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giarc

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About giarc

Email is username backwards + pearce + 5 + @gmail.com

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    Comment #48804213

    How? Knowing the location of trains is pretty important.

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    Comment #48763017

    I think blankets are harder simply because of their size. I often have to "whip" the blanket to get the other end to properly fold on itself. I also use a much large space because …

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    Comment #48762981

    As noted in the article, plastic buttons displaced buttons made from clamshells long ago. I doubt a market for zebra mussel buttons could make any dent on the population.

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    Comment #48760910

    What if it breaks something and you still need to clean your house? This thing does not look like it's going to much of anything successfully.

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    Comment #48760885

    I watched the promo video somewhere and when folding the blanket, the video cuts and edits were very suspicious. I doubt it can fold a blanket at all.

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    Comment #48738699

    I think that is key. I used to browse Best Buy's website for various electronics and it was typically pretty good. I knew that somewhere, a Best Buy product buyer was evaluating th…

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    Comment #48691876

    When I read the title, I thought this was "headgear" as in dental appliances and tools. And to be honest, that would also be a cool exhibit.

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    Comment #48490125

    https://driving.ca/auto-news/driver-info/proposed-us-bill-ta...

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    Comment #48490093

    Canadians also hate seagulls, so I wonder if they will do the same (although I'm not sure the Seagull was intended to come to Canada).

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    Comment #48475486

    I agree that the most obvious answer is probably correct, and I think that it was a poorly worded statement, however, I haven't seen them correct it yet (doesn't mean they haven't.…

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    Comment #48460608

    Fellow AB resident here.... then what do you make of their claim that 99.2% (or whatever the number was) of residents in Sylvan Lake, Drumheller etc signed the petition? Has to be …

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    Comment #48460592

    She lives in a different country, Canadian laws can't do anything about it. I'm not sure what the answer is to this, but it's a real problem.

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    Comment #48460525

    Didn't they almost immediately retract that after it became clear so many of the GOP adjacent accounts were based offshore?

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    Comment #48384641

    Here's the journal article from the authors mentioned in the article. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41762869/

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    Comment #48383634

    I saw a headline about this the other day. I couldn't find it but did come across this article. https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/genetic/lab-grown-hair-f... No idea if ZME scien…

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    Comment #48359255

    I get the sentiment that this is unscrupulous, however, isn't 15 days enough time to find the right price? Or will that not really happen until first quarterly earnings report, whi…

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    Comment #48359225

    Perhaps the attacker says that they email was also hacked and "this is my new email now". It sounds like this was a result of AI support and not a real person "And if you're part o…

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    Comment #48243750

    It's probably a bit more nuanced then that. You have to look at the people that use Tiktok... are they generally more left or right? I don't know the answer. I would have said they…

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    Comment #48237774

    Prof G Markets podcast just had an episode on this with Ray Madoff. They talk about the claim that "the top 1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax". But Ray points out that is m…

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    Comment #48236818

    >interesting how this never came up in the Quebec referendums It did come up. It's referenced in the Supreme Court of Canada case on secession. https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc…

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    Comment #48236593

    She may just be happy that MHCare is out of the news. However, I'm not sure if this is any better.

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    Comment #48236547

    It's a very complicated situation in Alberta. There were basically two competing petitions. A "Forever Canada" petition which supported Alberta staying in Canada, however it was bu…

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    Comment #48228514

    MLMs were forced to do this but it doesn't seem to change their recruitment ability.

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    Comment #48207066

    Can you power off and leave in neutral?

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    Comment #48199252

    Not OP but, half truth is here "remains in complete compliance with all requirements of its state-issued wastewater discharge permit" and yet... "Neither hexavalent chromium nor ar…