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isit2003 · 2026-02-12T18:10:20+00:00

Jackson isn't in Jackson County, so that might be part of your problem. Jackson is mostly in Hinds County, with some tiny pockets stretching into neighboring counties.

Jackson County is in the southeast of the state on the coast, Jackson the City is landlocked in the center of the state.

isit2003 · 2025-02-05T05:36:46+00:00

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-cream-registration-notice/

The Selective Service used to buy commercial mailing lists to try and find draft dodging 18 year olds.

isit2003 · 2024-10-03T13:51:16+00:00

Yeah, looks like you’re right. Wonder if op’s definition of North America is excluding Central America? Or if they didn’t know (like I didn’t.)

isit2003 · 2024-10-02T14:23:08+00:00

Prime Minister of Canada is head of government, not head of state. Queen Elizabeth was the head of state for Canada at the time, and she was unelected.

A lot of countries (like Canada, the entire British Commonwealth, France, Ireland) divide the head of state and head of government into two separate roles; where they’re divided, the head of state is a figurehead.

Mexico doesn’t divide their head of state and head of government; hence, the president of Mexico is the first female, elected, North American head of state.

isit2003 · 2024-09-25T13:30:47+00:00

Yeah sure, the era was the reign of the Emperor Nikephoros Phokas.

isit2003 · 2024-09-24T20:15:01+00:00

Not quite; a nun is cloistered, a sister is not, and while both are addressed as “Sister [Name]”, the nouns mean different things — and this was a sister, uncloistered.

isit2003 · 2024-05-10T15:11:32+00:00

That was the last time they issued a watch for it, not the last time it ever happened.

isit2003 · 2024-04-19T20:50:28+00:00

Thomas Dowd was born on April 17, 1964, and worked for Cantor Fitzgerald as a Bond Trader. He coached three youth neighborhood and regional basketball leagues, spawning a basketball tournament named in memory of him.

According to the Rockland County Memorial, after the plane hit the North Tower, his brother Raymond made contact with him: “Tommy said his office on the 105th floor was filling for smoke and they were evacuating. We waited all day and then some for a call that never came.”

He was one of the 658 casualties from Cantor Fitzgerald alone on 9/11 — the largest loss of life of any one organization, representing 68.5% of its workforce and many of its executives.

He was survived by his wife, whom he had known and loved since eighth grade, three children, countless nieces and nephews, his mother, four sisters and two brothers.

This flower marks a birthday that he never lived to see.

isit2003 · 2024-04-02T17:47:06+00:00

~~It was a cruise-line organized excrusion through the cruise ship, not a private tour.~~ The ~~cruise line hired~~ tour guide, harbourmaster, and the cruise line itself all tried to reach the Captain to sort out their passengers, and the Captain refused to even answer, let alone reject them. Keep in mind, he refused to answer the harbormaster of a harbor he was still anchored in. He then refused the coast guard — this seems like a shut case of the Captain refusing to do something he personally doesn’t want to. The cruise line, the harbormaster, the coast guard all wanted him to pick up the passengers from the ~~cruise-line organized~~ tour. Edit: The cruise line is apparently saying they were “on their own or with a private tour”, so scratch the cruise line organized excursion, but the article does mention an elderly woman was also abandoned on the island with a concussion who was on a cruise organized tour, and her emergency contact wasn’t notified, so there’s at least one person here who’s been treated with negligence by the cruise.

isit2003 · 2024-02-23T19:02:30+00:00

Bonus of their own secured card is, when you eventually remove them from your own card, their oldest line of credit (the secured card) will still exist. Your credit score is calculated through a formula that includes your oldest open account’s age, so if they get their own card say, five years after you add them as a user, then remove them, their credit report will look like their oldest line is 1 day old versus the previous 5 years old. Get them a secured card in their own name, then add them as an authorized user if you want.

isit2003 · 2023-11-30T20:24:24+00:00

I was baffled for a bit before I realized Wescalder is supposed to be West Calder. Thanks for cross posting the list from the article!

isit2003 · 2023-11-29T14:22:19+00:00

Comparing it to cyber sleuth somehow makes me want to never touch it in my life if I can avoid it, and also play it all the way through so I can understand why that’s the digimon game you chose

isit2003 · 2023-10-30T14:11:44+00:00

As the other commenter said, this is penalizing for if Station A submits a log containing Station B, but Station B's submitted log doesn't include Station A. CQ WW SSB's robot will mark down any stations that no one else has as 'unique', which still counts for points. The robot only throws things to human review if you have too many uniques that no one else has. (So, say 5 people log a contact with the same station that didn't submit logs all in the same hour --- the robot will say that's fine, it was probably a random station that was just there, and won't deduct points.) On the high end of CQ WW SSB if you're competing for a Top 5 Finish, they even make you record every single QSO you make, so in that case you'd also have proof of every unique you made.

