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by jounker 5y ago
The articles doesn’t say the weather is cold. It says that the weather has been highly variable.
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by jounker 5y ago
Not my experience at all. I’ve always had different recommendations based on the condition of the parts and the costs of repair vs. replace. There are plenty of other things that need work beyond frames.
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by jounker 5y ago
^^^This^^^
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by jounker 5y ago
I’m looking at spending 100k to bring a property up to fire code, and possibly rebuilding the floor. Until that happens, I won’t be able to move in. So, yes, buildings do become obsolete at the whim of some other entity.
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by jounker 5y ago
Yup. There are places where plastic bags accumulate. Once it was my doorstep. Every morning there were piles of plastic bags that were delivered to my house. Just take a trip along any river or stream near a town and you’ll find them swimmi
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by jounker 5y ago
> We have difficulty with biological distinction, but we can still confidently categorize something as being a 'Horse' and 'Not A Horse' A paleontologist might disagree with you.
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by jounker 5y ago
A comedic part about Houston flooding is that at least one large suburb on the west side was built within an overflow reservoir. The neighborhood is literally a water containment area.
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by jounker 5y ago
They’re not changing things in a meaningful way because of other decisions, such as letting letting minimum wage fall to an obscenely low level such that people have to work two jobs simply to survive.
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by jounker 5y ago
Which is not that far off from 5L. (1L ~ 1 quart)
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by jounker 5y ago
Based on what we know about the history and ecology of pathogens, the latter is far more likely. I say this as someone with training in the biological sciences.
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by jounker 6y ago
It’s likely that this is derived from a pangolin virus. Pangolins are most definitely traded at Chinese wet markets.
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by jounker 6y ago
It’s quite possible that it’s a pangolin virus. Guess what trafficked in Chinese wet markets?
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by jounker 6y ago
Who even said it would be software. In Germany I have the option of letting the government do my taxes for me. At the end of the year I can choose to dispute the charges.
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by jounker 6y ago
This is the solution. We can already do this. A pilot program was run. The problem is that the anti tax wing of the Republican party and Turbotax are actively opposed. Instead of developing software, we should be writing our representatives
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by jounker 6y ago
I see plastic bags on the beach. I walk along the creeks nearby, and I see plastic bags and plastic garbage. I go for a hike in the sierras, and I find plastic garbage. I bike along the roads in town, and I see plastic bags in the gutter. I
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by jounker 6y ago
Wind turbines in Texas have failed for the same reasons that fossil fuels and nuclear have: failure to winterize.
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by jounker 6y ago
There is no regulated option in Texas. Required winterization is the kind of regulation which would have prevented the plants from shutting down.
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by jounker 6y ago
One of their nuclear plants is offline, I’m guessing because of uninsulated water pipes.
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by jounker 6y ago
Yeah, rolling blackout seems to mean more than 24 hours for my friends and relative back there.
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by jounker 6y ago
Not terribly prescient. The current cold snap has even shut down coal and nuclear plants in Texas.
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by jounker 6y ago
There is no such thing as cancel culture. It is a rhetorical device created to shift blame, allowing perpetrators of injustices to claim that they are really the victims.
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by jounker 6y ago
Why? It’s the payoff of a limited monopoly that justifies the investment in the research. Without that incentive progress might be even further restricted.
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by jounker 6y ago
> And I should note that I can imagine various poverty-and-social-whatever issues D.C. might be facing, but they don't obviously apply to Rhode Island in the same way. I don’t think this is true. Rhode Island has tremendous wealth d
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by jounker 6y ago
Gas adapters are for propane or natural gas. Gasoline doesn’t require an adapter.
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by jounker 6y ago
If you’re just looking for emergence power you can get honda e2200i generator with a gas adapter for around 1500 USD.
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by jounker 6y ago
His job was to use up all the vaccine. He tried to give it to the professionals around him first (eg law enforcement and hospital workers). Then he searched out people who met the criteria for vaccination. Yes, he ended up giving the last d
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by jounker 6y ago
It’s actually really different in treatment, at least in Germany. Yes, you can loose your job but you get to stick around until your visa expires, which in my experience is tied to the visa term rather than the employment. When you loose em
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by jounker 6y ago
I can only speak for German and Swiss work visas, but my experience is that they are very different than US work visas. The systems feel very much like you are being treated as a guest. Yes, there are rules but the rules are fair. You lost
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by jounker 6y ago
As American living abroad, I assure you that the US has an almost absurdly burdensome immigration system.
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by jounker 6y ago
Decentralization means rooftop solar, and decentralized control (aka smart meters) have been in place for quite a while in many places.

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