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by abruzzi 2y ago
don't know about CA but where I live, sale price has nothing to do with assessed value and therefore property tax. Sure, if everyone was selling their property for 10 cents on the dollar that could cause a decrease in assessed value,
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by abruzzi 2y ago
Kind of off topic, but my pet parrot (a Mitred Conure) gets off-the-hook loud whenever I try to watch Hitchcock's The Birds. The movie has a lot of bird noises (and strangely enough an electronic music score thats not really audible a
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by abruzzi 2y ago
> We need a drug that doesn't slow digestion but decreases hunger and increases satiety. This is exactly what it does for me. The only side effect I have is a little bit of occasional acid reflux.
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by abruzzi 2y ago
It doesn't remove the joy, just the need. The first thing I noticed after starting is I wasn't hungry all the time. That constant sense of hunger made me eat when I didn't need to. Now I can eat a nice meal, but much of th
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by abruzzi 2y ago
Its kind of funny--I'm the exact opposite. I don't have any messaging services other than email--no twitter, FB, WhatsApp, etc.--and SMS is silenced. If you want to get ahold of me, you either email or call. But I get your poin
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by abruzzi 3y ago
> NSU and Mazda are the only manufacturers ever to have mass-produced rotary engine vehicles. Not quite true. Suzuki also made and sold a rotary engined vehicle--specifically the RE5 motorcycle. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by abruzzi 3y ago
My pet Mitred Conure (Leonard) loves to mess with my iPad while I'm reading. On the other had, Leonard >hates< my iPhone. If he's on my shoulder he'll engage in a agressive display waving around and violently biting m
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by abruzzi 3y ago
I've never been a drinker. The unpalatable taste meant I never experimented enough to get to the buzz.
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by abruzzi 3y ago
I have to say--the opening paragraph doesn't describe a reality I'm familiar with: >Web search is such a routine part of daily life that it’s easy to forget how marvelous it is. Type into a little text box and a complex array o
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by abruzzi 3y ago
I didn't know "chillax" was a word, especially one that would auto correct "chill". So from the authors comments, I take it I am a rare minority in that all my texts are in full, grammatically correct sentences, wit
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by abruzzi 3y ago
to me the trick is finding one or two reviewers that you understand (not necessarily agree with.) Then if the person says they dislike something and why, you can compare their history with your history of agreeing or disagreeing with them.
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by abruzzi 3y ago
When I saw serverless, my mind when right to ultra lightweight database-as-a-library like SQLlite. Not AWS or azure cloud.
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by abruzzi 3y ago
Iceberg is the primary reason I didn’t like salads for most of my life. Then I discovered that you can eat fresh spinach, not boiled, and I started eating salads. Also, I’ve never heard of or seen a “wedge salad”. Is that what it sounds li
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by abruzzi 3y ago
https://archive.is/CThva
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The high-tech, super-secure government warehouse where old cash dies(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by abruzzi 3y ago|1 comments
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by abruzzi 3y ago
Season 1 was closer to tradition SciFi TV of the time (think of the Star Trek Next Gen.) Each episode is fully self contained and there is little in last weeks episode that you need to know to understand this weeks. There is a tiny bit of
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by abruzzi 3y ago
thats exactly why. It was a simple serial connection that could connect directly with other simple embedded systems. My local Lowes home store had a palm pilot that controlled their security system, and it was still in use just pre-COVID
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by abruzzi 3y ago
and Burmese and Liberian.
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by abruzzi 3y ago
interesting. Mine are both in great condition ~10 years later. You can buy replacemnt ear pads, but only in black AFAICT.
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by abruzzi 3y ago
And more than that (IANAL) the attorney is on the hook not just for a bad filing with questionable info, but explicitly lying to the court about the source of their filings. That is probably an offense that could lead to more punitive acti
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by abruzzi 3y ago
I think the parent post's point is not that its less likely to get laid off, but rather that there are prospects for employement that don't require relocation when you de get laid off.
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by abruzzi 3y ago
The amusing thing is how many of the items on their list bring to mind a great short story, or a great novel, or movie. Point being that many of them CAN be good, but usually aren't.
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by abruzzi 3y ago
all white keys is easy to play a scale without thinking, but I find it much harder to play well than keys that have some sharps or flats. that pattern of 2-space-3-space on the black key shelps to anchor your hands. I'd take e-flat m
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by abruzzi 3y ago
Its interesting that he mentioned that mentioned that the music was used in Stranger Things, season 4. Season 3 used music from Glass's opera Satyagraha, Season 4 (at least in the scene I remember) starts the Koyaaniqatsi music but su
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by abruzzi 3y ago
To me, the subtlety is specifically mentioning money. "I'll pick up the check" feel more tacky than "on me". Both explicitly imply I'm paying, but the first says I'm paying for you, and the other says th
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by abruzzi 3y ago
completely tangential comment--the "criticism" section mentions the Pruit-Igoe development and it eventual demolition. Film of the derelict development and its demolition was in the Godfrey Reggio film Koyaanisqatsi, and the Phil
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by abruzzi 3y ago
Where is "Blammo" the maker of Log?
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by abruzzi 3y ago
there was a whole book of recipies for fookeing on your engine--the title was "Manifold Destiny". I have a copy somewhere, but have never tried it.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
way in left field--the last scene in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rubliev" is a son of a bellmaker making a bell for a nobleman because the rest of his family has died. It is fascinating to watch though I don't know how h
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by abruzzi 4y ago
the issue I had with the Soderbergh/Clooney version is it almost stops being about Solaris at all, and is instead just about the individuals. What was brilliant about the novel (to me) was that it was about our inability to understand

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