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I was shocked to see a 2L bottle of Dr Pepper that cost $3. I'm not going to be drinking it anymore out of principle. The really insulting thing about McDonald's is the service is …

I have never heard of this with regards to PTSD, I will investigate. Thank you!

I hesitate to write this, but PTSD is a bit more complex than that. In some cases there's damage to the hippocampus, which doesn't get better. I've had 40 years to make peace with …

I admit my memory on the subject is imperfect. :-)

I bought half a dozen of these from Radioshack they were more or less giving them away after the fall. There were lots of library apps that sprung up where you could scan your DVDs…

So the folks who own all the stocks want the government to bid up their assets?

Yup. Use one every day for Fusion360 and Blender.

Despite the rosey memories, it encoded the audio in ATRAC. I don't want a lossy audio format in my life.

I might be able to dig up pictures but they'd be of the iPhone 3G variety.

I've been to the Keck (back 15 years or so ago). It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience seeing that telescope which was in so many PBS specials (the astronomers comes to mind)… but…

I had a similar experience in the 5th grade. We had a creative writing assignment (write x many pages), and I wrote a short story about "space spiders" that spun giant webs between…

I don't speak Armenian, but I dated an Armenian woman once, and she told me they have words for familial relationships that we didn't really have concepts for in English.

I worked for a lab that did IR research 20 years ago, so I don't know if this is still the case. But at the time, the IR sensors were made with a rare mineral only available in a r…

Precisely. I got a new land-line-number in the early 2000s. One day, I got a collection call for someone with a Mexican surname. I explained I had just gotten the number and I didn…

It came from here... correct or incorrect. https://byjus.com/jee/diamagnetic-materials/

A diamagnetic material. "In simple terms, diamagnetic materials are substances that are usually repelled by a magnetic field. Electrons in an atom revolve around the nucleus, and t…

Thank you, I will look into this.

I am just confronting this now. My daughter is 6, and I'm trying to teach her math and reading. She's excelling at reading. The thing about math is, I have to teach her math the wa…

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> So either you’re being an unreliable narrator or Grubhub in particular has gone off a cliff. This is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read. You're taking a premise you have …

I have a story I'm fond of telling-- I ordered a pizza from GitHub for pickup. The restaurant was literally closed when I arrived. GitHub customer service instantly "resolved" the …

Disney uses all this data to "optimize" the park-- for profitability. They're not interested in you, exactly. They've gamified the park, which is what sucks about it now. I was ver…

I worked for a university here in So Cal. Our lab fell on hard times and we were scrapping equipment. We had a Crimson series (if memory serves) server that had originally cost lik…