John Covil
@ncsupimaster
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Christian, Husband, Father, Engineer
Raleigh, NC
Joined April 2010
I haven't smoked in a while, but I would come have a cigarette with this dude if he was here.
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Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive. This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇
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They literally go around saying “gobble gobble”
Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten.
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President Trump ordered action — and the Department of War is delivering. Today, I’m announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR. Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our
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In the 70s, a peanut farmer turned government worker could live in this house and support 4 kids and a First Lady. Now you need to be a billionaire .
an average working class man could buy this house in the 50s, support 4 kids and a stay at home wife. today a two income household can't even buy eggs without going into debt wtf is going on
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Professor, my wife and I are both caucasians. We both grew up around cows, and we have both raised cows, dairy and beef. After iscussing your provocative thesis, we concur that you have severe brain damage. Please feel free to include this in your research findings
I am starting to notice that cows are interacting more with whites as if aware that whites are being replaced ---------- and they worry that other races will not show the same moral responsibility and caring for cows.
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A frightening moment this week for First Lady Hillary Clinton. Her plane, en route to the former Soviet Union, was forced to make an emergency landing when it was discovered that a frayed wire in the engine was causing serious malfunctions. The President was said to be
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When I was in college at UChicago, I dated another student from Appalachia. She once told me she had gotten straight As in high school calculus -- and when she took the AP exam, she got a 1, the worst possible grade. (And she was pretty talented, she later on pretty well at
The fact is that high schools are graduating kids with As and Bs in advanced math courses who haven't mastered foundational skills. The data from the UCSD report makes that clear. 20% took calculus in high school! Their GPA in math classes is ~3.6! This is happening all over the
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I dare you to watch this and tell me your energy bill isn't worth it
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the finns have a chance to do the funniest possible thing
All oil operations at the port of Novorossiysk have been halted. This is reported by Reuters. It comes only three days after the latest Ukrainian strike against oil infrastructure in neighboring Tuapse. With both oil terminals taken out Russia is currently not loading a single
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China's muscular international image belies a brittle public mood at home. My essay: https://t.co/IHknKuTSbT
nytimes.com
Despair about dimming economic and personal prospects has created an outwardly strong, inwardly brittle nation.
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Search style guide Initiate DCR
Personally, I prefer to increase the spacing for each successive indent according to the Fibbonaci sequence:
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LOL they renamed her to "Megyn R. Kelly"
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Actually, this is the best turkey cooking advice: have prime rib
@ChefGruel I prefer prime rib but y'all do whatever.
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“Sparks backlash online” is such a bullshit lazy news story. “We found a bunch of mentally unstable weirdos online saying weird things!!!” That’s not a story!
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This is bonkers. They have set annual rent increases at below cost growth, forever.
Los Angeles limits rent hikes in historic vote
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I don’t care about the turkey’s feelings. I care that turkey is the worst of the major meats and should be shunned in favor of Thanksgiving brisket.
Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten. Turkeys don't want to be eaten.
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An LLM-generated paper is in the top 17% of ICLR submissions in terms of average reviewer score, having received two 8's. The paper has tons of BS jargon and hallucinated references. Fortunately, one reviewer actually looked at the paper and gave it a zero. 1/3
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@Windows @UrAvgConsumer I'm so glad you're installing spyware and bloat into your OS so that people who can't operate the easiest possible settings on a computer can be told to resize their text size to what is already recommended
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