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by stormdennis 4y ago
My chief memory of clippy was that he was modal and that he couldn't answer the question 'make clippy go away', so I could actually do something.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Aviation fuel is taxed lightly but still train fares in france seem to be very expensive, the train in Ireland is far cheaper (even though most things in Ireland are more expensive).
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I flew from Ireland to France recently and then caught two trains to my ultimate destination about 100 km from the airport. The train fares worked out at double the cost of the flight despite being one fifteenth the distance.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I used to subscribe to Sky Sports. It had everything I was really interested as well as lots that I never watched. Then the market fragmented and rights to certain sports were distributed among three broadcasters. Suddenly I could no longer
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Mensa, mensa mensam, mensae, mensae, mensa Mensae, mensae, mensas, Mensarum, mensis, mensis. That's mensa declined for you.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I pretty much never use my kindle any more. Instead I use a Reading app on my android phone, usually in darkmode which I don't find tiring on my eyes.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
nothing can be said about a "universe" where nothing exists, so why even discuss it? Why are there stars in the sky? Nothing could be said about stars in the sky if there were no stars in the sky, so why even discuss it? etc ad
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I think it's how long a response to a request takes.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
this story led me down the rabbit hole to this corner of the internet, must be one of the original of the species: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaXt2quMCoA
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by stormdennis 4y ago
This might be OT but is there anything physics has discovered that can answer the age-old question of why anything exists rather than nothing? The big bang doesn't answer that afaik since it requires a singularity (I think), which is s
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by stormdennis 5y ago
More and more I find I'm using gmail for my store of knowledge. It is just so easy to find stuff and it's something I have open all the time anyway. Big files or folder systems just aren't as searchable. I suppose your blog
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Since the start of the pandemic, two years, I've used cash a handful of times. People who use cash now stand out as suspicious almost. The rest of us are an open book. Privacy is dead unless we get a truly untraceable cryptocurrency
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by stormdennis 5y ago
>Not to mention that they broke the previous taxi companies' monopolies which used to have crazy prices Define crazy prices for someone trying to provide for a family on a 40 hour week, working at unsociable hours.
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Sten Ekberg has a great channel on youtube about this. It worked for me but I've since fallen off the wagon with predictable results.
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Yes, writing a note is a debriefing session for what you were doing/thinking about. And like a debriefing the sooner you can do it afterwards, the more valuable it can be.
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by stormdennis 5y ago
I agree. Emails (especially if you email yourself notes)and the internet automatically handle the vast majority of filing and search makes it the fastest retrieval system available.
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Car key fobs that fail silently on cars that have no (visible) door keyhole and no ignition one. The first time it happens is an education you could do without.
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Latency, god yes, that drives me bananas. Mechanical tuners, push buttons, dials all responded immediately.
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by stormdennis 5y ago
In that (more realistic) market, persistent undervaluing based on anything other than the actual house for sale is taking money out of the home owners pocket from the sale. If this happens because of race, then this is obviously an issue.
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Similar trends exist in the buyer’s market. Research has found that homes in Black and Latino neighborhoods are persistently undervalued by appraisers, further widening the racial wealth gap. That sounds nonsensical to me. Isn't some
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Yes that is fair enough but that is an issue to be sorted between the people of Taiwan and China. It's no concern of anyone else. It is a divided China and one side is not content to leave it divided juat as the USA was not content to
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by stormdennis 5y ago
That's a less accurate analogy in my view, because Canada was never a part of the United States while Taiwan was a part of China. It's more like the losing side in a war within the USA, militarily taking over florida and declaring
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by stormdennis 5y ago
The nationalists in Taiwan at one time claimed sovereignty over all of China, I believe. The USA would not tolerate a state wishing wishing to go independent and definitely would not allow outside interference promoting that. This is a Chin
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by stormdennis 5y ago
My daughter has always needed her sleep, ever since she was a tot she'd get incredibly ratty and would be out of sorts the next day if she didn't get her full eight hours of undisturbed sleep. I on the other hand have always been
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by stormdennis 5y ago
It is possible to qualify as a doctor and be unsure if the abbreviation for prescription is Px or Rx Now you can just check on the internet but back in the day it's something that's apparently so basic and assumed that you could b
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Very good! That actually reminds me of a similar story from a very well known sportscaster in my country who specialty was, say, rugby. One night he was on duty when a call came in from someone trying to settle a argument about soccer, some
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by stormdennis 5y ago
That's fascinating. I can remember pre-internet days being resigned to not knowing stuff. For example albums in my country generally didn't include the lyrics. Every time it came on the radio, I asked people what was the singer sa
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Good point, cows are usually "dried out" prior to being impregnated again.
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by stormdennis 5y ago
I once made a fruitless suggestion that financial emergiencies should be treated the same as all others, ie diall911/999. When the operator would answer you'd say I've got a financial emergency and you'd be redirected ap
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by stormdennis 5y ago
Food costs so little of an average western income. I'd pay a lot more for butter than I do, for all animal products actually, in the hope it would mean better animal welfare.

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