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Doesn't even need to be metal: they make sure you aren't touching skin-to-skin anywhere while you are in the machine (for example, don't put your hands together) in order to avoid …

I guessed 2021 for one photo which turned out to be Joe Biden's inauguration fireworks. It tells me I was 20 years off?

I like the idea but there were several examples where I found a word but it was not the word the game wanted, and I was told "invalid word". Examples: I found "STONE" but the corre…

Through completely dumb luck, I guessed only the names of fruit, the answer was a fruit, and got it in 6!

You probably also saw the arrows on the road itself as a reminder of the correct direction of travel. Those are always near any places tourists are likely to stop, since after a br…

or on a hike with a UE Boom

Along the same lines, if the father was still alive, could he not vouch for his son at some point?

I was surprised by this too! I tried (briefly) to find a source, but it seems to be an urban legend: https://www.answers.com/Q/How_did_Canada_geese_get_their_nam...

I'm in the same boat, lost my BankID and with it everything it unlocks. I live 20000km from Sweden and can't easily make that trip, especially during the covid travel restrictions.…

You can add "DisablePocket": true (and many other things) to your policies.json file. In my case that file is a symlink to a single master copy I maintain outside of the FF install…

They do, and it's jarring! Even though I find memcpy and friends to be perfectly logical using the assignment analogy suggested by thwarted, I often need to re-read english sentenc…

TIL: Obama is a hippopotamus

I seem to recall they used to serve Scan meatballs (well known Swedish brand) but outsourced to someone else a few years ago as a cost saving measure. Or maybe that was just in Swe…

Earlier today I watched a video where someone reported that his medium term youtube income averaged about 15 GBP per 10000 views (based on a couple of million views over a year). T…

It's been done: http://n-gate.com/

Known as diagonal billing: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DiagonalBilling Goes back to at least 1941, according to that page

Several years ago I worked in a small office with a coke machine, and we would put the empty cans into a bin next to it that the cleaners would (presumably) take away from time to …

ingen nämnd, ingen glömd

There is a Swedish expression: nobody is named, and nobody is forgotten. Usually you hear it in a workplace setting when people (often, a subset of the correct group) are being ack…

Here are providers that offer spot pricing to consumers: https://www.flickelectric.co.nz/pricing-and-plans https://www.pauatothepeople.co.nz/cheap-as.html Aside from this, peak / o…

I apologize, 2.2 million doses have been administered. Source: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/... At any rate, my point was not how many are , but how …

April 19: Quarantine free travel opens between NZ and Australia, as both countries are "covid free". Everyone looks forward to holidays and some limited return to travel normality.…

Last I checked, Ikea pencils are those stupidly short ones. Now you can take two or three and use this tool to make a full size one!

Well, as a Swedish speaker I will respectfully disagree with your pronunciation. To my ears the the y is not like the e in me, but I can't think of a good English equivalent. (in f…

Here's a similar video, where the same robot plays table tennis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8