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My offer went down 20k because of that description.

Bland, all white, inexpensive house, but did the realtor's kid write the description? I'm calling the realtor police.

White is tight.

Here's where you slay with your squad and kick it outdoors.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5108-Temple-Dr-Amarillo-TX-79110/55664722_zpid/

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Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.

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As far as I know pretty much every denomination considers it just bread and wine before its consecrated.

Don't ACTUALLY TAKE COMMUNION to sate your curiosity, but sourcing the stuff before it's used is fine.

can i order catholic communion wavers as a non-catholic if i want to know what they taste like or would that be offensive to catholicism

You can but you could also just go to a church and ask to try it. Or Anglicans and Lutherans also use the same thing, often using the same church supply stores that catholics use to buy their hosts. The only issue with buying it yourself is you have to buy in bulk and it isn't like it tastes like anything, it's kinda like wafer paper. And tbh usually at a church it can be stale since they have to buy it in bulk. I know for my husband's RCIA class, they brought in some non-consecrated hosts so people could try it and get used to the taste/used to sticking out their tongue to receive. I know when I was a kid we also tried it before first communion, because otherwise you get 7 year Olds making faces about its taste/texture lol

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The King of Diamonds

Wouldn’t this be a cool deck?

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it used to be 2007 you know

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I'm going to throw my votes in for the Thompson machine gun, M1 Garand, Colt 1911, any American-made cylinder revolver, the M16, or the AR-15.

Gonna heavily depend on your time period.

Input Needed

What's the most American gun? Throw out some suggestions and I'll make a poll.

This is for art.

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With one or two exceptions (hello church that used actual bakery matzo) the taste is something like if a saltine was made to taste like a plain rice cake.

Or edible packing peanut.

can i order catholic communion wavers as a non-catholic if i want to know what they taste like or would that be offensive to catholicism

You can but you could also just go to a church and ask to try it. Or Anglicans and Lutherans also use the same thing, often using the same church supply stores that catholics use to buy their hosts. The only issue with buying it yourself is you have to buy in bulk and it isn't like it tastes like anything, it's kinda like wafer paper. And tbh usually at a church it can be stale since they have to buy it in bulk. I know for my husband's RCIA class, they brought in some non-consecrated hosts so people could try it and get used to the taste/used to sticking out their tongue to receive. I know when I was a kid we also tried it before first communion, because otherwise you get 7 year Olds making faces about its taste/texture lol

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Depends on the worm. Some of them can give you pretty bad stomach issues.

Also is the deserted island actually stocked? I'd rather not starve or dehydrate.

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I was not made for….*gestures broadly at the world*

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This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

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A very very minor thing I have been curious about for a while, and I'm finally asking: why do you calculate queue posting times the way you do? For example, if I set my queue to post 3x a day, naively I would expect it to post every 8 hours. But in reality it posts every 6 hours with a 12 hour gap between days. Why complicate the math like that?

Answer: Hello @circumference-pie!

Buckle up y’all, it’s story time again!

First: nobody who works at Tumblr right now was a part of the work of planning the default queue implementation, which was more than ten years ago. So the full story behind “Why does it work that way?” has unfortunately been lost to the sands of time. All we can do is tell you how it works today and surmise some reasons why. The queue is actually a very clever system and part of how it works explains some of why it works the way it does. Also, there have been attempts to do what you ask—we still have “Queue 2.0” available in your Tumblr Labs settings, which tries to get closer to how you expect things to work.

Anyway! How the queue works today is not actually a queue in the traditional sense. There is no single list of posts that are in “your queue”. Instead, when you “Add to queue” after creating a post, we’re actually scheduling it to post at a future time, as if you had used the “Schedule post” option instead. We’re just calculating that time on your behalf when you use “Add to queue”, based on your settings, and how many other scheduled posts you have already. We use a secondary “index” model, called “ScheduledPost”, to keep track of posts you have scheduled on your blog. We do mark the ones that are a part of “your queue”, but the data model doesn’t keep one list of your “queue” per se.

