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      <div dir="ltr">Speaking of the book Snow Crash, it appeared in the
        hover-over on XKCD the other day, <a
          href="https://xkcd.com/2832/" moz-do-not-send="true"
          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://xkcd.com/2832/</a> . I
        just finished reading it when I saw the XKCD cartoon. I haven't
        decided whether it is a coincidence or a glitch in the matrix.
        Now that you brought it up, I am sure that it must be a glitch
        in the matrix. Maybe the emergency alert drill coincidence is
        related to that glitch too. <br>
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    <p>I'm hoping it is more like the brief scene in Dogma where the
      Stygian Triplets on roller blades use a hockey stick to rip a tear
      in reality. ( I can find absolutely no reference to the scene in
      the movie as I remember it... so it is probably one of MY
      hallucinations).... <br>
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    <p>Thanks for the hint about finding (easter egg?)
      tooltip/hover-overs in XKCDs...  I think I'd tripped over them
      before but didn't twig to their being "a thing"... Kewl!</p>
    <p>Car bodies are getting to be more and more likely Aluminum or
      (bio)Plastic, so a magnapoon would be a less-than-optimal method,
      though much simpler than a suction-cup mechanism.   Maybe getting
      "magnapooned" would just be part of the "tax" on having an
      older/larger/inefficient vehicle (think lifted Diesel quad-cab 4x4
      cowboy cadillac)... <br>
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              <div dir="ltr">_ Cody Smith _
                <div><a href="mailto:cody@simtable.com" target="_blank"
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 4:32 PM
          Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com"
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            <p>Is it a coincidence that the US Emergency Alert System
              (primarily cell phones) was tested today, coincident with
              the Russian nationwide *nuclear*  alert system test today?</p>
            <p>    <a
                href="https://www.newsweek.com/us-russia-emergency-alert-drills-1831776"
                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.newsweek.com/us-russia-emergency-alert-drills-1831776</a></p>
            <p>I was surprised when the US system was first
              deployed/tested under Trump and *he* didn't turn it into
              his personal "Twitter" service.   <br>
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            <p>I half expected to get an alert every time he was unhappy
              with some "deep state" or legislative or judicial
              confrontation to his will.</p>
            <p>Now<i> Dark Brandon</i> is using it to trigger COVID
              vaccine installed Manchurian Candidate nanotech?  <br>
            </p>
            <p>Or maybe a Snow Crash just happened in the House of
              Representatives today/yesterday?<br>
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