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by dghughes 2y ago
Canaanite workers who went to Egypt to work in the mines saw these picture things used on walls. They had an idea to use it only instead of a picture per word the just used them for sounds. The Ox Head they saw they used for their Aleph sou
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by dghughes 2y ago
"The wreck will be conserved, protected and eventually reassembled". I wonder if Phoenicians labelled the parts of ships like their fellow Carthaginians (Chanani)? Or is this a Carthaginian ship but it's referred to as Phoeni
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by dghughes 2y ago
You guys in Germany have those crazy automated metal shutters on some homes. They would have been a good thing in LA I think (I'm not in LA) or in any fire zone, maybe? I've read many homes burned because windows shattered from he
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by dghughes 2y ago
This reminds me of Samsung and the SPO2 the oxygen sensor on the S8+ (I think) phone. All was well until one day an update disabled access to the sensor. Worse it was only for Canada where it was blocked. The access to the physical sensor o
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by dghughes 2y ago
I agree physical books are great since you can hold them, smell them - nothing like an ebook. There is also a big advantage for us middle-aged folks that ebooks have and that's adjustable font size. Bifocal glasses help bit making font
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by dghughes 2y ago
The second last photo labelled "Thames garnets tend to appear in specific spots along the riverbank, but those locations are carefully guarded among mudlarks. Courtesy Jason Sandy" you can see a big one. It has what looks to be a
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by dghughes 2y ago
Yes the Earth was molten magma 4.5 billion years but that's not included.
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by dghughes 2y ago
Here in rural Canada people with generators would often plug into a home outlet just a regular plug during a power outage. Not a good idea and depends on the circuit path if fuse or breakers. It's 120V AC to AC 60Hz anyway. Hey if it k
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by dghughes 2y ago
That was my job as a teen to fix. I had to sand away the burned on crud and then use the "bendy tool" (slotted small L shaped wrench) to adjust the contact gap.
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by dghughes 2y ago
So do I.
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by dghughes 2y ago
I worked for my uncle who had a coin-op business. We had a few old mech pinballs. They weighed a ton! They had zillion contacts to clean I'd just spray contact cleaner and come back later. Many parts were Bakelite like cams and spinnin
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by dghughes 2y ago
I wish we in Canada had a great site like that. Statistics Canada is notoriously aggressive and the data they do collect is presented in a horrible like a website from the 1990s. That's if you can even find what you want on one of seve
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by dghughes 2y ago
I've always thought Craig could play Putin in a movie, or his brother.
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by dghughes 2y ago
> You'll be surprised how many people think they can just use first.lastname@gmail.com and have email magically appear in their account. I get a pile of junk from people who assume they can do that. I guess I have a lot of stupid di
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by dghughes 2y ago
Kangaroos do too. Technically they are mammals Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia. Then again we walk not bounce.
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by dghughes 2y ago
> I always wondered is how good it actually is. For me "gamey mutton broth" is all I need to know. Yuck. Anything but mutton.
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by dghughes 2y ago
I think from a US perspective being sued is commonplace but in most of the world being sued is very rare.
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by dghughes 2y ago
I see, I saw the chart and 02-03 I thought that was the reg scheduled election date.
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by dghughes 2y ago
Feli from Germany her channel explains it a bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ywqDbHiMrs
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by dghughes 2y ago
And an election was scheduled in March anyway.
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by dghughes 2y ago
> That’s why newspapers had classified ads, I don't recall in the past a company needing my identity required or be tracked just because I bought a newspaper. I pay the $1 for the newspaper and no more interaction or relationship af
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by dghughes 2y ago
My parents got a mature older orange cat who was baffled by doors. An open door was no issue but a half door open? Baffling! He sat and stared at the impossible to navigate two foot wide gap. He loved BBQ it was obvious his previous owner d
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by dghughes 2y ago
And the true or not Google or other apps listening then you see ads based on that conversation. I think it's true since far too many times obscure things I've spoken about appear in ads soon after the conversation. So yes I'd
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by dghughes 2y ago
I agree runes like Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Irish were straight lines for the most part since they were easy to make. Irish Ogrham runes were just basic lines literally just lines. Norse Futhark was more complex but still all angles. Ancient Sum
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by dghughes 2y ago
I took an online electronics tech course 15 years ago and what got me was my math skills were atrocious. Not shocking since like learning a new language or music use it or lose it is the obvious answer to why I sucked. I spent half my time
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by dghughes 2y ago
In August (2024) the US increased the softwood tariff coming from Canada from 8% to 15% so I'd say US wood corp buyers are desperate for cheaper wood. It's a big place here in Canada and the crown (aka the gov) owns all the land n
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by dghughes 2y ago
Used to find a cure cancer but only on a Friday.
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by dghughes 2y ago
Wifi wifi or wifi as in your ISP Internet connection? Sp many people now call an Internet connection "wifi". Anyway, network cable is the only way to go!
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by dghughes 2y ago
I'd certainly urge someone to get a cochlear implant. Deafness and even being hard of hearing carries a known increased risk of dementia. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/want-to-reduce-your-risk...
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by dghughes 2y ago
My Dad was in palliative care and there wasn't a period of any more than 10 minutes where there wasn't interruption. I'm glad he had constant care but it was almost quite literally constant. As son and father in an end of lif

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