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1dalm

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Texas Licensed Professional Environmental Engineer. Advocates for joining things.

Interests:
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#Civil & #Environmental Engineering
#Episcopal

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Leaf Blowers
Minimum Parking Requirements
Autoplay Videos on websites

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Looking for the best Mystery book recommendations. Preferably in the last 5 years or so.

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@jfslicer @bookstodon

I read that last year. The premise was fun but I felt like the ending was a bit of let down.

Honestly, I thought it would have made a better video game than a book.

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Five of the best books about maths

“Since the Egyptian scribe Ahmes put pen to papyrus some time around 1550BC to explain how to calculate the slope of a pyramid, we’ve had over three millennia of maths literature. So within some level of statistical confidence: here are a subset of the best ever maths books.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/20/five-of-the-best-books-about-maths

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@bibliolater @bookstodon

I would 100% add to this list "A Scheme of Heaven" by Alexander Boxer. If you didn't think you were at all interested in Astrology, you will be after reading his book!

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Is a large and strong manufacturing sector essential for a nation's economy?

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Clarification needed: Finish the sentence:

Is a large and strong manufacturing sector essential for a nation's economy [to do what]?

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AH! Thanks!

.... now can you further expand on what you mean by 'prosperity'?

Prosperity in what sense? Just financial prosperity? Prosperity ALL or for a select few? Is there a time limit on that, or is this intended to be "prosperity for said nation's future generations in perpetuity"?

I guess I'll stick with my answer of 'C'.

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HARP. To harp upon; to dwell upon a subject. Have among you, my blind harpers; an expression used in throwing or shooting at random among the crowd.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Love definitions for words that have the word in the definition.

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