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Pick posted:I'm a biologist and a lifelong fur collector and have been contacted by the port authority a few times for an ID, I can pretty well tell cat (try to read this in a voice where I'm being informational and not a jackass). You see a lot of dog, too. Sometimes it even shows up on eBay as "spotted fur". Cool. It's nice to know the port authority is cares at all.
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Pick posted:I'm a biologist and a lifelong fur collector and have been contacted by the port authority a few times for an ID, I can pretty well tell cat (try to read this in a voice where I'm being informational and not a jackass). You see a lot of dog, too. Sometimes it even shows up on eBay as "spotted fur". You should probably feel OK about Chinese cat and dog fur then. Again, travel in "rural" (I say this because urban Chinese will refer to towns of 300k people like they're the depths of Appalachia) China and you can witness the packs of mangy wild dogs that just wander around picking through trash. Basically (as it was explained to me) the Communists were extremely anti pets so it led to the rise of sort of semi feral village pets where there would be random dogs and cats wandering villages for their pest killing purposes but they wouldn't belong to anyone so that the authorities couldn't charge people with crimes. The pet situation in China is actually just super depressing across the board. The dogs in cities are really inbred and raised by people who've never had dogs in tiny rear end apartments and the ones in the rural areas are treated horribly.
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:i got this today http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089371/
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Facebook Aunt posted:Cool. It's nice to know the port authority is cares at all. They try but I think they said they have funding to inspect about .3% of incoming. We could like, you know, fund them or whatever but it's way more important that *mumble mumble* anyway enjoy your asianlonghorn beetle and emerald ash borer
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Why is the port authority inspecting furs? Shouldn't that be CBP or the USDA?
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I don't know if USDA has that jurisdiction, and CBP's primary mission is hassling grandmas and making people miss their flights for daring to become exasperated in their presence.
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Port authority works with APHIS.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Basically (as it was explained to me) the Communists were extremely anti pets so it led to the rise of sort of semi feral village pets where there would be random dogs and cats wandering villages for their pest killing purposes but they wouldn't belong to anyone so that the authorities couldn't charge people with crimes. That seems...strange, but it would be in line with the general Chinese attitude to challenging social problems: carefully step around and pretend they don't exist. There was a similar situation in Romania when the communists took over, though it was just a side effect of the housing initiatives, not anything specifically about pets. Ceaucescu had thousands of families forcibly evicted from their country homes and moved into the cities as part of the push to "modernization," and since basically everyone living in the country had a dog or two that they couldn't easily keep in the new tiny concrete apartments, they just let them go. Dogs are hardy critters and now, fifty years later, there's a self-sustaining population of feral dogs throughout the country.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:better stock up on your sex coins for when the dollar collapses; nations rise and fall, commodities fluctuate, but the gently caress index is rock solid They used to use similar coins in roman brothels. You would buy one at the counter up front and then go give it to the girl or boy you liked, and then do the thing depicted on the coin.  But the aliexpress sex coins look suspiciously similar to 2 euro coins, which makes me wonder A) are they the same size and weight as 2 euro coins? b) are they cheaper than 2 euros each? c) will they be accepted by vending machines?
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twoday posted:They used to use similar coins in roman brothels. You would buy one at the counter up front and then go give it to the girl or boy you liked, and then do the thing depicted on the coin. Do your vending machines scan for size and density too? They do here in the US. It's interesting to read about, which is why I know this. Basically every machine over here that isn't a vintage Coke or Pepsi machine stocked and set out by a neighborhood mechanic scans coins for both density and size. There were also plans to scan the front and back face features, IIRC, but our "every state gets their own custom back of the quarter design" nixed that.
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Pick posted:They try but I think they said they have funding to inspect about .3% of incoming. We could like, you know, fund them or whatever but it's way more important that *mumble mumble* anyway enjoy your asianlonghorn beetle and emerald ash borer My dad worked in forestry for the state here his entire life and his tirades against lax importation and upcoming emerald ash borer devastation still make me Lol to this day. Not a good Lol, but like a "Haha yeah we're hosed"
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Facebook Aunt posted:Your nan is your grandmother. Trust your grandma is usually pretty good advice. Hadn't even thought about it in the British sense; thanks mate! Unfortunately my grandmother is dead, so no necklace for me.
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Gay Weed Dad posted:Hadn't even thought about it in the British sense; thanks mate! Unfortunately my grandmother is dead, so no necklace for me. In my experience the dead are much more trustworthy than the living.
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Facebook Aunt posted:In my experience the dead are much more trustworthy than the living. *begins searching AliExpress for cadavers*
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Pick posted:I'm a biologist and a lifelong fur collector and have been contacted by the port authority a few times for an ID, I can pretty well tell cat (try to read this in a voice where I'm being informational and not a jackass). You see a lot of dog, too. Sometimes it even shows up on eBay as "spotted fur". This is interesting. Do the same sort of conditions also exist within the leather import industry as well as the fur industry?
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Sagebrush posted:- "Salae Logic Analyzer". Remains to be seen if this does what it's supposed to at all. If so, great tool for the electronics kit. I just received mine, it was about $7 and was recognized immediately by Saleae's Logic application. I tested with "Hello, world" over 3.3V UART at 57600 baud and it works  The official 8-channel one is $220. I feel kind of guilty. Hunter2 Thompson fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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meatpotato posted:I just received mine, it was about $7 and was recognized immediately by Saleae's Logic application. Link?
