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wax eagle
wax eagle
01:54
@Aarthi that's gorgeous. I live on a mountain and the best days are when it's a clear blue sky up here and the valley is filled with clouds.
 
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Aarthi
Aarthi
16:27
And now for something terrifying: when fire ants gather en masse, they mimic a fluid.
Thomas Owens
Thomas Owens
That's not terrifying. That's AWESOME.
Unless you don't like {some class of thing that includes ants}.
Thomas Owens
Thomas Owens
17:03
And in other news, Minnesota fails.
slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/18/…
Jon Ericson
Jon Ericson
@ThomasOwens Wow! Don't tell them that people learn stuff from Stack Exchange or Wikipedia or, well, the internet in general.
Great Firewall of Minnesota?
Thomas Owens
Thomas Owens
@JonEricson I haven't read the law yet, but it seems to be the fact that they are instructed "courses".
Jon Ericson
Jon Ericson
@ThomasOwens Reading further, it sounds like a bureaucratic misunderstanding. As in a bureaucrat tried to understand something.
Thomas Owens
Thomas Owens
@JonEricson That, and out-dated laws that don't evolve with technology.
When it was written, the notion of people or even universities putting courses for self-instruction on the Internet for free was not even a thought.
Aarthi
Aarthi
18:12
@ThomasOwens well fire ants are the worst, let's be real

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