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This is the reason pediatricians advice for giving your kid small amounts of peanut butter regularly so they don't grow up having a peanut allergy. We've seen a HUGE spike in kids with peanut allergies, and it can be directly attributed to so many parents keeping peanut anything far away from their little angel, not realizing this is doing more harm than good. Edit for content:  Easy fix but lol at not realizing what you did before you got it installed. Zipperelli. fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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toplitzin posted:Tapeworm. It's hookworm, IIRC, not tapeworm. But yes. There's some evidence that when everyone had hookworm it gave our immune systems something to fight continuously (for example we know it causes a particular kind of white blood cell to be produced in response) and that all the countries that cured it started having way more people with allergies. e. but it's still too soon for people to be deliberately infecting themselves with gross parasites to try and cure their athsma or whatever
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Zipperelli. posted:This is the reason pediatricians advice for giving your kid small amounts of peanut butter regularly so they don't grow up having a peanut allergy. We've seen a HUGE spike in kids with peanut allergies, and it can be directly attributed to so many parents keeping peanut anything far away from their little angel, not realizing this is doing more harm than good. I eat peanut butter toast regularly with my newborn for just this reason. (Actually it's about all I can muster during those first few days.) I also reinstalled a sliding door handle backwards just Friday! I noticed when I went to put in the second set of screws I had gotten both of them wrong.
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Oct 14, 2019 06:26
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Leperflesh posted:It's hookworm, IIRC, not tapeworm. But yes. There's some evidence that when everyone had hookworm it gave our immune systems something to fight continuously (for example we know it causes a particular kind of white blood cell to be produced in response) and that all the countries that cured it started having way more people with allergies. Yeah, we need something like "inactivated hookworm pills" for people to take which provokes the immune response but without the whole hookworms inside you pooping into your brain part. Breads, cereals, pasta, flour, rice and similar have folate in them, add hookworm powder to them as well. Of course, you'd have to come up with a better name than "hookworm powder" because that would not look good on the front of the corn flake box.
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Oct 14, 2019 07:51
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Captain Hook’s Immune Powder, or CHIP, available from a 4 AM commercial for $29.99 for the first 90 days.
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Oct 14, 2019 08:01
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Oct 14, 2019 08:20
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some sort of "inactivated" disease agent that provokes the immune response without also triggering the actual disease, you say that sounds extremely dangerous, I'd want to be absolutely sure it doesn't give me autism or anything
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Oct 14, 2019 08:23
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Javid posted:Today in homestead.jpg I’d rate that latch above the average gate’s.
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Oct 14, 2019 08:36
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Javid posted:Today in homestead.jpg That's not too bad, if it saves a trip to the hardware store for the cost of 2 nails. It's not like the gate itself is going to be winning any beauty awards anyway.
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Oct 14, 2019 10:36
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The "couldn't be bothered to remove the sticker" look is something I feel very personally.
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Oct 14, 2019 11:00
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Javid posted:Today in homestead.jpg Needs a lock. You don’t want anyone to be able to just waltz in and steal from your big platform of garbage.
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Oct 14, 2019 11:30
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Jaded Burnout posted:The "couldn't be bothered to remove the sticker" look is something I feel very personally. why would you remove the sticker? gives it extra stick
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Oct 14, 2019 11:31
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Jaded Burnout posted:The "couldn't be bothered to remove the sticker" look is something I feel very personally. It may not be removed under penalty of law!
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Oct 14, 2019 11:46
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That's a load bearing sticker
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Oct 14, 2019 12:50
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Its so internet people can scan with their smartphone and it'll link you to their pinstagram page where they have a whole build thread. *selfie with Greta, the 90 year old home depot cashier where I went to buy the nails that got bent for the "latch"
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Oct 14, 2019 15:08
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wesleywillis posted:Its so internet people can scan with their smartphone and it'll link you to their pinstagram page where they have a whole build thread. you seem worked up about something that doesn't exist
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Well, I mean I satirically use "pinstagram" as a combination of Pinterest and Instagram..... I guess "Pinstagram" doesn't exist.
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Jaded Burnout posted:The "couldn't be bothered to remove the sticker" look is something I feel very personally. The minute of fingernail scaping and vigorous wiping with lighter fluid that would have been required for a purely cosmetic improvement would have almost doubled the install time.
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Nobody is somehow hiding URLs in a UPC barcode sticker because that is literally not how UPC codes work but go off I guess.
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Oct 15, 2019 02:23
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Leperflesh posted:It's hookworm, IIRC, not tapeworm. But yes. There's some evidence that when everyone had hookworm it gave our immune systems something to fight continuously (for example we know it causes a particular kind of white blood cell to be produced in response) and that all the countries that cured it started having way more people with allergies. Apparently worms work pretty well for inflammatory bowel diseases, but they generally use worms that won’t wreck your stomach too badly.
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Oct 15, 2019 06:24
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Moatman posted:Apparently worms work pretty well for inflammatory bowel diseases, but they generally use worms that won’t wreck your stomach too badly. 
