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Triumph

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  • Saw these on a neighbor's car

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  • Wing window. Little triangle in front of the main door window that opens separately. They're generally hinged at the top (middle of the hypotenuse) and bottom, so they rotate on a vertical axis. Usually, they'd just be opened by hand with a latch to hold them shut, but luxury cars would have them on a little crank like that. Often, they would open so far that they'd be angled past 90 degrees, and act as an air scoop to bring massive wind into the car as you drove. Also handy for ashing cigarettes in the winter.

  • No evidence of illegal financing found in Spain's ruling party, audit says

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  • Being unfamiliar with Spanish law or politics, is this a case of "We've investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong"?

  • People who identify as male/masculine, do you feel comfortable expressing your emotions/feelings to people irl? Do people who identify as female/feminine feel more comfortable espressing feelings?

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  • I look at "expressing my feelings" like this:

    My feelings are mine. They're mine to have, and mine to be responsible for. I don't need to explain them to anyone for them to be valid.

    But I should explain them to certain people, so that those people don't mistake my tone or body language or whatever for something it's not. That explanation isn't for me, it's for them.

  • How Trump Fixed On a Maduro Loyalist as Venezuela’s New Leader

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  • The problem was never Maduro "being a dictator" or "anything about drugs". It was that Maduro wouldn't "give the US Venezuela's oil".

  • NYT and WaPo learned of the Venezuela raid soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops

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  • They knew before Congress.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • And then were summarily pardoned by the person who urged them to do it?

  • Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use

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  • Yes, a couple months after I switched, my dentist told me my mouth was in much better shape.

    Like I said, safer than tobacco by far, not necessarily safe.

  • ELIZA effect

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  • When I was young, a friend and I set up ELIZA in BASIC on a TS2068. It was fun, for sure. About an hour in, it responded with "i am" - lower case, when everything we'd put in was in upper case.

    This freaked us the fuck out for about a half hour.

    Then I realized ... wait a minute. Everything it can possibly say is in the code somewhere. I pored over all the things we'd put in, and finally, there it was: "i am". The only mystery that still remains is how that got there.

  • GOP lawmakers, frustrated with dysfunctional Congress, head for the exits

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  • Time for the other team to bring firearms.

  • Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use

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  • Not finding that study myself here, but I'm happy to stand corrected on that.

    What I did find was this

    Most critically, vaporised PG efficiently abolishes influenza A virus and SARS‐CoV‐2 infectivity within airborne droplets, potently preventing infection at levels well below those tolerated by mammals. We present PG vapour as a first‐in‐class non‐toxic airborne virucide that can prevent transmission of existing and emergent viral pathogens, with clear and immediate implications for public health.

    Which might explain why everyone in my family (in the house and extended) has had COVID (often more than once) and I never have.

  • TIL that in 1820 some 20,000 pigs roamed NYC to clean up the streets

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  • There was already a system in place to clear the horse manure, the pig manure just went with it. You can fertilize with manure, less so with trash.

  • The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.

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  • It's a lesson you learn once.

  • Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use

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  • Not since the 50s, in the 50s. And at a much lower concentration than what vaping is.

    I've been vaping for about 15 years. Don't get me wrong, vaping is far safer than inhaling tobacco smoke or putting a wad of dip in your mouth. That doesn't make it safe, and I'm unaware of any real studies on the long-term effects of vaping. I am aware of some very badly performed lab studies that were clearly designed to produce results showing how awful it is by operating vape devices in ways that no person ever would or even could. Yes, PG has a mild antiseptic effect. Yes, the flavorings used are "generally regarded as safe" (GRAS) ... for eating.

    What I know anecdotally from my own experience:

    • Over time, vaping in a closed area leaves a sticky residue on everything. I'm sure my lungs are doing work to eliminate that residue that they wouldn't have to do otherwise, and I don't know the health effects of that.
    • The inside of my mouth is constantly dry and feels kind of gross. I'm sure my breath isn't great.
    • My teeth are badly stained. I avoid dark juices, as those seem to do it much worse.

    All that said, I'm still glad I switched from cigarettes.

  • There was a rubber hose that you drove your car over

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  • Yeah it's like US$1.50 for the air pump to run long enough for you to fill maybe three tires.

  • There was a rubber hose that you drove your car over

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  • Belle Tire has free air, that's the only place I know of anymore.

  • There was a rubber hose that you drove your car over

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  • And you didn't have to pay for air, because there was an air hose on the corner of the building you could just go use.

  • Americans embrace Aldi as German discounter becomes fastest-growing supermarket in US

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  • I'm pretty close to being a boomer, my in-laws are. Nobody I know has a problem with that. Careful with your ageism.

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  • You'll first have to define "God".

  • Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use

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  • They didn't exist in the 90s.