travis_brooks

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by travis_brooks 2y ago
Unfortunately nobody has solved the pesky problem that people need to eat at least once a day, so somebody has to work in the food industry. Getting rid of these central markets means smaller markets spread all over the country will do the
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by travis_brooks 2y ago
Exactly, random rivers throughout Alaska could be turning orange than eventually going back to blue for the last 10,000+ years for all we know. As the article stressed, these rivers are in the middle of nowhere so it would be hard for anybo
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by travis_brooks 4y ago
Given the Canadian government's over the top reaction to the trucker protesters earlier this year I'm not at all surprised to hear they behave like the oppressive Israelis when dealing with foreign travelers. Didn't used to b
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by travis_brooks 4y ago
Right, the future archeologists will find some old parking meters and assume the primitive ancients had some sort of steel penis cult.
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by travis_brooks 5y ago
The article says one of the states the bumblebee has vanished from is Oregon, I'm not sure about that. I definitely saw something that looked very bumblebee like in downtown Portland multiple times this past summer. Bees in general are
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by travis_brooks 6y ago
I felt super healthy for years then a variety of problems hit me at once. It started off with excessive bruising from minor bumps, headaches, then extreme tiredness. I would get small cuts and they wouldn't seem to heal, doctors baffle
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by travis_brooks 6y ago
I lived a vegetarian diet for over 30 years but eventually the effects of health problems caused by nutritional deficiencies were impossible to ignore. We evolved as omnivorous animals, to deny this history for philosophical reasons seems g
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by travis_brooks 6y ago
This idea of soy being the bad guy seems a bit naïve. These days forests are usually first cut down to make charcoal. Thats the initial reason that its economically feasible to cut down a forest, there is no local fuel source cheaper than c
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by travis_brooks 6y ago
Cheap cast iron pans are basically invincible and can last for generations
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by travis_brooks 6y ago
Special $17 oil to season a pan, a multi day oven drying process, wtf?? I'm sort of baffled by this because I can buy a perfectly usable Lodge cast iron skillet for about $20 and not go through any of this nonsense. Is the inefficient
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by travis_brooks 6y ago
I live in Portland OR a few blocks from where there was a months long siege against federal and police buildings. Yes there was millions of dollars worth of damage done here by looting but thats barely scratching the surface of what happene
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by travis_brooks 7y ago
In Portland there's Quarterworld Arcade that does a few musical Tesla coil shows every week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb6MyRPQRPM
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by travis_brooks 8y ago
This story happened in 1991. Like a lot of kids in high school I tried to smoke banana peels. They're wet and mushy and it was not at all obvious back in the days before the internet how you were supposed to process the things for sm
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by travis_brooks 8y ago
When I was a kid a teacher donated an old game to the class that was a rudimentary version of this, Avalanche[1]. None of the kids had seen this game before but the satisfying mechanical movement and thinking it took to get all the marbles
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by travis_brooks 8y ago
I agree! Hy Brasil is not sinking, ignore the panic mongers, there are others with more experience in these matters than you... https://youtu.be/qJh6EQ5gv7g
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by travis_brooks 9y ago
I've worked at a place with a very similar hack before, but it was for a bunch of windows servers. The issue was a process was trying to scan various Office files, and even though no actual Word/Excel/etc app was running war
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by travis_brooks 10y ago
I actually enjoyed the song. The article mentions training the military to withstand torture by listening to Throbbing Gristle and Diamanda Galas which happen to be 2 of my favorites to code to so I guess I have a high sonic threshold for
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by travis_brooks 11y ago
Did a search to see what happened with the stick bugs and discovered the population is now large enough they're in zoos in San Diego, Toronto, and Bristol: http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/01/13&#x2F