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  1. Comment on Taskmaster NZ Season 6, Episode 1 - 'It’s like a Make A Wish' | Full episode in ~tv

  2. Comment on Taskmaster NZ Season 6, Episode 1 - 'It’s like a Make A Wish' | Full episode in ~tv

  3. Comment on Caravan Palace - Good Mouse (2026) | MOUSE: P.I. For Hire original game soundtrack in ~music

  5. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

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    B.C. Premier David Eby temporarily replaces spokesperson with identical twin

    B.C. Premier David Eby temporarily replaces spokesperson with identical twin

    British Columbia Premier David Eby hasn’t had to familiarize himself with a new face in his office after deputy director of communications James Smith left for another job — he simply tapped Smith’s identical twin brother, George.

    The brothers have been confusing the B.C. political scene for years and it’s a familiar post for George Smith, who previously held the same job under late former premier John Horgan, before being promoted to director of communications under both Horgan and then Eby until 2024.

    James Smith left Eby’s office last month after serving as the premier’s primary point of contact with the media for almost four years, and now works as director of government relations for the University of Victoria.

    George Smith is meanwhile returning to the deputy director’s role on a temporary basis, on secondment until mid-June from his current job in the provincial bureaucracy.

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  6. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

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    The Sweden Herald article didn't include any pics of the prank penis, but it did link to another article that does:...

    The Sweden Herald article didn't include any pics of the prank penis, but it did link to another article that does:
    https://www.gp.se/nyheter/goteborg/poseidon-har-fatt-penisforlangning-pa-forsta-april.6134192a-3841-43f2-868f-0edd551278dd

    And this article has a video of the other prank penis that was mentioned:
    https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/david-fick-jattepenis-i-smyg-brukar-inte-vara-sa-stor

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  7. Comment on Bush: Tiny Desk Concert (2026) in ~music

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    I absolutely love Live too. Throwing Copper, Secret Samadhi, and The Distance to Here are all insanely good albums. They're some of the very few albums that I can still regularly play straight...

    I absolutely love Live too. Throwing Copper, Secret Samadhi, and The Distance to Here are all insanely good albums. They're some of the very few albums that I can still regularly play straight through from start to finish without ever feeling the need to skip any songs. Sadly, by some accounts Ed Kowalczyk was/is a bit of a dickhead but regardless, IMO, there is no denying the man is also a musical genius. :P

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  8. Comment on Bush: Tiny Desk Concert (2026) in ~music

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    I'm pretty sure the only time I've ever seen them live was waaaaaaaay back in the mid 90s at a festival up here in Ontario, Canada. After googling around a bit, I think it might have been Edenfest...

    I'm pretty sure the only time I've ever seen them live was waaaaaaaay back in the mid 90s at a festival up here in Ontario, Canada. After googling around a bit, I think it might have been Edenfest based on the lineup, since it's around the right time-frame, and had Bush and a few other bands I remember seeing too (Everclear, Live, Spin Doctors, Spacehog). But my memories of the festival are pretty vague at this point so I'm not actually sure if that was the festival in question or it was an Edgefest or some other. I do remember Bush being good, but the performance I remember most was Live who were (perhaps unsurprisingly) absolutely incredible live. :P

    p.s. @aphoenix, were you at Edenfest too, by chance?

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  10. Comment on Super Mario Bros. arbitrary code execution glitch discovered in ~games

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    I can't wait for the TASBot team to do something mind-blowing with this next GDQ! :P

    I can't wait for the TASBot team to do something mind-blowing with this next GDQ! :P

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  12. Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health

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    Strength is about so much more than just muscle mass, although that is a major factor. But even with almost everything being the exact same from one workout to the next, simply having a crappy...

    Strength is about so much more than just muscle mass, although that is a major factor. But even with almost everything being the exact same from one workout to the next, simply having a crappy sleep the night before or being slightly dehydrated can cause a significant strength performance decrease. And psychological motivation is a huge factor as well. So it's not surprising that you being sick has had a big effect.

    But I can pretty much guarantee you that you haven't lost all (or likely any) of your actual muscle gains just from being a bit sick for a relatively short period. That's simply not how our bodies work, AFAIK. Our bodies don't tend to shed much muscle mass unless put under extreme circumstances, or we experience extremely prolonged periods of inactivity. So keep working at your pushups consistently again for a while longer, and you'll very likely get back to your peak performance pretty quickly. And if not, then I would start trying to figure out if there is something else in your life that's changed that could be effecting your performance (e.g. your sleep, hydration, nutrition, motivation, etc), so that you can correct it.

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  14. Comment on Bush: Tiny Desk Concert (2026) in ~music

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    0:11 Machinehead 5:25 Glycerine 9:34 Out of This World 14:44 I Beat Loneliness p.s. Any fellow Canadians still refer to them as "Bush X" in their heads? :P

    0:11 Machinehead
    5:25 Glycerine
    9:34 Out of This World
    14:44 I Beat Loneliness

    p.s. Any fellow Canadians still refer to them as "Bush X" in their heads? :P

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  16. Comment on Jet Lag Season 17: Taiwan Rail Rush | Trailer in ~hobbies

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    Ep 2 spoilers Yeah, it's still early, but I suspect Sam & Michael doubling back to the North West might have just won them the game since the density of stations there is significantly higher...
    Ep 2 spoilers

    Yeah, it's still early, but I suspect Sam & Michael doubling back to the North West might have just won them the game since the density of stations there is significantly higher which is causing (and likely to continue to cause) the majority of the new challenges to appear nearer them than Ben & Adam. Speaking of which, I think if they were to do this sort of game again they really need to do something to fix that potential issue. Perhaps by actually making it less truly random, and adding a minimum/maximum distance from the nearest competitor for the next challenge to appear, and/or ensuring at least one challenge appears reasonably close to each team so it doesn't end up being completely one-sided.

    Another thing that kind of bothers me about the game design is the stealing chips mechanic. IMO it's way too easy for teams to quickly spend their excess chips as soon as they see the other team heading towards a steal... which makes that mechanic feel like a total waste of time.

    Regardless, it's still been entertaining so far though and I'm looking forwards to the next episode.

    Apparently when Amy designed the path she might not have known that the memorisation time was only 2 minutes

    Ah, I was wondering about that. Because even with all the practicing Sam & Micheal did, that felt almost impossible to memorize in just 2 minutes.

    As soon as I saw Adam take his shoes off I physically cringed

    LOL, me too. So gross. :P

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  17. Comment on Babylon 5 S01E06: "The Parliament of Dreams" - Episode Discussion in ~tv

  18. Comment on Tildes Book Club schedule 2025 - 2026 in ~books

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    Sweet, thanks for the heads up! I purchased it. :)

    Sweet, thanks for the heads up! I purchased it. :)

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  19. Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health

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    Unless you were totally immobilized for weeks so your muscles started to atrophy, and/or you were starving to the point where your body started to cannibalize your muscle tissue to keep you alive,...

    Unless you were totally immobilized for weeks so your muscles started to atrophy, and/or you were starving to the point where your body started to cannibalize your muscle tissue to keep you alive, that's seems highly, highly unlikely. Muscle built up over a year of working out isn't going to totally vanish due to a singular bout of sickness preventing your from working out for a few weeks, unless it was an extremely, extremely severe sickness.

    You can gradually lose some of your strength and endurance gains due to the effects of detraining, but even that usually takes weeks of inactivity, and it's not actually caused by losing any muscle tissue, it's caused by your body reversing some of its training-induced adaptations. But thankfully those adaptation generally don't take very long to reestablish themselves in full once you start training regularly again.

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  20. Comment on Artemis II April 1 launch in ~space