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by dghughes 3y ago
I've got two monitors and a laptop on 1/3 of my computer desk. I'm huddled on a corner literally the point is right where I work. My mouse is 10cm from the desk edge. It sure feels like I need extra room.
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by dghughes 3y ago
I have no idea who the painter guy is or even after prompting Tiktok Subway whatever. All I know for sure is he is a major asshole.
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by dghughes 3y ago
And Africa is huge! It's not like they are crammed in on a small continent. The entire USA including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico etc. is about 25% the size of the African continent.
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by dghughes 3y ago
> how did all these countries manage to find enough gold They may not have. Some gold mixed with silver or other metals may have been common. In other words counterfeiting whether officially sanctioned or by thieves was probably not unc
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by dghughes 3y ago
Not a country issue but in Canada there are town names that are similar and always getting mixed up. called Sydney in Cape Breton Nova Scotia but also a town called Sidney with an i in British Columbia. More than once items or people meant
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by dghughes 3y ago
For a very long time information was and still is passed on via oral history in the form of stories and songs. I'd even guess that is what religion is just ancient stories of people trying to figure out who we all are and how we got he
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by dghughes 3y ago
Plus all your shirts would need to be tailored.
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by dghughes 3y ago
There should be an app people can download and you share the location data of your lost device. Multiple devices can all home in on it increasing resolution of the location via triangulation.
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by dghughes 3y ago
I think I just felt Louis Rossmann faint.
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by dghughes 3y ago
Is the diet from a medical doctor (MD) or at least a registered dietitian (RD)? It has a hint of scam like naturpath/homeopath mumbo jumbo. I'm not saying that it is but if it is I detest people who prey on sick, weak, vulnerable
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by dghughes 3y ago
I also find it fascinating that cultures have so many words for colours or so few words for colours either way it's interesting. Here is a good video on colour and how many cultures perceive colour and name them, or not. "The surp
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by dghughes 3y ago
I had a VW Sirocco back in the 1980s and had to replace a rear taillight assembly; brake, turn, stop lights. I think it cost about $200 at the time which was a shocking amount. I probably only made $200 per a week in my job. My uncle who kn
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by dghughes 3y ago
Did you read what started it all? She's in no way a heroic.
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by dghughes 3y ago
I'm in Canada so that would be a better option if I ever get in the same situation but I'm in a flight path so probably not. At least people in Canada have to register it with Nav Canada for any drone flight over 250g but still it
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by dghughes 3y ago
Here in the province of PEI there is already a system called targeted basic income. Shockingly the government in power who implemented it is the Conservative Party. It is pretty targeted though specific people on social assistance, no kids,
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by dghughes 3y ago
Unknown unmarked mysterious drone harassing you? I'd say it's skeet shooting time.
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by dghughes 3y ago
Or at least read the top 1/3 of the page that isn't obscured due to the paywall.
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by dghughes 3y ago
There have been a lot of large volume methane releases too methane are much worse ozone damaging molecule compared to CFCs. Plus Siberia and northern regions with melting permafrost are releasing large amounts of methane. Turkmenistan seems
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by dghughes 3y ago
In Nova Scotia dulce a type of seaweed is common you can even buy it in grocery stores. I don't think it's as popular as it was many years go. I think one of the reasons for people not liking it is western diets tend not to like
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by dghughes 3y ago
Sour red cherries are pretty good anti-inflamatory. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/food-health-you-asked/it-t...
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by dghughes 3y ago
Receipt printers are thermal and they print all day long. Thermal printers use a thin wire that heats up in certain sections. The paper is heat sensitive. Funny though I discovered you can erase a thermal image using a highlighter pen (at o
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by dghughes 3y ago
This reminds me of Instagram which I rarely use but one time when I did it indicated that I had been blocked for some reason. You have to take a picture of yourself yes a selfie (yuck) and send it to Instagram. The funny thing is I have no
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by dghughes 3y ago
The news the next day "Barge worker injured by a straw bale falling from a bridge."
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by dghughes 3y ago
Here in Canada there was a recent article about a woman with a UTI she was given antibiotics but the infection always returned. That went on for eight years! At the last of it she had to have a kidney removed and then the other kidney was a
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by dghughes 3y ago
Another thing that is incredibly bright in winter is a wet road that had been salted. If you have the misfortune of driving towards a setting sun in winter on a salted wet road it can be incredibly bright. Blinding.
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by dghughes 3y ago
> ownership over the land was disputed between Quebec Still. Check that border map according to what Quebec thinks vs official maps of Canada.
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by dghughes 3y ago
Ctrl+F Newfoundland ...yup! Atlantic Canadian here Newfoundland is famous for that. Not so much here in PEI but I think there are some bright buildings near the shore of fishing villages.
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by dghughes 3y ago
And based on a 1,000 (kilo) of something so 1 metre 1,000g (kilometre), 1 gram 1,000g (kilogram). You can have centimetres but that not in the spirit of the metric system really. Maybe we need a cron for an hour or a day? 1,000 crons for an
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by dghughes 3y ago
>Exemptions: game consoles, alarm systems, agricultural and forestry equipment I don't understand how people seem to think their food just appears out of thin air. Farming is a 24/7 job and is hard on equipment. Repairing farm
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by dghughes 3y ago
I love the origin a story of the alphabet. Ancient Egypt used hieroglyphics to write ideas and concepts but eventually created a more efficient script called demotic. Traders or miners from Phoenicia visited Egyptian quarries and saw this s

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