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The Amish aren't strictly prohibited form using everything from 1800 or whatever. They are allowed to use what is necessary to complete the job, though it will be approved by a group. For example, amish dairies all have refrigeration. https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/09/02/217287028/amish-community-not-anti-technology-just-more-thoughful nm fucked around with this message at 07:12 on May 14, 2018 |
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angryrobots posted:My stove has a Sabbath mode, where you can set it to come on the day before and it will begin cooking at the preset time. Because that isn't "work", while actually setting the dial when you need it, is "work". I am completely oblivious to Jewish customs - but all I see from the Sabbath is a way for me to make a bundle of cash by being hired by a family to press buttons stuff.
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Humphreys posted:I am completely oblivious to Jewish customs - but all I see from the Sabbath is a way for me to make a bundle of cash by being hired by a family to press buttons stuff. You do that, I'm going to buy a cherrypicker and charge $100,00 per year to tie some fishing line round some lightpoles.
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Tide posted:Why the gently caress does a refrigerator need wifi? ...so it can order things when you run out (but also sell your purchasing habit info to supermarkets and such). gently caress 'smart' products forever.
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May 14, 2018 12:04
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Olympic Mathlete posted:...so it can order things when you run out (but also sell your purchasing habit info to supermarkets and such). We're in the process of switching to a different coffee machine vendor at my workplace, because the current machines and coffee we get are both unmitigated poo poo. So there's been a tasting test with around 60 employees participating, and they've narrowed down the field, so we now basically have two to choose from, and everyone has been invited to try out the machines. Both are supposedly "high-end" machines with "high-end" beans, the very best these companies can offer, and the best two choices from the entire field according to our own employees who participated in the test. And they both suck gigantic amounts of rear end. They have big-rear end touchscreens with lousy sensitivity, horrible UI design and pointless video playback features, super finicky cup sensors, and one of them even has a completely and utterly stupid cargo cult-style pressure indicator, which serves absolutely no purpose (there are no manual controls on either machine), other than making stupid people go "ooh" and "aah" at it. Worst of all, the coffee is entirely bland and unremarkable. This is supposedly the highest quality coffee these companies offer, made on the very best machines they offer, and just tastes completely empty, with no body at all. Honestly, I make vastly better coffee at home with a $2 plastic filter holder, paper filters and fresh-ground supermarket coffee. It's an absolute disgrace. But I'm sure the machines can phone home and order more beans or whatever. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 12:32 on May 14, 2018 |
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May 14, 2018 12:30
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Humphreys posted:I am completely oblivious to Jewish customs - but all I see from the Sabbath is a way for me to make a bundle of cash by being hired by a family to press buttons stuff. it's a thing, but I think mostly voluntary.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbos_goy
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KozmoNaut posted:We're in the process of switching to a different coffee machine vendor at my workplace, because the current machines and coffee we get are both unmitigated poo poo. So there's been a tasting test with around 60 employees participating, and they've narrowed down the field, so we now basically have two to choose from, and everyone has been invited to try out the machines. It's not great but ages ago I got a cup with built-in French press like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DB4JY72/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Nwx-Ab4CKZ6PB You drink from above the press so the last half of your coffee gets stronger and bitter but it's still a million times better than machine coffee.
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May 14, 2018 12:41
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KozmoNaut posted:We're in the process of switching to a different coffee machine vendor at my workplace, because the current machines and coffee we get are both unmitigated poo poo. So there's been a tasting test with around 60 employees participating, and they've narrowed down the field, so we now basically have two to choose from, and everyone has been invited to try out the machines. Company coffee is (almost) always poo poo. At my previous place, we had a giant three-group Italian motherfucker of an espresso machine, literally the price of a small car. Fed it decent beans too through a non-lovely grinder. Cue people never cleaning anything so everything tasted like rear end after two weeks and the brewheads looked like the back of an asphalt truck. But I'm sure the vendors charge out the rear end for the machines and consumables.
