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by theodric 6mo ago
I...guess. But if you're drinking enough that you exceed the safe threshold for methanol consumption through its marginal presence in the distillate, while somehow managing to tolerate the ethanol, I think you've got another more
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by theodric 6mo ago
The common knowledge about methanol being a huge risk is wildly overstated in reality, and likely continues in part because it benefits the government for people to believe strongly in the danger and continue to purchase taxed liquor. Disti
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by theodric 6mo ago
You are incorrect. Winter starts on the ~21st of December. By the time February rolls around, we are only 6 weeks into the 12-week season of winter. The start of February is precisely the depths of winter. Late February is the ⅔ mark, and t
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by theodric 6mo ago
Welcome to Ireland
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by theodric 6mo ago
In Ireland, in February, the days warm up often into the double digits, galanthus are flowering, grass begins to take on its spring green, and I am to believe that this is still the depths of winter. No, rejected. Dismissing this article as
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by theodric 6mo ago
I think Sekki, made easy by https://smallseasons.guide/ , addresses this adequately. I am surprised at how closely the Japanese dates mirror actual transitions in Ireland. It's rarely off by more than a day or two, if a
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by theodric 6mo ago
The farm's doing fine
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by theodric 6mo ago
Laziness, and only marginally caring about this international drama that affects me not in the slightest
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by theodric 6mo ago
I wonder if one of those recently-emerging Chinese electric blowers that sub for canned air would generate enough air volume to sound the horn usefully. Possibly not quickly enough.
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by theodric 7mo ago
I don't think dismissing anyone as an agitproppist or foreign agent who expresses a dim view of the EU's tendency toward overreach and habit of asking the same question over and over until it's answered "correctly"
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by theodric 7mo ago
Even if the law included the literal phrase "Congress shall make no law" or "shall not be infringed", there would still be carve-outs and exceptions deemed acceptable and non-infringing because at the end of the day it&#
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by theodric 7mo ago
It's nice, and special, and purpose built, and quasi-production, and so on. Not just a Peugeot hatch or BMW 2002 or VW Golf or some Aixam quadricycle bejaardewagen with an electric drivetrain crudely crammed in, but a proper car design
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by theodric 7mo ago
CLIs have been passé for the non-nerd set since Windows gained a foothold in computing oh 35+ years ago. They haven't gone away, nor will they. Windows is actually more CLI-friendly now than before, with powershell, Windows Terminal,
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by theodric 7mo ago
> It's also important that users tell their DE developers what their needs are It's further important that relevant developers actually listen rather than ignoring, dismissing, or saying (and I quote!) "...Regardless, I si
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by theodric 7mo ago
> Who is forced to use it? Anyone who wants to continue using a modern, actively-developed desktop environment. GNOME has dropped X11; KDE has announced the transition. I would consider being told "use Wayland, or find a different d
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by theodric 7mo ago
Your fortunes are not inextricably tied to your country any more than mine are. I've lived in four countries; am now a citizen of two. I have no passive incomes or sociolegal status which is tied to an estate or a title in a country th
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by theodric 7mo ago
If you are in a position to be appointed to the House of Lords, it is reasonable to assume that you were not hand-to-mouth before that happened. At worst, you had a good job in one of the classes that gets you access to British Costco. At b
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by theodric 7mo ago
Some people who actively seek positions of power are terribly unqualified or have other discommending properties, as well. This does not seem too great an impediment to their success.
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by theodric 7mo ago
It provides an additional check. Much like a monarch, a noble's interests are tied to the welfare of the country itself. Without the country, they're just a toff with some money and an overinflated sense of self-importance.
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by theodric 7mo ago
The point of the hereditary peerage was the same as the point of having a non-elected Senate. Now both will have been lost in the name of "democracy" - a system of government that constantly fails to do either what is the desire o
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by theodric 7mo ago
Highest[1] base electricity price in the EU, some of the worst conditions for solar generation, a war in Iran, and now they've closed the coal plant. Great. Guess I'll just go bankrupt. Edit: instead of downvoting my post, feel f
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by theodric 7mo ago
> the best part is that it's optional Strange, I've had the GNOME conversation with three people and all of them brought up that it's "optional." Strangely coincidental.
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by theodric 8mo ago
I refuse to get one on principle, even though I'm very into radio.
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by theodric 8mo ago
Does replacing the battery reset the cycle count? If so, does it raise the resale value by more than the cost of a replacement battery?
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by theodric 8mo ago
> GNOME is great For a different opinion, please see https://woltman.com/gnome-bad/ GNOME is extremely opinionated.
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by theodric 8mo ago
A brand-new iMac G4 couldn't scroll smoothly in 2002. Apple has a long history of great-looking terrible performance. That G4 was a dog in Mac OS X 10.1. I installed Yellow Dog, and it lit a rocket under its ass.
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by theodric 8mo ago
I had a program on my overclocked TI-83 in 1998 that displayed a single pseudo-greyscale dithered photograph of a topless Pamela Anderson, which has left me hopelessly psychologically scarred. Ban this filth
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by theodric 8mo ago
This guy* Mandelbrots *presumably, but maybe not
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by theodric 8mo ago
Correct
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by theodric 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M73

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