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Here's a few rumors I heard about camel spiders while deployed to Iraq from '05 - '06:

They can run up to 25 mph

They can grow to the size of house cats

They aren't actually spiders or scorpions, they're their own weird type of insect, which leads some people to believe they're aliens

When they bite you, they inject you with a poison that numbs the bitten area, so you can't even tell you got bit

They will climb into your bunk at night and clip your hair with their jaws to line their nests

If you see a camel spider, don't shoot it because you're more likely to accidentally shoot your foot than the spider

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Northernlion/The Library of Letourneau, he plays videogames and just kinda does a stream of consciousness thing that often has nothing to do with the game itself. It's entertaining and he has a nice voice.

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Absolutely loved this show

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You called??

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Most songs by Leo are pretty good

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An oldie but a goody

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Came here to mention Bill Bryson, his books are great, The Body: A Guide for Occupants was an excellent read, I learned so much!

Richard Feynman is also great, his "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" is such a trip.

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Let's goooooo!

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What happens to the people who actually believed this? Imagine someone quitting their job because "the world is ending on Monday." They tell all their friends and family goodbye. They stop paying bills. Then Monday rolls around and....they're still here. Now what? Do they go beg for their job back? How do they face their friends and family again? It sounds so embarrassing.

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I just imagine someone trying to get their job back and their former boss laughing in their face. Maybe this is how some people become homeless (because I presume they are mentally unstable to begin with).

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So it's just excuses and more made up nonsense to try and justify their existence. Mental instability is wild.

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Ooo, I'll get to live through 3 more ends of the world! Excellent. That was a wild read, thanks for the links.

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I realize it's a legit school, but the "Mailman School of Public Health" just makes it sound like it's an article from The Onion.

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The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb. It's the second book in her Liveship trilogy. It's much better than the first one, which was very slow to start.

I aim to read all her books in The Realm of the Elderlings series eventually (current book I'm on is #5). She's not my most favorite writer, but she's up there.

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1989 Acura Integra hatchback. Cost me $3k in 1999. It was the most expensive thing I'd ever bought at the time. It had a sunroof and flip-up lights that I thought were so cool. I loved that car. Taught my younger brother how to drive in that car. I sold it for like $300 in 2002 when I had to get rid of it because I was moving away and taking it with wasn't feasible. Buy then I'd driven it into the ground and it was leaking oil constantly. Still was an awesome car, though.

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Nissan Versa, so many weird blind spots.

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My high-school math teacher made us all submit our work in these tiny notebooks that were like less than half the size of an American standard notebook, with unlined paper. He would write the homework problems on the board and then you had to copy them into the tiny-ass notebook and then hand write all your work on the single tiny-ass page, he would fail you if you used more than one page or side of a page because "One page is all the room you need to work out a problem."

I am really horribly bad at math and even writing numbers down is hard for me, sometimes i can't even read what I wrote, so being forced to write them even smaller was a nightmare. I barely passed his class. Plus he was just a total dick in general to anyone who struggled in his class, and most students did (it was already the math class for dumb people), and we could all tell he didn't want to be there.

I hope he's miserable whenever he is now.

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Yup, you had to take the page out and turn it in.

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Physical, and I buy used as much as possible. For some reason I just retain the information better when I read it in a physical book.

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Yes, because I won't need my organs when I'm dead.

How Would You Handle Students Cheating?

I gave my students a take home exam over spring break. (This is normal where I teach) One of the questions was particulary difficult. It came down to a factor of three in the solution. That factor inexplicably appeared with no justification on many of their exams. I intend to have the students I suspect of cheating come to...

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Unless you explicitly stated in the exam that they had to show their work with their answer or fail, even if the answer was correct, then I say pass them. It's on you to be specific as to what you want to see on the exam. Maybe they worked it out on scratch paper and didn't turn that part in with the exam?

What are your favorite social minority characters in any form of fictional entertainment media, or how should a minority be written better?

It can be from any angle. Presently, I'm pondering what kind of context various LGBTQ+ characters can be written without making any kind of political statement, or rather, simply making a statement through normalization in a natural way. In other words, how do I empathize like the cool kids clique?...

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Bortus and his husband Klyden from The Orville. Just two dudes from an all-male planet full of toxic masculinity trying their best to raise a family.

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My cursive looks like a 10yr old wrote it, which is about the last time I actually wrote in cursive

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Wow, I'd forgotten this show existed!

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If someone believes that God can do anything, ask them if he can create a rock he can't pick up

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"Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman. You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy." - _Daylight_Aesop Rock

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It's because the coffee makes you shit the cancer right out

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Tanqueray and cranberry juice with lime

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And my money on my mind, yes.

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I'm in my 40s and never had hemeroids. Are they really that common? Or maybe I have and I didn't know (but surely I would, right??)?

Letitia James ready to seize Trump buildings if he can't pay $355M fine: report ( www.rawstory.com )

New York Attorney General Letitia James is ready to seize former President Donald Trump's iconic New York City buildings if he can't come up with the cash to pay his $355 million civil fraud fine, a new report shows. "If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enfo...

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I feel like this is something John Oliver could make happen

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You can watch him on YouTube, it's just shorter and a few days after the original airing, I think.

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Ohhh, well THAT explains why they put some episode up the other week that i was sure was a rerun. Well, shit. Shiver me timbers, matey.

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They know he's a giant man and not a little boy anymore, right?

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Allll the time, every day, different music that vary from actual songs to random commercial clips from years ago, playing on repeat. I don't have ADD that I'm aware of, but I also don't find it very distracting, it's just THERE all the time.

Today it's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Why? No clue, I can't remember when I heard that song last.

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If they're in the same room, obviously I'll just speak to them. If they're in the next room over and the door is open, I'll still speak, just louder. But if they're two rooms away or upstairs, I'll text.

What makes a great sci-fi story?

I'm curious what users feel makes a great sci-fi story. What elements do you feel "make or break" the story specifically where sci-fi is concerned? For me, I really enjoyed the Expanse series, as it feels like there's a sort of "believability" to it all. The authors make everything seem very realistic, even if some of the...

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