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Pinterest Mom posted:i would 100% lose my poo poo if someone brought a dog to the office we have one dog that essentially keeps working hours in the office, and another one that used to come in on fridays but i think he died. he was friendly. the one that lives in the office barks at me a lot. did you know that san francisco has more pet dogs in the city limits than human beings under the age of 18? H.P. Hovercraft posted:Thank you! i find a pro thing to do when ending an email requesting something is to pre-emptively thank them for helping b/c people often then feel like a jerk if they say no
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why arent you asleep hp, don't you have work tomorrow
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Shifty Pony posted:a corollary to the "don't rent to college students" rule is "don't rent from people that rent to college students" the house next door to my dad's place sold to a college slumlord who turned it into probably-illegal apartments and now the douchebags that rent it leave cans of four loko all over the back yard and set fire to phone books in their "bbq pit" and rev up their bro-trucks allnight and bang skanky hoes so my dad pees on their lawn.
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fleshweasel posted:uh thats douchey agreed.... but he has reminded me that there are people who call salsa "salsa dip" and  
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Dec 9, 2014 19:15
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at my undergrad university there was a jaguar limousine (not like a stretch limo, just the fancy gently caress-you car that only people with chauffeurs buy) with saudi diplomatic plates that would always park right in the middle of the footpath in front of one of the dorms
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yeh i knew a pair of japanese kids when i was in school who were from a wealthy family and they would just tell their parents "oh, yeah, we need more money, $12,000 a month is just barely enough, america is soooooooooo expensive" and the parents who had never been to america believed them i guess. the girl started school with a brand new yellow corvette then decided it was too scary so she got a brand new yellow hummer h2 instead
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Dec 9, 2014 19:44
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also "we don't employ any drivers, we are just helping people find other people who need rides for a nominal fee"
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Waroduce posted:Reading this thread is loving nuts, tech 'culture' is so hosed and divorced from reality im just there's a very good reason that people keep making references to fraternities. constant "pep rally" attitudes? meaningless hazing activities like forcing people to stand for hours? never taking time off from "the team" for personal reasons a la "bros before hos?" it's the worst of institutionalized power-abuse being sold as just the ~new way of doing business~
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the entire time I read this thread. I just don't get it.
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born on a buy you posted:president crow would like you to know asu isn't even in the top 10 party schools anymore as an asu alumnus (lol), president crow is an ok dude in my book. yeah he's overpaid and cares too much about sports and fundraising. but when some group of batshit tea partiers tried to get a state bill passed to allow students and teachers to carry guns on campus to DEFEND ARE SELVES, he put out this press release quote:Arizona State University, like any major research university, is a very special and very complex learning environment. In addition to more than 70,000 of our own college students, we have day care centers, elementary school programs and thousands of elementary school age visitors in a given week, as well as thousands of out-of-state teenagers and their parents visiting. so he's a good guy by my reckoning. i didn't understand that bill at all. literally none of the faculty or school administration supported it and neither did >95% of the students. bunch of wack jobs trying to push their own "freedoms" on people who very much did not want them
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Jonny 290 posted:seizure dogs are amazing and awesome  , it's super coolbut what would you think of people registering seizure doges if they also had electronic seizure detectors that were more effective actually is there even some kind of process for that? can you just say "my dog detects when i'm gonna glitch out" or do they have to demonstrate the ability to be able to get registered
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vodkat posted:Hell even babbies first club, like the oxford and cambridge, charge under 30 over $1000 a year. this place charges $2400 a year so i dunno what comparison you're making here exactly
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:excuse me but the preferred term is "the second war of independence" i like pointing out that the famous dixie flag is actually the jack of the confederate navy. the flag of the confederate states of america is totally different and the battle flag is similar but square, not rectangular. hasn't gotten me shot yet!
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eschaton posted:they're trained to instantly respond "states' rights!" whenever anyone brings up their treasonous rebellion they're right though. it was about states' rights. the big one under discussion was that some of the states wanted the right to treat people as property however i've found that the best response to this is just to quote texas' declaration of secession quote:...maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.... like i don't really know how any other ways to read that one
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infernal machines posted:it's true, bill is a good christian boy, he only goes for vaginal sex Of course, lady pigs only. What do think he is, a fuckin' queer??
