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by deadmetheny 7y ago
After shipping they cost $22 USD - that's mental for a deck of playing cards.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
An entirely non-political article, and people still find a way to shoehorn complaints about the POTUS into the comments. What a time to be alive.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
That's very strange! Back in those days HBO would have been a satellite uplink directly to cable or to a personal satellite receiver so it's not like it would normally just be floating around the airwaves. Honestly, radio as a hac
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Interestingly enough, back in the old days of analog television, you could listen to the audio feed for channel 6 - it was broadcast on 87.76 MHz. Not every car radio was capable of going low enough on the frequency spectrum, but if you had
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
If you take a car trip anywhere outside the major city centres of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, etc (and from what I hear, Texas) you'll inevitably see many, many head of cattle milling about in fields. I would put forth that no farmers real
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Well, there goes my dream of joining the French Foreign Legion.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
As one who also grew up and currently lives in the rural Midwest - it's people not knowing what they're talking about. They hear about the awful conditions poultry are raised in and extrapolate it to all livestock.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Which, in this context, is...kind of the point?
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
You can if you want, but I don't usually bother. All of the solids will settle out to the bottom anyway if you let it cool down to room temperature before freezing. If you want to go the filter route, a cheesecloth would likely be good
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Duck fat is sublime for frying potatoes and things like Yorkshire puddings. It's also quite easy to procure - all you need to do is get a whole duck, score the skin with a knife, and roast it in the oven (flipping it and draining the f
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
> 1. Uber loses billions a year already, and they should lose more? It's as if they're an unsustainable business being propped up by VC money that would implode on itself in an instant if that were to go away or something. >
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Please don't speak of things you know nothing about. No brand-new business would ever get a loan issued without a signature from some person or established entity who can be held liable if the business defaults. Source: I have owned mu
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
The fact that it's been running for 5+ years seems to suggest otherwise, mate.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
I do appreciate Google's bold and visionary dedication to bringing their model of starting up a project, half-assedly supporting it, and subsequently abandoning it when it becomes a little bit hard out of the software world and to the
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
Not for personal accounts, but if you own a small business that does a lot of cash transactions, you will inevitably spend a lot of time at the bank. Anecdata: My local branch nearly always has a line 2-3 people deep with 3-4 tellers when I
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
>millennials better start thinking about how they can retire as soon as possible Most millennials have been blackpilled to the point of just accepting that the way things are currently going means we'll never be able to afford to re
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
MitM attacks have been around far longer than transport/network layer encryption has been commonly deployed, is what parent means. These days it's more commonly used to defeat encryption but there's plenty of attacks that don
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
Choosing to live in a fucking tent on the street is just 'expressing your uniqueness'? Really?
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
>Someone has to discover whats happening and actually care that a rule is being violated. There really are not many hams that have the skill to figure out what is happening when they hear this on their precious 70cm band and THEN realize
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
The river isn't necessarily going to reach the 45' point that CNS requires for shutdown - it might, but no guarantee. FCNS shut down due to budgetary concerns - its operational costs were too high to justify keeping it open. The f
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
I've noticed an almost complete lack of coverage of the flooding in Iowa and Nebraska - I have a lot of family there and the amount of damage has been astounding[1]. Nebraska has more miles of rivers than any state in the US, and many
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
You absolutely can still buy a Gros Michel[1], they're just not the standard cultivar anymore due to Panama disease. Bananas as a whole are incredibly varied - the Cavendish was selected primarily due to being able to be grown in simil
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
>as long as they made what they normally make for an evening they were happy to have less people come in I will echo the truth behind this. My food truck usually does food service for 3-4 weddings a year and we don't charge much mor
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
>Perhaps we should look into what type of federal dollars are flowing to the red states, and then shrink those programs. So we're cutting safety net programs for the poor and elderly and agricultural subsidies. Call me crazy here bu
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
>Does it mean if your fingerprint gets compromised that you'll be unable to use the biometric feature of any device for the rest of your life? No, it just means that it shouldn't be treated as a password in a username+password
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
Biometrics are just fine as a username or one factor of a MFA, but they are terrible for usage as a password due to the simple fact that if they are ever compromised, they cannot be changed.
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the people who jump into these things never really had a parent who cooked, or if they did were never really all that interested in learning until later in life and these kits may have helped them al
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
> That’s where making one-off meal kits available at retail locations like grocery stores and membership clubs comes in; according to Seifer, moving beyond the mail-order subscription model seems pivotal to meal kits’ long-term viability
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
Ah yes, the Chinese, those paragons of upholding international laws and agreements. They certainly won't end up just doing whatever they want to do.
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by deadmetheny 8y ago
Expansion of executive power has been going on for decades now. The Democrats had plenty of opportunities to roll this back under Obama, after seeing what sort of powers Bush had used it for. Instead, they decided to allow executive order t

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