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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Doors tend to open outwards for safe evacuation in places like the Nordic countries, the Baltics, Russia, Korea and Japan. It's not for safety. It's to prevent Kramer entrances. 
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Hyperlynx posted:Are there any good female equivalents of "guy", "dude", or "man" that work for casual conversation? As in "Hey, good on you, man!" "Way to go, comrade!"
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Aug 9, 2022 11:57
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Tiggum posted:Oh, no, I know that one. I was looking for a non-gendered equivalent. "Sororal" is to "sister" as "fraternal" is to "brother", but what word pairs with "sibling"? Siblingual.
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Aug 9, 2022 14:47
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Tiggum posted:Why not? If you use 7zip the communists win.
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Aug 20, 2022 07:01
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Tiggum posted:I'm looking for a verb meaning "to use tools". I've come up with "work", "handle", "operate", "manoeuvre" and "manipulate" but I'm not entirely happy with any of them. What other options am I missing? Jigger. As in "I jigger the thingy with my whatchamacallit until it works"
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Aug 28, 2022 14:18
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McCracAttack posted:Why does everyone say grocery store tomatoes taste awful? Sure they vary in quality but whenever I've had tomatoes from someone's garden they were just "good" tomatoes. Nothing life changing. I've heard from my US friends that this is an American thing. Like US supermarkets usually had bland tasteless large tomatoes and you'd need to go to farmer's markets to get decent tomatoes. But they told me that the tomatoes in Europe tend to be good everywhere. This was a while ago so maybe that has changed or maybe that's only in some parts of the US?
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Aug 29, 2022 09:45
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McCracAttack posted:Absolutely. The audio quality of the voices here is actually kind of bad and hissy but you can't really hear it over the midi soundtrack so who cares. Funnily enough, the intro cutscene has the worst speech quality, because in the disk version that was the only speech in the game and they kept it the same for the CD version. The in-game speech is better quality because it was only in the CD version.
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Sep 1, 2022 06:14
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Flipperwaldt posted:
I've been doing it all wrong. I've been putting rhubarb into concrete for years. No wonder all those houses collapsed.
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!Klams posted:I've sort of accidentally gone onto a one meal a day diet, and I'm finding it motivating, enlivening and just generally working for me, which is super weird because 5/2 intermittent fasting fuckin sucked. One meal a day seems to be the natural mode for me also. I like eating a large dinner in the evening and not much else. Sometimes I have something small for breakfast. And also I am not in any way strict, if I feel like I need to eat, I eat. Like when I do long bike trips. OMAD is just what I gravitate to automatically. Seems to work fine for me, but just listen to your body.
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Sep 23, 2022 07:56
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Inceltown posted:How big are you meals / rides? The idea of having to eat my maintenance calories + marathon calories in a single meal is daunting af and I'm a huge meal lover rather than grazer. I meant that when I do long rides, I eat more meals that day. I also tend to eat slowly. So I cook a quite large dinner and I eat a few servings over the course of a few hours, while I do other stuff. So it's not just a sit down at the dinner table and eat a pile of food. So my way of life might not work for everyone.
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greazeball posted:First word is "MADICUL" (medical) Could the second word be some mangled version of "Hydrogen"? So "Medical hydrogen peroxide"?
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Sep 24, 2022 08:21
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Outrail posted:This felt like reading a Q anon post but sane and with some kind of actual logic. This mystery was more interesting and exciting than the Da Vinci Code.
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Sep 25, 2022 14:28
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BonHair posted:You haven't tried my sauces You haven't tried my slime.
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Sep 26, 2022 16:06
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Blue Labrador posted:If I'm flirting with someone, or happen to land a date with someone who's smarter than me, how do I be a good conversationalist with someone way smarter than me without derailing them with dumb poo poo? I usually feel like I'm socially able, but I had a meeting with someone far more intelligent than me. While I found them attractive (their intelligence included), I didn't know how to engage with them without feeling like I was detracting from their thoughts. Ask them what their Myers-Briggs type is and why they feel that their type is the best one.
