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dghughes
4y ago
The scabs when dry crumble the particles shed can become airborne and are infectious.
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dghughes
4y ago
Microscopic Hydra are even more impressive you can blend them to a pulp and they'll just grow into more copies of Hydra animals.
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dghughes
4y ago
My playground as a suburban kid was a pond at the end of my street. The subdivision was new and built in a farm field. The pond was about three feet deep but there were drainage ditches extending out. We'd catch "pollywogs" t
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dghughes
4y ago
High protein diets can trash a person's kidneys. I've read that each kidney has a seven fold overcapacity for what people need. So if the kidneys are damaged something majorly bad had to have happened. Kidneys are also involved in
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dghughes
4y ago
Anyone I knew who smoked traditional tobacco but then switched to e-cigarettes to help them quit are still quitting years later.
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dghughes
4y ago
It depends on the reactor type. High pressure and plutonium fuel? Sure! Low pressure and natural uranium is much safer. Thorium and molten salt reactors may be better still.
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dghughes
4y ago
No, first of all perpetual motion machines don't exist, will never exist. The 300% efficiency means if you had 1 Watt you could use it to power a fan and coolant lines to move heat. Or use 1 Watt to generate heat and then once made to
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dghughes
4y ago
No OP but yeah heat pumps are very efficient some >300% efficient since you're just "pumping heat" from one place to another not generating it. Even electric heat alone is 100% efficient no incomplete combustion or degrada
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dghughes
4y ago
No I don't sorry. My cousin is a philosophy professor there not in the veterinary section. But I could ask around.
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dghughes
4y ago
@OP you should reach out to my local University and its Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) here in PEI, Canada. https://www.upei.ca/avc/research
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4y ago
Years ago it was just a case of beer.
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4y ago
Staff could buy meals there was a staff menu separate from the main menu. An incident where someone (just one single person) complained kitchen staff didn't have to pay for meals erupted in a decade long snit. The kitchen wouldn't
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dghughes
4y ago
I sold my pig of a truck. Now I want an EV the $5K local government rebate new or used EV added to a $5K Federal rebate (new EV only) is a big incentive.
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4y ago
I'm not a cook but the professional kitchen at a casino where I worked was daily drama fest. Knife fights, needles strewn in the outside smoking area, disappearing cook (had an abusive girlfriend), the mashed-potato controversy. Even a
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dghughes
4y ago
Is gas preferred over charcoal? I've no clue about what you are talking about but I figure charcoal would have been the oldest cooking method anywhere. Gas has no flavour or soul compared to charcoal cooking.
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dghughes
4y ago
Canadian Tire should be next. I don't trust their rewards app one bit. I refused to get it when it came out. Reading their terms to cancel your subscription to the virtual coupons for dollars spent (aka Canadian Tire money) you need ca
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dghughes
4y ago
Anything made of stainless steel and plastics.
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dghughes
4y ago
And not everyone can be a Mozart but that's OK there's room between zero and genius. It took me too many years to realize that.
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dghughes
4y ago
Mobile phone plans are linked to this too it's the same players same terrible costs. Canadian mobile phone plans are terrible.
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dghughes
4y ago
Bell often has a good price then an asterisk where you see the price jumps, alot. Bell sends cold call salespeople to neighbourhoods every 6 months (before the pandemic). They're as bad as Jehovah's Witnesses. But Bell is literall
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dghughes
4y ago
Someone in my town started a tool library. It's a collection of tools that people can borrow and then return. At the moment it's just in a storage locker. Some tools can be obscure and rarely used like a toilet wrench for the &quo
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dghughes
4y ago
I recall reading a news article of a woman Stacy Erholtz who had stage 4 cancer nothing for her worked. She was given a phenomenally massive amount measles vaccine supposedly enough to vaccinate ten million people. Note it was not an engine
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dghughes
4y ago
Nitinol is just an alloy of nickel-titanium 50/50 or slighty differnet ratio. I thought it was more exotic more elements in it but it's quite a simple alloy.
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4y ago
Kurzgesagt seemed out of character for his rant video on dairy, it was odd.
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dghughes
4y ago
Cats are incredibly good at knowing the time if it's the same time they probably already know and are thinking "Whatever food giver make those thumbs dance". Mine gets treats at 9pm and she knows almost exactly when it's
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dghughes
4y ago
My cat knows when I am talking "cat talk" to another cat. She lifts her head up as if to let me know she knows what's going on. I feed a wild cat I've called Dorian since he's grey, he's lost an eye so I may re
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dghughes
4y ago
I worked at a small casino that was owned by the "state lottery" (it was in Canada and operated by the federal government but via partner provinces). An old lottery name was changed from Super 7 to Lottomax and old promotional sup
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dghughes
4y ago
When I meet people from other countries I like to ask about the weather where they are from. Two of the best places I've heard of that sound nice coming from people who are form there. Monaco/Nice France. Summer can be quite warm
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dghughes
4y ago
Yeah as a former student pilot (and that is all) I was curious about their specific knowledge and terminology. Maintaining altitude was what I found most difficult as a student pilot my instructor drew a line on the windscreen with a marker
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4y ago
> One of the issues with poverty and obesity is that a lot of people seem to think and argue poor people can’t afford healthy food. I've seen poverty measured by toilet paper. A person who is working but poor may have money but thei
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