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by brimble 4y ago
Last I checked, they'd finally narrowed down the main cause of near-sightedness (not far-sightedness, though) to insufficient very bright light (sunlight) exposure during certain formative years (I wanna say like 3-6?). Seems to play
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by brimble 4y ago
The only non-work communication channel I use that has a better than 50% SNR is WhatsApp. And that's been getting worse lately—I think I've had about ten spam messages on that in years and years of use, and all but one's been
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by brimble 4y ago
I guess this is what happens when you're a couple that likes having TV on in the background all the time, but also want to do other things on the TV while still having one on in the background . This looks insane, but I bet a lot of p
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by brimble 4y ago
Closest I've come to no office coffee at a tech company is one that just had a Keurig machine and the very cheapest K-cups they could find. The only ones that even had a flavor were the ones labeled "dark roast", and that f
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by brimble 4y ago
IDK about other folks, but very few of my passwords and nothing that'd get you direct access to any of my bank accounts touches my Window gaming machine (which is also my only Windows machine) Important account credentials are on macOS
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by brimble 4y ago
Apologies for any offense my post gave you, then. I sincerely hope you have a great rest of your day (and to be extra clear, because writing on the Internet is hard, that's not sarcasm). I'll let it stand as a general description
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by brimble 4y ago
> Why was the McDonald's one not frivolous? Was it just because it was 185 degrees? The questions read as slanted. This is a warning sign that you're dealing with someone who's already made up their mind and is just lookin
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by brimble 4y ago
> Edit: Why are people disagreeing with this? It's literally 2 questions and it seems the temperature was the issue when looking at culpability. Downthread? Because you're being obtuse and, when people answer, asking a bunch mo
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by brimble 4y ago
As more roundabouts have appeared in my boring flyover city in the last decade (from ~none to quite a few) I have started wondering what it's doing to my tire balance and suspension.
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by brimble 4y ago
Makes sense outside cities. Not so great in cities.
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by brimble 4y ago
An extremely-well-traveled travel photo-blogger I read sometimes, who has a thing for signs (among other things, like fire hydrants), noted that only one or two other countries in the world come anywhere close to the US when it comes to p
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by brimble 4y ago
If healthcare cost 80% of GDP, would you still not understand?
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by brimble 4y ago
Correct. Toward the end of the age of big ship's guns it'd have been designated a heavy cruiser, probably. But, other countries operate ships they designate destroyers at roughly the same displacement, these days. Role of the ship
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by brimble 4y ago
Ship class designations are weird. Russia keeps a ship or two designated as "battlecruisers" (in the WWII era, that would have meant a lightly-armored, probably fast, very large ship with battleship-class guns) that would just be
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by brimble 4y ago
Can confirm. My family used to own a chunk of land that had part of an abandoned rail line on it (the rail and ties themselves were gone, but the path was very obvious) and the map shows some near it, but not that one.
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by brimble 4y ago
I dislike trends toward finding a way to make you pay as much as possible for your own time & attention, is the reason it bugs me. [EDIT] More generally, I just prefer my commerce to be fairly straightforward. I don't like having t
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by brimble 4y ago
A ton of countries would join NATO ASAP (if allowed in, and several would be) or rush to form new collective defense coalitions that include at least one other nuclear power, which in many cases would likely come with significant concession
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by brimble 4y ago
> Brightly colored spices, such as turmeric, chili powder, and paprika, are the ones I'm concerned with more because those are the ones that are more likely to have lead added in as a coloring agent Holy shit. This is a "the FD
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by brimble 4y ago
Assuming the school's good (the majority of private schools aren't, really) that is absolutely one of the main perks. Free or reduced tuition can end up, effectively, being most of your compensation, especially if you have more
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by brimble 4y ago
Damn, how many of us are there? I'm trying to get mine to switch to project or product management because she'd be awesome at it and has, for years, kept taking on big projects at schools she's worked at (think: leading teams
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by brimble 4y ago
Good point.
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by brimble 4y ago
Noodles & Company did the restaurant version of this a few years (... 5ish? 6?) ago. Went from a sensible serving of good and healthy-ish (for a "fast casual" chain restaurant) food for a surprisingly reasonable price, to a he
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by brimble 4y ago
They've switched to an interesting (though, to me, annoying and I hope it doesn't catch on but it kinda already has [other fast food places are doing it too] so add it to the list of shit that's terrible about the current wor
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by brimble 4y ago
> Nor why a baggie of 5 screws at Lowes costs $2.99 Indeed—and one might well see that price remain stable even if the cost of producing the screws doubled , because the margin's already insanely high.
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by brimble 4y ago
I'd have to do some thinking/reading to be sure, but I wouldn't rule out that he'd (barely) make my list of top-5 post-war US Presidents. And I'm not even a Republican, at all . That despite being an actual crook w
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by brimble 4y ago
Judging from inflation-adjusted "net worth at same age" graphs, I'd say it's mostly about whether your parents were boomers (though not all of them would be in that position either, obviously, and of course some Xers h
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by brimble 4y ago
I'm pretty sure "natty" means Natural Light and/or Natural Ice at every college. Except maybe some of the rich-kid fallback private schools in the East that most people have never heard of. There, maybe not.
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by brimble 4y ago
Lower input latency, too, which makes for more-pleasant typing.
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by brimble 4y ago
I dunno. Everyone fairly-publicly shares their entire friend network and what they had for lunch, now, usually under their real name.
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by brimble 4y ago
It's as if they can't make any money by sending you to sites that don't serve, or buy, ads. I miss 15+ years ago when they were still the good guys :-/

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