@notclacke Had the first Bush served two terms, I could see the logic in using the phrase in reference to the second of those. He didn't, so it makes sense that it would mean the second Bush presidency, i.e. that of Bush Jr (first term or both). Having the phrase denote the second term of Bush Jr would be the least logical of all options, so that's probably what the Americans do.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 04:14:38 JST Mans R
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 22:52:32 JST Mans R
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 22:51:30 JST Mans R
@clacke @adwright Maybe it's easier to rise to the top if you're in a safe constituency.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 23:51:53 JST Mans R
@clacke The whole thing being fiction means there are two options:
1. The script writers are following some guidelines that call for this naming convention.
2. They just started doing it for no particular reason.If it's in some guidelines, those might of course include an in-universe explanation that has never been explicitly mentioned on screen.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 23:50:27 JST Mans R
@juliank @ifixcoinops My previous workstation was a 6-core Intel something from 2010, and it was fine for web browsing and such. However, replacing it with a 16-core AMD EPYC with 128 GB RAM and NVMe storage made a huge difference for OpenEmbedded builds. Faster storage also makes a noticeable difference when working with large git repos like the Linux kernel. The new system also uses half as much power when idle (more under full load).
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 23:50:18 JST Mans R
@clacke What's the real reason?
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 00:09:00 JST Mans R
@dan Interesting encoding. I wonder how the decoder works.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:46:33 JST Mans R
@geoffl @Arcaik @j_bertolotti @johncarlosbaez I think it's fine to use a power of 10 (or whatever radix your number system has) scaling factor for convenience, at least in casual situations.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:46:23 JST Mans R
@geoffl @clacke @johncarlosbaez @j_bertolotti @Arcaik I'm going to start confusing people by using unusual units like decigram and hectometre. Or deka- anything (except decadence).
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 08:48:19 JST Mans R
@johncarlosbaez It could have been worse. Imagine if a Frenchman, say, had been working on the same things at the same time, only with the opposite convention, and French physicists then stubbornly stuck with it to this day while everybody else followed Franklin.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 08:48:15 JST Mans R
@Arcaik @geoffl @j_bertolotti @johncarlosbaez It probably varies between languages, but at least in Swedish, decimetres are quite often used in casual speech when giving an approximate size of something, e.g. "I guess it was a few decimetres, maybe half a metre."
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 21:45:03 JST Mans R
@clacke "We scrutinised the evidence."
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 04:49:20 JST Mans R
@lowqualityfacts Does it save water though?
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 22:20:44 JST Mans R
@clacke What now?
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 00:59:45 JST Mans R
@futurebird I always assumed ants appeared around wall sockets because the wiring conduits provided an easy path for them to get inside at all.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 19:34:30 JST Mans R
@ken_fallon @clacke Please provide alt images with your text.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 12:15:33 JST Mans R
@johncarlosbaez May I offer you a few more? All from Heathrow airport.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 21:51:10 JST Mans R
@ainmosni Maybe it would be a good idea to stop saddling men as a group with what basically amounts to a variation of original sin.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 22:06:25 JST Mans R
@clacke
> the main story can be told in five minutesThat's quite impressive for an action film. Most only have enough story for five seconds.
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Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 21:12:39 JST Mans R
@clacke I'm told I look young for my age. Maybe you do too.