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JustJeff88 posted:My mum in the upper midwest used to have a drying line when I was younger. She eventually bought a dryer as well, which he still has to do this day (they do *not* make them like they used to), but she would on nice days still hang clothes up sometimes for the airy, pleasant smell even after buying the dryer up until she had to take the posts down. To add another dimension to it, I remember a lot of the clothes I bought in Spain, not high-end poo poo by any means, were "do not tumble dry." The flat I rented in Madrid had a dryer, but it did not work well, and I ended up just putting poo poo on the drying rack inside and it was fine, so it's not like the only choices are "outdoors" or "use machine."
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If you don't hang dry clothes with silkscreen prints on them you will absolutely ruin them so it's not like there's no reason for even well-off people to not hang dry their stuff.
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RandomPauI posted:This is a retails collapse thing and a company CTD thing A Fry's I used to work at had a decent selection of travel adapters in the Components selection. In fact, I was helping my father get such a thing for when he made his business trip to India that day. The selection was barely there, if even. And it was significantly smaller as well. I was... disappointed by how abysmal the selection was. It doubly sucks because this one had a neat NASA/ISS theme to it and with some proper upkeep and refurbishing, it would be a great place to shop in, I felt.
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Our stores theme is Oxnard Coffee Shop. The color scheme is brown, there are pictures of Oxnard high on some walls, and there is a big coffee shop in the middle of the store that's usually empty. Technically, the theme is Oxnard. But that raises troubling questions about "why is everything brown" and "why are the historical pictures mostly out of sight?"
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Oct 22, 2019 12:53
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RandomPauI posted:This is a retails collapse thing and a company CTD thing When people from former Communist countries visited the West for the first time, many of them burst into tears at the variety of goods available at our well-stocked supermarkets and department stores. Under communism, you had to wait in long lines to get anything and store shelves were empty. Oftentimes you just got a ticket and had to wait months or years for consumer goods. Young "socialists" these days don't realize how good they have it and how lucky they are to live under capitalism!
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In 1983 the CIA came to the conclusion that the average Soviet citizen was eating about the same amount of food as Americans, but that their diet was more nutritious: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...D6an1pa4dwJeWhI Lambert fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Oct 22, 2019 |
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Oct 22, 2019 13:32
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It turns out that if you give people more choices, they'll often make terrible ones. To what extent that makes it okay/not okay to increase or constrain choice I think is one of those interesting moral questions that you can debate forever because there's no obvious right answer that you can generalize with.
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Oct 22, 2019 13:50
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Lambert posted:In 1983 the CIA came to the conclusion that the average Soviet citizen was eating about the same amount of food as Americans, but that their diet was more nutritious: is this before or after accounting for alcohol lol
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Morbus posted:is this before or after accounting for cocaine lol
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Oct 22, 2019 19:18
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Cocaine is fairly insignificant on a caloric level and most users insufflate it, not ingest it.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Cocaine is fairly insignificant on a caloric level and most users insufflate it, not ingest it. You're still introducing it into the bloodstream though.
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Mister Facetious posted:You're still introducing it into the bloodstream though. If you're doing enough cocaine to be comparable in quantity to meals or alcohol ingestion, you probably have things to worry about other than putting on a few pounds. I'm sad to see Fry's is at death's door, but I'm not surprised. I used to love going to the one in Mesquite for milling around / getting the occasional part. Oh well, Newegg seems healthy enough, and Amazon isn't going anywhere short of the federal government stepping in.
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Logic Probed posted:A Fry's I used to work at had a decent selection of travel adapters in the Components selection. In fact, I was helping my father get such a thing for when he made his business trip to India that day. The one in Webster? I think I'm going to have to visit the one on 59 when we go to the Houston Arcade Expo next month and see if it's almost dead too. It's a pity because I love visiting their home theater mockup and wish I could have one just like it.
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Silly Burrito posted:The one in Webster? I was there a couple weeks ago and yes, it's dying. Every other shelf is empty and pegs are spread out with like one item on each. It makes me sad.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Cocaine is fairly insignificant on a caloric level and most users insufflate it, not ingest it. Cocaine is an appetite suppressant
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Rolabi Wizenard posted:I was there a couple weeks ago and yes, it's dying. Every other shelf is empty and pegs are spread out with like one item on each. It makes me sad. Aw dammit.  Going to Fry's was always one of the highlights of the Houston trip.
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The Fry's on 59 is from my trip report above. 1 of 18 checkout lanes was open, but it was also early afternoon before jobs normally let out so I didn't think too much of it. Dameius fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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CHEF!!! posted:If you're doing enough cocaine to be comparable in quantity to meals or alcohol ingestion, you probably have things to worry about other than putting on a few pounds. Yeah, like what your constituents (lol) and donors want, or how your poll numbers are.
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I actually kind of need to go to a Fry's, I need a new chair for my office, and I'd like to try a bunch out, but apparently they won't have any in stock.
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pseudanonymous posted:I actually kind of need to go to a Fry's, I need a new chair for my office, and I'd like to try a bunch out, but apparently they won't have any in stock. Just take one of the staff chairs and walk out with it. If they stop you tell them you work for collections
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Walk-in with an armful of cheap keyboards and offer to trade them for a chair. Or a chairs worth of fidget spinners.