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https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1sets-New-Arrival-USB-Logic-Analyze-24M-8CH-MCU-ARM-FPGA-DSP-debug-tool/32246802326.html There are more expensive ones with more channels and faster sample rates out there too.
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Cool, my dad will love it.
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Pick posted:Cool, my dad will love it. Get him this for his birthday.
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I was reading about how fur is murder and then i realized i was eating lamb soup and picking little baby furry animal bones out of my mouth whoops
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I thought I was immune to this thread. Who needs this stuff, I thought. Welp, I'm ordering four. Any other good pins?
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meatpotato posted:I just received mine, it was about $7 and was recognized immediately by Saleae's Logic application. Yeah, mine worked perfectly too. It can only store a fraction of a second of data at the high sample rates (i.e. it doesn't appear to be able to stream it over USB) but that may be normal for this kind of device. Works great if you treat it like an oscilloscope and pick appropriate triggers.
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My cat cushion cover arrived today, as well as 150 random stickers. Surprisingly quick! It's not as white as it appears in that image but it's softer than it looked, will be good once I get a cushion to go inside it! Todays "It's cheaper than amazon!" item is a nose washer thing, £15 on Amazon, under £3 on here. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Adults-Children-Nose-Wash-System-Clean-Sinus-Allergies-Nasal-Pressure-Neti-pot/32770650074.html 
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah, mine worked perfectly too. It can only store a fraction of a second of data at the high sample rates (i.e. it doesn't appear to be able to stream it over USB) but that may be normal for this kind of device. Works great if you treat it like an oscilloscope and pick appropriate triggers. Please post any other useful tools for useless electrical engineers you may find. I'm still waiting on Segger J-Link clone that I'll post about once it arrives.
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meatpotato posted:Please post any other useful tools for useless electrical engineers you may find. I'm still waiting on Segger J-Link clone that I'll post about once it arrives. Same, they're great gifts for my dad but I don't know enough about electrical engineering to find things for him. It's not his profession but it's his hobby.
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meatpotato posted:Please post any other useful tools for useless electrical engineers you may find. I'm still waiting on Segger J-Link clone that I'll post about once it arrives. 5x WeMos D1 Mini clone (Arduino-programmable WiFi-capable microcontroller) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/5sets-D1-mini-Mini-NodeMcu-4M-bytes-Lua-WIFI-Internet-of-Things-development-board-based/32686634714.html USB power monitor https://www.aliexpress.com/item/201...2626856729.html SMD test clip https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1PCS-SMD-Inductor-Test-Clip-Probe-Tweezers-for-Resistor-Multimeter-Capacitor/32787483729.html teeny little OLED display https://www.aliexpress.com/item/White-Blue-White-and-Blue-color-0-96-inch-128X64-OLED-Display-Module-For-arduino-0/32767499263.html ultrasonic rangefinder https://www.aliexpress.com/store/pr...2470130037.html alcohol sensor module (build your own breathalyzer!) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Fre...2549424675.html There's zillions of cool little modules like the last three that you can drive with an Arduino or the like and they all cost like a dollar. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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canpakes posted:Hmm how does this work. This looks more interesting. Ali express is a huge bust. There are a ton of stores on Taobao that sell replicas of brands like Nike, Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Tom Ford, etc. The upside is that the prices are cheaper than Aliexpress, the products will stick around for a lot longer (as in not taken down by the big corps), shipping is way quicker, and the quality will be pretty solid depending on the store (think H&M or better). The downside is that the site is pretty much all in Mandarin, sizes are going to be harder to figure out, and quality can be hit or miss. Luckily there are agents like Ytaopal and Superbuy that will do everything for. All you have to is post the Taobao link in their site and you can figure out what size and color you want. Then that site will buy the products for you, have it shipped to their warehouse, have pics of the actual product sent to you, and then shipped to you. I've bought sunglasses so far (Tom Ford and Ray Bans) from two different stores and my info hasn't been stolen. There is a sub-reddit that has a lot more info, reviews, help but it's like 95% high schoolers that only want poo poo like Yeezys and streetwear brands like Supreme and Palace.
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hello yes these are genuine quality legos
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If you keep digging, you'll find the ones where they clearly come printed with swastikas that have been poorly photoshopped out for the web page.
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meatpotato posted:https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1sets-New-Arrival-USB-Logic-Analyze-24M-8CH-MCU-ARM-FPGA-DSP-debug-tool/32246802326.html Holy poo poo, thanks!
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Sagebrush posted:There's zillions of cool little modules like the last three that you can drive with an Arduino or the like and they all cost like a dollar. I picked up a bunch of random sensors/motors/servos to tinker with for $50. Search for "37 in 1" and you can find sensor sets for like $15
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Synthbuttrange posted:hello yes these are genuine quality legos Whoa can you please link these I'm all about WW1 lego knock offs
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WAFFEN-BOXCaptain Yossarian posted:Whoa can you please link these I'm all about WW1 lego knock offs thats WWII duh get your lego history straight
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:WAFFEN-BOX Lol we'll split the difference, some of that stuff is straight from WW1. But seriously that dude(tte?) should totally link it
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