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RBWells

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  • Adrian Tchaikovsky

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  • I love most of what he's written, and he is prolific and the books are different from each other.

  • Doctors Confirm: E-Bikes Are Almost as Effective as Medicine for Your Health

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  • That's a stupid headline indeed but I can conclusively say that for me, the e-bike quickly became my preferred vehicle, over the car. Basket big enough to hold groceries, not so much effort that I'm unwilling to go a few miles on it (before it was walk or drive, I'm not carrying groceries more than a mile, I did walk to work but in summer would arrive sweaty, and it was annoying carrying purse and lunch and coffee).

    So I walk less but drive much less, overall more exercise I think.

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  • I had trouble till (hormonal) IUD, would never discount the side effects of most birth control available to women - copper IUD nearly killed me with hemorrhage, and pills raised my blood pressure, anything that went inside me (diaphragm, etc) either gave me yeast infection or bladder infection, so many of the methods seem designed to punish women for wanting sex without pregnancy.

    But I'd think guys would love condoms because it's the only reversible birth control they can control themselves.

  • Can you draw us a beautiful picture?

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  • A crow I did for Halloween, dunno about beautiful but it's the first time I tried watercolors.

  • The forbidden fourth leche

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  • I thought that was only the one made from goat milk?

  • It's dinner time, and you have to put together a meal with only ingredients already in your house, no going out for anything. What are you making?

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  • Do you have olive oil or butter? You have sauce.

    I have very small bottles of wine, decanted when we opened two different wines, if you have wine you have sauce.

    Soy sauce and butter is pretty good for a sauce, miso butter is even better.

    I dunno what your pantry holds but I think here we always have some way to make pretty good pasta of some sort. My kids live spaghetti fried in chili garlic paste.

  • It's dinner time, and you have to put together a meal with only ingredients already in your house, no going out for anything. What are you making?

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  • I cooked rice in a pot for decades before my kids got me a rice cooker. It's not much more complicated, and is quicker. Put rice in a pot, rinse it, cover with water by about 3/4 inch (from fingertip to first knuckle, yes? You have seen some old person sticking their finger in the rice? That is what we are measuring. )

    Bring to a boil on high, cover and turn the heat way down to low (medium low if your stove sucks) Check it in 15 minutes if white rice, 45 if brown rice. If done, take it off the heat. If not, give it 5 more minutes on the burner then move it.

  • It's dinner time, and you have to put together a meal with only ingredients already in your house, no going out for anything. What are you making?

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  • Beans and rice, we always have beans and rice. Today I also have sauerkraut, kielbasa and pierogi so I can make exactly what is planned.

    But at any time, can make beans & rice of some sort.

  • FtM

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  • I think that's a no, once you are 40 or so. The whole face kind of drops (everyone, not just ladies, that's why you see the bottom teeth when The Rock smiles now - being in great shape doesn't change this) and if you fill the top lip it ends up looking sneery because the shape is wrong. You would have to get the whole expensive and brutal face lift to move everything up first.

    On really young people it can work ok IMO.

    And overall I agree that GOOD work you don't really see, all the relentless skincare I do works but nothing will keep you from moving through time. Celebrities who just look good and like they haven't had work done have had face-lifts.

  • Who is the Best Dracula? [UPDATED with 22% more Nosferatus!]

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  • I will always be partial to Gary Oldman's Dracula.

  • This?

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  • I think Alzheimer's is complicated by having a body, though. My grandma had it and was happy, not angry. It sucked for us and for her because she eventually forgot how to eat & take care of herself at all. To have that lack of understanding of reality doesn't seem nearly as bad if you are a disembodied consciousness, as this suggests. It seems more like a death than the other choices.

    Alternate Dimension I would go for only if it was a gamble not a certain "being torn to shreds by demons over and over" situation.

  • What would you consider the ideal "stoner food?"

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  • I don't generally enjoy pot, find the effect annoying not pleasant but twice in my life have had some laced with something wonderful (once, hashish, once I have no idea) and soul food is where it's at. Beans and rice and sausage, bursting with flavor. Nothing sweet and nothing so fancy just simple and satisfying.

  • What job do most people think is good, but you don't think you would enjoy?

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  • Politician, boss or Queen, I am useless in politics. Anything like that where you have to navigate people trying to get your job, backbiting, any sort of office politics I cannot deal with at all, certainly could not handle it AS a job, no way. I just crumble. I need to be able to just do my job and understand everyone wants everyone to succeed where I work.

    On the other hand, in jobs that objectively suck but are satisfying to me, I have enjoyed restaurant work and raising children. If I won the lottery and didn't need to succeed I would open a bar; if my husband died I'd take in foster kids.

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    How come there isnt really any OTC allergy meds for stuffy nose?

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  • That is literally what Allegra D is.

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    How come there isnt really any OTC allergy meds for stuffy nose?

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  • I agree with the consensus here- you are thinking about this wrong. Allegra-D, the one behind the counter in my state, is an allergy medicine we use for colds, because it works better than anything labeled as cold medicine.

    If you are saying you want something that treats allergies, and by treating them unstuffs your nose, that Allegra-D will work. I don't understand why you think it won't. The pseudoephedrine in it (the D in the name) is a vasoconstrictor that will open your nose.

    If it's the same drug labeled as a cold medicine, it would work exactly the same.

  • Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps?

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  • I've seen pictures of people from the past with my hair type, from the time before conditioner. I will buy conditioner. Styling goops too. Do you mean everyone should cut their hair so short it doesn't matter? I like having styled hair - will agree it's culture/marketing but so what?

    Could use shampoo as body wash, sure, not so different. I don't use natural soaps because in hard water they do more harm than good. Conditioner is a non negotiable. Sometimes I just rinse and condition, but never wash without conditioner-ing.

    My husband keeps his hair very short but that involves haircut every two weeks, it's not cheaper overall.

  • Admiration

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  • Yes sir, I do that. I'm on both sides of these requests as I admin some of the financial software, sometimes can fix things before having to involve IT.

    And to purplemonkeymad's point, OMG I don't know who writes Microsoft's error messages but they are nonsense.

    "The program has stopped working."

    Thanks.

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  • I send the request and list the troubleshooting steps I have tried. Mostly so that they know it's not frivolous but also to avoid duplicate work.

    But so often those stupid steps work. Turn it off and back on. Uninstall and reinstall.

  • I just halted a job interview process - due to self respect.

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  • Then could you not do this testing on a machine at their office? What the heck?