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May 14, 2018 12:56
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No pricing information has been published, but yeah I expect it to be horribly expensive. I'll just continue drinking my morning coffee at home, in old-fashioned pour over style.
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May 14, 2018 13:02
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As silly as religious edicts generally are, it's often interesting to see the workarounds and adaptations that come into play. IIRC McDonald's filet o'fish was the idea of some enterprising bugger with a franchise in a Catholic area.
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May 14, 2018 13:04
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My old man and I spent most of Saturday clearing out the house we bought. That's actually the seller's job, should've loving been way more stern about that. Then we found a bottle of parathion  Which, for the uninitiated, is a VERY toxic pesticide which has been banned for at least four decades.Then Sunday my wife starts to explore the wilderness that is the garden and comes back to report that there's a whole shed that we didn't realize was there. Full of more junk. I'm going to enjoy a pint of the best craft IPA in my possession when that thing is demoed holy gently caress. I'm almost looking more forward to that than the new house.
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May 14, 2018 13:10
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KozmoNaut posted:We're in the process of switching to a different coffee machine vendor at my workplace When switching coffee machines is a "process" that requires input and evaluation, you've got to see that there's some prioritization problems, or y'all just don't have enough work to do.
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May 14, 2018 13:37
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bolind posted:Then we found a bottle of parathion Edit: misread it as being a herbicide. Ah well. I'm sure it'll come in handy for something. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 14:23 on May 14, 2018 |
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May 14, 2018 14:21
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Seat Safety Switch posted:If I act like a child with a terminal illness will you help me finally get the dinner I deserve? I got to 3rd once solo. I typically call out snipers and other hidden opponents... by catching a bullet from them. I am a literal bullet magnet in most shooting games. Any game that lets you have a emblem or spray, I craft a bullet magnet emblem. It's my motto on Live. bolind posted:Company coffee is (almost) always poo poo. At my previous place, we had a giant three-group Italian motherfucker of an espresso machine, literally the price of a small car. Fed it decent beans too through a non-lovely grinder. Cue people never cleaning anything so everything tasted like rear end after two weeks and the brewheads looked like the back of an asphalt truck. They have a Mars Flavia Barista machine on every floor where I am now, and those seem to work well, for what they are. If nothing else, they don't require cleaning, because they use coffee packs with built in nozzles, so that's never a problem. We also have traditional coffee machines with vacuum flasks, but since those depend on someone cleaning them and putting in the grounds properly, no thanks. I'm no kind of coffee gourmet, but I do know when it's nasty.
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May 14, 2018 15:17
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I just keep my French press, a grinder and some beans at work. I lived with lovely coffee for too long I'm the military to deal with it now. This also makes me very popular somehow, thanks to it being a fairly small office. It's really odd.
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May 14, 2018 15:42
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I don't drink coffee and never have. My friends all thought this would change with a newborn, and I'm still staying awake. Mostly.
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May 14, 2018 15:48
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Manufacturer of the new bed for my truck shipped it via Day & Ross. It arrived in Brampton on the 5th. It is now the 13th and after several phonecalls last week I was told to wait until they contact me. I called today, 9 days after it arrived there, and have just been told it's been put into warehouse storage for reasons unexplained. I've been on hold for 15 minutes trying to find out what those reasons are. The long and short of it is this, at what point can I call the police and report this as theft over $5k?
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May 14, 2018 16:04
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Fermented Tinal posted:Manufacturer of the new bed for my truck shipped it via Day & Ross. It arrived in Brampton on the 5th. It is now the 13th and after several phonecalls last week I was told to wait until they contact me. Calling youre credit card company and disputing the charge sometimes gives people akick up the backside
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May 14, 2018 16:11
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InitialDave posted:As silly as religious edicts generally are, it's often interesting to see the workarounds and adaptations that come into play. I believe the church stated Capybara was a fish due to missionaries in the amazon dying of hunger due to their inability to catch enough to eat. Same with beavers in North America apparently, due to both animals spending most of their time in water that was good enough reason to classify them as fish.
