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It's hard for temperate folks to appreciate just how incredibly agressive tropical vegetation growth can be. I'm only subtropical but I've got a tree that's about 6 years old and a…

true. It's like the the only reason I open FB anymore....craigslist that isn't a PITA.

Or it's worth buying a decent power sharpener. One black friday I picked up a worksharp(1/2 in belt sharpener with jig) and it's right up there with the microwave and instantpot fo…

>ER wait-times aren't 2-4 hours just because . ER wait times are long because ERs are the only place in the country where we effectively have medicare for all, albeit in a particul…

Same thing you do if AWS goes down. Same thing we used to do back in the desktop days when the power went out. Heck one day before WFH was common we all got the afternoon off 'caus…

Some teas(white and green particularly) are better brewed well under boiling, but even those lower temps kill 99.9...% of pathogens in a few seconds(vs a fraction of a second at fu…

same. I've settled on Empower + google sheets. Empower mostly as a free shortcut to pulling a dozen account balances in seconds. Sheets for keeping quarterly snapshots(in case empo…

It's a weird hybrid. There is a connection to a persons earnings but it's far from what most people mean by a personal account(savings, 401k, IRA). It's closer to an annuity, but a…

Life in the last century or so has become far less conducive to oral history with travel and entertainment. It's much easier to maintain an oral history when live storytelling & mu…

I think this is probably very genre specific. I suspect the nonfiction and realistic fiction boy/manly/macho genres(outdoors, machines, fighting, and the like) may have been especi…

I'm saying that it's more convenient for me to read on the phone in all situations I can imagine. Even at home....I just sat down, kicked up the recliner, and decided to read a noe…

It's wildly more convenient to read on a phone. I prefer the screen, form factor, and overall UX of an e-reader for extended reading sessions, but I haven't turned mine on in years…

No expert but: From day 1 OPEC has been a loose association off frenemies that occasionally manage to work together for a while when enough of them are sufficiently hurting/greedy …

The combined height of a blackhawk and a large jet is about 60ft. The combined length is a bit over 300ft, and since neither aircraft is unlikely to be level, some portion of that …

The old prison favorite of a lock in a a sock can very easily be fatal & probably weights 1/4 to 1/2 of a pound. I once reforged a ball peen hammer into a 1 handed warhammer. It wa…

yea things are crazy now. We're in war mode but nobody knows why. We've been reliably profitable for a decade. And yet we're doing super high risk cost reduction projects that have…

As long as they finally start adding plugin hybrids to the lineup. I'm itching to buy a PHEV tacoma, but it looks like midsize trucks will be the last form factor to get any decent…

Heh, I tend to agree with this. Unfortunately reality always seems to disagree. No matter how simple the job, _something_ new will go wrong that requires multiple trips to home dep…

Risk your life doing what? Eating? All food allergies are deadly. They might not have killed you yet, but every single exposure could be your last. And plenty of people, especially…

and lose profit. If they spend the money to run a safe production line and pass the cost on the the consumer they will loose market share to the company that runs an unsafe product…

Sociopathy is probably a more accurate diagnosis than psychopathy. And corporations are inherently sociopathic. By definition their primary motive is profit and there are often str…

Safest from a corporate liability perspective, not from an inadvertently killing kids perspective. What you're suggesting is precisely what substantially all brands did with sesame…

Video conferencing is probably the #1 time I just don't have nearly enough screen space. I'm always switching back and forth between dev tools, chat, whatever's being presented, ot…

It might sound silly, but I would be fine using this with a keyboard and touchpad. The lousy thing about working from a laptop is the screen being tiny and in the wrong place. It's…