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And also having a PhD or similar really impressive education doesn't make a person somehow exceptionally intelligent. They are super knowledgeable about their own field and they clearly display an impressive ability to work and study. But every PhD or expert I know are just regular silly dumb people when you consider them as a whole. (Edit: In a good way I mean)
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Oct 12, 2022 13:11
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Silver Falcon posted:On land they look like fat sausages/cigars. They lie flat and undulate themselves to get around. The perfect being.
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Oct 12, 2022 16:58
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Hyperlynx posted:Honestly, kind of works anyway. All they do is sleep, eat poisonous leaves, scream like demons, and contract chlamydia. But their breath is super fresh.
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Oct 13, 2022 07:01
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smackfu posted:You could choose to buy slide film or negative film. Slide film was developed directly and framed to make slides, negative film was developed into negatives and then prints were made from them. As a somewhat knowledgeable film hipster. Slide film has worse dynamic range, so it's less forgiving. You need to have the exposure right. With negatives you can under/over expose a lot more and still end up with a good shot after correcting it in the development phase. You can look at the slide with your bare eyes and see what it looks like in terms of colors. With a negative it's not clear what the image should look like. Slides are not too relevant anymore, but my mom still has several of these slide reels full of photos my dad took of us as a kid. So the one big advantage was to be able to project the photos onto the wall.  Yeah, Velvia is the hit product in the slide film category and it has nice properties, but projectors were the main reason to use them in the olden days. Negatives you only got as small prints. And like you said the one less step in the developing process removes one step where things can go wrong in terms of final result, but the downside is that slides cannot be printed easily (in the old world). There's nothing like sitting through a proper slide show of vacation photos. lobsterminator fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Oct 15, 2022 |
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alnilam posted:^^^ There's a great book about those sorts of questions called The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. It's been a while but I think potable water would last as long as the current fill of the local water tower does. Hopefully they can figure out how to drink from a stream after that. Grabbed that book from Audible, thanks for the tip!
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Oct 19, 2022 16:53
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FCKGW posted:Oh, I just remembered a good example. There was a DVD disc format back in the early 2000s called Flexplay. The discs were shipped in vacuum sealed containers and contained a special die that, after exposure to oxygen, would start to turn black and become unreadable after 48 hours. They billed this as an alternative to the DVD rental market where you could buy them anywhere and didn’t have to return them. The format crashed and burned pretty quick. The modern alternative is to make movies so bad that you won't want to watch them again.
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Oct 22, 2022 18:35
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Boba Pearl posted:I need photo references for drawing of just absolute rear end weed. Like just gross stress and chronic. The worst weed. Marijuana that is instantly identifiable as dogshit. The kind of weed where even someone who does not smoke weed would recognize as "Not Worth It," but I can't find the right keywords. 70s weed. 
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Oct 25, 2022 08:43
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Wouldn't DVDs also survive a solar flare or EMP? So burn your photos to discs?
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kalel posted:brother : brethren :: sister : ? 
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Nov 16, 2022 18:46
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YggiDee posted:What is an audio codec, why are there so many, and why do I never have the correct one? They are different algorithms for compressing and storing sound. An analogy would be compression formats like .zip and .rar but instead of being separate files, a video file can have the audio stored within the file in different formats. Similarly the video portion of the file can be stored in different codecs like H.264 or MPEG-4. So the software playing the file will need to have support for both the video and audio codecs used in the file. That said, I have not needed to deal with individual file formats or codec issues in years thanks to programs like VLC that pretty much always play any file out of the box.
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Tiggum posted:Obviously this is a dumb scam: I don't know but that sounds like a good Crusader Kings challenge. Start off with a $49.95 lordship and rise to rule the British isles.
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Nov 28, 2022 10:13
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Fruits of the sea posted:It's a funny present, that's basically it. I also own a plot in Islay. That gimmick where you buy one of the better Laphroaig bottles you get a square foot of land.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Double post for my question: This will probably vary greatly from one place to the next. All the readers I've seen in many years work with any NFC payments (Google, Apple, contactless cards). It is such a non issue that I don't even carry cards with me, just my phone. Are your problems Apple Pay specific or do Google payments also cause problems? Or contactless cards if those are common there?
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" and I keep getting customers huffing and having to ask their spouses/friends they're shopping with to borrow a card or pay for it.
