mickdeek86

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by mickdeek86 2mo ago
I'm reminded of Adrienne Barbeau in The Fog with her late night radio station in a lighthouse, or Lily Tomlin in Prairie Home Companion saying "Now radio's just a bunch of people yelling at each other and computers playing mu
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by mickdeek86 6mo ago
In the land of the ignorant, the man with one fact is king
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by mickdeek86 6mo ago
It was not the Natives who nearly exterminated the American bison.
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by mickdeek86 6mo ago
Montgomery Burns already tried it
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by mickdeek86 8mo ago
I interpreted this article to be talking about commercial trucks, like semis and box trucks. Are there good electric alternatives available?
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by mickdeek86 8mo ago
He may have been pulling your leg. We bottle feed the calves formula, because to allow the calves to drink the milk would defeat the purpose of raising dairy cows. Also teat cleanliness and health is huge; suckling causes problems. Inciden
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
I routinely take a suburban or regional bus to and from O'Hare. It's way better than driving/parking and a Lyft from the suburbs automatically costs at least 50$, and I don't really give a damn about easy car access sinc
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
If you're suggesting that medieval witch-hunters may have been acting irrationally, I won't argue. Anyway, this isn't my hypothesis, it travelled around for awhile talking about supposed discoveries of ergot in soil samples.
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
The idea in medieval Germany is that when farm yields were low, they were looking to reduce the number of mouths to feed and post-childbearing women were deemed sufficiently 'worthless'. It also could be that during these times th
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
Guessing parent was referring to the practice of heating BPA-laden paper in the near vicinity of commercial food-prep
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
I only eat supernatural ingredients though...
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
"The vampire of Bytow" - Is that pronounced [bite...ow]??
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
Not sure whether this is /s but as a too-many-tabs guy I would very much prefer the entire Internet was like that.
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
So is the Pope, who also does not set policy in the municipality of San Francisco. To reply to your question: the mayor and city council (which is a group of humans, a species which is famously given to disagreement between individual membe
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
'Free...' as in '...beer' (Gratis)
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
Related question: would a tinfoil hat actually work, or just be another layer of filtering to compute?
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
He merely completed the article's published title...
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
'An injustice anywhere is a justification for injustice everywhere'
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
Rumsfeld personally advanced the de-baathification directive - the lynchpin of the clusterfuckery - all on his own, and he certainly would have known to expect the 'unexpected' results to be similar to de-nazification. This was ab
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
Those who say don't know because those who know don't say
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
Itself another aspect of the Founders' Roman Republic fetishism. The mace was inspired by the symbol of state authority, the fasces, composed of twigs that when bundled together were stronger than a single pole of similar girth. It was
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
Named for the great Chicago business scumbag, Charles Yerkes. Got out of prison in Pennsylvania and hobbled together Chicago's L train. The side of the street that he claimed the elevated railway was on would change building by buildin
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
Cheddar cheese is indeed white, unless annatto (a tree nut) and sometimes paprika are added for flavor. Tillamook makes both.
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
SnapOn hasn't been mentioned! 4 billion USD, 12,000 employees (mostly union), 100% US made. They sell direct to consumers now (they used to only service whole plants/shops). Originating in my neck of the woods - Kenosha & nort
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
You didn't know it because it isn't true: https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/raw-milk-... .
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
In this usage, salt is anything but lacking. Americans do know what cheddar actually is and indeed make a shitload of it in a wide range of qualities. Tillamook out of Oregon and Cabot out of Vermont are commonly available and pretty good.
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
It's processed (not aged), high fat, low protein cheese. Invented by James L Kraft (yes, that Kraft) and is the basis of Kraft Mac & Cheese, elsewehere called Kraft dinner. It melts perfectly and is shelf-stable. Fun fact: for a ti
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
Just speculating, but -enau is a common town name ending in German, a person from that place might be name -enauer (see Adenauer). There is a Gudenau Castle in west Germany. Gudenauer would have been an excellent candidate for Ellis Island-
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
I just spent several weeks in Germany, one of my goals was family history (my father was born in Dusseldorf, his father in Berlin), that whole side is dead now, basically. I had a much easier time in the west (my grandma's birthplace
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by mickdeek86 3y ago
If you drink three drinks (assuming you mean 3oz) every day, that gets you there per annum. That keeps you in 'Moderate Drinking' per CDC[0] [0]: https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/moderate-drinking.

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