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by alaxsxaq 2y ago
I live in an area where there are plentiful eagles and I never heard of anyone eating one. I kayak around some islands in a nearby river where eagles nest and frequently encounter people at boat landings inquiring about eagle feathers. Th
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by alaxsxaq 3y ago
I've shot tons of film over a great many years and I have a sizeable collection of cheap and expensive 35mm and 120mm film cameras covering the period from the late 1800's to the 1980's. I stuck to film well after digital ca
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by alaxsxaq 3y ago
Maybe find a way to inspire in the rich the kind of philanthropy practiced by Andrew Carnegie. He wrote his views in, The Gospel of Wealth - not having read it, but having long heard Carnegie's name as an example of wealth turned to g
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by alaxsxaq 3y ago
Indeed, as are concentrated forms of human habitation, and, your point is?
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by alaxsxaq 3y ago
Once you let your kid name an animal, it is a pet. I have a bit of experience with this since we have been running a chicken retirement community for the past four or five years as our chickens, now beloved pets of my teenage daughter are w
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by alaxsxaq 3y ago
I still have great memories laying on the living room floor reading volume after volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica during family TV evenings. The set came with a language dictionary covering 5-10 languages; I spent endless hours "
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by alaxsxaq 3y ago
Bye bye Fi.
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by alaxsxaq 4y ago
You might like to explain how population life-expectancy figures correlate with covid fatality rates in a meaningful way.
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by alaxsxaq 4y ago
I searched for two podcasts; one failed with an error ('Error: could not handle the request) [No Agenda]. I tested another one, [eggchasers], and that worked reasonably well. My main criticism is that, when a search returns something
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
There are some issues, as have been pointed out, but one very real incentive to figuring those things out is the opportunity to reduce the number of problematic interactions with the police.
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
It does. The names of both concerns are (maybe were - been a few years since I passed by) on the sign in front of the building. I always wondered about the place, but looking it up slipped my mind.
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
Probably a reference only the British would get. Look up 'hedge porn'.
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
I met a guy who owned the Peekskill meteorite and the car which it hit it. He was/is a well known meteorite and Eurypterid dealer.
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
My wife had contact with a raccoon which tangled with our dog in the middle of the day about a decade ago. Since confirmation from the state lab takes weeks, she was off to the hospital for rabies shots straight away as a precaution. Tota
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
If you live 1-2 years, as cuttlefish do, is it really that amazing that their memory does not fade between birth and death?
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
America solved a large part of air and water pollution issues as a side-effect of policies which shifted production largely off-shore. That solution won't work for the remainder. The trash problem seems to have worsened - especially i
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
When I'm in DC for a conference at the convention center, part of my breakfast routine is a walk to the Sculpture Garden at the Hirshhorn with a take-out breakfast. I always make a point to listen to the Sunset Song exhibit through at
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
This is from the FDA website. "Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), when the Secretary of HHS declares that an emergency use authorization is appropriate, FDA may authorize unapproved medical pr
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by alaxsxaq 5y ago
Interesting since this coincides with a different issue I am facing. I had an employee move to California (we are a single-site business on the east coast) and everything was fine during covid. Now I'm being told that there are conce
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by alaxsxaq 6y ago
Sounds like Disney. Disney World (? - the one in Florida, USA) had a gift shop at the exit to every ride last time I was there. The bean counters probably consider it a great addition, and I'm sure it pays dividends, but that sort of
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by alaxsxaq 6y ago
Who keeps a bottle of wine around long enough to bother worrying about oxidation? If I was opening a very expensive bottle, I would invite people over to share it. Most wine I buy to drink or cook with costs $10-$20/bottle. Hardly w
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by alaxsxaq 6y ago
The average age of operating automobiles in use within the US is closer to 12 years. The registration fee (annual renewal, not initial registration) in the US is based on vehicle value in 8 states by my count. On a personal note, me and mo
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by alaxsxaq 6y ago
I spent half a day with Bruce Gordon and bought one of his bikes a decade or so ago. He's gone now, but he was an interesting character in his own right - seems the bike world is full of them.
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by alaxsxaq 6y ago
There are only so many prime cuts, such as steaks, in a steer. Ground beef and sausages are what you make with the rest of that animal.
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by alaxsxaq 6y ago
You might be thinking of the Joe Rogan podcast episode from late June with Bret Weinstein, formerly professor of biology at Evergreen State College, where the topic of gain-of-function research relative to Covid-19 is discussed in some dept
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by alaxsxaq 7y ago
I've been going to OSCON on and off since the entire conference took place in the downtown Portland Marriott and it was a really good conference, until they moved it to Austin. From there, attendance seemed to decline yearly and the c
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by alaxsxaq 8y ago
They return which is sometimes the source of their undoing - should someone set a trap at the scene of the original crime.
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by alaxsxaq 8y ago
It is an interesting thought. I went to one of the early OSCON conferences in Portland and it was pretty cool to have the Ruby (Matts), Python (Guido), and Perl (Larry Wall) people all at the same conference. I was a budding Python progra
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by alaxsxaq 8y ago
Regarding speed cameras. I was driving around the Netherlands and saw speed cameras for the first time (I'm from the US) in Apeldoorn. There were signs that warned drivers about them. In the US, in several rural areas have electroni
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by alaxsxaq 8y ago
Pennsylvania is the same - there is a $0.58 tax on a gallon of gas ($0.75 on diesel) that is used to fund the majority of the costs related to road maintenance. Wikipedia tells me that is the highest fuel tax rate in the country - the road

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