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CzarChasm posted:I'm making some custom Star Wars poker chips/credits for a friend for christmas, and I'm trying to figure out how many to make. You mean Pazaak chips? (I just started replaying KOTOR after amost two decades).
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credburn posted:I work at a 7-11 and I would loving love it if we got rid of cash. Observing the way people pay, here is my rundown: Here it's pretty much: Kids: Coins or sometimes card Teenagers to older adults: Pay with card or phone Old people: Drop a huge pile of pennies onto the table and make the cashier count the exact amount from them.
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Lincoln posted:Brexit was good for England. This we can all agree on.
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Delphisage posted:What do I do if someone tells me to stop posting? 
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Dec 7, 2022 08:23
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dupersaurus posted:Since batteries are just chemical reactions cooling them off can slow the reaction down and reduce the charge. But I don't know how much you'd notice unless you're leaving it out exposed for long periods of time, out of your pocket and not in a heated location I've definitely had issue when it's like -20C (-4F) or colder. Especially when my phone was pretty old to begin with.
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Qubee posted:Do probiotics even work? I've been having problems with my gut for the longest time. I got a bad case of C Difficile and I don't think I ever got back to 100% after it. I've been taking probiotics for a week now, I always thought they were bogus cause they just get destroyed in the stomach. It's got some cheesy marketing ultrashield capsule that supposedly gets to the small intestine. I have noticed slight positive changes but I don't know if it's placebo. Like with most things, I do believe they can be good for you, but they are touted as a more dramatic cure-all than they are. I just mainly eat yoghurt and sauerkraut because they taste good.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I'm sure there's a e/n thread, or maybe TGD, for it, but I want to know more about Seasonal Affective Disorder and how to get help/support. I live very north and it's hard. A sunlight lamp is a must have. Below just a random example, not recommendation for that particular model. https://www.lumie.com/products/vitamin-l Also vitamin D supplements. And I try to go out in the middle of the day as much as I can. Now there's sunlight about 9.30am-3pm so if you work normal hours it's dark before and after. So as much as possible I try to do shopping etc at noon so I see some light.
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credburn posted:Question: Do patriotic folks in other countries have the same reverence for the founders of their countries as conservatives in the US? I don't really see many examples of it. It seems like everyone in the world might know that George Washington was the first president of the United States but I don't think I could name a single first-leader from any other country. I think the US is somewhat unique in terms of the founding. Most countries have a long history where countries were under lots of reigns for millenia. The US had a clear beginning and the founders have reached a mythical status. I live in Finland and we were tossed between Russian and Swedish empires for ages and only got our independence in 1917. There are really not that much revered heroes. I think one person our chuds love is Mannerheim, who was a military leader in our civil war and WWII, but I don't think even they are that upset if you poo poo on him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_Emil_Mannerheim
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Killingyouguy! posted:In addition my understanding is that the tines of the fork stay pointed down in the European style, while in the American style they might flip over to scoop food up I'm European and yes that is the common way, but I tend to scoop a lot. I just think it's inefficient to have the tines down for anything that you don't pierce with them.
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Ras Het posted:I'm pretty sure Italians don't eat pasta with a spoon and fork, that's also an American innovation Italians eat pasta by holding both hands like this and placing a single strand of spaghetti between the hands. 
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Mister Facetious posted:Anyone know what font this is: It seems to be Cumberland Bold. https://www.myfonts.com/products/bold-cumberland-342851
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Fruits of the sea posted:As far as I can tell, dongers vary greatly in size according to time of day, temperature and probably a bunch of other factors? Idunno man, it's a weird appendage. Sometimes the size even changes when you look at a naked person.
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Tiggum posted:I have a desktop computer running windows 10 that was plugged into a monitor, but is now plugged into an old tv, so the screen resolution has been reduced from 1920x1080 to 1280x720 - and everything's too big. How do I shrink the UI elements? I'm sure it's not supposed to look like this. Nothing fits on the screen. Scaling in display settings is set to 100%, which is apparently the minimum. Welcome to modern UI. That looks as intended, but Windows 10 wasn't designed for 720 users. You can't scale the UI below 100%, but you could try to set the resolution to be higher. So if possible set the resolution to be 1920x1080 even though it's not the native resolution. It would be scaled thus not super sharp, but maybe would look more natural for the screen.
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