treeman79

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by treeman79 3y ago
Could always burn the lithium to heat a boiler and turn the tires.
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by treeman79 3y ago
Microsoft.
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by treeman79 3y ago
The earth going around the sun produces gravitational waves, and some of the energy is lost. If all of that energy could be harnessed; it would be sufficient to power a small toaster oven.
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by treeman79 3y ago
I mean it could… Just not a great idea. Make for some expensive litter.
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by treeman79 3y ago
Went to doctors dozens of times with severe but vague symptoms. Was admonished repeatedly for doing my own research. All the doctors get saying it was anxiety, and that I was simply a hypochondriac. After years of this found out I had
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by treeman79 3y ago
Since a few departments and multiple companies struggle / fail because a super brilliant guy(s) was chasing perfection. No useful work could get done. Or it took 20-100x longer than a quick and dirty approach. Perhaps the worst was wh
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by treeman79 3y ago
My wife counted calories for about a year. It was total OCD to get correct numbers. Would get out the scale, so exact measurements. Calculate ever ingredient. Was shocking how much more calories we were eating without realizing it. Drov
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by treeman79 3y ago
Wrong. My argument is that government is screwing everything up. Between printing money, which is what is actually causing inflation. Also that if any obscene profits are happening, it’s because the government is choosing winners, and los
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by treeman79 3y ago
This is total nonsense. Read Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. In a free market companies that are making large profits quickly find themselves with competitors. People that do a better job cheaper are the winners. Eventually a balance ha
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by treeman79 3y ago
Zoolander has mastered the art. https://youtu.be/4xwsZ5vC5Oc
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by treeman79 3y ago
Was driving through Oregon and had no idea about self service. Pulled up. Put my card in, had pump in hand when this crazy person came running up and tried to take away the pump. Much confusion for both us as I figured it was some homeless
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by treeman79 3y ago
“While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of so
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by treeman79 3y ago
You had 45 minutes to write a connect 4 game from scratch.
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by treeman79 3y ago
Calling fish with a phone is also a good way to bring in the fish. https://oceansciencehistory.com/2013/10/12/phoning-fish-the-...
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by treeman79 3y ago
Recall during the dot com crash at RadioShack. District manager kept complaining that a bunch of displays were not getting setup. We were a busy understaffed store so nothing got done during the day. Finally I stayed until 3am once and got
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by treeman79 3y ago
Had one company in local city. They managed to interview almost every Engineer in the market that had skill set. Rejected all of them. Few months later I got a call asking to interview again as they realized their standards were too high.
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by treeman79 3y ago
Old text word processors on my 286/386 back in the late 80s / early 90s, ran just fine. Instant everything. Only thing that was truly slow was the scanner.
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by treeman79 3y ago
This is how a lot of recipe sites already read. Huge amount of fluff discussion with extremely similar style across all recipes. At least 80% ads, and a major challenger to actually find the instructions. Fairly sure it’s mostly AI gener
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by treeman79 3y ago
My dad was pissed at me for wasting time programming a computer as a kid. He was even more pissed, but also proud, when I start earning more than him my first year working.
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by treeman79 3y ago
I had horrific migraines. Would walk into a store, and the lights would leave me completely dysfunctional within 10 minutes. Tons of triggers. Spent 18-20 hours a day in bed unable to function. After about a year of 3000u daily vitamin D, m
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by treeman79 3y ago
My kids go to a charter school. They went very hard on the online learning during Covid. Crazy amount of assignments. Lots of online time. As parents the workload was totally overwhelming to stay on top of everything. They ended up going ba
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by treeman79 3y ago
Back in 90s if you could build a PC everyone just assumed you could hack their accounts. I mean granted security was almost non existent. But I learned to not talk about programming with anyone older than myself.
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by treeman79 3y ago
I and family was expose to very large amounts of benzene from a gas leak over the course of three months. It was a rental house came with that smell, and they kept making excuses as to why it had a weird smell. It’s taken about five years
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by treeman79 3y ago
Friend of mine held out longer than most on cell. Instead he had a pager. Once paged he would turn on his ham radio so we could go and find him.
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by treeman79 3y ago
Went through this for an autoimmune condition with extreme nerve pain. Support forums are full of people that say LDN is a fantastic drug and works wonders. I was on opioids begging doctors to let me try LDN so I could get off the opids.
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by treeman79 3y ago
It’s not much fun. Get a shot. First couple of days. I FEEL AMAZING! I WANT TO PUNCH EVERYONE! Then you’re good for a couple days. Then your dragging worse then ever. Repeat every week. Cream for skin is same thing but over the course of
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by treeman79 3y ago
Yep. Mine is up 1200 (to 2700) in past 3 years. Other friends up a 1000 this year alone.
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by treeman79 3y ago
At some point if people keep attacking harming, and or murdering others. They just need to be put some place they won’t harm others. Too many people rob / mug others and get arrested dozens of times only to be back on the street quickl
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by treeman79 3y ago
Easy solution. Start arresting people that steal, shoot it drugs in public, Etc. Keep them in jail for a long time if they keep doing it.
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by treeman79 3y ago
Okay. But no complaints about burning huge amounts of coal then.

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