You can see this in action on your blog, hiding in plain sight. If you add a bunch of posts to your queue, and then schedule a post for a specific future date, you’ll see both in your blog’s “queue” list, side by side. Because technically to us, they’re the same thing: queued posts are really just another kind of scheduled post, relying on the same always-running service to publish scheduled posts across all of Tumblr. Here’s a fun fact: we typically have about ~14.5 million future posts to publish from this list at any given time and are publishing hundreds of these scheduled posts every second.

So when you’re adding a new post to your queue, what we’re doing behind the scenes is starting at the beginning of your “day”, and creating time slots based on your queue settings. If a time slot is already filled, we move on to the next one. That’s why the default queue scheduler works how you describe—we’re trying to fill those “slots” based on the start of the day, rather than trying to divide the calendar day evenly. This just makes it much simpler for us to understand, scale, and predict when our “peaks” will be. At peak times, the publish-scheduled-posts service is publishing tens of thousands of posts in a manner of seconds. We did rewrite that post-publishing part of this architecture a few years ago to improve its efficiency and solve a lot of “lost post” bugs, but we didn’t change how “Add to queue” works.

However, the Queue 2.0 project available in Labs was an attempt to change the queue system to work as you expect—instead of starting at [beginning of day] and creating enough slots to fit [number of slots] every [number of hours], it tries to divide the calendar day into [number of slots] and fit the result back to the original algorithm’s mapping of the day. We never productionized this alternative approach, because it has a few bugs that some blogs hit in extreme cases, and we’ve never had time to fully fix them. It also can cause a bit of weirdness when time zones diverge, like with daylight savings time. Also, a lot of people prefer the default algorithm, and we haven’t thought of a nice way to transition everyone from one to the other. So for now, both options exist, and you can choose which algorithm for queue-slot-generating you want to use. We hope that makes sense! 

While complicated, it is a great example of a system built by engineers to make sense and be scalable and predictable. But sometimes these kinds of systems, while clever, aren’t very intuitive to understand without digging into how they work.

Thanks for your question, and keep ’em coming. 

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Hold on.

Being anti-war isn't being pro nazi. You can opt to stay out of a conflict without supporting either side.

rootsmetals

use your brain. EDIT: the gaslighting in the comments is something else. “These protests are different because they are against the state and the police” (yes, that must be why they are being celebrated and encouraged by the regimes with the worst human rights records in the world), “the protestors in these pictures weren’t students and the protests weren’t student organized” (wrong and wrong), “they protested against the war with Hitler because they didn’t know about the Holocaust” (blatantly wrong), “these protests were way smaller” (wrong). Just anything and everything to keep moving the goalposts because god forbid you listen to Jews when we tell you that the literal organizers of these so-called “pro-Palestine, anti-war” protests are terrorizing Jewish students.

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Adorable.

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhghhhhhhhhhhhhkhhh

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100% transparent. I need prayers. I’m extremely suicidal rn. I don’t want to be here anymore. I’m sick of the pain, seizures and fear of the future. I’m sick of this world.

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My Star Trek friends, reblog with your favourite most ‘out of context’ Star Trek image

I’ll start:

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I would be SHOCKED if this had actually been rezoned as residential.

This morning I came across a UK realty listing for a derelict former Baron's house that actually said, "There are no affordable homes." So, in my quest to find some, I came across 2 conversions. The first is this former 1960s gas station in Carrizozo, NM. It says 0bds, 1ba, but it's $289K. It's supposedly located in a lively arts district, too. So, let's see what we've got here.

The small former office is a cozy living room.

They should've put 0 kitchen, too, b/c this kitchenette doesn't cut it for me. Not even a cooktop.

But, it's not a deal breaker, b/c look at all the room back here. The current owner has a studio set up w/a gallery.

This could be a large studio living space or walls could even be put up. It's kind of industrial loft.

Down the hall he has an office. Nope. This is the new kitchen. It already has cabinets.

I don't see that this bath has a tub or shower. So, this would have to redone.

And, down here is an empty room. There's the bedroom.

Utility closet.

It's on an island, like stations usually are, for easy access.

They put stones on the unpaved areas. Maybe that could be a covered patio?

Potential for a nice yard back here. .41 acre lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/508-Central-Ave-Carrizozo-NM-88301/305137298_zpid/