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by electromagnetic 10y ago
My dad was gifted with cars, and got into programming with fuel injectors back in the day. He worked as a diagnostic mechanic for a lot of years with lots of funny stories (like roping himself to a car roof with the hood taken off), but he&
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
I got 7/8, one of the game scores got me. I'm a writer, so it's reassuring I'm able to tell the difference even in something so trivially short as game scores, and I don't follow a single sport.
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
I'm highly dubious of the article, mainly because it's copywritten to sell a book. Whilst you're right, the evidence is thin to suggest a lack of sodium is the cause of EAMCs, the recommended treatment is often fluids high in
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
Dark urine is a sign of a lot of things, but also dehydration. Frequent urination is a sign of a lot of things, and also over-hydration. However, assuming either are related to your present hydration is dumb. If you're regularly saying
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
It's important to remember hydration is more than just water. Sweating means you lose salts and no amount of water you drink will help, you'll just urinate it out to keep your electrolytes balanced. So it's quite probable his
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
I think the flaws in the thinking with these studies that try to test altruism, and other "odd" behaviours according to Game Theory is that we've become so far removed from where these behaviours originally evolved. The aberr
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
I think you've got to be careful when making a claim that working longer means you live longer. Ignoring that this is anecdotal, but you're comparing across generations, upbringings, etc. Our society is prolonging the lives of our
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
I'm a writer. As much as I work on my craft, when I sit down and put my fingers on the keys I'm not doing any of it. 95% of what I write I have no conscious decision in making. I remember completely scrapping a 1500 word piece, re
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
The examples given only showed that of drinking only water, which I would say is exactly how we see people today. If someone is only drinking water, so avoiding coffee, tea, soda, wine, beer, etc. we see it as something unusual. Normally as
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
In my opinion, once a year would be the upper limit on re readability of a work. I'm a fast reader, not so much in the speed reading sense, but in the sense of a hunter on the Serengeti plains. I don't need to be fast, just deter
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
RCMP have said fairly clearly on a couple of occasions that they have no interest in prosecuting individual offenders for piracy. They took down a tracker, stated explicitly that individuals who had downloaded from it had nothing to worry a
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
That hit likely made that hotel run at a loss that year, which when you're a massive corporation it might not look like much, but Marriott uses a franchise model. The corporation can't risk a franchisee revolt, and you'll get
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
Yes it is far fetched. Most equipment left behind was sabotaged, as is the nature of war. The phrase jury rigged means "use what you have to make it work". It's a logical corruption that you jury rigged the jerries equipment.
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
I'm a construction worker, and I'm the guy who fixes everyone else's screw ups. We're normally the guys who're called in when the first guy did a hack job. I love building things. I think the maker movement is just
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
They've been interchangeable since about the 1960's, unless you work in a maritime industry, where you would be correct.
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
No, jury rig is the original nautical term dating back to at least 1788. The term likely originated from French words either ajurie meaning "help/relief" or jour meaning "a day" and joined with the word rig (relatin
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
An illustrative division would be: Micheals is predominantly "woman crafts" in that the main portion of the store is devoted to the classical archetypal "woman work" like knitting, crochet, decorating, etc. Yes it sells
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
I'd just like to say: Simpsons did it first. July 11, 1991, episode "Blood Feud", the last episode of season 2. The scene is around the 7 minute mark. The implication is that the blood transfusion has made him feel young agai
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
One of the common tactics for smuggling by boat is to keep it in garbage bags. You weight the drug bags, and carry ordinary garbage on board. If you get stopped, you throw all the bags. The coast guard only find you dumping garbage and the
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
That's a very misleading statement, the body is able to significantly reduce the amount of iron absorption through the intestines. Non-genetic related iron overload is rarely heard of outside of dietary supplement overuse, predominantl
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
Ah porcelain, BPA free since 1600 BC.
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
We've got lots of hard proven facts on a lot of topics, like vaccinations. People still don't get their kids vaccinated, and then we get outbreaks where kids die from the measles. Perception can easily outweigh facts for a lot of
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
Except the evolution to this point requires complete inaction on the parts of the governments. Yes, some businesses have more money than entire countries. Because we allow it. It was the King who decided who was a Baron, an Earl or a Lord
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
I work construction and would love this, but our issue would be customers thinking we're "slacking" because in a month long job we're taking three day weekends every week. Compound this with employers who don't valu
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
I'm sure kick starter would be far beyond this if they didn't only do the transactions on fundraisers that succeed their goal.
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
> For baby bottles... I guess the search is on for the next best type of bottle. Glass bottles for newborns as they can be easily sterilised, and be sure they have a silicone nipple that also forms the seal to the glass of the bottle. On
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
Most just seem to treat their kids like they're human beings, which essentially is the "Don't live vicariously through your children" and "don't be abusive" that are sure fire ways to destroy your children
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
Oh hell no, but real life isn't like a book. The twist doesn't just happen at the end.
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
What it appears to boil down to in the article is: do what's best for your kids by taking your ego out of the picture. JK Rowling did the Harvard Commencement Speech in (IIRC) 2008 in which she speaks of failure, where she basically te
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by electromagnetic 12y ago
It's a year old, I tried searching a lot of the quotes it uses and they're bunk, even in French they're bunk, all linking back to this article and its reposts. I mean the goddamn copyedit should have flagged everyone on this

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