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Comment #28740221
Now here's a guy who can really break down what ruins a broadcast crew.
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Comment #28740209
Let's see ESPN get a reservation at Dorsia now!
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Comment #28709485
Buy an old Dodge W250 with a 12-valve Cummins 6BT, and enjoy mechanical fuel injection and 160 hp. No emissions control, no timing chain or belt, no overhead cams, no aluminum bloc…
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Comment #28373341
There are far more government social programs than unenployment benefits and stimulus checks.
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Comment #27255529
GMO implies a lab process with specific alteration of genes, while traditional plant breeding to traits only exposes phenotypes as indication of results, and relies on the pre-exis…
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Comment #27038151
I'm guessing the hole it originally sat in is still visible?
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Comment #26975274
"Don't worry, the AI says the bridge is okay. We've got fresh filler and paint over all the recognizable cracks!"
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Comment #26700322
But Doom Eternal wasn't developed from the original Doom engine, same with the new Flight Simulator.
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Comment #26250909
For those asking, it's in section seven, additional clauses: Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material you add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by …
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Comment #26239743
The closest that's actively used is Wabtec's FLXdrive, which is a battery-powered locomotive run between two conventional diesel-electrics. Not a bad idea, since braking with the e…
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Comment #25188109
If you incite violence against a specific group using a specific platform then yes, the publisher has some degree of responsibility for that. What's wrong about that observation?
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Comment #25182321
Sell sturdy vehicles with compelling features, like standard front three-point seatbelts in 1959? Volvo did go through the financial wringer into the 1970s, with a rocky launch of …
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Comment #25162835
They look like reasonable bookcase speakers to me, not enough hard gray plastic with yellowing from heat to be vintage OEM like these: https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/z/Bi0…
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Comment #25104856
It's an easy qualitative decision to consider a variety of species with pleasant calls and plants which coexist in their own niches better than swarms of one single species of bird…
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Comment #24888718
That's why you use dust or pyrethrin spray as well, and seal them in afterwards. Hot burning wasp death!
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Comment #24829951
Blood doping increases red blood cell count and compensates for physiological changes which happen during an event like the Tour de France, it's disingenuous to call it nutrients.
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Comment #24665765
Is there evidence to suggest that standard immune response to coronaviruses doesn't apply to this particular strain?
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Comment #24627375
>$250 "ran when parked" car How to get an absolute hooptie sitting in your driveway waiting for replacement parts.
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Comment #23953965
>endomorph body type Somatypes are an ancient pseudoscience, while caloric intake relative to TDEE doesn't lie.
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Comment #23000987
Caffeine seems to be a known bronchodilator, so you're not wrong there.
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Comment #22739453
A deliberately obtuse interpretation, a fence is a manmade structure while those aren't.
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Comment #22649933
2000 Volvo with same radio interface as the earlier 850. For playing a particular song, rest my wrist on the shift lever and push seek next until it gets to the right track. For a …
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Comment #22568016
Feels like North Korea's magic ability to resurrect military commanders after they're allegedly executed by artillery cannon, etc., lies running laps before the truth puts on its s…
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Comment #22557458
And to be more specific, you can roughly model it with a Gompertz function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz_function