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I have hypothyroidism I don't experience "as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump." Are you drinking coffee or tea? You shouldn't eat or drink for an ho…

The jump from 1.44MB on a 3.5 floppy to a 650MB CD was astonishing.

Hi, from the other coast. I wish I had solar maybe someday. Do you ever watch Artisan Electric from the UK? He tried to run his shop on 100% solar+battery. He ran into a problem wh…

I guess my hasty purchase meant as only a temporary, times were tight, placeholder Dell Inspiron in 2015 has to do me for another ten years.

I never used to drink any caffeine. In fact the few times I had tried it when I was a teen or my 20s it made my chest pound my heart raced so much. It was Lebanese strong cardamom …

That reminds me of when I was undiagnosed with hypothyroidism only in reverse. In my late 20s I made an effort to dress better, no jeans or dirty sneakers, hair cut, gel, gym at le…

Someone misheard iris for anus? lol

Here in Canada when the new CPC took power its leader PM Harper muzzled scientists from speaking about most things but most of all anything about climate change. It also destroyed …

Believe it or not I've never seen it. I'm a big sci-fi fan but it was never on any station in my region of Canada years ago. Plus over the years it seemed to be really hard to find…

You hear of media companies that delete old music and video from their own archives. People saving what they can may have the only copy left in existence.

But not where it is in real-time or its location history.

Bill Hammack The Engineer Guy has a video series on this subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dW6VYXp9HM

I'm 56 now and I'd agree. I bike in the summer for exercise and I drink while on the go as needed. I always got a headache after exercising. A regular headache not a migraine (neve…

Here in Canada there is Bill S-210 Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act aka "think of the children". I don't think the politicians thought of or could conceive…

It started off as a way for people to get info on cars via fax machine. You ask or enter the vehicle VIN and you get a report. If it was in a crash, in a flood, see if mileage matc…

>our weird lack of fur, the strange way we never clean ourselves by licking, and how bad we are at catching small animals to eat. Or some of us with our tail on backwards.

Here in PEI I'm sure every isolated community has thousands of sayings. The island as a whole I'm sure has many. Canada is probably like that small communities with slang none of u…

The term Hydro for electrical power (power lines) is not used in PEI the older generation would call it the "light bill" younger people now may call it the "power bill". If it was …

> Renoviction That's very common word these days at least here in PEI. Kicking people out to "renovate". It basically means renovate as in sweep the floor and paint a small patch o…

I've often thought how my cat must think I am insane. I sit in from of a medium-sized glowing rectangle, I occasionally look at a small glowing rectangle, then in the evening stare…

>neanderthals were "outcompeted" because homo sapiens had language I think any small groups of humans were just one virus away from extinction. Even we almost disappeared. A specie…

Sega in 2025? I thought they disappeared decades ago.

I did the same after imagining it. Plus I have a half eaten banana in front of me. My life is an illusion!

I yawned after reading the title and imagining a chimp yawn at a robot.

That graph! It's like in 1991 someone flipped a switch and the line just drops.