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by _moof 5y ago
There's nothing special about the nozzle; it's just another point. The nozzle isn't the center. But if you can't get past that, imagine a balloon without a nozzle, with a canister of compressed gas inside, and the compre
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by _moof 5y ago
> Can you blame them. Yes.
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by _moof 5y ago
USPIS is the oldest federal law enforcement agency and is extremely good at what they do. Do not mess with them.
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by _moof 5y ago
I'm afraid you're the one who is wrong. Yes, when a common language is needed, it is English, but native languages are explicitly allowed by EU law.
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by _moof 5y ago
If you don't know what the Greek letter sigma means, you aren't going to know what the phrase "standard deviation" means, either. The notation isn't the issue. The issue is you can't fit stats 101 into a headli
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by _moof 5y ago
Twitter very intentionally added support for this use case. There's literally a button just for it. There's even a help page about how to do it: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/create-a-thread
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by _moof 5y ago
> People split long posts into dozens of tweets I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape about this. Ok, there's more than one tweet, but they're all on one page, in order, so you've got all the text r
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by _moof 5y ago
Those of us who had been playing RPGs for years (since the 1980s in my case), including the first Final Fantasy games, also found FF7 to be special.
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by _moof 5y ago
And before they switched to modafinil, they gave pilots (wait for it...) amphetamines. It's total nonsense and the entire aeromedical division should be razed and rebuilt from the ground up.
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by _moof 5y ago
Your utter terror of these drugs is not warranted. Yes, some of them have intolerable side effects. Some of them will just be ineffective. But there are lots and lots of different antidepressants and there is probably one that will work for
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by _moof 5y ago
> Have you ever talked to a _medical_ professional about depression or any mental health issue? They generally don't know what they're doing. And you think a random stranger knows any better? I know firsthand that the medical
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by _moof 5y ago
<looks up from hand-riveting a wooden boat and grunts approvingly>
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by _moof 5y ago
> I respond poorly to being told what to do (“Rands, do X.”) This is a joke, right?
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by _moof 5y ago
CodeWarrior wasn't an Apple product; it was a third-party IDE made by a company called Metrowerks.
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by _moof 5y ago
There's even a news industry adage about this: "If it bleeds, it leads."
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by _moof 5y ago
> …the recipient gets a notification on that first “hey” that contains no information and potentially causes distraction. The person might see the indicator that you’re typing but is still left waiting for your full message. I would tu
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by _moof 5y ago
You can say hello/good morning/etc. at the beginning of your message. What's annoying is when you send a greeting as a separate message. The greeting itself is not annoying, and, I agree, is polite. But distracting someone wi
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by _moof 5y ago
Mark my words: in a matter of years, you're going to be a husk. Ask me how I know.
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by _moof 5y ago
At the kinds of airports people fly their own airplanes to, rideshare is not always reliable, and may not even exist.
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by _moof 5y ago
They especially don't like that now, the people they're talking about get to respond directly to them.
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by _moof 5y ago
I was going to say. If people can't get the things they need to meet their basic needs, then the economy is not "good."
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by _moof 5y ago
"Click to subscribe, call to cancel" is illegal in California. If you can get a company to believe that you're a Californian, either by giving them a different address and/or by using a VPN based in CA, their site will m
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by _moof 5y ago
> The point is that it's insulting and fallacious to claim that people in these careers do not work long hours This feeling perfectly illustrates two of the core issues raised in the article: that overwork is valorized, and that o
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by _moof 5y ago
> The top 1 percent of the income distribution is composed largely of executives, financiers, consultants, lawyers, and specialist doctors who report extremely long work hours, sometimes more than seventy a week. Be extremely skeptical
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by _moof 5y ago
Airport baggage scanners are nowhere near the complexity of CT machines. Not even the same kind of device. They also don't have to be designed and certified for human subjects.
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by _moof 5y ago
> And I imagine the old standard of a warning email that message hasn't been delivered but retries are ongoing isn't handled well by many people. Can you expand on this? It's been a while since the previous century but I
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by _moof 5y ago
Microelectro mechanical systems.
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by _moof 5y ago
Try all of the buttons. One of them will mute. Usually it's the bottom right one but not always.
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by _moof 5y ago
True, but to be fair it's the gerund formed from the verb.
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by _moof 5y ago
Probably? The founders didn't even give American women the vote. Let's not go pretending they had some expansive notion of what the word "human" means. FWIW I agree with your basic point--rights are rights, no matter who

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