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by porknubbins 2y ago
Brits don’t mess around with tea I guess. I believe they’re mostly on 240v even for residential there. Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think it would even be possible to heat water that fast in the US on 120v.
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by porknubbins 2y ago
That may be but there were huge increases in homicide and other crimes in the UK from 1900 to present alongside urbanization. Tolkien would have grown up being familiar with a relatively safe type of rural life. There are even many small vi
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by porknubbins 2y ago
Hobbits are pretty clearly intended to represent a kind of idealized English rural life. There would be little reason to for humans or hobbits to commit violence living in small villages or other kinship based settlements where everyone wou
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by porknubbins 2y ago
Can confirm that water pick and flossing work differently. Flossing is not primarily to dislodge food particles but distupt bacteria between teeth. So just water pick alone would be like trying to wash your car by just hosing it down with m
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by porknubbins 2y ago
Programmers are sometimes accused of wanting to play god and bring the computer to life, usually out of some motive like loneliness. Its kind of ironic I see engineers do better treating computers as the mechanical devices they are, and its
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by porknubbins 2y ago
Thank you I meant the first one, I did not know about the specific conspiracy theory.
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by porknubbins 2y ago
I was not aware that that the term cultural Marxism comes from a specific conspiracy theory from the 90s. I meant to say that some of these left wing social movements divide the entire world into an oppressor and an oppressed class the way
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by porknubbins 2y ago
To me its more like you should strike with the forefoot but with the foot almost flat (as opposed to running like on tiptoes) so it feels as if you are instantly rolling onto the mid part of the shoe. Or put slightly differently- the middle
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by porknubbins 2y ago
It was easy to think, because of movies or pop culture, that cops are a bunch of mean uptight jerks throwing harmless kids in jail for “smoking the reefer”. But that view was a little naive. It now seems that everyone from citizens who call
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by porknubbins 2y ago
This is what I have never understood about calling congress people. Why would they listen to a random person? If you have some clout or are an expert on a niche issue sure. But I just feel like if you’re a nobody why would they trust you.
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by porknubbins 3y ago
Like everything in US law its complicated because we are resistant to single unified systems. Working for two Fortune 500 companies is likely to end badly like you said in the EU. But there are many smaller companies here that are not as bu
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by porknubbins 3y ago
Sounds ingenious but I don’t quite follow the story. Why would a stewardess make you stop? Was there some system where you had to pay for headphones separately to hear a movie? I’m pretty sure all I remember are headrests having standard 1&
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by porknubbins 3y ago
I used to like jazz club Overseas in Osaka. Just a small place but very nice people. Also in Tokyo all my best experiences were at small intimate places where you got to know the owners or at least have a nice conversation about jazz with t
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by porknubbins 3y ago
One thing about advesives- they are not stronger than original materials against all types of loads. Break an 8 ft 2x4 in half and glue it back together, then jump on it, where will it break next time? Right in the glued spot. I’m no engine
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by porknubbins 3y ago
You’re looking at it wrong. Google is a decent product search that occasionally mixes in other information. Seriously I’m rennovating a house and the top of the google page usually tells me whether Home Depot or Lowes sells what I need in s
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by porknubbins 3y ago
True but I think the coffee machine definition of 4-5oz per coffee “cup” usually also assumes a stronger European strength of coffee which is quite concentrated. Most Americans seem to make coffee larger but more watered down, so it could b
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by porknubbins 3y ago
I have seen a lot that smaller, high trust places where people worry about long term reputation, status etc are not good at competing with large immigrant populations who do not have any stake in maintaining a reputation in the community.
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by porknubbins 3y ago
I had suspected something like that in myself. I have no trouble reading social cues but am often overly sensitive to them and overreact or freeze up and avoid talking to people or showing emotion out of anxiety, which in some ways is just
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by porknubbins 3y ago
My impression is that the tech layoffs are entirely related to Covid overhiring, VC money drying up with high interest rates, greed and wanting to get share prices up, and finally removing useless departments like Elon did with twitter. I a
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by porknubbins 3y ago
Thats only true if after 6 months you give up and stop looking for work. If you have looked for work (very broadly defined, even just asking friends counts) in the past four weeks you are counted as part of the labor force.
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by porknubbins 3y ago
I have noticed that advanced mono lingual speakers (ie with higher education or some experience analyzing language) are aware of a huge amount of nuance and meaning in their language encoded in small inflections or grammar. They are thus no
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by porknubbins 3y ago
2x4s are one of the only things I can think of whose entire name is just literally raw dimensions, so finding out they are not even right was a real wtf moment.
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by porknubbins 3y ago
Its interesting how a few positive or negative experiences can affect the way we feel about something for so long. I am unduly paranoid about my privacy when working from my home office, and I absolutely hate anyone approaching my screen to
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by porknubbins 3y ago
That’s certainly a very valid viewpoint but it sounds like some form of social anxiety. I’m pretty introverted and rarely make smalltalk with anyone unprompted but I still enjoy going to certain restaurants and kind of nursing a drink while
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by porknubbins 3y ago
Reminds me of zipdiscs, I think they made those too.
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by porknubbins 3y ago
I wouldn’t discount the long term health costs of breathing exhaust fumes all day either. Even as a recreational cyclist or occasional commuter in NYC I noticed it.
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by porknubbins 3y ago
This finding seems to be at odds with what I have heard about melatonin. Everything I have read says higher melatonin helps promote sleep, otherwise why would taking small doses near bedtime work?
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by porknubbins 3y ago
Its a little bit more complicated since we aren’t talking about a criminal offense so its not you vs your country. Its more like does the person who you allegedly libeled have standing to sue you in a court which has jurisdiction over you&#
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by porknubbins 3y ago
Funny you mention a 951 that is the exact car I am working on right now (an 86). Certainly Rennlist has been not very helpful, but I think its just in the nature of the internet to have an extremely bad signal to noise ratio. I use the term
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by porknubbins 3y ago
People complain about new cars being harder to fix because of electronics but I think post OBDII they are actually easier because they tell you what is broken with error codes and also forums of experts are just a click away. I do think its

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