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The original chewing gum was a latex called chicle from tropical trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicle?wprov=sfla1

I would guess that the casino is a relatively cheap space that can do entertainment and conferences and food, and it's not being chosen for the gambling aspects

This is irresponsible on your part. OP has been diagnosed by professionals and is being treated and clearly sees the difference. While high CO2 levels make a measurable difference …

Do you find yourself more lost in the history parts or the gaming parts?

Aside from the reasons stated in the page linked to? The thinking there seems like good fodder for conversation, do you have a more specific question?

I see it as a pointed observation that the people who focus on a goal will accomplish that goal. There are organizations with administrative-focused people who work in alignment wi…

Hi fellow tikit owner! When they did the early upgrade of the cable, I thought it was just some gauge of airplane wire, threaded through the front nut and clamped or welded in plac…

Ok, but to be clear you said all outgoing traffic is charged. The API call price is something else, it's not part of the outgoing traffic.

Reads from s3 via an s3 endpoint inside a vpc to an interface inside of that vpc is not billed.

The parent comment is quoting Pam Bondi doing evasive maneuvers a couple of months ago

Where did you get that idea about NYC water being untreated? NYC treats its water. Chlorine is added if and when needed. Testing stations exist to evaluate water quality all around…

There were publications in the 80s that used that term iirc, and I do recall the term for how slightly incongruous it was, and how it didn't come with an explanation. In looking in…

Oh, thanks for the link. I've been using flameshot for most of the past decade, but haven't been able to use it with pop-os and my monitors recently because it was derotating my mo…

I've only ever heard of that as the type of a DOS/Windows .exe binary.

I believe community should be considered more fundamental than economic consumption.

I think I hear you, but you're phrasing your twist as a choice made by individuals or made by their circumstances, e.g. choices that you are not a party to. However I'm asking abou…

I have started to read "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow and while I cannot speak to most of the book, even in the first hundred or so of (ebook) pages, i…

In that context, what leads you call yourself and the rest of humanity primarily "consumers" in response to an essay? I think this has become uncomfortably (to me) normalized, and …

La Liga (the football company) likes to send out takedown notices to anyone who may host anything that looks like a football to protect their precious games, no matter the collater…

So you think that people who have repatriated themselves would not have any interest in adopting some or all of the values of the place they have gone to? That seems really wrong a…

Doesn't seem to work in Firefox on Linux when I follow the TRY NOW! link and get sent to /setup. Ironically it asks me to copy the link and open it in my browser.

For a long time they were running MySQL on it iirc (outsider, just asked at meetups etc )

I have met people who said they use vim for programming and don't know how to use commands like `%s` and `G` to do those basic things. I don't think most people understand how to u…

Yes, that's what I said

I can buy and pay for an airline ticket online with pix, and not with cash