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by slillibri 20d ago
For me, other than the speed and convenience, I was amazed that I could use my same Suica card (on my iPhone) in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Even though each region has their own card, they have mutual use in most areas.
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by slillibri 1mo ago
Japan, South Korea, Ukraine, and Taiwan are parties to the nonproliferation treaty, like Iran. Oddly, Israel isn’t.
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by slillibri 1mo ago
Rabid Beavers? Don't worry everyone, I'm sure Buc-ee's has already filed suit because rabid beavers is covered under their trade dress.
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by slillibri 2mo ago
Hmm, what could have happened 47 years ago. Is that when the current islamist regime overthrew the dictator that the US & UK put into place by orchestrating a coup against the democratically elected government because they wanted to nat
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by slillibri 3mo ago
As someone who has been sober for 10+ years and still avoids events where alcohol is served, the word Gin doesn't cause me any stress. Just one point of anecdata.
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by slillibri 3mo ago
When there is not enough AC, people sweat. It’s better for half to sweat to death so the other half can remain frosty.
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by slillibri 4mo ago
I don't know about number 3. As a 53 year old Gen X'er, I still haven't come across things that see against the natural order. The main things I don't understand are things like the Humane AI pin, which didn't seem
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by slillibri 6mo ago
Stopping marketing mail wouldn’t change the number of accelerations per mailbox. USPS would still need to check each stop for outgoing mail. The only difference would be in weight carried.
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by slillibri 6mo ago
> The cards observe it is Friday. Um, where I am it's still Thursday.
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by slillibri 7mo ago
The main lesson I learned was I didn’t have to live in a snowy place. I left SW Michigan in 2000 and haven’t looked back. I don’t like being cold, but I loathe snow and ice.
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by slillibri 7mo ago
There is that, but I get the impression that you could hire an expert to help.
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by slillibri 8mo ago
"So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated" This has to be my favorite part.
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by slillibri 9mo ago
I expect the bible is in virtually every public and school library in the US. It’s hardly a banned book by any measure.
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by slillibri 9mo ago
I hate it because the last thing we need on sidewalks, at least here in Seattle, is more junk making it impossible to walk anywhere.
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by slillibri 9mo ago
Reminder that social security is funded entirely by a separate tax and not debt, so unless you are planning to cut benefits but continue the tax it would do nothing to reduce the deficit or debt.
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by slillibri 10mo ago
Hong Kong and New Zealand are Berne Convention countries so that would be the grounds for extradition. I don’t remember other countries signing up to enforce Ofcom’s laws.
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by slillibri 10mo ago
I highly doubt that anyone is doing 8 hours of BJs a day to pay for their habit.
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by slillibri 11mo ago
I believe the answer is that English is a stupid language. Also, starchy (containing a relatively high amount of starch) doesn’t have a hard c.
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by slillibri 1y ago
> all legal to the T You might want to check that because it's not so cut and dried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...
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by slillibri 1y ago
Don't forget Yoshinoya, Sukiya, or Cafe Gusto.
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by slillibri 1y ago
The national guard was deployed to Kent State by the governor. The last time the guard was deployed without the governor’s consent was to protect civil rights marchers in Selma in 1965.
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by slillibri 1y ago
The Toto washlets I used in Japan were plenty powerful, plus they had adjustments for pressure and temperature.
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by slillibri 1y ago
The problem with this is we live in a 24 hour world. When I worked 2nd shift, I got out of work at 2am so I would have to “choose not to” use the highway to get home. Also, emergency vehicles also use highways.
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by slillibri 1y ago
True, but there is this mythology that all prisons in the USA are private prisons controlled solely by corporations, which is wildly untrue. Public prisons aren't much better than private prisons, due to the fact that they are just pun
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by slillibri 1y ago
Nationally, there are less than 10% of incarcerated people in private prisons. This number starts to vary widely from state to state though, with some states having more than 50% and some having 0%.
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by slillibri 1y ago
They are still working on a realistic vocal fry?
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by slillibri 2y ago
HCL isn’t a programming language. This seems to be the main misconception about it and Terraform.
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by slillibri 2y ago
The US supported Chaing Kai Shek and the Nationalists over Mao and the Communists after WWII. Also, Mao was a staunch Stalinist so there is the holdover tension there. Mao continued with that even more so after Stalin died and was determine
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by slillibri 2y ago
1) I use terragrunt to generate all the 'boilerplate' files, for example the backend configuration to ensure they are all in spec. 2) I use terragrunt to provide inherited values, such as region, environment, etc. I have a directo
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by slillibri 2y ago
Point 1 is absolutely a downside, at least for people near the court. The city decided that putting a pickleball court across the street from my building would be a great idea, and now my summers are filled with the pock-pock-pock of pickle

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