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Yes, plenty, even for the federal government. There's nothing that compels government entities to use .gov. A few I can think of: https://www.usps.com/ https://www.goarmy.com/
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Just imagine this interaction from the mom's perspective. (Because the author sure hasn't!) You're minding your own business just doing laundry or whatever and your adult son just shows up to you house totally unannounced wit
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2y ago
I can't even imagine having this sort of attitude where you think that your presence is like a "celebrity guest" for strangers and and will be "making their day." You. Complete strangers. Like, how does one have suc
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2y ago
Exactly! I grew up in the US. I grew up in a family where drunk driving was totally normal. Car wrecks happened with regularity. As a child I road with my parents while they were drunk and actively drinking. I road in the bed of my dads pic
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Dumb hazing exercise. I would have walked out.
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>The problem is that the herbs become harder than the ice cream, creating an unpleasant sensation in the mouth. The obvious solution to this is to make an syrup infusion and use that instead of sugar or as a topper. I make herb and flora
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2y ago
Yes, you typically cook the custard before freezing it. You can also make ice cream what's called "Philadelphia-Style" which doesn't have eggs and requires no cooking before churning/freezing. But the custard method
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>I thought having to lift pen repeatedly would be slower? The extra strokes required for all those fucking loops more than make up for having to pick up the pen. Cursive probably made a lot of sense when people were writing with quill pe
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>Cursive might be faster for an experienced writer (though Google tells me that claim is debatable), but it takes a long time to get there. I learned cursive as a child, used it for years, and it was never faster than printing, it was mu
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>Cursive never felt noticeably faster for me to write. I'm sure it would have had I been forced to do it. I was forced to use cursive and it was still slower than print.
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I learned cursive in 2nd grade and was very strictly REQUIRED to use it up until high school, where they stopped requiring cursive. 1) My cursive was always slower than print. I was happy to go back to print so I could write fast. I went to
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2y ago
All the houses I'm talking about are older than 100 years.
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2y ago
They do, I grew up in a brick house, both my grandparents lived in brick houses...
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2y ago
Don't forget measles, which is back after being declared eliminated from the United States in 2000. https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
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Here's the American version of "heaps of fruit," "fruit fusion." https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/quaker-oats-instant-oatmea... Ingredients Whole grain oats,sugar,dried raspberries,dried
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2y ago
>when their kids are ready for a real bike, they put them on one with side-wheels (support wheels?) In the US they are called "training wheels."
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2y ago
Here's a video of an adult learning to ride this way (no petals) - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ELW3CgR-DW4
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>There's a youtube channel out there that used to be a sort of nature channel, but seems to have devolved into 'Get stung/bit by painful animal X'. I haven't watched their stuff in ages, but I'm very aware t
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This happened during the Uvalde school shooting. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/07/13/uvalde-sho... It's interesting there was a trial, because in America police have no specific duty t
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It is.
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>I'm surprised how negative some of the comments are. It's literally unwatchable - It's 85% scribbles and "jokes."
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>Finally, almost everyone of the above mentioned interviewers was just not that bright. Seriously, sell your microsoft stock. Well, if they were only interviewing you for performative box-checking reasons so they could hire the person th
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2y ago
As usual, this doesn't work for me because I don't have stereoscopic vision.
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The software that runs on the backend of most healthcare facilities in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems
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No.
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They still make small and normal sized cars (for now), they just aren't as popular anymore. I just did a check of the msrp for a cheaper Toyota Corolla near San Francisco and it's MSRP is almost exactly the same as the base 2000 C
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I bought 3 TVs in the last 15 or so years. Each time I spent less than the last and got a much better (and lighter!!) tv. Before that I couldn't afford a TV and had a used 13 inch tube TV someone gave me. I know it was nearly 2 decades
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>It might be interesting to compare rates in equestrianism and biking to other sports where falls are a significant risk such as Judo or balance beam. So, in gymnastics you practice falling so you fall safer/more controlled. Falling
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It's fake rage-bait.
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Almost 30 years ago, at my first job, a coworker got mad at someone and broke a broom. He was trying to write a letter to apologize and he couldn't. Couldn't meaning he was really trying but he didn't have the writing skills
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