Wohlf

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by Wohlf 3y ago
Funny you mention karaoke, the Japanese do the exact same thing to a much further degree.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
They aren't skirting anything, discounts were explicitly written in to the ACA to encourage behaviors the government and insurance companies both wanted.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
You're really out of the loop, Obamacare eliminated excluding due to prior conditions and differing premiums for anything except smoking. In exchange we all got higher premiums, higher deductibles, and worse coverage across the board.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
Ending prohibition didn't end the mafia it just took some of the wind out of their sails, they moved on to other things.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
Says more about doctors really, even dealing with something as banal as back pain it took years and finally visiting a physical therapist to get the issue properly identified and resolved.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
They absolutely do and may refuse to mail it in some cases. It increases the risk of theft astronomically, that's why money orders exist.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
It's both, a small project with grid capacity nearby can be approved quickly but larger projects without nearby capacity can take years to get resolved.
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by Wohlf 3y ago
Any store will sell me clothes that don't fit, food I'm allergic to, and chemicals that are dangerous if used incorrectly. It's not unreasonable to expect the buyer to take some basic responsibility.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
fwiw I'd take lawn mowing over most kitchen cleaning, bathroom cleaning and dusting are worse too but are much less frequent. Vacuuming might be slightly worse as well because I don't have to empty a lawn mower bag unless I chose
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by Wohlf 4y ago
Communicating clearly doesn't require a high IQ at all, it's a general skill. If anything, high intelligence might be a detriment since a lot of the smarter people I've known can't or refuse to communicate clearly.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
Mad Men does start to dip for a bit somewhere around season 5 imo, but once they get on track for the ending it picks back up and they stick the landing.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
fwiw my dentist doesn't shill any products and still highly recommends an electric brush, even the worst ones are better than you can do yourself. She also said a water flosser is great for gum health but to still use floss at least a
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by Wohlf 4y ago
The US military is no stranger to the metric system, it's the standard.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
Can confirm it was fairly common in the Marine Corps, even some of the grunts and motor transport guys would get interested on ship duty. When you're bored as hell you'll take anything you can get.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
I recently installed some new circuits and was able to find them, but strangely it was $20 or more per circuit cheaper to get an AFCI/GFCI outlet and a regular breaker instead of combo breakers.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
That's called dorms, and should probably be a decent sized part of affordable housing solutions.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
I no longer believe this after Oregon decriminalized drugs, there are no consequences and people still do not seek out help.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
They're not worth it at all. I have a 3080 for 4k/60fps gaming without issues and I got it for $500 used. If a game struggles to hold a consistent framerate it's usually an issue with the game or certain settings, tweaking se
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by Wohlf 4y ago
It's more about the image a payphone conjures in the mind, which is accurate.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
Context clues, it's rarely an issue in practice for native speakers: - "I dreamt about you last night" - clearly a sleeping dream - "I dream of being a doctor" - clearly a future desire - "It's a dream com
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by Wohlf 4y ago
Food delivery is not even in the same universe as chattel slavery, they're completely incomparable.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
The US is also officially metric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...
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by Wohlf 4y ago
Blood type is weird but in Japanese cultural it's similar to adding your Myers-Briggs type.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
For real, even if they don't go back to previous highs they're vastly underpriced right now.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
WSL already runs on Windows 10/11 ARM in non-S mode, so no reason to assume it won't.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
Surface products as well.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
Not as niche as you think, it's a decent sized market segment with guitar amps.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
Maybe they understand each other better because both are incredibly greedy.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
It's also much deadlier for the winners to not let the opposing side retreat/surrender, if people feel trapped they'll fight to the death.
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by Wohlf 4y ago
It's only a return to the previous norm.

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