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Oct 25, 2019 07:52
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I think Staples is still around and carries furniture? Maybe try there
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Fry's still had a number of chairs. They were all lovely gamer race car chairs. But they had them.
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Scaramouche posted:I think Staples is still around and carries furniture? Maybe try there Yeah Staples closed a large number of stores but there are still locations and they have typical office furniture type stuff instead of just gamer chairs or whatever.
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Lambert posted:In 1983 the CIA came to the conclusion that the average Soviet citizen was eating about the same amount of food as Americans, but that their diet was more nutritious: Cicero posted:It turns out that if you give people more choices, they'll often make terrible ones. To what extent that makes it okay/not okay to increase or constrain choice I think is one of those interesting moral questions that you can debate forever because there's no obvious right answer that you can generalize with. It also helps that the Soviets weren't incentivized to make their food addictive.
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Neo Rasa posted:Yeah Staples closed a large number of stores but there are still locations and they have typical office furniture type stuff instead of just gamer chairs or whatever. When I moved I bought my "Gamer" chair from them for about $100. Seems good quality and it's a staples exclusive. Also Staples has a good presence in most major metropolitan areas and if my users (I work in service desk) need an emergency keyboard, Ethernet cable, whatever I usually direct them there.
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I have a weird body (short/wide) so a lot of standard chairs are either too tall or not wide enough for me. And I work from home so I'm in my chair a lot, I sort of had a revelation last week that I really need a good chair, that's probably why my back hurts almost all the time. I am building a standing desk but still want a good chair. gonna try Fry's and Staple's and we'll see.
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I used a dxracer ~gamer~ chair for a couple of years that I got it off almost free unused off some guy that was too fat for it and it was rather comfortable, could even lay it flat to nap on it.
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Dameius posted:Fry's still had a number of chairs. They were all lovely gamer race car chairs. But they had them. Hey, don't knock these things. They're ugly as poo poo, but some of them are super comfy. If I can find one that's not horrendous I might end up making it my next office chair.
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yeah it wouldn't surprise me to learn that gamer chairs are made to be comfortable, what with being designed for people who are going to sit in them for 18 hours a day or whatever they also need to be way more durable, the average gamer weighs 3 times as much as the average office worker
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Also, just good car seats are really incredibly comfortable, so anything modeled off of them is going to be awesome. If I could have turned the alcantara seats from my old car into office chairs I would have done that in a heartbeat.
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IIRC most gamer chairs are literally surplus race car seats with extra branding. Or at least made in the same factory in China.
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Mozi posted:IIRC most gamer chairs are literally surplus race car seats with extra branding. Or at least made in the same factory in China. That explains both why they are ugly as sin but comfortable as gently caress. My friend’s wife loved her gaming chair so much she used it for gaming while she was pregnant AND in the nursery room afterwards. That was enough to convince me to buy one lol.
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And here I thought i had the better idea just buying an office chair.
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pseudanonymous posted:I have a weird body (short/wide) so a lot of standard chairs are either too tall or not wide enough for me. And I work from home so I'm in my chair a lot, I sort of had a revelation last week that I really need a good chair, that's probably why my back hurts almost all the time. I am building a standing desk but still want a good chair. Check Craigslist and FB Marketplace for the guys who refurbish/sell used Herman Miller Aerons, look for a size C [they make the chairs in A, B and C, size C is an oversized model built for big/wide guys and they have many adjustments]. That should be in the $250-400 range used. They'll last 10-20 years and if anything wears out its easy to get replacement parts for them.
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Lambert posted:In 1983 the CIA came to the conclusion that the average Soviet citizen was eating about the same amount of food as Americans, but that their diet was more nutritious: This is a scanned transcript of a Reuter release of a summary of a claimed report with no attribution. Every one of the cited stats is nonsensical or based on nutrition science that would have already been out of date in the early 80s for decades. Just...stop citing this or claiming it. Wipe it from your memory. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Oct 26, 2019 |
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Discendo Vox posted:This is a scanned transcript of a Reuter release of a summary of a claimed report with no attribution. Every one of the cited stats is nonsensical or based on nutrition science that would have already been out of date in the early 80s for decades. Just...stop citing this or claiming it. Wipe it from your memory. It's probably still outdated science (and comes with a bunch of data sourcing caveats) but at least this is an actual CIA report.
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Dxracer chairs and their ilk are overpriced garbage and you're far better off buying a refurbed Steelcase or Hermann Miller off ebay
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000498133.pdf The Forum Propaganda Authority just told you to delete it from your memory. Please don't contaminate our feeble minds with this obvious Psy-Ops anymore 
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Big K of Justice posted:Check Craigslist and FB Marketplace for the guys who refurbish/sell used Herman Miller Aerons, look for a size C [they make the chairs in A, B and C, size C is an oversized model built for big/wide guys and they have many adjustments]. That should be in the $250-400 range used. They'll last 10-20 years and if anything wears out its easy to get replacement parts for them. Thanks! I found an actual chair thread in hardware, and this is basically what I decided to do. I'm going to go to a showroom in downtown Seattle first and try out the various chairs until I find one that fits me well, then just pursue second hand opportunities. The thought of not having constant back pain is making positively giddy.
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