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Oct 15, 2019 06:37
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Nobody is going to mention the hotel being built in New Orleans that collapsed? 2 dead, 1 still missing.
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kid sinister posted:Nobody is going to mention the hotel being built in New Orleans that collapsed? 2 dead, 1 still missing. It was on the last page. We just didn’t talk about it much.
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A different discussion on it introduced me to The Harmon, a would be 49 stories of Las Vegas clusterfuck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harmon (no deaths) A 400 million dollar skyscraper, 15 stories in they discovered the structural steel was installed misaligned and in some places wasn't there at all. There was an attempt to salvage it by cancelling the condos and dropping the height, before ultimately giving up on it. https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/engineering-company-finds-harmon-tower-construction-defects-pervasive/ “ 'The construction defects in the tower observed to date are so pervasive and varied in character that it is not possible to quickly implement a temporary or permanent repair to remediate the defects, or even determine whether such repairs can be performed,' Chuckwuma Ekwueme, an associate principal with Weidlinger told CityCenter Vice President of Facility Operations William Ham in a letter dated Monday"
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HelleSpud posted:A different discussion on it introduced me to The Harmon, a would be 49 stories of Las Vegas clusterfuck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harmon (no deaths) Thanks for that: I thought poo poo like this didn't happen in the 'civilised' world anymore quote:In late 2008, work on the Harmon Hotel/Condo Tower was stopped after inspectors discovered construction defects: County inspectors discovered improper installation by Pacific Coast Steel of critical steel reinforcements (rebar) after 15 stories of the building had already been erected.[8] The error caused a major change in the building's design; instead of being 49 stories, it was reduced to 28 stories with the condominium element, The Harmon Residences removed entirely
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Shut up Meg posted:Thanks for that: I thought poo poo like this didn't happen in the 'civilised' world anymore Apparently it does in New Zealand! https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/116557551/new-zealands-defective-concrete-crisis-revealed-by-investigators Luckily it’s not like the entire country lies on a tectonic plate boundary or anything, right? Right?
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Shut up Meg posted:Surely that's the time when you go 'hang on, this is hosed up, maybe we should stop paying people to build this turd?' The contractor and inspector that built/inspected it are probably out of business and re-formed as a new corporate entity, and the owner/insurance is just mitigating losses from that point on.
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The main contractor insisted that it was salvageable but the developer was trying to make it sound worse than it was as an excuse to write it off. A settlement got them 100 million + for work already done. As for the developer: They were likely happy to cancel the condos and possibly happy to ditch the whole thing. Halfway through construction and a year from opening they only had deposits for 88 out of 204 condos then it turned out it was going to be more expensive and then it was late 2008 and they're trying to sell luxury property.
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f the plans were flawed and followed, that’s fixable, but if things were made up as they went along and never documented, the structure can easily be unsalvageable.
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It's just hard to tell what was the actual extent since all the info is from multiple parties each giving their own conflicting account with hundreds of millions riding on very different outcomes and the resolution occurring quietly behind closed doors. I wanted pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining why each one was an acme of unintentional comedy. 
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Oct 17, 2019 02:47
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Now now, this isn't an illegal trash dump we're talking about here.
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NoSpoon posted:Apparently it does in New Zealand! I'd expect it to happen everywhere touched by the invisible, sociopathic hand of neoliberalism. Australia, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYzwIrybSjU Current advice on buying a new apartment is "don't" quote:Gall is blunt. “Don’t buy a new apartment over three storeys. Don’t do it.” GotLag fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Oct 17, 2019 |
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If I were to work in construction I'd get myself a shirt with this cool design posted on the logo thread:
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corgski posted:Now now, this isn't an illegal trash dump we're talking about here. Well, they might only get fined 50 dollars and told to clean it up....
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A video came out of the Hard Rock hotel before it collapsed, showing bending temporary supports. https://youtu.be/otMpiOhVmxg
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I finally decided to tackle my wobbly toilet tank and opened it up to discover the only thing keeping it from leaking all over the place was the sheer amount of rust. I literally pulled the bolts out from the bottom by hand without unscrewing anything; they didn't have heads anymore, or they never did and were paired with some nuts that had completely disintegrated. Of course now that I've cleaned that mess up and put in new bolts and washers, it wont stop leaking. 
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womp womp
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kid sinister posted:A video came out of the Hard Rock hotel before it collapsed, showing bending temporary supports. It turns out that they were all “temporary supports”.
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GotLag posted:Australia, for instance: Well that is all faintly horrifying.
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Munin posted:Well that is all faintly horrifying. The breakdown of how these problems occur due to the 'design and construct' starting at 13:25 is amazing. Basically the developers just get a real/bigname designer to do the initial concepts, and then all the subsequent steps are passed down to the construction crew, who all continue to pass that responsibility down until you have tradesman just sort of muddling along doing their thing and simultaneously being responsible for 'design' work, and hoping that it all comes together (it will not).
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