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bolind posted:My old man and I spent most of Saturday clearing out the house we bought. That's actually the seller's job, should've loving been way more stern about that. Then we found a bottle of parathion Yeah, a good side-yard clean-out was how we found our portal to Hell. 
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May 14, 2018 16:20
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spog posted:Calling youre credit card company and disputing the charge sometimes gives people akick up the backside I paid the manufacturer of the bed via a bank draft and they in turn paid Day & Ross to ship it. I didn't have the credit limit to pay for the bed and didn't feel like moving money from one bank to another just to overpay on my CC for that. This isn't the manufacturer's fault, it's someone in Brampton at Day & Ross who's dropped the ball and decided to not do their job by contacting me when it was ready and instead sent it to the warehouse.
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May 14, 2018 16:23
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spog posted:Calling youre credit card company and disputing the charge sometimes gives people akick up the backside Sounds good to me. Aside from the threat of law, removing money seems to be the only effective motivator for some businesses. I like the idea of reporting it as theft, though, because effectively, it is. Whacked a rock while mowing a while back. Bent the blade pretty good. Enough so that I noticed it cutting lower. I removed it and straightened it enough to finish the job, but it still caught on some exposed tree roots in the back yard. Ordered a new one and a new spark plug from Amazon (because way cheaper than the local home stores, which don't carry the correct plug for literally the most common Briggs engine ever made, at least not in OEM or Champion. All they have is E3 and some other poo poo brand I've never heard of) since I hadn't done th tune up fro the year. Guess the blade really needed to be changed, even discounting the bendy bit:  Getting a bit thin there:  Whoops:  Still need to change the oil, for which I need straight 30W non-detergent, if I remember correctly. edit: huh. SAE 30, normal detergent (SF, SG, SH, SJ,etc.) is the usual recommended oil, but 10W-30 is recommended for lower temps at the cost of increased consumption, and B&S says that synthetic is acceptable at all temperatures. 15W-30 synthetic for my usage temperature range, though 5W-30 will work as well. So, basically, almost anything I normally have in the garage... Darchangel fucked around with this message at 16:37 on May 14, 2018 |
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May 14, 2018 16:25
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So one of the residents just followed me as I walked the grounds, loudly complaining about the grass being too tall when it was just cut on friday. Yay for new experiences!
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iwentdoodie posted:I just keep my French press, a grinder and some beans at work. Oh god the poo poo coffee in the air force is what forced me to the japanese vending machines when I worked graveyard shift, never was a coffee drinker until then. thank god for good japanese coffee dispensed out of machine in a can, hot or cold, just the way you like it (heavy cream/light sugar, black, just sugar, just cream, etc.) tetrapyloctomy posted:Yeah, a good side-yard clean-out was how we found our portal to Hell. That's.....something
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What the gently caress Hulu? Every time I ignore it for a bit (leaving it as background noise), it always winds up going to... Golden Girls. I never liked the show, never watched it on Hulu, but it always goes to Golden Girls when it runs out of episodes of, say, Archer.  Larrymer posted:I don't drink coffee and never have. My friends all thought this would change with a newborn, and I'm still staying awake. Mostly. I used to love coffee, but generally only drank it at work when I worked in offices (also guzzled it at AA meetings). Yeah, it was usually garbage coffee, but enough cream and sugar helped cover it up. When the beetus came knocking, I cut soft drinks out of my diet entirely, which was 99% of my caffeine (and sugar) intake after leaving the cubicle life. Now a nice cup of coffee makes me jittery as poo poo and sends my blood pressure into low orbit.  Even decaf makes me a bit jittery (shocked face, decaf still has some caffeine - not much, but it's there).
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May 14, 2018 18:23
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And if you threw a party, invited everyone you knew... Golden girls owns.
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Blanche is the spitting image of one of my aunts (well, how she looked in the 80s, anyway). It creeps me out just a bit.
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Our house was pretty dirty when we bought it and had came with all the contents the previous person living there (2 owners ago) including 6 month old milk, furniture, a TV and a box of parachute flares which the police didn't appreciate me turning up on their doorstep with.
