DaveG
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speaking of I've always wanted to visit Waterloo assuming it's relatively maintained which, considering the havoc WW1 wrecked on the landscape in Belgium is probably not the case.
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cptjeff
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Not ruined by WWI (most of the WWI damage was in a pretty narrow corridor along where the trenches stagnated), but as I understand it, pretty heavily landscaped with memorials.
But thinking of that, the WWI trenches have always been something I've wanted to see. They're mostly still there with different levels of collapse and growth, but there are old redoubts and whatnot that are just scattered all over that still have soldier art and even stuff abandoned in place in them.
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I've been meaning to @ you, actually. My aunt and uncle were in Prague a few weeks back and absolutely raved about it. My uncle was particularly impressed by the beer tap in their hotel's bathtub.
They also visited Munich, and went to Dachau while they were there. They said it was a pretty chilling experience.
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Richest man in the history of the world talks about how people need to "experience hardship."
Negan4Coach
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Haven't been there in many years- but thought it was great. Toured there and Gettysburg in my college military history class. I think Gettysburg is the heat though- took my fam there a couple years ago and we did a horseback tour of it, which was really cool.
Also been to Fort Fisher, Fredericksburg (my college was literally on the battlefield), Chancellorsville, Bull Run, Plymouth, Bentonville (got to see the 150th anniversary re-enactment there), and a few small others.
WreckingCrew
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I mean haven't we all experienced a lot of that over the last 5 years starting with a global pandemic and ending in runaway inflation and cost of living that has drastically outpaced wages?
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The average American has. The global elite (like Musk) has not. In fact, many of the top 1%-5% actually profited during the pandemic. He's just saying the quiet part out loud. "The poor must experience hardship for my benefit. I will collapse the economy if it means I can make an extra buck"
HisIceness
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I'm just here to say that (on paper) we will know who wins by Wednesday and there won't be anymore political ads 
...for approximately three weeks 'til the next election cycle begins....I'm just here to say that (on paper) we will know who wins by Wednesday and there won't be anymore political ads
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There's a big difference between the economic hardships that occurred in the last 5 years vs. an economic collapse, which is what, from what I can tell, is what he is referring to. The last 5 years IMO aren't even as severe as the 2008/9 real estate and banking collapse that occurred. You want to know how close we were to armageddon back then, go watch "Too big to fail."
Back then, my net worth (mainly 401K and investments) dropped about 40-50% at a time when I could ill afford it. Thousands of people lost their homes and property values plummeted. Companies that many viewed as unbreakable, broke and either folded or had to be bailed out - GM, Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, etc...). In my neighborhood alone, 2 people just walked away from their homes and the banks didn't even want to foreclose at the time as they didn't want the asset. The homes stayed vacant for a good 2 years before the banks finally took them over.
tarheelhockey
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Given the seriousness of what will happen tomorrow, and the profound impact it will have on all our futures, I think it’s very important that everyone take a few minutes and read this article I found on the internet.
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Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds — BBC News
Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".
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Lempo
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"Infinite monkey theorem" is a fundamentally wrong name, when there is no infinite amount of monkeys.
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This feels like the type of math that would be a sophomore Statistics project not a “study”.
Negan4Coach
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I'll never listen to the "experts" again...Given the seriousness of what will happen tomorrow, and the profound impact it will have on all our futures, I think it’s very important that everyone take a few minutes and read this article I found on the internet.
Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds — BBC News
Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".
Oh no wait that happened years ago
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tarheelhockey
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“It is not plausible that, even with improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations, monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works”
HisIceness
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I'm already getting started tonight!
But first I'm watching the Bucs vs Chiefs game
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WreckingCrew
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I feel like I hear that every election, and while there certainly are both positive and negative effects each time, on the aggregate I don't think most people's daily lives are impacted as heavily as they predict...since our government is big, plodding, slow, and indecisive there are rarely the "radical" changes people expect. It's gonna be a bit of a shit show no matter what, 50% of the population is gonna throw a hissy fit while the other half thinks we're "saved". I personally find both options to be equally abhorrent in different ways so I lose no matter what, I'll vote for the local stuff mainly.Given the seriousness of what will happen tomorrow, and the profound impact it will have on all our futures, I think it’s very important that everyone take a few minutes and read this article I found on the internet.
Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds — BBC News
Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".