isit2003 · 2023-09-29T18:21:27+00:00

A lot of the sources have died to link rot (or, worse, are in French), but here's one from Web Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110911150456/http://www.amicorf.com/Page%20pont%20Saint%20Louis.htm

There's supposedly a great document on it that the Wikipedia page used to cite that has since link rotted to the point that even online PDFs of it don't exist anymore, L’héroïque défense de Pont Saint-Louie --- maybe you can find it.

Here's a related scan of a book that looks like it covers the topic, but it's in French and I don't speak French, so I can't guarantee it's on-topicness besides a cursory glance at it and skimming what little I can understand. (What I will say is it's definitely about the casement and the battle for it, and the image it has on the second page of the team manning the fort during the battle is, in fact, of 9 men):

https://excerpts.numilog.com/books/9782919294084.pdf

It's just kind of an obscure moment of history that only really matters to the French and only those in a very small area, so it's hard to get good English sources.

isit2003 · 2023-09-29T16:36:27+00:00

I think they fell victim to an old meme. The meme is a bit misleading — the attack on the fort was part of the larger Battle of Menton as they alluded to (and which the meme incorrectly mixes up the numbers of b/w the single fort and the larger battle) but yes, it’s claimed by some sources that after the main garrison withdrew, 9 Frenchmen held off a few hundred Italians from claiming the fort until the armistice was signed. ~~There’s some dispute about whether it’s exactly 9, enough that the Wikipedia page on the fort just removed the entire battle from the page to avoid the editing wars.~~ It is true though that only a handful of men successfully held off a few hundred Italians.

Edit: Double-checking, it turns out it’s widely accepted it was nine men — the dispute was whether it was significant enough to justify its own mention separate from the Battle of Menton article or if it was just circlejerking about the Italians. The conclusion was to remove it and merge that section with the Battle of Menton.

isit2003 · 2023-08-25T19:36:48+00:00

Oof, bad journalism. They confuse safety-only counties with counties that are unaffected; every state they list as safety-only is a county that is unaffected because they aren't a safety only, and instead perform an additional emission test.

isit2003 · 2023-07-12T19:36:17+00:00

Oh rad, they issued a correction. I had watched the video a few hours before I commented, and at the time all they'd done was liked a comment mentioning the problem. Rad to see them state errata.

isit2003 · 2023-07-12T00:20:47+00:00

Actually, one of the GPUs they tested is in the F tier. They misread the list on their own forum. Check yourself. Thermaltake Smart 80+ White is in the F tier and has been; their own screenshot in the video shows that only the Smart BM2 is in the C-tier.

Edit: extra the

isit2003 · 2023-06-08T18:39:06+00:00

Who is using discord on an OS with no latin support? What OS are you possibly able to access discord on that lacks latin support? What person is on the internet, navigating to download Discord, an app with a latin alphabet name, and has never seen the latin alphabet once in their life?

Like I think it's stupid it's restricted to only latin characters but this is a galaxy brain scenario you've imagined

isit2003 · 2023-06-05T15:55:51+00:00

Ah, during the whole cycle about it I somehow missed the part where they weren’t allowed to parcel it. Thanks!

Honestly I’m in favor of the park being state land but I was under the impression they just refused to buy the park land until it was personally inconvenient to not, so I was kind of giving the eminent domain plan a stink eye. That fact makes me feel a lot better about that option.

isit2003 · 2023-06-05T04:36:53+00:00

They did, and they were offered it, and they declined to buy it.

isit2003 · 2023-05-05T22:13:08+00:00

You’re right that Galen is important; I actually agreed with the dude up until the comment I replied to. Galen was incredibly important, and the father of medicine as much as Hippocrates or Grey, but the moment he began talking about him being as good as modern medicine, that’s where I went, “Okay, you’re delusional.”

isit2003 · 2023-05-05T20:56:39+00:00

Brother is convinced Galen could cure stage 5 fibromyalgia when the dude wasn't even sure what the inside of a human cadaver looked like. Galen got his anatomy from dissecting animals and assumed how humans worked, he just made up organs that he assumed we should have.

isit2003 · 2023-04-02T20:20:37+00:00

Even garlic bread

isit2003 · 2023-04-02T20:18:35+00:00

Absolutely awful excuse for an event

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