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by dghughes 5y ago
I remember watching a documentary about the San people in southern Africa. There is a plant hoodia gordonii that grows in the arid countryside that is sought after. It can be used as an appetite suppressant but it isn't based on stimul
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by dghughes 5y ago
Standard Time would make more sense than DST since that would mean noon is at 12pm (give or take a few minutes depending on latitude) not 1pm.
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by dghughes 5y ago
PotashCorp here in Canada was pretty big not sure if it still is. A large part of global supply of potash came from the province of Saskatchewan.
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by dghughes 5y ago
Same for my small town mall: elderly mall walkers, multiple jewellery stores, food court, the remaining 99% of stores are devoted to teen girl clothing.
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by dghughes 5y ago
When studying electronics I fell down the rabbit hole. Electricity and magnetism are inseparable. I knew of EMF but why did magnetism push something, where did the magnetism come from, what are domains, how is magnetism emitted from domains
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by dghughes 5y ago
What if the autonomous vehicle is on a curve next to a cliff and loses power? Maybe ejection seats requirement should be an added clause.
907.
by dghughes 5y ago
Look up Canada and Red Cross they lost the right to blood handling. The tainted blood scandal of the mid 80s(?) some blood infected with HIV and Heoatitis C. Canadian Blood Services was formed after the scandal. I'd say USA Red Cross i
908.
by dghughes 5y ago
I read an interesting theory that people near rivers ate fish and were able to be healthier than the people inland. And also tended to retain the darker complextion of their southern ancestors. I read that years ago it's in my brain bu
909.
by dghughes 5y ago
The words "prevent" and "reduce risk" to me are confusing. Prevent is obvious but to reduce the risk would that mean ifyou have an autoimmune disease now it reduces health effects?
910.
by dghughes 5y ago
That's not possible during the winter in countries in northern climates. But preferred when it is possible.
911.
by dghughes 5y ago
It's accurate it's an old Soviet mind game to put Ukrainians in their place. It's the same for Kyiv, in Russian it's Kiev. It's not the same as "The X country" there's a deeper history to it. In Ukrai
912.
by dghughes 5y ago
It seems like (hopefully) there's the golden period a time after grandma and grandpa die where mostly nobody dies. Your parents are OK, your siblings, any friends, co-workers. It's all good until late middle age then people in you
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by dghughes 5y ago
I take a stab at it about every 5 years. Each time getting a bit closer to accomplishing anything. Great for learning about Linux though. The last time I tried LFS seemed abandoned or so out of date nothing worked, links to packages abandon
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by dghughes 5y ago
If your age is between 18 and 35.
915.
by dghughes 5y ago
It seems to be Putin is terrified that just dust kicked up at Chernobyl will contaminate Russia. There was a battle to secure the facility. Ironically all the military vehicles involved stirred up dust causing a 20 fold spike in radiation c
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by dghughes 5y ago
> They are being made to risk their lives (and fight their cousins, so to speak). From the interviews of people on the street in Russia before the invasion I think it's quite literally fighting actual cousins and aunt,uncles, grandp
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by dghughes 5y ago
Yeah I see now France is back. I know they were a founding member of NATO I'm not doubting that. But they left in the 1960s...sort of, but were in sort of but separate, then back in for sure in 2009.
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by dghughes 5y ago
I have disabled any auto-correct, suggest, or any so-called aid in any app that I use. I found most often they are a hindrance not a help. For example suggesting wont instead of won't or its when 99.9% of the time I wanted it's. M
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by dghughes 5y ago
And 20% from Canada, it's dirty oil but I bet it could be bumped to 30%.
920.
by dghughes 5y ago
>Every Russian general is born with the ambition of driving his tanks to the Atlantic Ocean. France may not like that. They're not in NATO. But they have nuclear weapons.
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by dghughes 5y ago
One thing people are not so much aware about other than insulation is air sealing. A tiny gap that may seem like nothing is in fact very bad. Take windows notoriously bad for heat and air leaks. A small seam along a window that isn't l
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by dghughes 5y ago
I wish I had done that to my father's home last year when he was alive. I didn't realize how much heat can come into a home from the attic. The joists act as a heat bridge radiating heat down from the ceiling. I plan on installing
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by dghughes 5y ago
Carthage is a fascinating story. Driven out of Phonecia by the Sea People (another amazing story) they end up on the north coast of what we now call Africa and later another city Cadiz Spain. They had an amazing culture until a new culture,
924.
by dghughes 5y ago
I don't see why we need warm-blooded plants. I had spinach growing in my garden in 2020. Usually I pull up anything in the garden and till it but in fall 2020 I didn't. Spring 2021 and there was the spinach green as emerald. All t
925.
by dghughes 5y ago
A guy I worked with from New Brunswick was bilingual. He dated a woman from northern New Brunswick she only spoke French. When he met her parents he said her dad scowled at his poor French. To the father he was not French. So this person my
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by dghughes 5y ago
Especially s bulkhead that's between two segments that are both underwater.
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by dghughes 5y ago
Add to that ER doctors needing police escorts to hospitals. Hospital staff told not to wear scrubs or anything that identifies them as hospital staff.
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by dghughes 5y ago
I wonder if it's like recipes where the author writes in an elaborate style to prevent theft of their material. "I discovered this pizza recipe when I was hitchhiking through Naples after the death of my father. I was trying to fi
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by dghughes 5y ago
I'm getting more into home repair since my Dad died I help my mom with the house I don't own a house. Really I think it's interesting and could do it as a job. My Dad was a blue collar worker who did almost everything. I comb
930.
by dghughes 5y ago
When I went to the gym when I was in my 20s and 30 I could notice the difference after a cold and flu. I'm by no means a body builder but I got to a comfortable point of weights for me. If I had a cold it would set me back a day or two

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