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:then again i think these are yosposters who don't read cjs so they're unaware that i'm about to enter into an interracial marriage tbh this is with a woman who is only half non-white, and the non-white part is one of the "good" races, and she's rich and from a family that is part of the country club it's about the least interracial interracial marriage you could get imo
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born on a buy you posted:lol at how continually lovely of a poster you are lol @ u defending h p because you're also a rich fuckoid from the south except where hp's racism and wealth-flaunting is cheeky and fun, etc etc supertroopers you're the fatass everyone hates.
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Citizen Tayne posted:hahaha yeah, you're so much better as an oblivious doctor's son from another country that moved to the most expensive city in North America for fun this made me nod sagely
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born on a buy you posted:he's a Canadian doctor though. they're basically nurse practitioners. this made me shake my head derisively
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Looks like the most susceptible areas are the mission district and the Oracle complex in redwood city
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What was the one for the process of becoming deli meat
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Jonny 290 posted:lol u live in the projects? iirc every building built prior to 1960- something in San Francisco is automatically rent controlled
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qirex posted:Do you have too many friends? Do you absolutely hate when someone wants to hang out with you? Are you the kind of person who is far too important to field a text from each individual friend and would simply like to put a big "Do Not Disturb" sign on your life? Well get excited, because your new favorite app just hit the iPhone and it's ready to tell all your annoying acquaintances to bark up someone else's social tree. It's called Red/Green, and it's the quickest way to feel super important. true innovation. icq certainly couldn't have come up with this concept in like 1995
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qirex posted:I imagine most of those are sold unfinished, the $30 million penthouse in the millenium tower in SF did since they assumed [probably correctly] that whoever bought it would want the whole inside to exactly their specifications or they don't really give a poo poo because it's their fifteenth pied-a-terre and they plan to use it two weeks a year and only bought it because it's the top floor of the tallest residential building in the world
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when i was a kid we had some family friends in nyc who lived in a 1br. they had a living room, a kitchen, the bedroom, and a bathroom. the dad and the son slept on separate beds in the bedroom, which was basically just the kid's room except at night, and the mom slept on a pull out couch in the living room. to answer the immediate question, i have no idea
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i think it would be kinda nice to have a couch so i could watch movies in a place other than my bed, but the choice was between having a place for a couch or a place for a workbench so lol no question there really
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Citizen Tayne posted:I grew up in a family with eight kids and two adults in a 1280 square foot 3br 1ba rented duplex. well yeah that is much denser obviously (you win!) but i was more pointing out the strangeness of the parents splitting it up as father/son in the bedroom and mom on the couch instead of the parents together and teh kid separate. i had never met a family that did it that way before. is that common in other parts of the world? this family was originally from russia
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i used to eat at my workbench but then i realized it's pretty much always covered in solder balls and filing dust and various glues and solvents so it's probably not the world's best idea
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duTrieux. posted:oh man i hate that guy the founder of greenpeace left the organization when the newer members voted to ban chlorine. not in some specific use, but in general, on the surface of the earth
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prefect posted:creating leather apparently involves a whole mess of insanely unpleasant chemicals, and it poisons the land doesn't need to. you can tan leather with badass
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pointers posted:wow lol CANDU reactors are fantastic. they can run off completely unenriched natural uranium, nuclear waste that comes out of other reactors, old nuclear bombs, and even thorium in the mythical thorium economy. they are also very difficult to melt down and don't produce anything that could be used in a nuclear bomb except tritium, which is necessary for thermonuclear devices, but if you have all the stuff required to make the rest of a hydrogen bomb you can make tritium with your eyes closed i mean sure each reactor needs like a billion dollars' worth of heavy water but lol if your country doesn't have tens of thousands of deep lakes with lots of the stuff hanging around at the bottom the whole world could run on CANDUs forever
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is p well set for nuclear b/c we have places to mine uranium (saskatchewan has a lot of old petrified wood b/c glacial melt), a lot of stable rock to put the reactors on and store waste (the shield), and CANDU reactors which iirc can be used to run off waste
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seriously what the gently caress harper. canada used to have some of the world's best nuclear scientists, aerospace engineers, roboticists, and other high tech industry. all those scottish immigrants don't ya know (scots have always been the world's best engineers). thanks a lot for defunding basic research in favor of ripping poo poo out of the ground you huge rear end in a top hat
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i don't think you can really put one over the other...the greatest advance in human healthcare in history was probably germ theory because all of those things mentioned naturally grew out of it. keeping sewage contained, disinfecting drinking water, handwashing in hospitals and restaurants, sterilization of surgical tools, etc. you had cases like john snow deducing "there's something wrong with the water" but it took the discovery of microorganisms to actually understand the link between the people dying, the pump water, why boiled water was safe, etc
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:it seems stymie has passed the torch to sagebrush in recent weeks im not really sure what people are taking offense with in my post?? i didn't say that sewage wasn't a big deal, just that understanding "germs are what cause disease" is probably even more important because it leads to "ok keep germy sewage away from people" and also dozens of other conclusions that improve public health
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duTrieux. posted:this is why i get mad at companies like google who are all "let's fly blimps with the internet to help developing coutnries!!!" when what they need is goddamn toilets and sewage infrastructure i really get pissy whenever someone mentions the One Laptop Per Child project for this reason because that' what people in the third world need. not clean water, or large-scale agricultural improvement projects, or physical school buildings with enoug textbooks and pencils for all the students, or meaningful governmental reform. laptops! cheap lovely laptops for everyone!
