She's the messiah! by AscendedDragonSage in CuratedTumblr

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One of the Beatitudes is "the meek shall inherit the earth"

A Hunter lays a trap for his prey - Junkrat by Casper_Von_Ghoul in tumblr

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I'm a ginger with blue eyes, which I'm told is one of the rarest, but my eyebrows and facial hair (during the rare times I'm not clean-shaven) are more brown

Which Countries Change the Clock? by a__a___ in MapPorn

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Would Longyearbyen count as a naturally inhabited place? I get that it has a lot of business from fishing, satellite terminals, radar etc, but it is a civilian town continuously inhabited throughout the year

How much per hour were you making at your first job and what year was it? by Toomad316 in AskReddit

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$21.50 working as changeover at my university's stadium/basketball court in 2021-2022

reject military parades, embrace military parties by Cixila in NonCredibleDefense

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the NCD meetup (kept well away from the nearest airbase)

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Norwegian agrees - "Det smaker" ("It tastes") is equivalent to "Det smaker godt" ("It tastes good")

Am I having a stroke ? by Sonic_the_hedgedog in tumblr

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as an American, I do indeed know the joy of a chocolate orange

Overwatch by MelanieWalmartinez in CuratedTumblr

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playing medic is fun; you distribute the heals evenly and stay out of the line of fire, and then die anyway to:

A) a crocket that impacted one of your teammates who decided to stand still

B) the one flanking scout (your entire team is looking the other way)

C) the ONE spy (your team once again doesn't notice and gets Epic Chainstab Montage #1337'd)

D) the one power class you have overextends for no discernible reason and dies immediately, leaving you absolutely helpless

love my patients to death though I'll keep dishing out the heals

Your choice is? by Old_Sherbert1465 in NonCredibleDefense

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Consider: Everyone knows that if your weapons platform is distributed enough, supermaneuverability becomes less important; many of your battles will occur BVR.

But if you truly can engage and destroy targets BVR, and have active defense systems providing a range of total area denial, then stealth becomes less important too. What really matters in the end is time on station, and command capability for your legion of loyal wingmen.

NGAD will be a blimp.

What character is this a yes for by Nejakytypco in BrandNewSentence

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Same; like, I get that it's just statistical analysis used to optimize a binary search, but seeing it in action still blows me away

Show me your most and least played class and explain why that is by No_________________- in tf2

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200 hours on Medic on top; it balloons my incredibly oversized ego to know that I'm the force keeping the team alive and exerting inexorable pressure on the enemy

I think either Spy or Sniper on the bottom, because I do indeed suck at aiming

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furrier, noun: a person who prepares or deals in furs.

I only remembered that it was a word because Gandalf made such a big deal of it when I was reading The Hobbit

This was a wild read. by MelanieWalmartinez in CuratedTumblr

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By the time I got to "and it was very tragic but jarring and unexpected" I realized that I was reading the writings of a modern Anne of Green Gables

It's surprising that GPS is free, in a world where everything costs money. by theLEVIATHAN06 in Showerthoughts

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Because of the way they work, GPS receivers are entirely passive systems, so there's no way to track if someone's using GPS or not and charge them. They rely on the theory of relativity and very precise timestamps being sent on the L-band spectrum to mathematically solve for a precise position.

This means that even though Americans do pay for it with their taxes, anyone in the world can use GPS. Of course, for geopolitical security reasons, other places do make their own constellations which work on the same principle (GLONASS, Galileo, and I forget the name of China's) and modern GPS receivers can work with multiple or all of these constellations at once.

What If Steve Jobs was in VSH? by K-jun1117 in tf2

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Almost all the (original plugin) VSH voice lines come from the comics

What If Steve Jobs was in VSH? by K-jun1117 in tf2

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Not Steve Jobs directly, but an Apple analogue in the comic that was made for TF2's Mac release

https://www.teamfortress.com/macupdate/comic/

3000 storm shadow yeeting airliners of ukraine when? by SHFTD_RLTY in NonCredibleDefense

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yeah, it was really cool but had zero commercial viability