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ArtieShaw

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  • Trump’s inauguration to be moved indoors

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  • Not a doctor, but I'm interested in the subject. I think the current consensus is "yes and no."

    200 years ago, people may have answered yes. Thirty years ago it was popular to discount the idea entirely because germs are what make you sick. Can't deny that.

    Lately I've been hearing some acknowledgement that a stress to your body may make you more susceptible or less able to fight off an infection. The wiki article includes a recent study that pointed to poor sewage treatment near the White House in Harrison's day. For whatever reason WHH wasn't able to fight that off but the rest of the residents seemingly were.

    People have been making the connection of "he stood outside for hours in the snow and drizzle, then caught the dropsy and died" for centuries. I don't think they lacked for sense or couldn't make the obvious connection between exposure and sickness. I do think they lacked for microscopes.

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  • Hoping for another Wm. Henry Harrison?

    When Harrison came to Washington, he wanted to show that he was still the steadfast hero of Tippecanoe.... He took the oath of office on Thursday, March 4, 1841, a cold and wet day.[104] He braved the chilly weather and chose not to wear an overcoat or a hat, rode on horseback to the grand ceremony, and then delivered the longest inaugural address in American history

    In the evening of Saturday, April 3, Harrison developed severe diarrhea and became delirious, and at 8:30 p.m. he uttered his last words....

    The prevailing theory at the time was that his illness had been caused by the bad weather at his inauguration three weeks earlier.

    Things one learns in high school.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison

  • Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch

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  • Gloves

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  • Once you can wrap your head around Handshuhe, Fingerhut becomes obvious. "Ah, so this is how this is going to go."

  • Pippin content after climbing a tree

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  • Pippin has a hell of a fight face.

  • Longevity-obsessed tech millionaire discontinues de-aging drug out of concerns that it aged him

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  • hefty price

    If this is the guy I'm thinking of, he's doing both.

    Extreme workouts, diets, medical interventions (blood transfusions, etc.), general body weirdness that would be classed as some variety of anorexia nervosa if he were younger and poorer, and a regimen of pills. He's selling the pills.

    Oh, and ladies? He's looking to to reenter the dating market. I guess that's neither here nor there, but for some reason he's available!!!

  • Anyone else already exhausted by 2025?

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  • Is it possible for everyone to stop saying this?

    My apologies if you happen to be a SLAMS/BLASTS/BREAKS HIS SILENCE bot and are just following your programming. It's just beyond tiresome because we know. We fucking know. It's a lazy and hyperbolic headline filler. But now we have lazy headline writing followed up with a lazy comment pointing out that the former is lazy.

    And it's starting to break my mind in the same way "This" did on Reddit.

    One more apology for me being bitchy tonight. It's not so much this comment, but every single identical one that came before it.

  • Jeju Air black boxes stopped recording four minutes before South Korean passenger jet crashed

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  • It seems like everyone is talking about these cascading failures.

  • The two ways of fighting profiteering

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  • I feel like an artificer would be skilled in the application of rouge. As well as foundation and eyeliner.

  • The two ways of fighting profiteering

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  • One doesn't buy a 3D printer to make a knob. One is suddenly presented with a need for a knob (or a thingy, or a flangle, or a twizzlet...) and suddenly remembers, "hey - I have a 3D printer." Followed by "I wonder if there are any matching designs in one of the several massive free databases of models."

  • Supreme fight

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  • Particle Man by TMBG, of course.

  • Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal

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  • Exactly. The warming arctic means that countries bordering that part of the world are becoming much more available and much more valuable. So... Russia, Canada, Norway, Denmark (via Greenland), and the US (via Alaska) now have lands that need to be exploited or defended. Apparently the US has decided that Alaska isn't enough.

  • Meat baby

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  • It was a long time ago, but I have a vague memory of my mother making something distressingly close to this. I want to say she used one of those Easter lamb cake molds or something similar. She was a good cook and didn't lack artistic ability - but had no sense of "this looks like an abomination." Or "maybe I should slice this before trying to serve it."

  • Confirmed: Star Trek is one giant Kids in the Hall sketch.

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  • 30 Helens agree.

  • There's fucking ads in board games now

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  • Yeah - it seemed pretty normal for a Parker Bros game from the 70s to come with a couple of inserts that advertised their other games. I want to say the same thing about NES cartridges.

  • heat your body, not your house -- using an infrared heat lamp

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  • I like that idea a lot. It would be perfect for the bedroom windows here. Usually I use the tape and plastic kits, but I like the idea of a permanent but removable solution much better. Next year!

  • "The Rainbow Gathering must be near!"

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  • Many years ago I was acquainted with college kids who used it exclusively to mask the fact that they didn't believe in deodorant. Weed was certainly involved on some level, but I remember sooooo many unsolicited lectures about the dangers of bathing with soap every day and wearing "chemicals" when all you really need is a good sebaceous barrier to protect your skin and some nice patchouli.

    Barf. Barf barf barf.

    It was years before I smelled patchouli on its own - without the underlying BO funk. It's not objectively bad, but I can't disconnect it from the unwashed masses of prep school kids who were suddenly untethered from their dress codes.

  • heat your body, not your house -- using an infrared heat lamp

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  • Regarding insulation, how are your windows? There's a wide array of removable tape, caulk, putty, etc that can seal up the tiny cracks between the window and the frame. I've found this this helps a lot.

  • If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s.

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  • No one can win on this one.

    Seat the smokers in back and "oh no, I have to sit next to the kitchen and restroom."

    Seat the smokers in front and "oh no, I have to walk through the smoking section to get to or from my seat, or go to the restroom."

    Or at least that's how Denny's was setup in our town.