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The online community for bionicle has done a solid job of archiving and even polishing the various content that was released over the years. There's a site that collected all of th…

But the companies use of telemarketers isn't a net benefit to society. If the company instead spent on product quality, warranty services, employee benefits, or charity, we'd see m…

This is a very late comment, but in case anyone else is looking at this thread in the future: A quick google search [0][1] seems to prove #5 false, specifically the bit about roads…

Your diabetes analogy fails, because ADHD does not have an environmentally-caused Type 2. ADHD is hereditary, genetic, and has to do with how the brain tends to be wired in that in…

They're not mutually exclusive, and ideally you mix and match. Being on medication is a bit too polarizing, as there are people who vilify it, or otherwise shame people who need to…

> Youth with ADD/ADHD engaged in screen time with an average of 149.1 min/weekday and 59% had a TV in their bedroom. Adjusting for child and family characteristics, having a TV in …

Even if I wasn't someone with ADHD, the comment in question is dismissive of what ADHD actually is, as well as the very-valid treatment of getting medication. Like I said in my com…

I started medication as an adult, lived in a home with two involved & present parents, never saw any doctor about ADHD until I was an adult, and was never an unhappy child. Looking…

Responding to both you and the comment above/below you: Women have a hard time getting symptoms, esp around pain, taken seriously. Oftentimes these symptoms are downplayed or ignor…

As a quick counter-point to *, there is another sub-problem with healthcare/doctors in the US, where often patients with chronic illnesses or not-easily-testable conditions have to…

Paella actually has a lot of variations all over spain, and it was a very "what do we have on-hand" kind of food! My relatives in Madrid have chorizo, shrimp, shellfish, rabbit, ch…

Do you have any more information on the abortion policy you're using as a comparison? Tried to guess which country you were referring to but couldn't find concrete info after a bit…

Mostly because by taking the high value packs, one leaves nothing for the other players/collectors (especially children, for whom boosters are the only potential source of rare car…

Yeah it is definitely just weeks old at most, from what I can tell. I don't go super often, but definitely a few weeks back it was still the old way, and this week they were moved.…

I played some of these for fun with a few friends (more playtime in Yu-gi-oh than pokemon, granted). What I've found fun, especially as the game has evolved to well past the number…

https://indoorgamebunker.com/how-to-weigh-pokemon-packs/ Yep! It's fascinating, aside from how it shouldn't be done. Cards that are holographic seem to weigh more.

My local wal-mart recently moved their cards to behind the customer service desk. I had seen wal-mart TCG sections completely trashed (littered with open packaging, or boxes torn o…

Finding vegan cheeses that work well on pizza is a monumentally difficult task. Miyoko is one of few I've liked for pizza use. I generally don't eat much store bought vegan cheese …

Where I think the imitations are a bit more useful than home cooking (besides the fact that we do like to have some easy imitation meals sometimes), is levelling the playing field …

I'm curious, do you have a link or image of what that "almond milk" you used to have was? Obviously searching for the various possible terms gives results mostly from recent times,…

GBH == Grievous Bodily Harm, for anyone else who didn't know before.

From what I know, this is because the american coca-cola is sweetened with corn syrup, while in other countries it's usually cane sugar. I'm not sure if the corn syrup thing has ch…

> In truth, virtually all forms of power generation in Texas suffered outages during the cold snap, with early reports showing gas plants sustaining the most failures, Webber said.…