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frosty99c

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  • Kelly slop - Bananas Split

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  • They are just never assigned. I thought they were specifically set aside to be used in fiction, but it seems like that might have just been 555-01XX. But because of the association to that, no one ever wanted a 555 number for anything else and now they are all unused except for 1 number that leads to 'directory assistance'

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)

  • Kelly slop - Bananas Split

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  • Good catch! I didn't know that's what it was called. Having just looked it up, 555 as an area code and as a prefix are both not in use in the US, other than for directory assistance.

  • Kelly slop - Bananas Split

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  • 555 was specifically set aside as a fake area code. It's used a lot in cartoons/TV/movies and is known that it won't work for anything.

  • I saw a commercial for life insurance and the old man's name was, I shit you not, "Boomer".

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  • I've never heard it as a given name. But it seemed to be a common nickname. An NFL quarterback went by Boomer exclusively, and now he is a host for the NFL Sunday show. I'm assuming he was the one you saw in the commercial.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomer_Esiason

  • Hugo Chávez lays out US-backed coups in 2009 interview

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  • Pardon my ignorance, but is there a reason this refers to him as a former president in 2009?

  • books about the organization of societies in the pre-colonial americas?

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  • I'm currently reading Open Veins of Latin America. Again, touched very briefly but there are sources that might point in the right direction.

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    If you had the opportunity to travel back in time to the 2000s or 2010s, what would you change to make the world a better place?

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  • Cincinnati. 2 n's 1 t

  • They don't know

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  • I mean, the mythology of the bene gesserit is made up, but spice actually does give supernatural powers and Paul was bred to be more sensitive to it. It is defined more in later books (mostly god emperor), which I see above that you didn't read, but the whole idea is that this type of mythology and control through religion is bad for everyone.

    I took away the message that "white savior" doesn't work and just causes more problems for all involved (and can lead someone with the 'best of intentions' to be worse than Hitler). But also that people in power push that type of mythology to control people. It was meant to be a cautionary tale about imperialism and zealotry in religion and messianic figures. It was partially inspired by American natives telling Herbert about how the American imperialists were killing their land.

  • They don't know

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  • And like, isn't the actual golden path going through with the whole god emperor thing? And Paul was too weak to do it because he knew it was awful? And I could be remembering wrong, but the god emperor thing is: he needs to rule with such an iron fist for so long that all of the old religions and biases die out and people start working together to overthrow him, and then they will finally be free. Otherwise they'll all kill each other and be stuck in the same loop. Kind of like dr doom?

  • Why the real poverty line is $140,000, this strategist argues

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  • Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles

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  • I've made these before. They're amazing. They weirdly go so well with a blond ale that my wife and I have started to call them beer cookies

  • Better late than never! 18 characters whose late arrival lifted TV shows

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  • Adding Frank to Always Sunny was a huge shift for that show as well.

  • Amerikkka Election Night Special 2025 [a thread]

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  • Thanks!

  • Amerikkka Election Night Special 2025 [a thread]

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  • Cincinnati Mayor closes at 7:30. J.D. Vance's brother is running and will likely lose (hopefully!)

  • Airports across North America hacked to play pro-Palestine, anti-Trump messages

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  • I mean, I love that this happened, but it was at 1 minor US airport and 3 minor Canadian airports (non-TSA). From the article this doesn't seem like a widespread thing, unfortunately.

  • In mod we trust

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  • And alcohol interacts with it and increases the risk. So, 2.5g + alcohol is enough to kill you.

  • "East asians are rice farmers, hence their talent for mass manufacturing small things (computer chips etc)" — The smartest race science practitioner

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  • The problem is that this person is proud to be a racist. He literally calls these tweets 'expert racism'

  • [AMERICAS] Who is your favourite author from the Americas?

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  • His politics got worse as he got older, but the early works by Mario Vargas Llosa are some of my favorite things I've ever read. The green house, the time of the hero (la ciudad y los perros), and conversation in the cathedral.

  • [AFRICA] Who is your favourite African author?

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  • I recently read The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz and it was excellent.