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Coffee chat, I am make a 1 liter French press every morning and fill a small 16 ounce tumbler for the drive in and my 22 ounce Zojirushi vacuum flask for the rest of the morning. The vacuum flask keeps the coffee hot enough that I'm forced to sip it from start to finish, so it usually lasts the whole morning. Of course, this has ruined coffee for me anywhere else that isn't a coffee shop.
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freelop posted:Our house was pretty dirty when we bought it and had came with all the contents the previous person living there (2 owners ago) including 6 month old milk, furniture, a TV and a box of parachute flares which the police didn't appreciate me turning up on their doorstep with.  All I found in my house when I bought it was 500 wiper blades in kit form  .
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Applebees Appetizer posted:
What's funny is that it is actually really close to the driveway, and totally is visible from the road now that the brush is cleared, and yet we had no idea it was there for about a year.  The perspective makes it look weird, but that strip of asphalt is a very busy road maybe ten feet away from the upper parking spot. Alternatively, the portal WASN'T there when we moved in, and later made its appearance.
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Picked up a bottle of copper dog 🐕 whiskey at Costco, it's quite nice. Then I tried it with a drop of apple juice. loving revelation, this is amazing.
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STR posted:Blanche is the spitting image of one of my aunts (well, how she looked in the 80s, anyway). It creeps me out just a bit. Her style was pretty drat popular in the 80s, there were leagues of middle aged/early senior women who looked almost exactly like Rue McClanahan in the day. An old ladies rippin savage burns on each other while Betty White goofs off will never not be funny.
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InitialDave posted:The best way I can put how I'd react to finding that in a property: The coast guard ignored my quip about disposing of them in a fire. Oddly I couldn't give them to then because they were on land and thus it was a police matter
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Fermented Tinal posted:I paid the manufacturer of the bed via a bank draft and they in turn paid Day & Ross to ship it. I didn't have the credit limit to pay for the bed and didn't feel like moving money from one bank to another just to overpay on my CC for that. e: Who here has a beard? While I was on holidays I didn't shave. So now I haven't shaved for over 2 weeks and I don't mind the look (I was told outright by a woman at work that if I wasn't married she'd take me home RIGHT THEN and ride me ragged) it's a pain to groom, and to be honest I'm not entirely sure how to best do it. Also, I now need to wear beard nets when I go into food environments. I think I'm shaving it off tomorrow. slidebite fucked around with this message at 20:08 on May 14, 2018 |
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slidebite posted:e: Who here has a beard? I've had a beard of some kind for 15-16 years at this point (as in: I haven't been clean-shaved at any time since I was 17 or 18). Right now I've got the full beard going but it was a goatee for most of that time. As long as it's neatly trimmed, my wife digs the full beard but I'll probably go back to just the goatee now that summer's coming on. If you can find a good barber (not a "hair stylist"), they can show you some good techniques for trimming and maintaining it. Really every man should have a good barber, though.
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Beard chat: I hate shaving, only reason I have a beard. I buzz it off when it starts itching (generally every 2 weeks). I might do an actual shave once every 6 weeks. Despite how hairy I am, I can't seem to grow a good looking beard anyway. NumbersMatching320 posted:Her style was pretty drat popular in the 80s, there were leagues of middle aged/early senior women who looked almost exactly like Rue McClanahan in the day. Trust me, I know... my aunt looked EXACTLY like her, and my mother was dressing similarly. Except mom had bigger/longer hair.
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Just trimmed mine down a bit. It was getting too mountain man. I actually liked it, but harder to keep neat, and a little annoying sometimes. I usually trim pretty close (like, the longest guard on the beard trimmer) but decided to let it go for a couple months. Now that summer's starting to show up, it may go back to being a goatee. Nice only having to shave under my chin, though. Protip: use shampoo and conditioner on the beard. Less itch, ladies like it more. edit: every time I shave completely I get ths:  Except I'm not nearly so manly to begin with. I look like more of a doof without my chin fur. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 22:28 on May 14, 2018 |
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