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also because the OLPC project was supported in the majority by their deal where you spent 200 dollars and get one laptop for yourself and one goes to peru or wherever, and the only people doing that were horrible fuckin open sores spergholes who just wanted the laptop to sperg around with because it's open source and runs gnu plus linux and it's ONLY A HUNDRED DOLLARS, ie the same people who buy garbage android tablets for 49.95
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Citizen Tayne posted:Stymie is right though. i'm basically always right, you just disagree with me
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this is carly "spent more money than all other candidates combined and got 0.1% of the vote or something" fiorina right?
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nah chernobyl was a light-water reactor. it's not a suicidally unsafe design but it has several really serious failure modes, one of which was demonstrated in the accident basically in a reactor you always try to keep the right number of neutrons in the core going the right speed. neutrons generated by fission reactions initiate more fission reactions, so more of them means faster reactions. however slower-moving neutrons ("moderated" ones) are much better at starting reactions than fast neutrons, so you also generally want to slow them down in order to make your reactor more efficient. it's this constant balance between moderation and absorption that makes up control of the reaction. in something like a candu, the reactor is full of heavy water. heavy water is an effective neutron moderator, so it increases the efficiency of the reaction. if the reactor were to overheat due to some failure in another part of the system, the heavy water would boil away, reducing the amount of it available for moderation, so the neutrons would speed up, the reaction efficiency goes down, and the reactor cools off. you lost millions of dollars worth of heavy water but you prevented a meltdown. so anyway the chernobyl reactor used solid graphite as a moderator and also ran light water through the core as coolant. light water is also an effective neutron absorber (research reactors in universities often have no more shielding than being placed in a 30 foot deep pool of water, and you can stand above and look down at the core completely safely). so normally you have fast neutrons slowing down in the graphite and then some are being absorbed by the water, balancing the reaction. well when it overheats think of what happens: the water boils away, creating steam voids that no longer serve any real absorption function,, while the graphite stays right where it is making the neutrons more effective. oh dear
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chernobyl also had another mechanical problem which was with the control rods. normally to stop a reaction you can lower these rods made of boron or some other powerful neutron absorber into the core, and they soak up the neutrons and effectively stop the reaction. in the chernobyl design the rods had a couple feet of non-absorbent material at the lower end, so when they started to put the rods in to shut the reactor down, initially they just displaced water and made the reaction even faster. the whole thing blew up before the rods even got into the core iirc besides the void coefficient thing (the effect of steam bubbles in the core), modern reactors have safety features like "control rods that don't have that dumbass feature on the end", rods that can be dropped or fired into the center of the reactor in fractions of a second instead of tens, and the ability to flood the whole thing with liquid or gaseous neutron poisons that will stop the reaction instantly, damaging the core in the process and requiring recommissioning but at least preventing a total disaster.
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infernal machines posted:yeah it turns out graphite burns well yeah that's a whole other thing that happens afterwards. zirconium and uranium will also burn quite nicely at the temperatures you get in a reactor power excursion tho and that's what most fuel bundles are made of. gotta keep the air out and chernobyl originally had that, with some kind of helium system irrc, but it broke when the reactor exploded.
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