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by bigbubba 6y ago
I don't know, it's typical for my family. It seems inappropriate to me for people to set their furnace so high just so they can dress like it's summer in the winter.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
If it's raining, then obviously it's not very cold outside. Unless you're in the habit of cranking your furnace up to tropical temperatures I guess. For me, I keep the temperature above freezing inside but otherwise? I put
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> fuel (or oxygen, don't remember) leaked from the joints. The o-rings were in joints connecting sections of the solid rocket boosters (SRBs). The gas blowing past them was the superheated exhaust from the burning solid propella
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by bigbubba 6y ago
What in the world does Russia have to do with any of this? Are they now presumed responsible every time anybody anywhere doubts anything a government official says?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
And windows low enough to jump from and (probably) not die.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I would not enter a stairwell that was filled with smoke. Smoke rises, so if there is smoke in the stairwell below me, it's probably also in the stairwell on my floor as well, though there may be a small window where I get mislead. N
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> all fire safety experts Here's the thing, not ALL fire safety experts will tell you the same thing. I just looked up the guidance for my city (Seattle) and it gives what I consider to be sane advice: > Every alarm must be t
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I agree. Trampling is a real concern, but one that would have me running for the exits sooner, not waiting longer.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Maybe this is too cynical, but I think the only thing spy agencies consider off limits is getting caught. There are plenty of assassinations, torturings, etc that have been attributed to spy agencies. See also: https://en.wik
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The Station nightclub fire had people get trapped at the entrance by a stampede, so it can happen. Ideally buildings are now designed to mitigate that, and should have occupancy limits set low enough by the fire marshal to facilitate immed
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by bigbubba 6y ago
To be frank, if everybody else is sheltering in place, that means the staircases will be clear for me to run down. If everybody thinks as I do, maybe there will be problems. But, judging by my experience with staircases in America (namely
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Exactly. These buildings are specifically designed to be escapable, at least before the fire becomes horrendously bad, so I'll choose to take advantage of that as quick as I can.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It seems to me that if the high-rise building truly resists the spread of fire, then sheltering in place is probably the optimal solution. However I just can't trust my own life to that. Furthermore one of the hazards used to justify
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Does the government still recommend that people in highrises shelter in place when there is a fire in another apartment in the building? They did before, after this fire I found the cutesy animated videos they published explaining how you
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by bigbubba 6y ago
My point is that it's an inane observation that removing the addictive chemical from the equation will remove the incentives of addicts to purchase that product. This is "fire is hot" type stuff.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Seems to me that describing people based on their continent of origin, rather than their apparent 'race', is distinctly not racist. Though there is something to be said for the arbitrary nature in which Eurasia is split into &#x2
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I suppose this is meant to be changed. I can't say I paid attention to what the 2020 census actually said, but on this matter Wikipedia says: > White American, European American, or Middle Eastern American: those having origins in
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I've seen 'white' Roman Catholics from southern Italy that are far more swarthy than many Muslims from Iran or Lebanon. And I'd be hard pressed to visually distinguish an orthodox Greek from a muslim Turk... So yes, it
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by bigbubba 6y ago
In real life, if you go meet a few, I am quite sure you will find that many Muslims do not take their scripture literally. It is the real world application of a religion by any particular adherent that impacts society, not what you happen
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Many men of science throughout history have been religious. Isaac Newton was devout adherent to a related religion that also demands blind belief, but clearly that didn't stop him from contributing to science. Matters are never so si
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Much of what Islamic scholars preserved was also from Greece and Rome I believe. From what I understand, many Greek and Roman texts only exist today because they were transcribed and preserved by Islamic scholars.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
This is pertaining in particular to the Islamic world of the 8th to 14th centuries, which has been called the 'Golden Age' of Islam. I think, relatively speaking by contemporary standards , you'd be hard pressed to say mode
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yes, and wouldn't really surprise me if freezers with the same design can still be found in stores today.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> The centrality of scripture and its study in the Islamic tradition helped to make education a central pillar of the religion in virtually all times and places in the history of Islam.[50] The importance of learning in the Islamic trad
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I like the GITS gif, but the page in general feels like a fever dream to me.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
How many years is 'decades'? About 4 or 5 years ago I took apart a freezer that was about 10 years old. The compressor seemed to be switched by a thermostat; I found nothing that would have firmware.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Uh huh, and taking the alcohol out of beer will make alcoholics stop drinking it...
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by bigbubba 6y ago
A policy of firing people with anxiety issues seems particularly cruel, almost designed to vindicate their feelings of anxiety.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
A few decades ago? What is a fire-and-forget guided missile but an autonomous suicide drone? Some missiles, particularly anti-ship missiles, even use computer vision in the air to identify objects and pick targets. Mark 60 CAPTOR naval m
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Whether it's seen as a failing or a victory is probably a matter of perspective. Republicans probably feel they've been somewhat successful with this obstructionism.

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