Bob Wieman

I like games, comics, and D&D; but I rant about politics, tv, and kinda everything. Pronouns: he, etc.

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@BaeckerDiann Your friends, colleagues, and strangers also fighting the good fight stand with you.

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@Arditi_d_Popolo “The flavor is exquisite, but even more striking is its ideal unctuousness - rich enough to hide one’s intentions, but will not stain or spoil the silk when it spit-taked in surprise.”

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@BaeckerDiann B) Yes, we make it up. :) I mean hypothesis, scientific method, theory, progress of science, forever re-examining, etc., etc.,…
(but that’s official making-it-up. Making-it-up by the rules. Like all creative endeavors.)

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@BaeckerDiann A) Think of it this way: pressure in a gas is the result of particles moving randomly: some will bounce off the walls, that’s pressure. But if the gas is moving, those same particles are still moving, but in approximately the same direction: less sideways motion, less bouncing.

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@BaeckerDiann @bunsenbernerbmd well…the faster a fluid moves, the greater its kinetic energy (which is smacking you on the head). But total energy is conserved - the increase in kinetic energy is balanced by a decrease in internal energy (pressure).
And of course, yeah puppies! :)

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@gengelstein The Director of Food Services of my school district was/is a family friend, and when coming up with a name for the new “like a McRib, but legally distinct” lunch, she suggested and discarded “Ribber McGee and Molly” because it was outdated.
That was in 1985.

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@BaeckerDiann Titrations! They’re what chemists do! <lie>the word comes from an abbreviated spelling of “tight rations”, because they are precisely mixing to get exactly the concentration of solute that they want.</lie>

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@qikipedia there are many explanations here of the why of it, some with implicit judgements of which is better. This seems like a good area for research - are there disparate impacts (food poisoning, etc.)? My impression is that such incidents are rare on both sides of the pond.

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@BaeckerDiann @USFWS Beavers are bigger and have those paddle tails.
I’m pretty sure it’s a rank thing. Calling a beaver a muskrat is insulting not because muskrats aren’t equally important, but because it belittles all the time and effort that beaver spent to earn their paddle tail. :)

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@BaeckerDiann I appreciate you for getting us

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@marketswithmay @pronounced_kyle I lived on that planet (or a town just like it). As a child, I wandered the slag-heaps of the old shoe factory.
One of the great things about Douglas Adams’ writing was that the ridiculous parts and the realistic parts were the same parts.

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@emilynussbaum Sorry if already done: Crocodile Rock, Tennessee Waltz, about dances but to a named piece of music; Radar Love: “radio plays that forgotten song”, Sultans of Swing (like Killing Me Softly) might be one song, or about a whole set. “Romeo and Juliet” has a “streetsuss serenade”.

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@SenFoongLim @bananachangames I ran this at ShushCon and I would love to talk to you about the design behind it. Is there a polite way to bombard you with questions?

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@bungeeman17 (A) I don’t understand why, in the sense that some games are going to be flukey (everyone has evidence of how OP the Slayer is!) , but
(B) I don’t really understand the focus on character strength - powers are fun, but demons can always be sniped and good’s odds are 2:1 at best.

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@BaeckerDiann You don’t have to know it, you are it. Just keep on being you. :)

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@BaeckerDiann crumpets are delicious porous baked goods. They’re finger-thick disk-shaped morsels of breakfast heaven. Especially if you don’t mind a mess - they tend to leak butter and whatever else you top them with.

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@Arditi_d_Popolo No.

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@BaeckerDiann @hcasc Feynman was brilliant, and a Nobel winner - but thirty years later. He was about 17 in 1935 - a little young for a Nobel :)

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@mattyglesias I really didn’t see coming that, for multiple heads of government, “maybe he’s like Nixon” would both be floated and be naïvely optimistic

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@jmarkgraham @Arditi_d_Popolo “I am not standing still, I am lying in wait”