Ichthypresbyter

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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
Plenty of European countries have a work vehicle loophole, though it's not as big as the US one. Generally it's something along the lines of "a truck or van registered to a business is assumed to be a work vehicle, so pays le
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
Your ebike is limited because it can legally be operated by anybody (including a child) without needing any kind of license. If you want to legally operate a faster electric two-wheeled vehicle, take the test to get a motorbike license.
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
Cigarettes aren't the only thing that might ignite furniture- there's also the risk of, say, a child playing with matches, or a set of hair straighteners left on. Or, of course, smoking materials other than mass-produced cigarette
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
And cigarettes, for a very specific reason. Fire safety testing for furniture upholstery involves testing that it resists being ignited by a lit cigarette. The problem is that since the test protocol was written, states (starting with New Y
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
Well yes, I suppose if you also have a motorcycle and a truck and some miscellaneous hydraulic machinery that you work on yourself, then you will also use most of the tools you use for car maintenance to work on other things. For someone wh
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
While it is technically a socket, an oil filter wrench is reasonably specialized in that you won't see it in a standard socket set. Same may be true of a spark plug socket depending on your car. Otherwise, doing routine/basic main
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
In my experience in Europe, dining cars seem to be more of a Central (and maybe also Eastern) European thing. Benelux doesn't have dining cars at all, and in France and Italy the best you can usually hope for is a cafe-car that will gi
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
Depends which Eastern Europeans- Lithuania stayed pagan until the late 14th century, with some areas not being Christianised until the early 15th century. Of course, the Lithuanians themselves might well say they're not Eastern Europea
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
> Though I never really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of these works are stuf
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
>After all, people usually don't hand their phones to random strangers or leave them lying around - and those pagers aren't even mere personal devices used for private purposes And even compared to a phone, the limited function
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
And presumably some of the 66% are either children/students who have never had a job but will have a 401k or similar when they get one, or retirees who cashed out their 401k and bought an annuity (perhaps not the absolute smartest thin
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
Some of these stories reminded me a bit of the stories of the religious scholar, trickster and scoundrel Nasreddin Hodja, who uses his wits to get the better of kings and sultans. Nasreddin is AIUI originally a Turkish figure but whose lege
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
It has deterrence value in edge cases that almost never happen. Possibly the best example is treason in wartime. Life imprisonment isn't a deterrent there- people usually only betray their country in a war if they believe that the othe
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
>Japan’s national bird (green pheasant) is, IIRC, the only national bird that’s also a game bird. Pakistan and Gibraltar both have national birds that are partridges (the chukar and the Barbary partridge respectively).
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
As well as the drug allegations, there are claims that the record run was unfairly wind-assisted (if there's a tailwind greater than 2 m/s, the record doesn't count). The anemometer at the track was reading zero during the ra
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
Replying to the reply- even in dedicated car-free recreation areas, there are other people doing the same thing as you but going faster.
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
>Over 100 successful ejections per year? That's wild! That sounds like an awful lot of hull losses. I remember calculating a few years ago that more than 10% of the ejector seats sold by Martin-Baker have been used to eject . Milit
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
More recent research [0] suggests that the Botai horses are Przewalski horses that were hunted, not domesticated. The apparent bit damage is explainable by natural wear. Also, the age/sex distribution of the horse remains don't fi
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by Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
Maybe they flew north? I've seen plenty of them in Maryland this spring.
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
And some modern coins are designed so that bags of mixed coins can be counted by weight. For instance, all US cupronickel clad coins (dime, quarter, Kennedy half-dollar and Eisenhower dollar) have the same ratio of weight to value, such tha
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Plus of course all of the horse specialists, particularly around the racing industry.
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
The highest third party auto insurance claim I've heard of was £34 million in 2001 (probably about $90 million today). The driver (of a Land Rover towing a car on a trailer) fell asleep at the wheel and crashed onto train tracks. A pas
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
It wasn't. Clay tablets were not expensive- all you had to do was walk down to the riverbank and grab some clay. What may have been expensive was the services of scribes to write and read those clay tablets- and as they were heavier th
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Not just English. The Dutch word for Alces alces (the animal called a moose in North America and an elk in Europe) is "eland". Dutch settlers in South Africa decided to use that word for the large antelope of the genus Taurotra
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
A lawyer paid by the private party fills the role of the government prosecutor, but the case is heard by the same judge and jury who would hear it in a state prosecution. Until the 1980s this was how almost all criminal prosecutions worked
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
The USP of Turo is that you know exactly which car you are getting. So, for instance, if you're going somewhere snowy you can be certain that you will get a car with 4 wheel drive and snow tires (rather than the 2WD jeep on old summe
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
>The US doesn't enforce this rule of course, and therefore it's not unusual to meet a female American with Polish roots with the surname "Kaminski" (or sometimes even "Cumminskey"). Also it's a common c
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
And the author slightly joins on on that with his off-the-cuff characterization of the two 737 Max 8 crashes (at Lion Air and Ethiopian) as >two preventable crashes at unready airlines in developing countries Ethiopian is a large and by
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
In my state it's illegal to drive any vehicle on a highway where it can't exceed the speed limit by 5 mph. I assume there's some exception (probably involving the orange slow vehicle warning triangles) for things like tractor
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
I think Japan only does that for weird legacy reasons- freight and slower passenger trains run on 1067 mm gauge tracks, while the Shinkansen network is standard (1435 mm) gauge.

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