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by fiblye 6y ago
Water from Fiji is shipped all around the globe just because it says it's from Fiji. If humans ever get around to colonizing Mars, you can bet someone will be selling $50000 bottles of pure nectar bottled at the Hudson River.
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by fiblye 6y ago
People use their phones as social devices, maps, and cameras. The probability of spilling a drink on them, being out in the rain, or dropping them in a puddle is pretty high. That probability goes up the more a person is outside. I've
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by fiblye 6y ago
I've been using Macs for nearly 2 decades, and the mice and keyboards are always the worst parts of the experience. Even cheap $20 peripherals are better. What amazes me is seeing people selling old Macs on ebay with mice and keyboards
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by fiblye 6y ago
Then sometimes you click a link and it takes you out of old and into the hellscape that is modern reddit. Can't wait until some manager decides old needs to go. They'll end up losing a bunch of long time users and some other site
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by fiblye 6y ago
I think he means there are classes that really are pointless. They're basically adult babysitting. I found quite a few interesting history/culture/etc classes and enrolled in them. They had no prerequisites, but offered eng
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by fiblye 6y ago
>Unless and until hundreds of copycat drone-light photographers start swarming deserts and lakes If a few of these start trending on twitter/instagram/whatever, there will definitely be hundreds of people doing this. It's
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by fiblye 6y ago
Not really true. It depends on the restaurant. Many soba restaurants use vertical text written right to left because it gives a sense of old times. Higher end traditional-style restaurants do this too. Family restaurants and anything with w
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by fiblye 6y ago
> I'd beg to differ. Really good Chinese restaurants in China tend to specialize ruthlessly, selling only a few items. What are you defining as "good"? Luxury restaurants? Because I've been to hole in the wall restaur
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by fiblye 6y ago
It’s literally easier to shift time than it is to convince management at (insert corporation) to do anything at a more reasonable time.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Convenience is definitely important, which is why mixed zoning is helpful. Instead of digging through amazon trying to find the one item that isn’t fake, hoping it’s what I actually want or need, needing to be home at the right time to sign
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by fiblye 6y ago
There was a recent update to some PLC software that I use daily that integrates with other software for the display device and allows both to execute at once. It recently broke won't allow both pieces of software to run in test/mo
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by fiblye 6y ago
10 years ago, I found some software updates annoying. 5 years ago, I found most of them aggravating. Now, I find them to be outright harmful except for rare cases. It's very common for (particularly mobile software) to just break the p
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by fiblye 6y ago
Funding for NASA also dropped off a cliff and no government really cared about going to space anymore, and there was zero company out there with the funds and motivation to go to space. Now we have countless companies and several countries
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by fiblye 6y ago
> People in real life are quite nice in the Bay and I know lots of natives - none of whom make a big deal out of it. But online...ugh. People rarely say unpleasant things directly to someone in real life, even if they're thinking it
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by fiblye 6y ago
People buy gas guzzlers when there's a brief, significant dip in gas prices. Long term thinking isn't something everyone has.
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by fiblye 6y ago
> It is so interesting that the sentiment is so common in America: natives > transplants. It's common globally. Cultures and peoples have always prioritized their own. A typical 15th century small town French person associated wi
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by fiblye 6y ago
He'd been convicted before.
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by fiblye 6y ago
> People socialize a lot less than they used to, I don't know if people socialize less, but they socialize differently. I see plenty of people riding buses, trains, or walking around and endlessly messaging someone on their phones.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Americans getting involved in their own electoral process is kind of hard to consider as electoral interference. Non-Americans living outside of America using money to sway things is quite different.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Sassafras leaves also make a great tea. Plenty of online mentions of sassafras tea involve using the root, but using leaves seems to be less known. It’s much easier to make (just pick a few leaves) and the taste is much better than the root
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by fiblye 6y ago
>Opiates in and of themselves are relatively safe, only slightly worse for you than caffeine, although clearly (arguably?) more addictive. I've heard this claim so much but I can't possibly comprehend the basis of it. Virtual
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by fiblye 6y ago
> I was able to get a large, modern, luxury 1BR in a decent location for under $3K This sounds like a joke about just how absurd SF rents are.
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by fiblye 6y ago
There isn't really any fraud. Oregon, a state with mail-on voting only, has a actual fraud rate of 1 in a million. One ballot per year is fraudulent. [1] This isn't about preventing fraud. Mail-in is proven to be secure. Take the
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by fiblye 6y ago
The newest videos about the recent protests offer a slice of every viewpoint. They show the people who just want to make a mess, the people who think there should be peaceful change, the people who think there should be violent change, and
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by fiblye 6y ago
They're also a wealthy, densely packed, small country that had foresight and has been consistently building forever now. I think most places will just deny, deny, deny until they're ankle-deep then say there's nothing that ca
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by fiblye 6y ago
I think teaching kids to be afraid of disease is one of the few things separating humans from animals. It’s one thing that’s let us survive for so long and build societies.
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by fiblye 6y ago
I think the big concern for young people is the lingering effects. Once people get a flu and recover, they’re back to normal. People with COVID are struggling to breathe months later and heart damage is being reported.
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by fiblye 6y ago
> People would say "China can decide what they want to allow". Who are you defining as “people”? I’ve only ever seen people criticize their bans on media.
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by fiblye 6y ago
And Rome became a Christian empire and the story that remained was what we know today.
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by fiblye 6y ago
This is how trade has always worked. A free market doesn’t exist if a country wants to sell their products cheaply in your country completely untaxed, while taxing your goods to the point of being unattainable. Just like a country can’t rea

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