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dualstow wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 2:47 pm Cool hot tub!
Haven’t checked out the (I assume) non-100%-Bitcoin portfolio yet.
Not 100% Bitcoin 😱 I don’t feel safe!!
Hehehe. That hot tub place had a super cute cat roaming the territory.

Just added a basic performance chart to the site using Chart.JS. O0
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^ Nice ^
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Hey has anyone’s Linux-Windows dual-booting been foiled by that Secure Boot update? It happened this summer, but I only just read the article at the Verge and elsewhere. Looks like it can be disabled, but I probably wouldn’t have bought a cheap Windows PC this winter if I’d known about this new headache.
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TIL button phones are still hugely popular in Ukraine.

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TIL ??
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. Psalm 146:3
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Mountaineer wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:11 amTIL ??
"today I learned"

????????????

If so, again an acronym time waster for the receivers of communications
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Cool. I thought about buying a retro Nokia — nineties style — but I am too used to typing by Swype or a bluetooth keyboard with a tray for tablets & phones. No slow t9 typing for me. And I don’t actually talk on phones.
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yankees60 wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 9:31 am
Mountaineer wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:11 amTIL ??
"today I learned"

????????????

If so, again an acronym time waster for the receivers of communications
;-) I first thought it might be "too incredibly little" button .......

I think you are right though Vinny, you da man! (I should have just said YDM). :-)
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I hate all these initialisms even though I happen to know this one from reddit.
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Sorry guys. :(
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Smith1776 wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 1:41 pm Sorry guys. :(
You are forgiven. You young guys just need to give us old guys a chance to catch up. 🤣🤣🤣
YYGJNTGUOGACTCU 😉
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Smith1776 wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 1:41 pm Sorry guys. :(
No worries, Smithers. The initials aren’t out of control here like at b’heads.
All good!
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Smith1776 wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 1:41 pm Sorry guys. :(
No need to apologize. That pales in comparison to all the TREMENDOUS positives you have brought here!

You just happen to hit on my personal campaign against acronyms / abbreviations that are not clear to the receivers.

When I first got into this forum I was asking a lot of questions. Invariably I'd get back answers filled with three letters that had no meaning at all to me.
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I think i've just been spending too much time on Reddit lately! :D
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How long have you been a vegetarian, boglerdude?

Is it difficult?
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dualstow wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:37 pm How long have you been a vegetarian, boglerdude?

Is it difficult?
Obviously, I am not boglerdude ... but I've been one since summer 1978. Super easy for me to be one.

Not so easy to finally give up sugar in 1985. I was a sugaraholic.
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30 years. like any type of self-improvement its incrementalism. slightly less meat every day and swapping in fake meats. Getting my lunch down to a tablespoon of peanut butter was harder but you get used to feeling hungry and its energizing. The thing I cannot do is get up early. Trying to unwind all my 48 years of thinking that working late is good. Cuz if Im not in bed right on time theres no way Im getting up on time.

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My mom has been a vegetarian for 20 something years, and for her it would be harder to eat meat than not to. It's a moral thing for her rather than for health reasons.
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Smith1776 wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:38 am My mom has been a vegetarian for 20 something years, and for her it would be harder to eat meat than not to. It's a moral thing for her rather than for health reasons.
It would be for me, too. I want lab grown meat.
Thanks, all.
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dualstow wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:31 pm
Smith1776 wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:38 am My mom has been a vegetarian for 20 something years, and for her it would be harder to eat meat than not to. It's a moral thing for her rather than for health reasons.
It would be for me, too. I want lab grown meat.
Thanks, all.

Somewhat humorous given your current avatar! :)
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😂 Well that’s what’s available now 😂
I did use the conditional…
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A vegetarian diet results in a terminal condition for 100% of those eating it. 😉
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wow!
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Smith1776 wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 7:42 pm I really hope Ross Ulbricht gets to go home.

Trump announces pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, vacating life sentence
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That is a huge deal, and I still have to ask why they keep mentioning Trump’s age in the article every time they state his name.
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