skrbjc

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by skrbjc 4y ago
Considering the number of food-delivery cars constantly double parked along the restaurant-dense streets of my area, the restaurants would probably lose a fair bit of business if cars couldn't access them.
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by skrbjc 4y ago
" the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts. In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surroundi
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by skrbjc 4y ago
And with rising interest rates, more and more will be priced out of the housing market, meaning lending will fall, which is one of the biggest reasons banks need cash in the first place.
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by skrbjc 4y ago
I lived in Seoul for almost two years about 10 years ago and I'm stricken with how the photos depict it almost exactly the same as I remember. It seemed at the time there was an un-ending amount of construction, I suppose there are pro
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by skrbjc 4y ago
If I live in a country with public health care, and I choose to become morbidly obese, smoke cigarettes, excessively drink alcohol, develop diabetes, get limbs amputated, and go on disability because I can’t work, I’m expecting the governme
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by skrbjc 4y ago
In the US, at least, we could keep our meat consumption quite high while still grazing lots of cattle. There are around 90 million cows in the US right now, and pre-1800s there were around 60 million bison in the US. Land and pasture manage
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by skrbjc 4y ago
What camera did you end up with that had a narrow FOV?
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by skrbjc 4y ago
My experience is the reporting on current employees, which I guess is not voluntary. It's not very clear though: "Self-identification is the preferred method of identifying race/ethnicity information necessary for the EEO-1 C
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by skrbjc 4y ago
LOL, the nanos from 17776!
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by skrbjc 4y ago
I’m trying to but my employer has said they will use “observer-identified” info to fill it in for me. I find it ridiculous that I can’t object to having someone guess my race and report that to the government.
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by skrbjc 4y ago
I was thinking the same thing. So many young people share houses in places like the Bay Area, but it doesn’t seem to be included in these numbers.
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by skrbjc 4y ago
I think the big savings in real estate came from not having to keep getting more and more space to house all of your new employees. When I worked at a large tech company in SF, they were running up against their limits and just didn't
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by skrbjc 4y ago
From the article: "As the summer dragged on, the Nordic wool bible Laine magazine was forced to apologise for having too many white faces on their pricey knitting retreat. The auto-cannibalisation doomsday clock had gone so far that no
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by skrbjc 4y ago
LOL, seems the same way on parts of 4chan these days as well
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by skrbjc 4y ago
My parents and my in-laws (all in their 70s) do this, too, and I'm astounded by it. The TV is just on and playing in the background all the time, even when we visit and are sitting down and talking. It's not enjoyable to me. Come
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by skrbjc 4y ago
LOL, I just saw a category on Netflix "90 minute movies from the 2000s" and your post reminded me of that. In the moment, I was like, "this is exactly what I wanted" and ended up watching a movie from the list. I find th
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by skrbjc 4y ago
Women aren’t competitive???
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by skrbjc 4y ago
Many Christians do something similar where they read a bible verse a day, so it's not as weird concept for many.
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by skrbjc 4y ago
"Instacart slashes valuation by nearly 40% to $24 bln" https://ca.news.yahoo.com/instacart-slashes-valuation-nearly... I'd be worried if I worked there...
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by skrbjc 4y ago
If there is a softening in real estate prices, coupled with a slump in securities, those with cash may want to put their money in real estate in the hopes of seeing a good returns when the recession turns around. Even with rising interest r
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by skrbjc 4y ago
On 4chan it's mostly ads for other 4chan boards, lol
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by skrbjc 4y ago
And reddit has not solved the problem. To many, reddit is just as unpleasant, and in some cases worse than twitter.
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by skrbjc 4y ago
Unless you take it as a premise that right wing content is bad, then what is wrong with letting it flourish just as much as left wing content? Depending on where you stand, either will be bad to you and should be stopped. If you are buildin
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by skrbjc 4y ago
I lived in Korea with my wife and while we were looking for work, she was told in several interviews that they didn’t want to hire her because she was married and they assumed she would have a child and stop working. I don’t know where you
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by skrbjc 4y ago
Africa is seeing increasing rates of single motherhood. According to this study: http://paa2019.populationassociation.org/uploads/191108 All Africa single motherhood is 22%, with Eastern Africa at 37%. They had this to
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by skrbjc 4y ago
You can have too much fluoride in your diet and from toothpaste that it causes white streaks on your teeth and potentially on your bones. It’s called fluorosis. This typically happens with teeth when young children drink fluoridated water,
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by skrbjc 4y ago
My guess is that the person who needs blood cares more about getting the blood or plasma than the small amount of PFAS in it, which they likely have already. If this causes more people to donate, it's probably a good thing overall, eve
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by skrbjc 4y ago
My company now lumps asians with whites when talking about diversity, so it's not just white men that are impacted by this.
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"Being more inclusive with our writing is a good goal, and one that’s worth striving toward as we string these sentences together and share them with the world. “Police officers” is more accurate than “policemen.” Cutting phrases like
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by skrbjc 4y ago
Folx is just a way to signal that you are woke. Since they have pushed folks for everything and co-called "normies" are using it now, they need to go a step further to make sure you know they are part of the special group.

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