressive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Bernays's vision was of a utopian society in which individuals' dangerous libidinal energies, the psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drive that Bernays viewed as inherently dangerous given his observation of societies like the Germans under Hitler, could be harnessed and channeled by a corporate elite for economic benefit. Through the use of mass production, big business could fulfill constant craving of the inherently irrational and desire-driven masses,[clarification needed What mass irrationality?][citation needed] simultaneously securing the niche of a mass production economy (even in peacetime), as well as sating the dangerous animal urges[clarification needed What dangerous urges?] that threatened to tear society apart[citation needed] if left unquelled.[citation needed]

too irrational to work, too horny to try

E: lmao how did I quote a post from 2013? How did I get here? What year is this?

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